Scientific Program Committee 

Scientific Program Committee Members:


Dr Elisavet Andrikopoulou is a Senior Lecturer of computer science at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research is on health informatics and is the Events, publications and communications lead of the BCS Faculty of Health and Care.

Parisis Gallos
SPC Co-Chair

EFMI Publications Officer

CBML, University of Piraeus, Greece 

Philip Scott
Conference Director

Programme Director, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Chair, BCS Faculty of Health & Care 

Theodoros Arvanitis

Professor Theodoros Arvanitis RT, DPhil, CEng, FRSM, FGBHI, Digital Health Technology, is a Full professor at Dept. Electronic, Electrical & Systems Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK

Rosalynn Austin

Dr Rosalynn Austin is a Cardiology Nurse Researcher interested in how technology can be used to improve the health experiences of people with heart failure. She splits her time between the University of Stavanger (Norway) where she works on the eHealth@Hospital-2-Home project and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (UK) where she is working to establish an inter-sector research group. She is also the host of the podcast, Researcher Revealed.

Arriel Benis

EFMI Executive Officer

Associate Professor, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

Prof. Ronald Cornet is a Full Professor of medical informatics at Amsterdam UMC, location AMC – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He leads a research group on reusable health data, and is chair of the Dutch Health Informatics Association VMBI.

Panagiotis Chatzistergos

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee

Alexander Dejaco

Dr. Alexander Dejaco is a specialist consultant in anaesthesiology, critical care and pain medicine at University Hospital of Regensburg in Germany. He also specializes in Biomedical Engineering.

Alaa Mohasseb

Dr Alaa Mohasseb is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Portsmouth and the Course Leader for the MSc in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. Her research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, specifically in the areas of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.

Pantelis Natsiavas is an eHealth Researcher (Grade C) at the Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece. His research is on the exploitation of computational approaches for drug safety, focusing on the use of Knowledge Graphs and Real-World Data.

Haythem Nakkas

Dr Haythem Nakkas is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth, UK, where he is also the course leader for the MSc Information Systems degree.

Linda Peute

Dr. Linda Peute is a senior researcher at the department of medical Informatics at the Amsterdam University Medical centers - University of Amsterdam. She is research lead in Human Factors Engineering in Health informatics and director of the eHealth Living & Learning lab Amsterdam.