Keynote Speakers

Persephone Doupi, MD, PhD is a Senior Medical Officer at the Knowledge Brokers Department of THL, Finland. Vice President of EFMI (European Federation for Medical Informatics), WHO-FIC Nordic Classification Center Board Member, Nordic Commons Executive Team Chair
Combined expertise on digital health, public health and health policy, applied on national, Nordic and EU-level RD&I collaborations. Current focus: Reuse of health data.
Key roles in: TEHDAS JA, EHDS2/HealthData@EU-pilot, EU-HIP project.
Her work has spanned EHRs, personalized applications of health IT, quality and patient safety, patient registries and biobanks, HTA and public health policy, cross-border healthcare services & infrastructures. Dr. Doupi has (co)authored several scientific articles, books and book chapters on medical informatics and eHealth topics.

Professor Theodoros N. Arvanitis holds the Chair of Digital Health Technology and Medical Imaging at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is also the Deputy Head of the School of Engineering and is affiliated with Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the College of Medicine and Health at the same University. He is a Life-Long Fellow of the Greek Biomedical Informatics and Health Informatics Association (FGBHA), and he has served as EFMI’s Scientific Project Officer (2024-2026), and will take over the role of EFMI’s Vice President from October 2026 onwards. He is also an Honorary Professor and Clinical Scientist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, and an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Digital Healthcare at the University of Warwick (which he previously led before his current appointment). He is one of the Associate Directors of HDR UK for Midlands. Within the University of Birmingham, he leads the Digital Healthcare and Medical Imaging Research Group. He is also the Editor-in-Chief at  Digital Health , an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by Sage Publications, UK.

His research interests span the areas of biomedical engineering, neuroimaging, and health informatics (in particular, clinical decision support systems), with a strong academic and industrial experience in software engineering for healthcare. As a Research Leader, he has developed a substantial digital health team that encompasses experience across multiple disciplines, which brings together a rich and long pedigree of knowledge, in interconnectivity, interoperability and deployment of innovative solutions. In particular, he has long-standing expertise in quantitative image analysis and radiomics. He has delivered solutions at multiple maturity levels (from lab-based innovation to product deployment) and has established collaboration with major actors in the healthcare industry, including trusts, healthcare IT and medical device companies, as well as patient forums and regulators.

Panagiotis Bamidis is a Professor of Medical Physics, Informatics and Medical Education and Director of the Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation in the School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece, and past Director of the AUTH MSc course on Biomedical Engineering. He designs, implements, and evaluates Digital Health and Assistive Technologies systems that improve the everyday activities of the elderly and other vulnerable groups, enhance their health or quality of life, or improve the education and training of health professionals. He conducts research to understand how the brain responds to different stimuli, technological or educational interventions, and the development and evolution of human emotions and sleep transitions. Co-creation and Living Lab approaches are within his active interests. He is the co-ordinator of more than 12 large European projects, and the principal investigator for many national and international funded projects (>100 in total, 5 of which are Joint Actions in e-Health/Digital/Integrated Health). He is the President of the Hellenic Biomedical Technology Society, HL7 Hellas and the co-chair of Athens Digital Health Week series of events. He has received Prizes for the Best Track Record in funded research projects and the Best overall high/extra-ordinary academic performance.