Since January 2020 Micaela Monteiro has been Chief Medical Officer for digital transformation at CUF, Portugal’s largest private healthcare provider. Micaela is a physician. She graduated at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf and trained in Germany, UK and Portugal. She attended the Health Sector Senior Management Program of AESE Business School and is postgraduate in Information Management and Business Intelligence in Healthcare by NOVA Information Management School. She worked at the Shared Services for the Portuguese Ministry of Health as Director of the National TeleHealth Center & NHS’ Contact Center, SNS 24. Among other projects, she led the conceptions of the National Strategic Telehealth Plan and of the digital channel of SNS 24. Micaela participated in projects exploring AI in healthcare, as well as others with Fraunhofer Institute. She shares her expertise as a member of WHO’s roster of experts for digital health and a key expert working with the European Commission, the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and OECD, and serves as a member of Global Summit Telemedicine & Digital Health’s scientific council.

I am practicing primary care physician and the co-director of the Canada Research Chair in Partnership with Patients and Communities, at Université de Montréal (Canada). I commit my life to discovering and fostering relationships with people, through music, research and care. My practice is driven by curiosity, dialogue and change. Over the past 20 years, my research has focused on how to engage meaningfully with people and communities at different health ecosystem levels. In the past decade, my focus has been on learning from - and caring with - people who overcame significant life challenges such as: homelessness, racism, complex migration journeys, substance use, severe mental illness, chronic conditions and life-threatening illnesses. More recently, I started to explore what we can learn from Indigenous communities and from the Global South to advance community engagement in health.

Hong-Choon CHUA, MD is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital & Yishun Community Hospital in Singapore; he was the CEO of the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) Singapore from 2011 to 2021. A psychiatrist by training, Dr Chua is also Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine NTU, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Yong Loo Lin Medical School NUS. Dr Chua completed his undergraduate medical education and post-graduate studies in psychiatry at the National University of Singapore in 1990 and 1996 respectively, and he subsequently held the position of Research Fellow and Visiting Faculty at New York University from 2001 to 2002. In 2012, he completed a Master’s in Health Care Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr Chua has keen interests in the fields of public health, quality & safety in health care, psychiatric epidemiology, and depression. He completed the first nationwide epidemiological survey of Depressive and Anxiety Disorders in Adult Singaporeans in 2004, and from 2007 to 2010, he was Senior Consultant (mental health) to Singapore’s Ministry of Health to oversee several major projects to promote mental wellbeing and to expand mental health services for the nation. Dr Chua also served as Chairman of the national Residency Advisory Committee (RAC) for Psychiatry from 2011 to 2021.