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
Dr Andy Phillips
Regional Executive Officer, HSE South West
A Welshman, Dr Andy Phillips comes to the HSE from his role as Acting CEO of Safer Care Victoria, Australia. He has worked in clinical, operational and strategic executive leadership roles in healthcare for the past 37 years. Andy maintains his clinical qualification as a consultant clinical scientist.
Since 2009, Andy has been leading large scale health system transformation in Wales, New Zealand and Australia, with a passion for integrating health and social care. Andy has practised co-creating health and relationship centred healthcare for over 20 years, with recent work leading kindness and compassion in healthcare. Andy took up his role as Regional Executive Officer in HSE South West on 1 March 2024.
HSE South West serves the people of Cork and Kerry with a purpose of making our communities proud of their Health Service
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.
Dr. John Sheehan
Radiologist, Blackrock Health
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John is a Consultant Radiologist whose expertise transcends medical imaging, reaching into the vanguard of digital health innovation and transformative healthcare leadership. With fellowships at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, John's clinical acumen is matched by his strategic roles at Blackrock Health, Dublin, Mobile Medical Diagnostics (MMD), and xWave Technologies. His leadership roles as Clinical Director at MMD, Clinical Advisor at xWave, and Vice Chair of Ireland's Digital Health Association, highlight his commitment to AI-driven diagnostic advancements and the betterment of community healthcare. John champions a healthcare ethos centered on accessibility, equity, and integration. His contributions to MMD and xWave are a testament to his dedication to leveraging digital innovations to remove patient care barriers and drive transformative change.
Justyna Maslanka
Mental health advocacy and community health advocacy for ethnics and minority group.
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Membership with Mental Health Reform Organisation, and Cairde.
Participating in the National Implementation project for the Government, and other departments.
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.
