Faculty

John Chelsom has worked for over 30 years in the field of Health Informatics.

He has been a Visiting Professor in Health Informatics at City University, London and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is a consultant for the World Bank where he is an invited expert on Telemedicine, publishing a handbook for Rural Telemedicine in Ukraine.He is currently Director of the Applied Health Informatics program at Fordham University.

In the 1990’s he was heavily involved in the application of open standards for structured information in the publishing, automotive and healthcare sectors. He started a company which developed the first web-based Electronic Health Records (EHR) product deployed in the England’s National Health Service (NHS). This product went on to form the foundation of the Summary Care Record in England’s National Health Service, starting in 2004.

As well as EHR systems, John was also responsible for the first online versions of the BMJ’s Clinical Evidence product, the first XML production system for the British National Formulary and was a proposer of the Open Document Format for Office Applications.

John teaches on the Hands-on Introduction to XML and the XForms in Action courses.

Naveed Dogar completed her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Informatics at St. George’s Medical School where the focus of her dissertation was on Biometrics. She then went on to complete her Masters in Health Informatics at City University, London. The topic of her Masters dissertation was ‘Clinician-led Development of an Open Source EHR’, whereby a simple spreadsheet was used as a tool for clinicians to design and deploy their own enterprise-scale health records systems. She presented her work at the Royal Society of Medicine, the International Clubfoot conference and at ITCH, an IT and healthcare conference in Victoria, Canada. Naveed also won an excellence in education award by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community for attaining a distinction and graduating 2nd highest in her cohort. After graduating, she continued her final project in collaboration with staff at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, to deliver an open source Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) for the clubfoot clinic.

She was employed as a clinical analyst on projects implementating open source EHR systems at Nottingham University Hospital and at the Nuffield Orthopadic Centre in Oxford, where the EHR continues to support the Fracture Liaison Service as a tool for both routine clinical care and clinical research studies.

Naveed is currently undertaking a DPhil at the University of Oxford, where her work focuses on the internationalisation of open source EHRs, combining her research studies with being a mother to two young boys.

She also serves as a vice chair for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s research association, which encourages young muslim women to pursue research STEM careers. Her aspirations are to increase access to basic healthcare needs in developing countries.

Adam is the Director of Evolved Binary Ltd, a software, consultancy, and training company in the UK, and he is also a co-founder of eXist Solutions GmbH, a software consultancy company in Germany. Adam is passionate about Open Source software and Open Technical Communities. He is a recognised expert in several computer programming languages, and has made contributions to over 50 Open Source projects. Adam has also published the reference book on eXist: an open source NoSQL database.

When not travelling, Adam can be found snowboarding or hiking around the peaks on the Italian French border.

Priscilla Walmsley is a senior developer and managing director at Datypic, specializing in XML architecture and implementation. She provides contract development and training services in XML core technologies (XQuery, XSLT, XML Schema), content management and electronic publishing.

Priscilla was a member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group from 1999 to 2004, where she served as an Invited Expert. She is the author of Definitive XML Schema (Prentice Hall PTR, 2012), and XQuery (O’Reilly Media, 2015).

Priscilla teaches on the XSLT & XQuery course.

Gary Cornelius is a healthcare solution specialist with over twenty-five years development and consultancy expertise, gained across professional services and product engineering (healthcare, media, government, retail and banking). He is a firm believer in designing around user first principles, intuitive interface, and discoverability.

Gary’s areas of expertise include: Internet of Things; information architecture/design; network architecture/design; Big Data; document analysis & processing; systems integration/middleware; application performance management; DevOpps/full-stack development; Internet technology (TCP/IP, Email, HTTP, MQTT, HTML etc.); Linux System Admin; software coding technology; RF technology (WIFI, LoRaWAN; Cellular, BLE, Zigbee, Z-wave etc.); XML technology; Electronic Health Records (EHR); Artifical Intelligence; firmware/services development (Zephyr/Arduino); PCB/sensor design; and teaching.

Jennifer Ramirez is a Health Informatics Professional from the University of Victoria. She is committed to making healthcare accessible internationally through technological methods. Passionate about gaining global expertise, Jennifer has been working in the clinical field as a data analyst for 4 years with various companies such as; Aga Khan University, BC Centre for Disease Control, and The University of British Columbia’s Division of Medical Science.

She has been working alongside cityEHR for over a year, her most recently endevour included a trip to Rivne, Ukraine to teach certification programs in Integration of Electronic Health Systems and Telemedicine and Development of Automated Models for Electronic Medical Document Circulation.

In her free time, you can find Jennifer exploring new parts of the world, boxing to fun music, or working on her masters in Applied Health Informatics!

O’Neil Delpratt works for Saxonica who are the Developers of the Saxon processor for XSLT, XQuery, and XML Schema, including the only XSLT 3.0 conformant toolset. He is a co-developer of the Saxon product, with specific responsibility for Saxon on .NET, and the C/C++, PHP and Python product SaxonC.

Before joining Saxonica, he completed his post-graduate studies at the University of Leicester. His thesis title was “In-memory Representations of XML documents” which coincided with a C++ software development of a memory efficient DOM implementation, called Succinct DOM. O’Neil regularly publishes and presents papers at various XML conferences, and was an invited expert on the W3C XQuery Working Group.

In his leisure time, O’Neil enjoys performing with the prestigious EAGA Gospel Choir, known for its exceptional musical artistry and vibrant performances.

Steven Pemberton is a researcher affiliated with CWI, Amsterdam, the Dutch national research centre for mathematics and informatics. His research is in interaction, and how the underlying software architecture can support users.

He co-designed the ABC programming language that formed the basis for Python, and was one of the first handful of people on the open internet in Europe, when the CWI set it up in 1988. Involved with the Web from the beginning, he organised two workshops at the first Web Conference in 1994. For the best part of a decade he chaired the W3C HTML working group, and has co-authored many web standards, including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XForms and RDFa. He now chairs the XForms and ixml groups at W3C. More details at http://www.cwi.nl/~steven

Steven teaches the XForms in Action course