Speakers

Dr. Anna Barnes, King's College London, UK

Dr Anna Barnes is an HCPC registered Clinical Scientist specialising in radiology physics. She is currently the director of King’s College Technology Evaluation Centre (KiTEC) a health technology assessment group that specialises in the evaluation of AI tools for healthcare. She is also the joint Head of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation in London.

Emma Ford, Coaching4careers, UK

Emma works as an independent coach and facilitator in the area of personal, leadership and career development. Prior to this she worked in the Energy Industry for 16 years, latterly managing Graduate Selection in Europe for a multinational organisation, the tools and processes she developed were shared as best practice for experienced and MBA hire globally.

She has developed and delivered leadership and career management programmes and experiential skills workshops including team working, networking, presentations, careers, leadership of self and others. She coaches and works with globally based clients who work across the sectors. Her work includes designing and delivering workshops for PhD scientists at the Helmholtz Association in Germany.

Dr. Silvia Pani, University of Surrey, UK

Silvia is a senior lecturer in Applied Radiation Physics at the University of Surrey. She has been working for over 25 years on medical applications of X-ray imaging, with a specific focus on mammography and on the use of novel detectors for improved diagnosis with reduced risk for the patients.

Since 2012 she has been the programme director for the MSc in Medical Physics at Surrey and she is passionate about getting young people involved in this discipline.

Laura Stephenson, University of York, UK

Laura is a PhD student at the University of York researching the quantum entanglement of light for application in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans. This is fundamental physics research on the behaviour of entangled photons (how the scattering of one photon affects the other), but also has real-world applications to medicine. Understanding the photons which have scattered in a patient before reaching the scanner provides us with useful information and could make cleaner medical images. Laura studied their undergraduate degree at the University of Sheffield in Physics with Medical Physics. They enjoyed the quantum physics aspects of their undergraduate as well as the medical modules, and are now working in a field now which combines these two passions together. Laura is excited by research and applying physical concepts to medicine for new, improved, and cutting-edge technology.