Members
Dr. Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos, Chief Executive at the Global Health Digital Innovation Foundation, UK, and Health Executive in Residence at UCL’s Global Business School for Health, is a globally recognized leader in health governance and digital innovation with over three decades of experience. A pioneer in applying AI to healthcare since the 1990s, he has advised several international organizations, including WHO, the World Bank, and the European Commission.
Dr. Kalogeropoulos plays a key role in numerous IEEE initiatives, including chairing the P3493.1 Working Group on Secure, Compliant, Coordinated, and Inclusive Healthcare Data Recycling and serving as a member of the IEEE European Public Policy Committee. He is a Founding Member of the Global and Steering Committees for the IEEE Global Standardized Registry of Mobile Health Apps, where he also chairs the Ethics Subcommittee. Additionally, he chairs the AI for Improved Public Health and Climate-Resilient Health Systems Industry Connections Program (IC24-015-01) and serves on the Advisory and Judging Committee of the IEEE Telehealth Startup Pitch Competition since its inception. He is also a member of the IEEE Planet Positive 2030 Working Group on Towns and Cities.
Dr. Kalogeropoulos has played a pivotal role in initiatives such as the Healthy China 2030 program and is actively contributing to the implementation of the EU AI Act through the development of the first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, representing IEEE in this effort.
Spearheading global technology initiatives for a more inclusive and sustainable future, Dr. Kalogeropoulos emphasizes equitable, community-driven approaches to innovation. As an active participant in WHO’s Health Data Collaborative Climate-Health WG and Strategic Partnership Initiative on Data and Digital Health, he advances policies and innovations that address global challenges, focusing on building equitable, sustainable, and climate-resilient health systems.
A dedicated advocate for responsible AI use, Dr. Kalogeropoulos combines visionary leadership with deep technical expertise to drive innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions worldwide.
Paul is a pioneering clinician scientist, healthcare executive, innovative physician, health services and systems researcher, CEO of J Bara Consulting and a serial entrepreneur. He is passionate about making healthcare safer with a reputation for his work investigating and contributing to systems improvement and design innovation. He has particular expertise in improving the culture and structure of acute and surgical settings, leadership, medical device design, medical education and change in health sector organizations, quality and safety in healthcare, accreditation and surveying processes in the international context and the restructuring of the physical built environment of health services.
Paul is a practicing double board-certified physician-scientist in Anesthesiology and Critical care, from the Massachusetts General Hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. He is a Lecturer at Thomas Jefferson College of Population Health. He is Visiting Professor and teaches at several international Universities. He enjoys working with NGO’s including HCW-Hosted and World Health Innovation Society.
Paul has a proven track record of funding from the National Institutes of Health, HRSA, Agency for Healthcare, Research, & Quality, Department of Defense, European Union, and other competitive funding mechanisms.
As principle of J Bara Innovation, (https://jbarainnovation.com) he advises academic and large hospital systems in US and internationally on curriculum development, hospital and OR design, business operations, performance management, innovation, professional development, team building, and high performance organizations. He enjoys advising several start-up companies.
He publishes regularly (more than 200 refereed contributions, and 300 total publications, 5 books) about organizational, social, human factors, data analytics and team approaches to care. He has presented/chaired international and national conferences, workshops, symposia and meetings on more than 500 occasions, including over 80 keynote addresses. He is a featured speaker on a range of topics related to hospital design, telehealth, safety, quality, digital care, governance, accountability and performance of public services, Information Technology, Clinical Systems; Change Management and Leadership Development.
Dr. Maryam Lustberg is a distinguished physician-scientist specializing in breast cancer care and research. As the Director of the Center for Breast Cancer at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center, and Chief of Breast Medical Oncology, she leads comprehensive breast cancer programs and oversees a diverse portfolio of clinical trials.
Dr. Lustberg’s research focuses on improving long-term outcomes for breast cancer patients, particularly in the areas of treatment-related side effects and survivorship. She is actively investigating novel blood-based biomarkers to identify recurrence and treatment toxicity earlier. Her work is supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute and she collaborates extensively with researchers worldwide.
Nationally recognized for her expertise, Dr. Lustberg serves on several committees for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and is the President-Elect of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC). She is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cancer Survivorship.
Dr. Lustberg completed her medical degree and residency at the University of Maryland, followed by fellowships in medical oncology and breast medical oncology at The Ohio State University. She also holds a Master’s in Public Health from The Ohio State University, focusing on clinical investigation and translational research in breast cancer.
Peter has more than 25 years of information-related experience, as consultant and employee, at all levels of the UK National Health Service and over 19 years’ experience of consulting on digital health issues in developing countries. He has worked in the private sector with Cisco Systems on digital health in Emerging Markets, and with major Development Partners such as WHO, ADB, UNICEF, GIZ and others on digital health issues in Africa, South-East Asia, and the Pacific. He has worked with the African Union on a Digital Health Strategy for Africa. He has conducted a study on One Health in Vietnam, and is supporting the Pacific Community proposals for digital One Health Community Workers for the Pacific. Peter has a PhD and MSc from the University of Surrey and BA from Cambridge University.
Maeghan Orton supports Child Health and Climate Product Strategy at Healthy Learners improving the health of children through school-based community health. Previously supported product strategy for Medtronic LABS on developing digital health products to support climate-adaptive health care. She leads the Climate + Policy working group for the Global Digital Health Network, to prepare national health systems to leverage data for climate + health impacts. Prior to these, she worked with Google Health AI and WHO’s digital health and innovation team. During her tenure as Africa regional director for Medic, she helped to design and deploy digital health programs to community health workers in 13 countries in Africa. She is pursuing a doctorate on climate change, AI, and global health with the University of Edinburgh.
Dr Gabrielle (Gabby) Samuel is Wellcome Research Fellow and Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Health at King’s College London in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and co-Director of SHADE – a research group and network at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies, and the Environment. Her main research interests relate to the social/ethical issues associated with digital health, big data, and AI.
She is trained in sociology and ethics (Medical sociology PhD and Bioethics MA) with a background in the life sciences (Molecular Genetics PhD). She draws mainly on qualitative research methods and has published extensively in the field of biobanking, genomics, digital health, forensic/health genetic technologies, research ethics, and research ethics committees, and social media and AI/big data research.
Gabby is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics and Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. She supervises both undergraduate and master’s dissertations and welcomes PhD students. She is also a member of the Digital Environmental Sustainability Ethics and Clinical Ethics and Law in Society research groups at Oxford University – and the King’s Climate Action Network.
Kristina (Krissy) Celentano, MPP, PMP, is Owner and Consultant at Koralaide Consulting LLC. Krissy is a results-driven digital health expert with over ten years of experience working on policy, governance, coordination, technical assistance, project management, and strategic planning in high, low and middle-income countries. Prior to starting Koralaide, Krissy served as Senior Health Information Systems Advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) where she chaired the Agency Digital Health Work Group, oversaw a mobile health application and supported the development of an agency digital health strategy and vision. Prior to USAID, she served in several capacities at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. While at ONC, Krissy worked with on-the-ground implementers of health information exchange, electronic health records and innovative technologies to support health system strengthening, practice transformation, and systems modernization. Krissy is an Adjunct Instructor of Health Informatics at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and George Washington University. She is also a Global Digital Health Network Advisory Board emeritus.