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Central Adelaide Local Health Network
Australia

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Lucie Marsh-Smith is a PhD researcher examining digital innovation, digital mindset, and digital dynamic capabilities within public healthcare systems. Her research focuses on how healthcare organisations develop the cognitive, organisational, and leadership capabilities required to adopt, embed, and sustain digital transformation in turbulent complex clinical environments.

Her doctoral research investigates the mechanisms through which digital mindsets shape the operationalisation of digital dynamic capabilities and enable innovation in hospital settings. Grounded in dynamic capabilities theory and organisational transformation scholarship, her work explores how sensing, seizing, and transforming capabilities are operationalised in healthcare organisations to support technology-enabled change under conditions of institutional complexity, professional autonomy, and resource constraint.

Using mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies, Lucie is undertaking a PRISMA-guided scoping review, qualitative evidence synthesis, and empirical survey research involving clinicians, managers, and health service leaders. Her research sits at the intersection of health services research, digital health innovation, organisational capability development, and implementation science. It contributes to a growing international evidence base examining how workforce capability, leadership cognition, organisational culture, and contextual factors influence digital transformation outcomes in healthcare systems.

Alongside her doctoral studies, Lucie holds a senior leadership role in digital delivery within a large Australian public health service, Central Adelaide Network. Her professional practice informs a translational research approach that bridges theory and implementation, with a particular focus on how digital projects are enacted within large, complex hospital networks.

Flinders University 
Australia

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Dr Nair is a Group Leader of the Computational and Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory at the Flinders Health and Medical Research, Flinders University. His research focuses on drug discovery and development, integrating computational medicinal chemistry, pharmacogenomics, and experimental pharmacology to advance precision medicine. He has published > 55 peer-reviewed articles and has attracted over $5 million in research funding through various funding schemes, including NHMRC, MRFF, Cancer Council etc. He has won > 10 young investigator awards, including Building Research Leaders Award by Adelaide University, CERTARA New Investigator Award by the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists, and Flinders University Vice-Chancellor's Award for Early Career Researchers.

Sydney Virtual Hospital
Australia

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Miranda Shaw is a New South Wales Health Executive with over fifteen years’ experience leading community-based health services. As co-founder and General Manager of Australia’s first virtual hospital, Miranda has driven innovation in service design and delivery and influenced and informed strategy on virtual hospital care. Miranda is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of NSW

Adelaide University
Australia

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Dr Lana Tikhomirov is a postdoctoral researcher in AI safety at Adelaide University and the Human Factors and Health Policy lead at the Women's and Children's Hospital. Her expertise lies in the intersection of cognitive science, bioethics, and machine learning. She investigates how AI algorithms impact medical decision-making and the human factors and ethics of medical AI implementation and use. She has published in multiple leading journals including the Lancet Digital Health and Nature Health and collaborated with medtech company Harrison.ai during her PhD, which she completed in early 2026.

 Hong Kong Polytechnic University
China

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Prof. Arnold Wong leads the Master in Physiotherapy Programme in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and serves as the Associate Director of the Research Institute for Smart Ageing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. A registered physiotherapist in Hong Kong, he earned his MPhil in Orthopaedics from The University of Hong Kong and his PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences from the University of Alberta, Canada. Prof. Wong's research leverages advanced technology, including AI, to study spinal pain, disorders, and rehabilitation, focusing on low back pain, lumbar spinal stenosis, and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. He has authored over 140 highly cited publications in top-tier journals such as Lancet Rheumatology and The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. His work is globally recognised, earning him awards such as the International Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment Best Paper 2019 and the Hong Kong 31st Annual Congress of Gerontology Outstanding Paper 2024. Since 2023, he has been listed among the World's Top 2% Most-cited Scientists (Orthopaedic) (Single Year Impact) by Stanford University and is the top-ranked Asian researcher for "Low Back Pain" and "Back Pain" according to Expertscape.