Nilmini Wickramasinghe

Professor and Optus Chair Digital Health La Trobe University

Professor Wickramasinghe is the inaugural Optus Chair and Professor of Digital Health at La Trobe University. She is also an inaugural member of the Australian Centre for AI in Medical Innovation. She has held or holds honorary research professor positions at Epworth HealthCare, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, MCRI and Northern Health in Australia and the Cleveland Clinic in the US. After completing 5 degrees at the University of Melbourne, she was awarded a full scholarship to complete PhD studies at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA and later was sponsored to complete executive education at Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in Value-based HealthCare. For over 20 years, Professor Wickramasinghe has been actively researching and teaching within digital health domain in the US, Germany and Australia with a particular focus on designing, developing and deploying suitable models, strategies and techniques grounded in various management principles to facilitate the implementation and adoption of technology especially AI and ML solutions to effect superior, value-based patient centric care delivery. She has been one of the first researchers globally to incorporate digital twins into various healthcare contexts. Professor Wickramasinghe collaborates with leading scholars at various premier healthcare organisations and universities throughout Australasia, US and Europe. In 2020 she was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt lifetime award for outstanding contribution to Digital Health, the first time this honour has been bestowed to someone in the discipline of Digital Health worldwide