Scientific Program Committee

Professor Theodoros N. Arvanitis is Chair of Digital Health Technology and Medical Imaging at the University of Birmingham, UK, where he leads the Digital Health and Medical Imaging Research Group. He is also a member of the EFMI Board as Scientific Projects Officer and will serve as EFMI Vice President in 2026–2028.

He is an Honorary Professor and Clinical Scientist at the Digital & Data Driven Research Unit, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, an Honorary Professor of Digital Healthcare at the University of Warwick, and an Associate Director of HDR UK for the Midlands.

Professor Arvanitis holds an RT degree in medical radiological technology from TEI of Athens, Greece, and a DPhil in biomedical engineering from the University of Sussex, UK. His research interests span health informatics, including clinical systems interoperability and clinical decision support systems, biomedical engineering, and neuroimaging, with strong academic and industrial experience in software engineering for healthcare applications.

Dr. Persephone Doupi is a Senior Medical Officer at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland, where she works on health informatics, data governance, and digital health. Her work spans electronic health records, personalised applications of health IT, quality and patient safety, patient registries and biobanks, health technology assessment, public health policy, and cross-border healthcare services and infrastructures.

She holds a PhD with research focused on personalised patient education and linking health information to the electronic patient record. She has authored and co-authored scientific articles, books, and book chapters on medical informatics and eHealth topics.

Her recent work is closely connected to European health data and digital health initiatives, including topics related to the European Health Data Space and health data infrastructures.

Dr. Matthew D. McHugh is the Independence Chair for Nursing Education and Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. He is also Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and Faculty Director of the Nursing and Health Care Management Coordinated Dual Degree Program.

His research focuses on how nursing contributes to major health policy goals, including quality, equity, innovation, and improved health services. His work draws on expertise in nursing, law, public health, and health services research.

He holds degrees in nursing, public health, law, and nursing science, including an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, a JD from Northeastern University School of Law, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

Markus Kalliola is a Programme Director in the Future Well-being Solutions programme at the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. He is the coordinator of the Joint Action Towards the European Health Data Space 2 (TEHDAS2) and the Value from Nordic Health Data (VALO) projects.

Both projects aim to support the successful implementation of the European Health Data Space regulation.

Prior to joining Sitra, Mr. Kalliola worked at the European Commission’s DG SANTE, where he was responsible for cross-border healthcare IT projects. He has extensive experience in the data economy, and in the coming years, his work will focus on contributing to a healthier and fairer data economy for Europe.

Mr. Kalliola also holds positions of trust on multiple advisory boards related to digital health.

Trained as a physician and computer scientist, Christophe Gaudet-Blavignac completed a PhD in Biomedical Sciences focused on medical semantics and interoperability.

He currently works in the Division of Medical Information Sciences at the University of Geneva, where he leads research on the semantic representation of clinical data, notably through SNOMED CT, and contributes to national health data infrastructures such as the Swiss Personalized Health Network.

He also serves on the EFMI Council as the academic representative of institutional members. His work spans interoperability, clinical NLP, large language models, and standardisation, all in service of better use and reuse of clinical data for research and care.

Oscar Tamburis, M.Eng., PhD, is a Researcher in Health Informatics at the National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging, Naples, and a Lecturer in Medical Informatics at Federico II University, Naples.

His research focuses on process innovation, business process management, simulation, process mining, sensor implementation, aspects of data analytics, and One Digital Health.

He serves as an external expert for national and international projects, including PRIN, H2020, eCOST, and Chile FONDECYT. He is also an Editorial Board Member of Health Information Journal (SAGE) and Frontiers in Digital Health.

He is a member of the EFMI Board as yEFMI Officer and Chair of the EFMI Working Group on One Digital Health. He is also Co-Chair of the Working Group on One Digital Health at the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).

Michael Marschollek is a full professor of Medical Informatics at the Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School. He holds degrees in computer science and medicine, and his research interests include clinical decision support, health information systems, AI in medicine, and semantic interoperability.

He is a member of the directorium of the Lower Saxony Center for AI and Causal Methods in Medicine (CAIMed), and an elected member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) and the Braunschweig Scientific Society.

Kadri Suija, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine / General Practice at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Tartu in Estonia.

She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as general practitioners. Her research focuses on patient-centred care and other core values of general practice, digital health, and new developments in medical education.

She has more than twenty years of practical experience as a general practitioner in primary health care.

Ricardo João Cruz-Correia is an Associate Professor of Health Informatics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Portugal. He is also a researcher in digital health, clinical information systems, interoperability, data quality, and the use of GenAI in healthcare.

He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, where his research focused on the integration of hospital information systems. He has extensive experience in teaching, research, supervision, and the implementation of health information systems.

He is involved in several health informatics standards and professional organisations, including HL7, openEHR, and e-MAIS, where he serves as President. He has authored numerous scientific publications and contributed to national and international projects in health informatics, digital health innovation, and AI-enabled healthcare.