AI Programme Committee
Committee Chair
Professor Owen J Arthurs
Professor of Radiology, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London
Professor Owen Arthurs will lead the AI Conference Programme Committee as Chair to work closely with a multidisciplinary group of professionals and experts to develop and deliver our programme at our inaugural AI Conference in February 2025.
Professor Arthurs is a Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) who leads Computer Vision AI for GOSH, and Innovation & Research for Radiology. He is also Professor of Radiology at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) and is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading clinical researchers in children’s imaging. He has held several senior NIHR fellowships and is best known for developing the UK's leading paediatric postmortem clinical imaging service, and his work as an expert witness for imaging in child abuse for the UK courts.
Committee Leads
Dr Rhidian Bramley
Clinical Lead for Diagnostics, Digital and Innovation and Consultant Radiologist
Dr Rhidian Bramley specialises in Oncological Imaging, Healthcare Management and Informatics and currently works as a Consultant Radiologist at the Christie NHS Trust, as Clinical Lead for Diagnostics, Digital and Innovation for the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance, and as Clinical Lead for the Greater Manchester PACS programme.
As a former Associate Medical Director, Clinical Director of Radiology and Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) at the Christie, and National Clinical Advisor for PACS in the National programme for IT, Connecting for Health and NHS England, and advisor to the national NHS Wales Informatics Service and Digital Healthcare Wales.
Dr Hugh Harvey
Managing Director, Hardian Health
Dr Harvey is an ex-NHS consultant radiologist and academic, trained at the Institute of Cancer Research, twice awarded ICR Science Writer of the Year.
He is a prior member of the RCRs informatics and AI committees, a lifetime Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and is an honorary fellow of the British Institute of Radiology. He also holds an honorary academic position at the University of Birmingham. He acted as co-chair to the UK Topol Health Technology Review for Health Education England, and is an advisor to the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
After leaving NHS medicine and academia he worked at Babylon Health where he gained world-first regulatory approval for an AI-enabled chatbot, and then became medical director at Kheron Medical gaining EU-first CE marking for a Class IIb breast cancer screening AI software. He is globally regarded as a top clinical regulatory expert for software and AI devices.
Managing Director at Hardian Health since 2018, he has built a specialist global consultancy focussed on software as a medical device regulatory, clinical, health economics, market strategy and intellectual property services.
Dr Raj Jena
Academic Clinical Oncologist, University of Cambridge
Dr Jena is an academic clinical oncologist at the University of Cambridge Department of Oncology, and leads a data science and machine learning team as part of the Cancer Research UK funded RadNet Cambridge radiation research programme. He has an extensive history of computational modelling and image processing, including 5 years working as a clinical consultant at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He has experience developing open source AI solutions to medical device standards in a hospital setting and is chief investigator of the Hamlet.rt study, a multicentre AI study in radiotherapy toxicity recruiting at 13 centres across the UK. Dr Jena is also director of the NIHR Oncology Translational Research Collaboration (O-TRC), leading research collaborations across the biomedical research centres which have a cancer theme.
Professor Rowena Johnson
Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist, Fortius Clinic
Professor Johnson is a consultant musculoskeletal radiologist working in professional sports with international athletes and clubs including within Formula 1, the Premier League, Championship football, Lawn Tennis Association, British Olympic team, British Athletics, British Triathlon, international rugby and cricket, and the Royal Ballet. She works at the Fortius Clinic, London which is a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, and has a wide breadth of experience also having worked at the University of Toronto Hospitals, and Oxford University Hospitals. She is the Chair and Clinical Lead of the Royal College of Radiologists Learning, and a member of the NIHR Imaging Working group with an interest in Artificial Intelligence.
Dr Amrita Kumar
Consultant Radiologist, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Amrita has been recently named 2022 Top 50 Innovator and 2023 Top 60 Influential Woman in the UK for leading innovation in the use of AI within the NHS. She was appointed as a substantive Consultant Radiologist at Frimley Health in 2013 with a subspecialist interest in breast cancer screening. She has a keen interest in Artificial Intelligence and has set up trust wide research collaboration to implement a digital enabled AI infrastructure, as well as implement novel AI software for improved detection of breast and lung cancer. Ultimately, her aim is to have a positive social impact on cancer screening within the NHS integrated with AI, working in conjunction with various stakeholders with a mission statement of patient and value-focused healthcare. She has also been appointed Chair at the British Institute of Radiology National Clinical Intelligence & Informatics Committee to look at the national integration and implementation of AI into clinical practice.
Dr Gerald Lip
Clinical Director, North East of Scotland, Breast Screening Programme
Dr Gerald Lip is the Clinical Director of Breast Screening in the North East of Scotland and the Lead of the Gemini study supported by the NHS Health and Social Care Award investigating the prospective use of AI in mammography.
He has published multiple papers, articles and chapters particularly on AI and has spoken at a range of medical and technology related conferences ranging from RSNA in Chicago to Cog X in London along with organising medical conferences such as the BIR AI annual congress for the past 5 years. He has been awarded a funded two-year Innovation Fellowship by the Chief Scientists of Scotland from 2023-2025.
He is the vice chair of the British Society of Breast Radiology, sits on the Royal College of Radiology Informatics committee, on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Doctoral Training for Biomedical AI in Edinburgh University, the British Institute of Radiology AI special interest group and is a scientific advised to the National Covid Chest Imaging Database.
A graduate of Trinity College Medicine, along with his medical degree he also qualified with an Msc. in Health Informatics and completed his radiology training in Aberdeen where is also an honorary senior clinical lecturer in the University of Aberdeen.
Dr Susan Shelmerdine
Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Dr. Susan Shelmerdine is a consultant paediatric radiologist based at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and a post-doctoral academic funded by the NIHR for her research work on artificial intelligence for children’s imaging. She is currently the lead for education subcommittee of the RCR AI committee, taskforce chair for AI at the European Society of Paediatric Radiology and also research lead for the South West London AI Group.