International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare 2024 - London | BMJ Publishing Group | 9 April 2024 | ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL, UK

Using our combined expertise and passion, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and BMJ bring you one of the largest international conferences focused on improving outcomes for patients and communities through quality improvement. Joining the quality improvement community guarantees you to:

• Get re-energised, inspired and ready to tackle the challenges ahead of you
• Embrace new ideas and perspectives to accelerate your progress
• Get the latest research into quality and safety improvement
• Gain practical knowledge on using improvement methods
• Connect with like-minded colleagues to share experiences and improvement approaches, learn from innovative projects, and start collaborations

2024 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Amy Edmondson
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School

Anthony Costello
Professor, Global Health and Sustainable Development, University College London, England

Donald M. Berwick
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, USA

Jason Leitch
National Clinical Director, Scottish Government, Scotland

Joseph Lyons
Chief Executive Officer at West Ham United Foundation, England

Kedar Mate
President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), USA

Kevin Fenton
Senior public health expert and infectious disease epidemiologist, Public Health England

Marie Gabriel
Chair of the NHS North East London Integrated Care System, Chair of the NHS Race and Health Observatory and Trustee of West Ham United Foundation

Saoirse Exton
Cimate justice activist, Ireland

OTHER SPEAKERS:

Adam Butcher
Sheffield Health and Social Care, England

Agnes Wood
Child Orientated Mental Health Innovation Collaborative, England

Aidan Fowler
National Director of Patient Safety in England and a DCMO, DHSC

Akudo Okereafor
North Middlesex University Hospitals NHS Trust, England

Alex Coulter
National Centre for Creative Health, England

Alexandra Rawlins
Health Education & Improvement Wales, Wales

Alisa Brotherton
Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, England

Alyson Walker
Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, Scotland

Amar Shah
Chief Quality Officer, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Royal College of Psychiatrists and NHS England, England

Anders Vege
Head of Section for Quality Improvement, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway

Andrea McInerery
London Health Science Centre, Canada

Andrii Bazylevich
World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Associations, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Ukraine

Andy Hardy
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, England

Angela King
Patient Advocate

Anindita Ghosh
The Health Foundation, England

Anna Fabisch
Improvement leader, Qulturum, Region Jönköping County, Sweden

Anne Marie Weggelaar
Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Annemieke Schoemaker-Beugeling
Time for Connection Programme, The Netherlands

April Kyle
Southcentral Foundation, USA

Augustine Smithies
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, England

Aurora Todisco
Health Innovation Network, England

Axel Ros
Chief Medical Officer, Region Jönköping County, Sweden

Ayelet Grinbaum Arizon
Israeli Ministry of Health, Israel

Ben Allen
Birley Health Centre, England

Birgit Hartoft
Danish Society for Patient Safety, Denmark and WHO Patient Safety Champion, Denmark

Bob Klaber
Consultant General Paediatrician & Director of Strategy Research & Innovation, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, England

Bryan Jones
The Health Foundation, England

Carol Munt
Patient Partner and Advocate

Catharina van Oostveen
Time for Connection Programme, The Netherlands

Catherine Calderwood
University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Catherine Dale
Health Innovation Network, England

Ceri Higgins
Improvement Cymru, Public Health Wales, Wales

Charlie Goodwin-Smith
Institute for Healthcare Innovation, England

Chris Gordan
Barts Health NHS Trust, US

Chris Wroe
MA MB BChir, BMJ, England

Claire Snyman
Two Steps Forward

Farrah Schwartz
University Health Network, Canada

Felicity Maries
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Housing Association, England

Fiona Flowers
Social Care Institution for Excellence, England

Forzana Nasir
Lived Experience Advisor, England

Gabrielle Mathews
North Middlesex University NHS Trust, England

Gambinga Gambinga
SACMHA (Sheffield African Caribbean Mental Health Association), England

Gareth Thompson
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, England

Geetika Singh
Head of Quality Improvement, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, England

George Samoutis
National Centre for Clinical Evidence, Cyprus

George West
BMJ and Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, England

Göran Henriks
Chief Executive of Learning and Innovation, Qulturum, Sweden

Graham Cooper
Trustee, The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust, England

