Agenda

Dr James Underhill is a clinical psychologist and the Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support (EQUIP) Project Coordinator for the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Use. James also supports the department with its work on scalable psychological interventions and digital mental health.

In his role as EQUIP coordinator, James has been centrally involved in the development and public release of the EQUIP digital platform (https://equipcompetency.org/en-gb) which is part of a joint WHO/UNICEF project to improve the competence of helpers and the consistency and quality of training and service delivery.

James has also led on the adaptation of WHO’s stress management intervention, Doing What Matters in Times of Stress, into a web app: https://dwmatters.eu

Dr Julien Dentz is a well-known face amongst ITU workforce, as he is ITU’s medical advisor since September 2019. Julien is a Primary Healthcare Specialist, graduated in Occupational Health, and served as a Staff Physician in WHO, CERN and ITU. Julien is representing ITU in United Nations Medical Directors’ network, and CEB-HLCM Occupational Health and Safety Forum. Julien will be joining UNESCO in November as Chief Medical Officer.

Tatyana Kanzaveli has gone from a programmer to senior executive at Big 5 to founder and CEO of a startup company along her 20-year career, recognized as a thought leader, mentor for her ability to guide Fortune 500 and startup companies through business challenges.

She’s worked for major companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers and Fujitsu and startups in the early days of the Web.
Tatyana has personally helped companies jump from 0 to millions in revenue even during the toughest economic times. She opened new verticals and markets.

Today she is the founder and CEO of Open Health Network, the startup in a Big Data, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare space. PatientSphere by Open Health Network has been featured in Venture Beat, Mobile Health News, and other prominent publications.

She is a mentor at 500Startups and Richard Branson Entrepreneurs Centre and serves on boards for private companies. She also is licensee and organizer of highly notable TEDxBayArea conferences, she is a frequent speaker at US and International conferences on innovation, entrepreneurship and digital health.

Tatyana has been featured in the White House blog, spoke at the United Nations, presented at the first White House Demo Day hosted by the President Obama, did a TEDx talk; keynoted at WEBIT, WSIS and other international conferences.

Tatyana has been recognized as one of the top 10 Influential Women in Healthcare IT in 2015 and by Forbes as one of the top 50 women-led startup in tech founders.

Tatyana was USSR chess champion, played in the same team with Gary Kasparov, she loves to cook and kayak.

John Torous, MD MBI is director of the digital psychiatry division, in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School affiliated teaching hospital, where he also serves as a staff psychiatrist and assistant professor. He has a background in electrical engineering and computer sciences and received an undergraduate degree in the field from UC Berkeley before attending medical school at UC San Diego. He completed his psychiatry residency, fellowship in clinical informatics, and master's degree in biomedical informatics at Harvard. Dr. Torous is active in investigating the potential of mobile mental health technologies for psychiatry and has published over 200 peer reviewed articles and 5 books chapters on the topic. He serves as editor-in-chief for JMIR Mental Health (http://mental.jmir.org/ ), web editor for JAMA Psychiatry, currently leads the American Psychiatric Association's Health IT Committee, and is a senior member in IEEE.

Dr. Spencer Scoular is a trustee of Loneliness New Zealand, which is one of the founding members of the Global Initiative on Loneliness and Connection. Loneliness New Zealand is the national organisation in New Zealand dedicated to addressing loneliness; with a focus on loneliness counselling, education, and national advocacy. Dr. Scoular obtained his PhD in Digital Signal Processing from the University of Cambridge in 1992. He advocates on loneliness issues at a national level, including the relationship between loneliness and wellbeing. His research interests include the relationship (and interventions) between hearing loss and the loneliness of adults aged 75+; and the impact of Covid-19 on loneliness.   He is a former management consultant with McKinsey & Company, Ernst & Young, and Partners in Performance (co-founder). He is a former investment banker with SBC Warburg.

Dr Houda Ounnas is an experienced psychotherapy trained GP working in Harley Street, London where she runs a 360 preventative clinic integrating physical and mental health. She has 9 years’ experience as a GP and 15 as a doctor. She is an international speaker and a published author in reputable medical journals and several UK and international media outlets. Furthermore, she has acted as clinical lead of projects for Westminster CCG and the United Nations. She is a GP trainer for Health Education England. Dr Houda holds 3 Royal colleges certifications and extra training from prestigious institutions in the UK, Australia and the USA in functional medicine, Aesthetic medicine, Psychotherapy and Occupational Medicine.

Dr Houda’s main areas of work are prevention, mental health and women’s health. She is a firm believer in 360 health and in the intertwined human bodily and emotional experiences. Her aim is to optimise your health to enable you to live life fully because an optimum health leads to an optimum life.

Dr Houda, originally from Algeria, was a child prodigy who won an international scholarship to study medicine in the UK. She qualified as a quartile one student from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2007. After that, she won a place at the prestigious academic foundation program at the Wessex deanery, where she published research at the British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery and competed for the UK for a prize at the European Academy of Otology and Neuro-Otology EAONO.

She completed GP training in 2013 and since then worked as a GP in the NHS and private sector, in and out of hours. She also worked in Australia and the Channel islands in general practice and Occupational health capacities.Dr Houda is a vivacious individual passionate about life, hence has studied several subjects to do with enhancing quality of life. The aim is to amalgamate her skills in a way that detangles even the most complex problems, to optimise her patients’ physical and mental health in harmony. She herself is a keen horse rider, tennis player and a reflective learner passionate about creativity, arts and how humans express themselves through such connections. Her favourite charity is the British Horse Society. She would encourage anyone to check out their project “Changing lives through horses”. The programme utilises a range of awards and achievements promoting the holistic development of all involved and nurturing six life skills for all young people: building relationships, communication, confidence, responsibility, teamwork, and perseverance.
 

Annika Månsson, CEO and Co-founder of Happy at Work in 2008, has coached and trained over 10'000 people all over the world for a healthier and happier work life. Expert in burn-out, well-being at work and positive organizational transformation, she has developed a unique methodology based on positive psychology, neuroscience and 14 years of experience in corporate well-being management.

Annika holds a Master’s degree in marketing and worked for 15 years at the Danone group, where she held a range of managerial positions for the Evian brand, in the areas of marketing and communication. She is also a qualified coach since 2002 and certified practitioner in MBTI®, Belbin®, NLP, Prosci change management and Self-compassion meditation.

Originally from Sweden, Annika claims that happiness at work is not a luxury! It is essential to our success and to the sustainable performance of organizations.

Kyle Rand is the cofounder and CEO of Rendever, a virtual reality (VR) platform helping seniors combat social isolation through the power of shared experiences. Having always felt a close kinship to seniors, Kyle grew up volunteering at a senior living community and later went on to study cognitive decline in the aging population at Duke University. After a personal experience moving his own grandmother into a senior living community, Kyle experienced first-hand the effects social isolation has on seniors and cofounded Rendever as a result. Under Kyle’s leadership, Rendever is changing the lives of thousands of seniors in more than 400 senior living communities worldwide. Most recently, Kyle oversaw Rendever’s collaboration with UC Santa Barbara to start a multi-site clinical trial to observe the positive impact VR has on seniors.