Safer Better Healthcare By All For All
Speakers, Panellists and Moderators
Speakers
Dr Deliya Banda Wesley
Senior Director, Health Equity at Mathematica
Keynote plenary speaker at HEPS2025 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 Mary Beth Privitera
M.Design, PhD, FIDSA
Keynote plenary speaker at HEPS2025 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. Siri Wiig
Professor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems
Keynote speaker at HEPS2025 on Friday 20th June
Siri Wiig, PhD, MSc, is Professor and Centre Director at SHARE - Centre for Resilience in Healthcare, at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. The SHARE Centre is the largest research group in Norway doing research on quality and safety in healthcare. Wiig is a safety scientist by background and full Professor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiS. Wiig is Adjunct Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway and Honorary Professor at Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia and at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Dr Sujoy Kar
Chief Medical Information Officer and the Vice-President of Apollo Hospitals
Keynote speaker at HEPS2025 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.
Panellists
Maureen Nolan
Member of Patients for Patient Safety Ireland (PFPSI)
Maureen Nolan is a member of Patients for Patient Safety Ireland (PFPSI), since its formation in January 2013 under a World Health Organisation programme. PFPSI Champions sit at many HSE service development and quality improvement tables as full and equal partners and advocate for person centred care through collaboration with all stake holders, including the patient across all levels of policy development, implementation, evaluation, design and delivery of services.
Tiberius Pereira
Co-Founder Patients for Patient Safety Ireland
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Tiberius Pereira is a co-founder of Patients for Patient Safety Ireland (PFPSI), formed 11 years ago under a World Health Organisation programme. As defined by the WHO, PFPSI aims to engage and empower patients and families to be active partners and advocates in their own care. The aim is to work in partnership and collaboration with health professionals and policy-makers to make health services safer in Ireland and enable the patient voice to be heard fully https://www.who.int/initiatives/patients-for-patient-safety).
Prof. Clíona Ní Cheallaigh
Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine
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Professor Clíona Ní Cheallaigh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine, TCD and a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine in St James’s Hospital, Dublin. She is the Clinical Lead of the Inclusion Health Service in St James’s Hospital. Her research examines the effect of social exclusion on health, including work on health systems design and evaluation, premature ageing in homeless adults and the effect of social exclusion on the immune system.
Moderators
Prof. Thomas Jun
Ph.D C.ErgHF FHEA
Thomas Jun is a Professor of Sociotechnical System Design at Loughborough University. He has been promoting systems thinking to safety incident investigation through award-winning animation/film production (www.systemsthinkinglab.com) and recently involved in training over 800 patient safety specialists in the NHS on system safety/resilience engineering. He is currently leading an NIHR-funded research project developing human-centred AI for people with learning disabilities and multiple long-term conditions (2022-25), DECODE.
Prof. Melissa Baysari
PhD CPE FAIDH
Professor Melissa Baysari leads the Digital Health Human Factors Group at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her team apply human factors methods and approaches to evaluate and optimise health technologies to support healthcare work and improve patient safety. Melissa’s work seeks to understand and improve the interactions between healthcare providers, health technologies and organisations, and she is particularly interested in evaluating and ensuring the usability and safety of health technologies, and minimising unintended consequences following implementation. She has published widely (>175 publications) in the areas of medication safety, electronic medical record systems and decision support, she has secured over AUD $25Mill in research funding, and her research has resulted in a number of significant changes being made to clinical information systems, as well as to hospital policy and work practices.
