
Safer Better Healthcare By All For All
Speakers

Dr Sujoy Kar
Chief Medical Information Officer and the Vice-President of Apollo Hospitals
Keynote speaker on Wednesday 18th June
Dr Sujoy Kar is the Chief Medical Information Officer and the Vice-President of Apollo Hospitals, previously Medical Director of Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata. He is a Clinical Microbiologist by background with subsequent post graduations from Indian Statistical Institute and MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an Adjunct Faculty for Healthcare Analytics and Management at IIM Calcutta, IIT Kharagpur and Apollo University, Chittoor.

Dr Deliya Banda Wesley
Senior Director, Health Equity at Mathematica
Keynote speaker on Friday 20th June
Dr Deliya Wesley (Phd, MPH) is a health equity scientist who has spent her career applying a deep understanding of health equity to push the needle on systems transformation and policy change in health systems. As a health equity researcher and strategist, she has led the design, development and evaluation of complex health interventions serving people from historically disinvested and marginalized communities. Following a career as an embedded health services researcher working closely with healthcare human factors engineers and patient safety researchers she now serves as the senior director, health equity at Mathematica where she leads strategic growth of the health equity practice.

Dr. Francesco Venneri
M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.
General and emergency surgeon, neurosurgeon and emergency physician. Graduated in University of Florence Medical School –Italy and then continued his training as resident attending surgeon at New York Medical College assigned to Our Lady of Mercy Trauma Center –Montefiore Group- South Bronx. During his residency program Dr. Venneri received specific training in the field of clinical risk management and patient safety with particular focus on planning clinical audits and morbidity and mortality rounds on adverse events. In Italy he was first appointed chief coordinator of the Florence Emergency System- the equivalent of 911 emergency services – and after was asigned to the Department of Emergency at Prato City Hospital –Italy. Since 2000 he works at the Mugello Hospital in the Florentine suburban area as an emergency trauma and accident surgeon.

Dr Stavros Prineas
BSc (Med) MBBS FRCA FANZCA AFRACMA
Stavros is a consultant specialist anaesthetist trained in the UK and Australia, and Head of Anaesthetics at Blue Mountains Hospital, west of Sydney. He has a number of technical sub-speciality interests including difficult airway management, however his main interest is in Human Factors, paratechnical (or non-technical) skills training and the study of human performance in clinical environments.

Dr Mary Beth Privitera
M.Design, PhD, FIDSA
Keynote speaker on Thursday 19th June
Co-Chair & Faculty, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation Human Engineering Committee
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati
Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham
Fulbright Scholar US-UK 2022-23

Prof. Ken Catchpole
Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Professor Catchpole has spent more than 20 years applying human factors principles to improve safety and performance in acute care, working alongside clinicians at the front line to address a broad range of safety and performance concerns from a human-centered perspective, and helping to pioneer embedded clinical human factors practice as way to spread and apply these principles. He has co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles related to patient safety, and is currently leading major research projects in retained foreign objects and surgical instrument reprocessing.
