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We are delighted that Denis Gilhooly, will be opening The 3rd Annual Future of Medicine – The Role of Doctors in 2027 event, jointly organised by the IET Healthcare Technologies Network and the royal Society of Medicine. The event is taking place on the 18 May 2017 at BMA House, London.

Denis will be talking on "Panaceas and Pandora's Box: Digital Health and the Digital Doctor 2027"

The mantra of  Silicon Valley guru and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla that 80% of what doctors do today will be done by digital technology tomorrow is most likely inevitable.  However, it is important to recognize that just three decades into the new digital age, we still have only a partial understanding of the nascent and complex nature of digital or network dynamics.  The perennial complexity of health and socio-economic or development dynamics is equally daunting, and assessing the interaction of network and development dynamics becomes a highly subjective enterprise.  In 2007, the Royal Society published its breakthrough report "Digital healthcare: the impact of information and communication technologies on health and healthcare", with short, medium and long term predictions on the future availability of digital technology in national and global health.  In 2017, how have these predictions stood the test of time?  Where are we now and where will be a decade hence?  Most important, what is the optimum path for Innovating in Data-driven Healthcare & Well-being and Investing in Global Health Security & People-centric Trust? This presentation will explore the opportunities and challenges presented by digital health and the role of the digital doctor 2027, and the health-relate UN Sustainable Development Goals circa 2030.

Denis Gilhooly has some three decades of experience in the field of global development and information and communication technology.  He is currently founding Executive Director, Global He@lth 2030 Innovation Task Force and Mobile Action  on Pandemics (MAP) 2030,  multi-stakeholder partnerships dedicated to data-driven innovation & investment for health-care & well-being transformation.  He previously served as founding Executive Director, UN Digital He@lth Initiative and founding Executive Secretary and Lead Author, UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development. 

Denis has worked in the public sector as Principal Adviser to the Administrator & Director, Information & Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Principal Adviser & Executive Coordinator, World Summit on the Information Society, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and Principal Adviser, Innovation & Information Infrastructure, World Bank Group (WBG) . 

He has worked extensively in the private sector as Vice President, Business Development, Teledesic LLC (the broadband Internet-in-the-Sky venture of Bill Gates and Craig McCaw), Media & Technology Director, The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones & Co., and founding Editorial & Publishing Director, Communications Week InternationalITU Telecom 91 & 95 Daily Newspapers, and The Networked Economy and Global Mobile Conferencesand Chair, ITU Telecom 95 Strategies Summit

He was a member and lead author of An Taoiseach’s two Advisory Committees on Telecommunications and ICT for the Government of Ireland, a founding Commissioner of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC), and Executive Secretary and lead author of the G8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (G8 DOT-Force) and Director of the G8 Digital Opportunity Initiative ).  He was a founding member of the United Nations Secretary General’s UN ICT Task Force.

Denis was a member and contributing author of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Science, Innovation & Technology, and a memberof the Innovation Working Group (IWG) of the UN Secretary-General's Global Strategy on Women's and Children's Health, the Working Group on ICT for the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health, and adviser to the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN).

He is currently a principal within the champions group of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD).  He serves as a member of the board the Advanced Development for Africa (ADA) Foundation, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Digital Health, and is a Senior Fellow of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at the Columbia Business School

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