Faculty of Health and Care: Conferences

Lee Rickles

Tito Castillo

Tito Castillo is Strategy and Policy Lead for the BCS Faculty of Health and Care. Originally trained as a medical physicist and software developer, he has held roles across the NHS, academia, and industry, working in both clinical research and operational health and care services. A published author and regular contributor on LinkedIn, Tito brings deep expertise in enterprise architecture, data governance, and healthcare IT transformation. He is a strong advocate for the foundational role of data management and architectural best practice in delivering safe, cost-effective, and trusted citizen-centred care.

Rowland Agidee

Rowland is a data and digital leader who combines strategic clarity, systems-level thinking, and trusted leadership to drive sustainable change in complex environments.

He specialises in healthcare, public sector, and regulated environments, with deep expertise in data strategy, AI, enterprise architecture, and ethical data leadership.

Certified as a CHIME Healthcare CIO, BCS Chartered IT Professional, and FedIP Advanced Practitioner, he brings both technical fluency and board-level credibility.

Increasingly, he enjoys shaping systemwide data strategies and advising on national-level governance and ethical frameworks to help organisations build future-facing data capabilities.

David Hancock

David is an independent consultant who has been working in healthcare IT for over 20 years.  He has worked on a wide variety of solutions including ERP,  Shared Care Records, EPRs and Interoperability Platforms.  He is Director and Chair of INTEROPen, an organisation dedicated to the adoption of open interoperability standards. He sits on the HL7 UK FHIR Board that provides governance over the development and implementation of the HL7 FHIR UK Core interoperability standard.  He is also a member of the NHS CTO’s Technology Think Tank.

Philip Scott

Professor Philip Scott is Programme Director of the MSc in Digital Transformation for the Health & Care Professions at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He was previously Reader in Health Informatics at the University of Portsmouth. Philip worked in the NHS in various IT development and management roles for fifteen years before moving into academia in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of Health Level Seven and board member of HL7 UK.

Philip is Deputy Editor of BMJ Health & Care Informatics and co-chair of the BCS working group on computable biomedical knowledge. He was co-chair of the Scientific Programme Committee for MedInfo 2021 and MedInfo 2023, the biennial IMIA global health informatics conference. Philip’s most recent publications can be viewed in the UWTSD research repository.

Philip has previously been chair of the evaluation working group of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI), member of the steering groups for the NHS Digital Academy and the Global Digital Exemplar evaluation programme, non-executive Board member of the Professional Record Standards Body and member of the informatics committee of the Royal College of Radiologists.

Dipak Kalra

Professor Dipak Kalra is President of The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (www.i-hd.eu), a Professor of Health Informatics and a former London general practitioner. He plays a leading international role in Electronic Health Record R&D, including the reuse of EHRs for research. He has led the development of ISO standards on EHR interoperability, personal health records and data protection. He participates in multiple European Commission funded projects including the generation of real-world evidence in pregnancy, support for the accelerated uptake of digital health innovations, scaling up the quality, interoperability and the reuse of health data for research including inputs to the European Health Data Space, scaling up of the collection and use of health outcomes towards more value-based care, the development of an AI-powered federated learning platform in lung cancer and initiatives to improve a patient’s understanding of of their medication to improve confidence and adherence. The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (www.i-hd.eu), which Dipak co-founded in 2016, develops and promotes strategies and solutions that can improve healthcare and accelerate research through more trustworthy learning from health data.