Digital Health Seminar Series

Why do brilliant ideas fail? There's one important question noone asks....

In this episode, Dr Nayan Kalnad, a clinician by training, discusses why great innovations often fail to scale in healthcare. Kalnad has over 14 years’ experience working in digital healthcare and pharmaceutical research and development.

Kalnad co-founded Avegen Health in 2015, a digital health company that designs and delivers technology platforms used by healthcare providers and life sciences organisations in the UK and internationally.

Last year, Garth Williams won "Best Creative Innovation" at MediaCity Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub for his dramatic reconstruction of a year spent as a psychiatric inpatient across four hospitalisations.

Based on Garth’s true story beginning at age 17, the reconstruction titled, The Ward Round, includes a video game, live show, “In The Round” (training for frontline staff), and “Full Circle” (community workshops).

In this episode, the Manchester-based actor, writer, producer, and creative technologist discusses his journey from struggling with psychosis to co-developing virtual reality experiences with lived experience advisory groups.

PhD student Océane Pittet's shares her research into developing and evaluating an AI-driven interactive (chatbot) patient decision aid to improve symptom management in endometriosis.

Pittet's unique research offered people with endometriosis disposable cameras to capture their experience. Having struggled with endometriosis herself, Pittet hopes the work will help others struggling with chronic conditions.

Pittet is a PhD student at the Unisanté, a university centre for general medicine and public health based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Part two of a special two-part seminar series exploring how accessibility and trauma-informed principles can improve the design, evaluation, and implementation of digital health technologies and research practices.

Claire Dellar is the Lead Product Manager & Accessibility and Inclusive Design Strategist at NHS England, and founded Wheelchair Tango Foxtrot Consulting, where she campaigns for inclusive working practices and culture.

In this episode, Claire takes us through the seven steps of safe, accessible trauma-informed research practices. These steps apply beyond digital healthcare, and are a key toolkit for anyone looking to improve their own understanding of accessibility...

Part one of a special two-part seminar series exploring how accessibility and trauma-informed principles can improve the design, evaluation, and implementation of digital health technologies and research practices.

Claire Dellar is the Lead Product Manager & Accessibility and Inclusive Design Strategist at NHS England, and founded Wheelchair Tango Foxtrot Consulting, where she campaigns for inclusive working practices and culture.

In this episode, Claire takes us through a day in her life as a neurodivergent Ambulatory Wheelchair User, revealing the hidden accessibility barriers and needs she encounters every day.

In this episode, Joseph Firth discusses the Remote Exercise and Lifestyle (REAL) Intervention for people with psychosis. Featured in numerous journals and science articles, the web library provides free access to a large library of pre-recorded workout videos available to do anywhere.

Firth is currently leading the multi-million pound UKRI-funded project, which aims to implement a digital lifestyle intervention into youth mental healthcare.

Joseph Firth is a Professor of Mental Health Informatics in the Division of Psychology & Mental Health at the University of Manchester. His current research leverages digital technologies and lifestyle medicine to improve...

What do implementing remote patient monitoring into the NHS and the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge have in common?

In this episode, Professor of Health Informatics Sabine van der Veer takes us on a deep dive into REMORA, or, the Remote Monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis (REMORA) programme.

The £2.1m research study funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) aims to improve outpatient consultations by enabling people with rheumatoid arthritis to collect and share daily symptom reports with health care staff to give them more detailed information on how patients have felt in t...

Rob Foster is one of the founders of Caremixer, a Salford-based health tech start up. Previously a GP, Rob left the NHS in 2024, setting up Carebell with two clinicians.

Carebell is a real-time digital communication platform providing universal accessibility that connects professionals, teams and patients across the health and care network to reduce the impact of fragmented care. At the time of this podcast seminar, the platform is still being developed, and Rob discusses the need for targeted research in its development.

Rob's 20 year career has covered data, opps, commissioning and primary care, and transforming...

Dr Mahima Kalla is a Digital Health Research Fellow at the Digital Health Validitron at the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health the University of Melbourne.

Kalla's work explores embedding equity considerations across the entire digital health innovation pipeline, from problem identification to implementation into routine clinical practice. In this seminar, Kalla discusses 'the Gold standard' of co-design and how to counter poor applications.

Mahima Kalla is also the Melbourne Lead for the Digital Health Equity Hub of the International Collaborative for Translational Digital Health (MMT Alliance).

Lovisa Hellsten and Kyriaki Kosidou share their fascinating work on digital sexual and reproductive healthcare use among Swedish youth, which looks at patterns and predictors based on register-based data.

Their talk offers rich insights into how young people in Stockholm engage with digital SRH services, what shapes access and equity, and how digital visits are being integrated within youth clinic systems.

Pritesh Mistry spoke to Marta Chmielowska about digital exclusion in health and social care.

Pritesh is part of the The King's Fund's policy team. His work focuses on how digital tools and technologies can improve health and care across the system he is particularly passionate about using evidence-based digital technology as an enabler to improve quality, inequalities and outcomes.

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After both of Louise Thompson's parents became ill with dementia, her journey led to the creation of MyFolks — an app designed to help families support their elderly loved ones with ease and dignity.

In this episode, Louise talks to Marta Chmielowska about her inspiring app, which bridges the gap between health and social care and acts as a support system that aims to combat social isolation by using technology to provide help at the press of a button.

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In this week's seminar, Dr Linda Mizun presents her transformative Disease-Reversing Neighbourhood Model, powered by the Hero of Health App.

The goal: to build 10,000 Healing Neighbourhoods to tackle loneliness, chronic diseases, and health inequality, making them accessible to all.

Simple. Scalable. Life-changing.

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