Authors

Claire Wallace has over 30 years of experience in the life sciences, pharmaceutical and medical devices industries. She graduated as a microbiologist and began her career within the National Health Service (NHS) before joining Thermo Fisher Scientific in 1993. Since then, she has held leadership roles with increasing responsibility in quality, operations, marketing and sales. […]

Kevin Warwick is Emeritus Professor at Reading and Coventry Universities. His main research areas are artificial intelligence, biomedical systems, robotics and cyborgs. He is frequently referred to as the world’s first Cyborg. Kevin is a Chartered Engineer who has published over 600 research papers. His experiments into implant technology led to him being featured as […]

Chris Wasden is a Managing Director at PwC and the Global Healthcare Innovation Leader. Prior to PwC he led nine startups, that include corporate ventures, venture financed startups, incubators, and family owned businesses. He is a named inventor on 20 issued patents. He has authored over 40 reports and papers on innovation that have outlined […]

Dr. Chris Wasden is Director of the Sorenson Center for Discovery and Innovation at the University of Utah. Previously he was a Managing Director at PwC and the Global Healthcare Innovation Leader. As a global thought leader on Digital Health and the role that Social, Mobile, Analytic and Cloud technologies are transforming healthcare he has […]

Christopher L. White, Esq. is Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed). He manages AdvaMed’s Legal Committee to develop and promote legal policy positions enhancing patient access to medical technology.  Mr. White leads the Association’s working groups on compliance, Physician Payment Sunshine, and device tax implementation. He testified before […]

Daniel White has been the vice president of sales at Cepheid since December 2022, overseeing strategic and commercial operations in Europe. Prior to that, he held multiple senior roles since he joined the company in 2011, including as regional marketing director, U.K. managing director, and senior director of market access & government affairs. White is […]

Former Chief Executive of Eucomed

Anna Williams is the Lead Science and Technology Researcher on the Longitude Prize; the challenge with a £10 million prize to help solve one of the greatest issue s of our time. It is being run and developed by Nesta, with the Technology Strategy Board as launch funding partner. Prior to Nesta Anna worked for […]

Brian is a member of PwC’s Global Healthcare Strategy team.  He advises biopharma and medical device executives on strategy and innovation. He has twenty years of investment and strategy expertise within healthcare.   Prior to joining PwC, Brian served as an executive for two health care firms, including one early stage company where he quadrupled revenues […]

Wil Woan worked at the Big Lottery Fund for 12 years, where he spent time as an assessor, an outreach officer and a policy lead for a range of investment programmes. Wil was appointed CEO of the UK patient charity Heart Valve Voice on 1st January 2016. He is also Chair of the Heart Valve […]

Catherine Wong, a freshman at Stanford University began work on mobile-phone-based diagnostic tools for developing world audiences as a high school student. She has been recognized for her research in venues ranging from the Intel Science Talent Search to the Google Science Fair, and continued related work at the Little Devices Lab at MIT. In […]

Donna Woodall is the Senior Director of Global Marketing for Laboratory Diagnostics at Siemens Healthineers. She joined the company in late 2014 to lead the team that will manage the rollout of the next generation product portfolio. Woodall has enjoyed more than 35 years in the clinical laboratory industry in many different functions, and has […]