Hannah Baird
St3 Emergency Medicine, Chair of the FMLM Trainee Steering Group, FMLM, England

Hannah Waterson
National Centre for Creative Health, England

Hanni Schroeder
Israeli Ministry of Health, Israel

Hassan Mahmood
Sheffield Health and Social Care, England

Helen Bevan
Chief Transformation Officer, NHS Horizons, England

Helen Crisp
BMJ Open Quality, England

Helen Haylor
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Helen Lee
NHS England, England

Helen McConnell
Service User Representative, England

Helen Payne
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation, England

Helen Wharam
Solent NHS Trust, England

Henry Cann
The Health Foundation, England

Hesham Abdalla
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, England

Holly Krelle
NYU Langone Health; USA

Hugh McCaughey
Independent Consultant, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), England

Inge Kristensen
Danish Society for Patient Safety, Denmark

Iris Reijmerink
University Medical Centre Groningen, Netherlands

Iwan Meynaar
Haga Hospital, The Hague, The Netherlands

James Mountford
Health Strategy Officer, Galileo Global Education, France

Jane Coy-Terry
Royal Free Hospital, England

Jane O'Hara
University of Cambridge, England

Janet Seale
Expert by Experience Advisor, England

Jason Leitch
National Clinical Director; Scottish Government, Scotland

Jen Leonard
Barts Health NHS Trust, England

Jesper Gyllenborg
Region of Zealand, Denmark

Jo Johnson
Solent NHS Trust, England

Joanna Moore
Barts Health NHS Trust, England

John Dean
Improvement Clinical Director and Consultant Physician/Deputy Medical Director (Transformation), Royal College of Physicians East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, England

John Fitzsimons
Children’s Health Ireland, Ireland

John Lodge
Co-founder and CEO, Hexitime, England

Jonas Boström
CGI/Mid Sweden University, Sweden

Jonathan Burlison
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA

Jonathan Wetzel
Mount Sinai (US)

Josie Cheetham
Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, England

Juergen Graf
University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany

Kamran Abbassi
BMJ, England

Karen Turner
Senior Improvement Advisor, Royal Free Hospital in London, England

Kate Grailey
Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, England

Kate Hilton
Independent Consultant, England

Kathryn Turner
Metro North Mental Health, Australia

Kieran Walsh
Clinical director, BMJ, England

Kris Vanhaecht
Associate Professor, KU Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy, University of Leuven, Belgium

Kyra Schneider
University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany

Laura Wilson
Policy and Practice Lead; Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Scotland

Leanne Morgan
RQIA, Northern Ireland

Lesley Sharkey
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Scotland

Lien Van Malderen
Advisor on Aged Care, Zorgnet-Icuro, Belgium

Liv Østergaard
Steno Diabetes Center Sjaelland, Denmark

Lorraine Armstrong
University of Stirling, Scotland

Louise Patmore
Programme patient lead, Sussex Healthcare Partnership ICS** and Trauma Informed Practice initiatives, England

Louise Weile
Region of Zealand, Denmark

Lucas Hawkes-Frost
British Columbia Emergency Health Services, Canada

Marc Beswick
Scottish Government, Scotland

Marianne McPherson
Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), USA

Marie O'Haire
Organisation Development & Change Practitioner, Health Service Executive (HSE), Republic of Ireland

Mark Goldszmidt
London Health Sciences Center, Canada
Associate Chair, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and Site Chief Acute Care Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre University Campus, London, Ontario, Canada.

Marta Jóns Hjördísardóttir
National Hospital, Iceland

Mathieu Louiset
PAQS Belgium; Belgium

Matt Hill
Head of Insight, Evaluation and Research at the Q Community, The Health Foundation, England

Maureen Bisognano
President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), USA

Maureen Tshabalala
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), South Africa

Maxine Power
North West Ambulance Service, England

Michaela Morris
Improvement Cymru, Public Health Wales, Wales

Mike Christian
British Columbia Emergency Health Services, Canada

Minara Chowdhury
Institute for Healthcare Innovation, England

Minna Eii
Royal Pharmaceutical Society, England

Mirek Skrypak
NHS North East London Foundation Trust, England

Mondher Letaief
Regional Advisor for Eastern Mediterranean Region, World Health Organisation, Egypt

