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Meet our 2026 speakers

  • Aaron Kinghorn

    Aaron Kinghorn is a dental surgeon, author and PMDD advocate calling for greater awareness of women’s health and the vital role men can play in supporting it.

  • Grace Davidson and Amy Purdie

    Grace Davidson and Amy Purdie are sisters whose extraordinary womb transplant journey tells a remarkable story of medical innovation, family, courage and hope.

  • John Shenouda

    Dr John Shenouda is an anaesthetist and medical ethicist encouraging thoughtful, balanced conversations around assisted dying, consent and some of healthcare’s most complex ethical questions.

  • Lea Decker

    Lea has walked the path of her own recovery and continues to navigate her passion for creative change within the mental health space.

  • Magda Bannister

    Magda is a respiratory physiotherapist whose personal experience of loss inspired her to challenge addiction stigma and improve compassionate care across the NHS.

  • Nadia Kadakova

    Nadia Kadakova is a data scientist and healthcare innovator exploring how personalised, data-driven evidence can transform care for patients too often overlooked by traditional research.

  • Neil Shah

    Mr Neil Shah is a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon championing earlier diagnosis, education and research to improve outcomes for patients with head and neck cancer.

  • Olivia Burns

    Olivia Burns is a healthtech entrepreneur and innovation leader transforming patient experience by helping pioneering healthcare startups navigate and scale within the NHS.

  • Oliver Kaye

    Ollie is a third-year medical student and a passionate patient advocate living with inflammatory bowel disease.

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Great healthcare starts with the NHS, but it doesn’t end there. At Imperial Health Charity, they believe that world-class medicine should always be matched by world-class patient experience, innovation, and kindness.

Over the next five years, they are embarking on their most ambitious journey yet. They have aligned their goals directly with their Trust to ensure that every penny they spend and every hour their volunteers contribute goes exactly where it is needed most. Their work will go beyond supporting a hospital system; it will invest in the health, happiness and wellbeing of their community.

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