Palliative Care Specialty Registrar, Severn Hospice; UK

Dr Emily Audet is a Specialty Trainee Doctor in Palliative Care with General Internal Medicine in the West Midlands, currently based at Severn Hospice. She graduated from Birmingham Medical School in 2017, having previously completed a BSc in Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Newcastle University, 2012. She completed Foundation training with Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SATH) and Internal Medicine Training at the Royal Wolverhampton Trust.

In 2022/23 she was Clinical Fellow to the Chief Inspector of Healthcare at the Care Quality Commission on the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellowship Scheme run by the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. Since then Emily has co-founded the Next Generation Advisory Panel for the BMJ and IHI’s International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, alongside co-founding and co-chairing the multiprofessional and multinational Aspiring Leaders in Healthcare Network.

Emily strives to empower others to see the impact that they can have in shaping and delivering change and improvement in healthcare believing that everyone has valuable insights, ideas and perspectives that can be used to inform change at all levels of the healthcare system.

University of Oslo; Norway

Oline Fjordbo is a medical student on her last year at the University of Oslo and a representative for Norwegian medical students and early career doctors in the planning and delivery of the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare.

She previously served as President of the National Union of Students in Norway, where she was elected to represent more than 270,000 students nationwide in dialogue with government and national decision-makers. In this role, she regularly engaged with Members of Parliament, senior policymakers, and national media, contributing to public debate and advocacy on education, health, and student welfare.

Alongside her studies, Oline is engaged in leadership and health system improvement, with particular interests in quality improvement, resource management, and how health systems must evolve to remain sustainable for patients and healthcare professionals alike. She brings the perspective of future clinicians to international discussions on quality and safety, with a strong commitment to collaboration, learning, and practical change.

Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow, Imperial College London; UK

Dr Jack Haywood is a Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London. He is also a Public Health Resident Doctor in the United Kingdom, currently on placement at the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO). Jack has published in several peer-reviewed journals, with a keen interest in qualitative research and competency-based education. His clinical, public health, and medical education roles to date have allowed him the opportunity to complete QI projects at a site, regional, and national level.

Healthcare Quality & Regulatory Services Consultant, Kaiser Permanente; United States

Vana Keshishian is a healthcare quality and regulatory services consultant working within a large, integrated health system in the United States. She completed the Safety, Quality, Informatics, and Leadership (SQIL) program at Harvard Medical School in 2024. Her work focuses on regulatory quality, performance improvement, and patient safety, with experience leading multidisciplinary initiatives to improve care delivery and health outcomes.

She is a member of the Next Generation Advisory Panel (NGAP) for the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare and serves as Communications Co-Lead for the Aspiring Leaders in Healthcare Network (ALiHN), supporting the growth and engagement of early career healthcare professionals globally.

Vana brings a next-generation perspective to international discussions on quality and safety, with a strong commitment to collaboration, leadership development, and sustainable system change.

Medical Student, Aalborg University; Denmark

Maja Troj Larsen is a medical student with an industrial specialisation in medical market access at Aalborg University. She serves as chair of the student organisation “Students for Quality and Patient Safety” in Denmark. She has co-founded the Next Generation Advisory Panel (NGAP), which works with conference organisers to improve accessibility and incorporate perspectives from early-career healthcare professionals, as well as the Aspiring Leaders in Healthcare Network (ALiHN).

 SAS doctor, Cygnet Churchill Hospital; UK

Angela is an SAS doctor at Cygnet Churchill Hospital (London) due to start ST4 Forensic Psychiatry Training at West London NHS Trust in February 2026.Angela is passionate about Coaching and Mentoring across Healthcare and has developed and delivered regional and local teaching at Cygnet, mentored fellow SAS doctors and Imperial Medical Students as well as carried out clinical supervision for Nurse Prescribers.

Angela holds fellowships with the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and NHS LeadersPlus, serves on multiple boards including the Executive committee at RCPsych VIPSIG, Clinical Advisory Board, School Board and the Aspiring Leaders in Healthcare Network and is a member of the delivery unit of RCPsych Leadership and Coaching Team. Her work has earned national recognition, including RCPsych London Division SAS Doctor of the Year 2024 and Excellence in Leadership Award in Dubai 2025. In addition, she has co-led service transformation in psychiatric rehabilitation, pioneered psychological initiatives that have improved intervention quality and scaled this across the UK. She co-founded The Unity Initiative, a specialist national mentoring service, developing Islamic Behavioural Therapy and has advised national and international bodies on CVE strategy.

Quality Management & Patient Safety, University Hospital Zurich; Switzerland

Katrina Obas is an epidemiologist in Quality Management & Patient Safety at the University Hospital Zurich, with a background in nursing. She focuses on integrating patient-reported outcomes and experiences into healthcare improvement and quality measurement. She also supports quality improvement through the development of her institution’s KPI strategy for timely monitoring and operational decision-making.

Her research includes case-mix adjustment for benchmarking Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs), actionable health equity indicators, and contributions to the Kosovo Non-Communicable Disease Cohort (KOSCO).

She is a member of the Next Generation Advisory Panel (NGAP) for the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare and serves as a Data Analyst for the Aspiring Leaders in Healthcare Network (ALiHN), supporting early-career healthcare professionals globally.

Academic trainee in Rheumatology/ Internal Medicine, West Midlands, EngSecretary of the Aspiring Leaders in Healthcare Network, member; UK

Dr. Yuva Ravindran is a Specialty Trainee in Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine, currently based at Royal Stoke University Hospital in the UK. She completed her undergraduate medical training in India and subsequently moved to the UK for her postgraduate training.

She has held multiple leadership positions throughout her career in associations including Indian Medical association and the British Medical association. During the COVID-19 pandemic (2021–2022), she led national and regional tele-consultation initiatives, coordinated NGOs, provided free tele-consultations and managed resources including oxygen supply and medications within the state. She also oversaw a dedicated COVID inpatient ward, earning recognition as a ‘COVID Superhero’ on national television.

In the UK, she has represented international medical graduates within the British Medical Association, conducting regional surveys on the wellbeing of resident doctors and implementing meaningful change across trusts. She currently serves as Secretary of the multinational multiprofessional Aspiring Leaders in Healthcare Network, and a member of Next Generation Advisory Panel, working alongside co-founders Emily Audet and Jamie Smyth to empower early-career healthcare professionals to drive innovation create lasting impact in healthcare systems globally

Speciality Registrar in Public Health, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; UK

Jamie is the Co-Chair of the Next Generation Advisory Panel (NGAP) for the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare and co-founder of the Aspiring Leaders in Healthcare Network (ALiHN).
A Public Health Registrar in London, his work focuses on practical health system improvement. He is currently based in the Population Health Team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, with recent experience spanning managing infectious disease outbreaks for UKHSA to commissioning novel services for underserved groups in local government.

A former National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow, Jamie is a passionate advocate for developing early career professional leadership and believes multi-generational collaboration is vital to solving global health challenges