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External Advisory Board

HiGHmed Consortium

Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki

Professor of Computer Science and Lab Director of the Data-Intensive Applications and Systems (DIAS) Laboratory

Prof. Nancy M. Lorenzi

Vice President for Strategic Change Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville USA
Clinical Professor of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

Prof. Christian Lovis

Professor of Clinical Informatics
Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Head of Division, Medical Information Sciences, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Prof. Christoph U. Lehmann

Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Medical Director of the Child Health Informatics Center (CHIC) for the American Academy of Pediatrics
Chair of the Examination Committee of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, Subcommittee for Clinical Informatics

Prof. Louis D. Fiore

Executive Dirctor of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center, Boston, USA

Kevin Fitzpatrick

Senior Advisor at Paige.Al
formerly: Chief Executive Officer at ASCO CancerLinQ LLC, Alexandria, USA

Prof. Dipak Kalra

President of the European Institute of Innovation through Health Data (i-HD), Gent, Belgium
Director of the openEHR Foundation
Clinical Professor of Health Informatics, Centre for Health Informatics and Multi-professional Education (CHIME)
University College London, United Kingdom

Dr. Najeeb Al-Shorbaji

Independent Consultant, Amman, Jordan
Lecturer and Researcher at Peter L. Reichertz Institute (PLRI) for Medical Informatics, Hannover, Germany
Formerly: Director of Knowledge Management, Research and Ethics at the World Health Organization (WHO)
Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Franz Bartmann

Formerly: Chairman of the Medical Association (Ärztekammer) Schleswig-Holstein

Dr. Jan-Willem Boiten

Program Manager for research data infrastructure projects and Lygature.
The Netherlands Program Manager Translational Research IT (TraiT)
Coordinator Data4lifescience programs of the Dutch University Medical Centers Co-lead for the IT work package of BBMRI-NL
Health Research Coordinator in DTL (Dutch Techcenter for the Lifescience)

Prof. James J. Cimino

Director of the Informatics Institute, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
Co-Director for Informatics of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA

Claus Duedal Pedersen

Chief Innovation Officer at the Centre for Innovative Medical Technology (CIMT)
Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
formerly: EU-Project Coordinator RENEWING HEALTH (REgioNs of Europe WorkINg toGether for HEALTH)