Muhammad Hasan Abid
Armed Forces Hospitals Taif Region - Saudi Arabia Ministry of Defense Health Services, Saudi Arabia

Nicholas Ambler
North Bristol NHS Trust, England

Nicola Burgess
Warwick Business School, England

Nozomi Akanuma
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, England

Olesya Vynnyk
Coordinator of Medical Initiatives, Ukrainian World Congress, Ukraine

Parya Rostami
Sheffield Health and Social Care, England

Paula Tuma
Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein, Brazil

Pedro Delgado
Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Northern Ireland

Penny Pereira
Q Managing Director, the Health Foundation, England

Perla J. Marang-van de Mheen
Associate Professor Quality of Care, Delft University of Technology; Senior Methods Editor, BMJ Quality & Safety, The Netherlands

Pierre Barker
Institute for Healthcare Improvement, USA

Priya Vaithilingham
The Health Foundation, England

Jop Groeneweg
TU Delft, The Netherlands

Rebecca Coombes
Head of Journalism, The BMJ, England

Rebecca Lawton
NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration (YHPSRC), England

Rachel Rajadurai
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, England

Rebecca Longmate
Royal Free Hospital, England

Richard Corder
Vice President Healthcare Strategy, Press Ganey, United States

Riddhi Shenoy
Kettering General Hospital, England

Rizwana Dudhia
North East London Foundation Trust, England

Rosie Bartel
Patient Partner

Rustam Zhurayev
Head, Salutas Medical Centre, Ukraine

Ruth Glassborow
Director of Improvement, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Scotland

Ruth Yates
Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA), England

Ruw Abeyratne
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, England

Sabrina Das
NHS England, England

Salli Midgley
Sheffield Health and Social Care, England

Sally Greensmith
Ashford & St Peters NHS Foundation Trust, England

Sara Nelson
NHS England, England

Sarah McAllister
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, England

Sarah Patmore
Improvement Cymru, Wales

Scott Ballard-Ridley
Lived Experience Partner

Shay Bluemer
Shift, Jamaica

Shevaun Mullender
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, England

Shubhi Tandon
Institute for Healthcare Innovation, England

Siri Wiig
Stavanger University, Norway

Sophie Lowry
Health Innovation Network, England

Sophronia Samouti
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, England

Stefan Cantore
University of Sheffield, England

Stuart Duncan
Deputy Director, Leading Improvement Team (LIT), Scottish Government, Scotland

Susan Hannah
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Scotland

Tanya Lord
ATW Solutions, USA

Tanya Verrall
Saskatchewan Health Quality Council, Canada

Tao Xu
Mount Sinai (US)

Tara Kiran
St Michael's Hospital & University of Toronto, Canada

Temi Filani
Palladium Group, Nigeria

Theresa Barnes
Royal College of Physicians, England

Tom Bell
Cormetis, England

Tony Sparkes
Assistant Professor, University of Bradford, UK

Tracey Herlihey
Head of Patient Safety Incident Response Policy, NHS England, England

Tracey Sherin
Health Quality Council, Canada

Trine Holgersen
CEO, Primary & eHealth Care, Region Zealand, Denmark

Vera De Troyer
Advisor on Quality in Healthcare General Hospitals, Zorgnet-Icuro, Belgium

Vibeke Rischel
Deputy CEO, Head of HealthCare Improvement Danish Society for Patient Safety, Denmark

Victoria O'Brien
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, England

Wendy Korthuis-Smith
Executive Director, Virginia Mason Institute, USA

Wing Tang
Head of Support and Guidance, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, England

Yaroslav Diakunchak
Brovary Primary Healthcare Centre, Ukraine

Yvonne Ridge
MSc, BMJ, England

Zarina Siganporia
Innovation and Collaboration Manager, The Health Foundation, England

Zoe Lord
NHS Horizons, England

2024 Sponsors

HEADLINE SPONSORS:
• Virginia Mason Institute

SPONSORS:
• Aqua
• Codonics
• GS1
• Health and Social Care Quality Improvement (HSCQI) Northern Ireland
• Improvement Cymru
• ImproveWell
• MEG
• Opus 5k
• University of Edinburgh ESO
• Wolters Kluwer