Nilmini WickramasingheNilmini 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 has held or holds honorary research professor positons at Epworth HealthCare, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, MCRI and Northern Health in Australia and the Cleveland Clinic in the US. 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 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 the 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 organisations and universities throughout Australasia, US and Europe and is well published, with more than 400 referred scholarly articles, more than 25 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 a trademark. She is the editor-in-chief of Intl. J Networking and virtual Organisations( ) as well as the editor of the Springer book series Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age and the CRC Routledge book series on Analytics and AI in Healthcare. In 2020 she was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt life time award for outstanding contribution to Digital Health, the first time this honour has been bestowed to someone in the discipline of Digital Health worldwide. Read More Read Less