1. Dr. Carmel Martin MBBS, PhD is an Australian medical graduate from the University of
Queensland. She completed a Masters in Community Medicine at the London School of
Hygiene, University of London and a PhD at the Australian National University. Her
research in Australia, Canada and Ireland has focused on reforms related to primary
health care and chronic care, the nature of health in body, mind, society and the
environment and meaning and sensemaking about personal health. Her PhD on the care
of chronic illness in general practice, explored the nature of the experience of illness and
care associated with multi-morbidity from the perspectives of those afflicted and their
general practitioner/primary care physician as the key „users‟ of care. This PhD led to a
wide range of systems based interventions, underpinned by complex adaptive systems
theory and social constructionist perspectives in Australia, Canada and Ireland. She is an
Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in
Canada and a Visiting Academic at Trinity College Dublin. Carmel is active in clinical
general practice with a particular interest in chronic disease and illness and patient
centred care and complex systems.
Dr. Carl Vogel has been an active researcher in artificial intelligence and cognitive
science for over 20 years, his first academic publication in 1988 about a rule-based
encoding of DSM diagnosis constraints. He was a Marshall Scholar 1991-1994, and
successfully defended a PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh in 1995.
He has been a visiting scientist in labs in the Netherlands and Germany. He is at present
a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Director of the Centre for Computing and Language
Studies, and Director of Research for the School of Computer Science and Statistics at
TCD. Linguistic anomaly is the theme which unifies the various strands of his research.
Published works address synchronic analyses of natural language syntax and semantics
and also aspects of linguistic innovation such as through creative metaphorical language
and non-standard syntax which lead to diachronic effects, beginning with uptake in
dialogue. He has published on models (including simulations) of natural language
evolution and language change, as well as works on the idiolects language of individuals.
His basic research in text classification and machine learning has been funded by Science
Foundation Ireland. Applications of this research have proven useful in forensic, medical,
political and literary analysis. One application, in document translation quality analysis,
has recently been patented, registered with the European Patent Office.
Dr Lucy Hederman is Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, and a lecturer, in
the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. She has been
involved in Health Informatics research since 2000 when she joined, and subsequently
coordinated, the HEA funded MediLink programme of research into linking clinical
knowledge to patient records. Since 2008 she is associated with the HRB funded Centre
for Primary Care Research led by Tom Fahy at RCSI. Her main research interest is
clinical decision support systems, with applications primarily in primary care. She is
director of the MSc in Health Informatics at Trinity College and lectures on health
informatics, especially clinical decision support, on that MSc programme and on the HRB
Health Services Research PhD Scholars programme.
Lucy graduated as a Computer Engineer from Trinity College Dublin in 1985, and then
completed an MSc at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She completed her PhD back at
Trinity College in 1998, with a thesis in the area of information extraction from text.
Kevin A Smith MPhil brings over 30 years of advanced ICT research experience,
including 14 years of research management at CSIRO – the Australian Government‟s
main research agency. In the 1980's, he pioneered the application of massively parallel
computing to a wide range of fields, co-founded a company researching and developing
natural language processing for Chinese, and was a Principal Investigator on an EU

2. funded project under the Advanced Informatics in Medicine program. He established
Australia's first massively parallel computing facility in 1990. Then, in 1997, he setup
the joint Australian National University - CSIRO Virtual Environments Laboratory that
pioneered the development of collaborative hapto-visual environments for surgical
training. Later in 2000-01, he was the founding Director of the Western Australian
Interactive Virtual Environments Centre (www.ivec.org). In 2003-04, he was a Strategic
Advisor to the National Research Council of Canada in the setting up of the National
Institute for Nanotechnology. For the last 3 years, Kevin was a Translational Research
Leader at the National Digital Research Centre (Ireland). Kevin has a BSc (Hons) in
mathematics from the University of Tasmania and an MPhil in pure mathematics from
Murdoch University.
Enda Madden, M.Sc. has a background in software engineering and computational
linguistics. With 10 years technology and technical sales experience in industries ranging
from automotive, biotechnology and healthcare. He also holds industry qualifications in
Lean/Six Sigma process improvement methodologies. An established blogger and
commentator in the Health 2.0 community he is also deeply engaged in the debate on
the direction of semantic web and mobile technologies in healthcare. Endas previous
company GroupNos was featured as “one to watch” in Business and Finance for 2010
and was regional winner of the InterTradeIreland All Ireland Seedcorn competition 2009.