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EFMI STC 2026 - AI in Clinical Decision Making and Education
John Mantas
SPC Co-Chair
SPC Co-Chair
Professor Emeritus at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, where he served as Director of the Health Informatics Laboratory and Director of Postgraduate Studies. He is an EFMI Honorary Fellow and served as EFMI President (2010–2012). His research interests include: health information systems, patient safety, biomedical informatics, and healthcare management. He also served as an advisor and expert for European Commission panels.
Kaija Saranto
SPC Co-Chair
SPC Co-Chair
Professor Emerita Kaija Saranto was full professor in Health and Human Services Informatics (HHSI), University of Eastern Finland. She is an elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the American Academy of Nursing and an Inaugural Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. She was President of the International Association of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) under IMIA.
She is the past president of the Finnish Health Informatics Association and has served as the International Taskforce Liaison for HIMSS TIGER Committee. Currently, she is the chair of the WG Education of EFMI.
She is Honorary Fellow of GBHIA.
Theodoros N. Arvanitis
SPC Co-Chair
SPC Co-Chair
Professor Theodoros N. Arvanitis holds the Chair of Digital Health Technology; he is the Head of the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, and affiliated with Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the College of Medicine and Health, at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is a Life-Long Fellow of the Greek Biomedical Informatics and Health Informatics Association (FGBHA) and he is EFMI’s Scientific Project Officer. 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 led previously 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.
Associate Professor in Biomedical and Health Informatics, Digital Health, and Applied Artificial Intelligence. His research interests include: health informatics and digital health, decision support systems and digital epidemiology, terminologies and ontologies for innovation supprt and education. Co–initiator of the One Digital Health (ODH) framework and of the Medical Informatics and Digital Health Multilingual Ontology MIMO). EFMI Board Member as Executive Officer, and co-chair of the WG on One Digital Health.
Ricardo João Cruz-Correia
Professor Ricardo João Cruz-Correia is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto (FMUP). He holds the degree of Computer Science at the Faculty of Sciences (FCUP), the Master Degree on Computer Science also at FCUP, and the PhD at FMUP in 2008 on the Integration of Hospital Information Systems. Member of several health informatics standard organizations (HL7, openEHR, IPQ CT199, ABNT), and associations (APIM. e-MAIS). He is currently supervising several master degrees on Health Informatics. Co-founder of 3 UP spin-off companies.
Assistant Professor of Health Informatics, Departnment of Nursing, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece. His research focuses on biomedical informatics and eHealth systems.
Researcher in Health Informatics at the National Research Council of Italy, and Lecturer of Processing Information Systems at the University of Naples Federico II. Author of publications on the following topics: health-related process innovation, BPM, simulation, process mining, sensors implementation, aspects of data analytics, FAIRness, One Digital Health. Co–initiator of the One Digital Health (ODH) framework. External expert for national and international projects. EFMI Board Member as Young EFMI Officer, and Chair of the WG on One Digital Health.
Elisavet Andrikopoulou
Senior Lecturer of computer science at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research is on health informatics. She is the ‘Events, publications and communications’ lead of the BCS Faculty of Health and Care. She also is EFMI Board Member as Publications Officer.
Konstantinos Karitis
PhD Candidate at University o Piraeus. He holds the degree of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Thessaly. In 2024 he received his Master's Degree in Health Informatics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is member of yEFMI LEAD program.
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