ISQua's Plenary Speakers

We have an excellent line up of Plenary Speakers for this years conference.

Watch the live sessions at 9am and 2:30pm IST (Ireland) each day, from Thursday, 8th July to Sunday, 11th July 2021.

Thursday, 8th July - 9:00am

Professor Melanie Calvert, PhD, is Professor of Outcomes Methodology at the University of Birmingham UK. She is Director of Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science and Innovation and Director of the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research which aims to optimize the use of patient reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical trials and routine care, to improve service delivery, enhance patient care and outcomes and ensure that the patient perspective is at the heart of health research and healthcare decision-making. 

Thursday, 8th July - 2:30pm

Walter Ricciardi MD, MPH, MSc, is a Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome. He manages several undergraduate and postgraduate teaching activities including a Master of Science programme and International Courses in Epidemiology.He is Editor of the European Journal of Public Health, of the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice and Founding Editor of the Italian Journal of Public Health and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health.In May 2019 he received the “Laurea Honoris Causa” at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA.

Friday, 9th July - 9am

Dr. Pascale Carayon is Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Director of the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She leads the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2015 and 2016, Becker’s Hospital Review named her one of 50 experts leading the field of patient safety. In 2015, she received the A.R. Lauer Safety Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society for contributions to the human factors of patient safety. In 2016, she received the John M. Eisenberg patient safety and quality award for individual achievement from the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission. Dr. Carayon has written more than 130 journal publications. She is the editor of the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety. 

Friday, 9th July - 2:30pm

Professor Glyn Elwyn BA MD MSc PhD FRCGP, is a clinician, researcher, and innovator. He is a tenured professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, USA, and at the Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands. 

Boel Andersson Gäre was trained as a pediatrician at the University of Göteborg. She combined clinical work with leadership positions and research in Region Jönköping County for several years. Since 2009 she is professor of Leadership for Improvement of Health and Welfare at Jönköping University.

Sylvie Mantis has more than 20 years’ experience in facilitation internationally within civil society and the private sector and a proven track record facilitating processes that bring partner groups together in a positive working environment even when there is a pre-existing conflict. She completed her studies in the UK and worked with adult victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and rape. Following on from this experience she later focused her M Phil research on using particular traumatic experience as a learning tool for change and empowerment

Valerie James is at the forefront of innovation in the UK in developing health service leaders. A Senior Fellow in Leadership at the King’s Fund for 10 years, she worked with over 800 senior clinicians and managers on ground breaking interventions. She has two clinical trainings, three behavioural science degrees, three postgraduate clinical diplomas and a PGCE. Accredited by CEDR International as a mediator, she specialises in mediating with doctors. She works creatively with transformational change, inequality and conflict.

Saturday, 10th July - 9:00am

Trish Greenhalgh is an internationally recognised academic in primary health care and trained as a GP. She joined the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford as Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences in January 2015, after previously holding professorships at University College London and Queen Mary University of London.

As co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Research In Health Sciences (IRIHS) unit, Trish leads a programme of research at the interface between social sciences and medicine, with strong emphasis on the organisation and delivery of health services. Her research seeks to celebrate and retain the traditional and humanistic aspects of medicine while also embracing the unparalleled opportunities of contemporary science and technology to improve health outcomes and relieve suffering. 

Trish is joint module coordinator on the Knowledge Into Action (KIA) module of the MSc in Evidence Based Health Care.

Saturday, 10th July - 2:30pm

Charles Vincent M Phil PhD Professor of Psychology, trained as a Clinical Psychologist and worked in the British NHS for several years. Since 1985 he has carried out research on the causes of harm to patients, the consequences for patients and staff and methods of improving the safety of healthcare. He established the Clinical Risk Unit at University College in 1995 where he was Professor of Psychology before moving to the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College in 2002. In 2014 he took up a new post as Health Foundation professorial fellow in the Department of Psychology, University of Oxford where he continues his work on safety in healthcare and led the Oxford Region NHS Patient Safety Collaborative. With Rene Amalberti he has recently published ‘Safer healthcare: strategies for the real world’ Springer, Open Access (2016). He has recently been appointed Director of Oxford Healthcare Improvement a centre based in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

René Amalberti works part time as a Senior Advisor to the Haute Authorité de Santé (HAS), France and is a risk manager in a medical insurance company. He is also Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Ergonomics. During this decade he has been chairman of the French national research program on road and railway safety; In the late '90s, he undertook research in the medical field on medical errors, patient safety, system approach, and resilience. He has published more than 100 international papers and chapters, and authored or co-authored 10 books.

Sunday, 11th July - 9:00am

Dr Dilshad Jaff has more than 17 years' experience in complex humanitarian crises in conflict zones in the Middle East, largely working with the International Committee of the Red Cross. He has experience in designing, implementing, supervising, and monitoring health projects and programs during and after complex humanitarian emergencies. In addition to his formal studies in medicine and public health, he has studied medical microbiology and has considerable training in conflict resolution.

Dr Frances Mortimer is Medical Director at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in Oxford, UK, an independent charity, where her focus is on engaging clinicians with the concept of sustainable clinical care. As part of this, she has published a framework for integrating sustainability into healthcare improvement methodology. She has led the development of the Centre’s innovative “Sustainable Specialties” programmes, which foster change within clinical communities, supported by research into the carbon footprint of alternative models of care. Frances studied medicine at Oxford University and at the Royal Free & University College London Medical School, graduating in 2003. In 2008, she left specialist training in renal medicine to take up her current position.

Sunday, 11th July - 2:30pm

Dr Ronald Wyatt joined MCIC Vermont in January 2020 as the Vice-President and Patient Safety Officer. Prior to joining MCIC Vermont, Dr. Wyatt was formerly Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer at Cook County Health, one of the largest public health systems in the United States. He also served as Chief of Patient Safety and Quality for the Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha Qatar. Dr. Wyatt was the first Patient Safety Officer at the Joint Commission and in that role contributed to National Patient Safety Goals. Dr. Wyatt is an internationally known patient safety and health equity subject matter expert. He Co-chairs the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Equity Advisory Group and is faculty for the IHI Pursuing Equity Initiative.  He was a 2009-2010 Merck Fellow at IHI.

Yvonne Coghill CBE, FRCN, (Hon) Fellow KCL, Hon DUni (Bucks) commenced nurse training at Central Middlesex Hospital in 1977, qualified as a general nurse in 1980 and then went on to qualify in mental health nursing and health visiting. Yvonne is currently the Director – WRES Implementation in NHS England, she is a member of the equality and diversity council at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in the United States where she helped develop their inclusion strategy. Yvonne has delivered lectures on inclusion and diversity at Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts and the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She continues to work closely with world expert on health and race Professor D. Williams, of Harvard University School of Public Health. In 2012 Yvonne was appointed a Magistrate to the North London bench. She has been voted by colleagues in the NHS as one of the top 50 most inspirational women, one of the top 50 most inspirational nurse leaders and one of the top 50 BME pioneers and in December 2017 she was included in the HSJ top 100 influential leaders list. Yvonne was awarded an OBE for services to healthcare in 2010 and was appointed to the position of Director for WRES implementation in June 2015. In 2018 Yvonne was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing, a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list, an honorary fellowship from Kings College University, honorary doctorates from The Middlesex and Buckinghamshire Universities, voted one of the top 70 most inspirational nurses in the NHS over the last 70 years and became Deputy President of the RCN in January 2019.