Alison Powell
Wales Development Lead, Workflow - Practice Unbound

David Minton
Associate Medical Director, Value Based Health Care, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Rinesh Amin
Co-founder, DrDoctor

Rinesh is the Co-founder of DrDoctor, a digital health company transforming the way hospitals and patients communicate. DrDoctor uses pragmatic, common-sense technology to tackle the financial strain on the NHS – one hospital at a time. Currently partnered with 22 major Trusts around the UK, including Aneurin Bevan, Guy’s and St Thomas’ and Great Ormond Street, to date we have saved the NHS millions of pounds and 3000 years’ worth of missed appointments.

Gareth Roberts
Assistant Medical Director and Consultant Nephrologist, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Gareth is a consultant nephrologist and AMD for value and costing at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. He is deputy lead of the Welsh Renal Clinical Network and a research active consultant whose PhD focussed on inflammation and immunity. He is currently chief investigator of a national study looking at the socio-demographic factors that influence shared decision making in patients with advanced kidney failure.

David Thomas
Assistant Director, ABCi, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Headquarters

Adele Cahill
Assistant Director Value Based Health Care and National Lead Value Based Procurement, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Adele has been a senior Procurement professional for over 33 years, heading up the Procurement teams across NHS Wales.  Adele has spent time between 2010 and 2015 in other general management roles supporting Turnaround and Transformation programmes across various Welsh Health Boards, before joining Aneurin Bevan in 2016  as the Assistant Director for Value Based Health Care.

Supporting Value-Based Health Care (VBHC) as a framework to support NHS Wales to re-design for Value has been one of the key drivers over the past three years, moving this from a local initiative into one supported for scale up of outcome measurement, at a National Welsh Government level.

Adele has more recently picked up the National lead, in collaboration with the Director of Procurement NWSSP, to support the development of a system that aligns more closely with Industry using outcomes data and innovative approaches to consider a risk-sharing approach to ‘Procuring for Value’.

Kay Wilson
Early Phase Team Lead, Clinical Trials Unit, Velindre Cancer Centre

Kay Wilson is a Senior Research Nurse Lead managing the Early Phase team at Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff. Specialising in Solid Tumour early phase clinical trials. With 20 years’ experience as a registered nurse 15 of which has been in Oncology.

Kay provides leadership and management the clinical team delivering SACT early and late phase clinical trials at the Clinical Research Treatment Unit at the Cancer Centre.

Kay’s passion has advanced during her time in research supporting the then new initiative to bring early phase research to Wales, setting up a designatedearly phase research clinicand facilitating patient referrals into this clinic 8 years ago and is keen to make available Oncology phase I clinical trials and advanced therapies to patients in S.Wales and beyond.

Kay supports Research Nurses by providing mentorship and training for nurses in conjunction with Health and Care Research Wales.

Studying at Cardiff University with the School of Nursing to obtain her nurse qualification. Kay has a keen interest in Management and Leadership and has studied these at post grad level.

Jessie Powell
Senior Nurse Manager, Clinical Research Facility, University Hospital of Wales

Jessie Powell is a Senior Nurse Manager who leads the Clinical Research Facility (CRF) at the University Hospital of Wales Cardiff, specialising in the delivery of early phase clinical trials.  As a registered adult nurse for the last decade, Jessie started her career in the emergency dept. before making the move into research and now has nearly seven years of experience in this area.  Jessie is responsible for the operational management and development of the Clinical Research Facility and provides leadership to nursing and administrative staff working in the facility.  Jessie is passionate about leadership and was awarded runner up in the leadership category at the 2017 Cardiff and Vale staff recognition awards.

Jessie is the primary contact person and facilitator for the safe and ethical implementation of new and existing research studies in the CRF, involving a broad range of clinical specialties, in accordance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Guidelines, EU Clinical Trials Directive and Research Governance Framework.

Jessie gained a BN (Hons) Adult Nursing degree from Glamorgan University (now the University of South Wales) and is currently completing an MSc in Clinical Research at Cardiff University.

