Nilmini WickramasingheCurrently, Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe is the inaugural Optus Chair and Professor of Digital Health at La Trobe University. She is also an inaugural member of the Australian Centre for AI in Medical Innovation. She holds honorary research profesor positions at the Murdoch Research Children’s Institute (MCRI), the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Northern Health. After completing 5 degrees at the University of Melbourne, she was awarded a full scholarship to complete PhD studies at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA and later she was sponsored to complete executive education at Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in Value-based HealthCare. For over 20 years, Professor Wickramasinghe has been actively, researching and teaching within the health informatics/digital health domain in US, Germany and Australia with a particular focus on designing, developing and deploying suitable models, strategies and techniques grounded in various management principles to facilitate the implementation and adoption of technology solutions to effect superior, value-based patient centric care delivery. Professor Wickramasinghe collaborates with leading scholars at various premier healthcare organizations and universities throughout Australasia, US and Europe and is well published with more than 400 referred scholarly articles, more than 30 books, numerous book chapters, an encyclopaedia and a well established funded research track record securing over $25M in funding from grants in US, Australia, Germany and China as a chief investigator. She holds a patent around analytics solution for managing healthcare data and is the editor-in-chief of two scholarly journals published by InderScience: Intl. J. Biomedical engineering and Technology and Intl. J Networking and virtual Organisations as well as the editor of the Springer book series Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. In 2020 she was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt award for outstanding contribution to Digital Health, the first time this honour has been bestowed to someone in the discipline of Digital Health Read More Read Less