Tom Wake
ICS Stakeholder Lead, NHS England

James Maguire
National Medical Directors Clinical Fellow, NHS England

Jonathan Goodfellow
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Sabarna Mukhopadyay
CEO, SymlConnect

Anna Sussex
National Programme Manager, Public Health Wales

Anna Sussex is the Public Health Wales National Programme Manager for Frequent Attenders, Unscheduled Care and clinical lead for WEDFAN, the Welsh Emergency Department Frequent Attenders Network

With a background in emergency nursing, she is leading on work with the Emergency Departments in Wales, in collaboration with a broad spectrum of partner agencies across statutory, non-statutory and voluntary sectors, aimed at:

• supporting patients who frequently use services including EDs, Welsh Ambulance Service, GP OOHs, Police and Fire & Rescue, so they receive personalised and sustained support in a meaningful way for them, and
• reducing demand on unscheduled services.

Anna worked as an Emergency Department Sister in Cardiff and Vale for 17yrs and was responsible for the implementation of the successful and award winning C&V Frequent Attender Service, now in its 5^thyear. The service has won 2 NHS Wales Awards for Working Seamlessly across Organisations and the Chief Medical Officers Award for Outstanding Contribution to Prudent Healthcare. Anna is also RCN Nurse of the Year for Innovation 2016

Duncan Baird
Chair, Cardiff University - School of Medicine

Duncan Baird is professor of Cancer and Genetics at Cardiff University. He has worked in the field of telomere biology and genome instability for 25 years. With long term funding from Cancer Research UK his work spans basic discovery science through to clinical application and commercial development. He is co-founder of TeloNostiX Ltd. an IVD company that provides high-resolution prognostic and predictive tests for cancer patients and the pharmaceutical industry.

Patient Representative
Patient Representative,

Hamish Laing
Professor of Enhanced Innovation, Engagement and Outcomes, Swansea University

Gwyn Tudor
CEO, MediWales

As CEO of Mediwales for nearly 16 years, Gwyn has overseen a transformation of the forum to its current size, influence and corporate structure. Gwyn works with the directors and members of MediWales to develop the forum’s future strategic direction. His in-depth knowledge of the life science sector allows him to represent MediWales’ members’ interests on a number of Welsh and UK government panels and boards.

Gwyn’s career has developed over twenty years from being a front line product designer working in a number of sectors, including the development of medical devices, to his current managerial role.

Dr Andrew Goodall
Director General of Health and Social Services and Chief Executive, NHS Wales

Dr Andrew Goodall was appointed to the role of Director General of Health and Social Services/Chief Executive NHS Wales in June 2014. His role includes both supporting Ministerial priorities for health and social care within the Civil Service structures, and the leadership and oversight of NHS Wales.

Including this current role, Andrew has been an NHS Chief Executive in Wales for 11 years, the most recent post being that of Chief Executive of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, a position held since the Health Board’s inception in October 2009 until 2014.

During his 25 year NHS career, Andrew has held planning and operational positions across a number of NHS organisations across South Wales as well as national roles. He has particular areas of interest in improving patient safety, quality and patient experience; partnership working across Public Services; and delivering frontline services through service improvement and modernisation.

Dr Goodall has a law degree from Essex University and a PhD in Health Service Management from Cardiff Business School.

Professor Sir Mansel Aylward
Chair, Life Sciences Hub Wales and Bevan Commission,

Sir Mansel is Chair of Life Sciences Hub Wales.  He is also Chair of the Bevan Commission, an independent expert panel to oversee NHS reforms in Wales and to provide expert advice to the Minister for Health and Social Services. He is Professor of Public Health Education at the Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University. He was recently appointed as Professor of Prudent Health and Wellbeing at the School of Management, Swansea University.

He was the first Chair of Public Health Wales NHS Trust, responsible for the delivery of public health services at national, local and community levels in Wales. He was a panel member of the Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Services in Wales.  Earlier in his career he was Chief Medical Officer, Medical Director and Chief Scientist at the Department for Work and Pensions in London.

He was knighted in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2010 for services to health and healthcare. In 2016, he was elected to fellowship of the Learned Society of Wales.