Dr Hatim Abdulhussein

Hatim is the Chief Executive Officer for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex, one of Englands' fifteen Health Innovation Networks, licensed by NHS England and the Office for Life Sciences. Alongside this role, he continues to practice as a General Practitioner.

In 2018, Hatim was appointed National Medical Directors Clinical Fellow to Professor Wendy Reid by the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. His key achievements were co-author and member of the Sir Keith Pearson Commission into NHS Staff and Learner Mental Health and co-founding the ‘Topol Programme for Digital Health Fellowships’ launched by Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in 2019. He later became the National Clinical Lead for AI and Digital Workforce at NHS England providing clinical leadership to the NHS Digital Academy and the NHS AI Lab as well as leading and co-authoring on AI in the NHS’s historic Long Term Workforce Plan.

Having studied Medicine at the prestigious Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, he later completed a Masters in Sports and Exercise Medicine from the University of South Wales, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Health Leadership from Imperial College London. He is currently a candidate on the Singapore Management Universities Chief Executive Officer Programme. He holds Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners, as well as Fellowship of Advance Higher Education and the British Computer Society. Hatim is an Honorary Professor of Innovation and AI within the School of Medicine at the University of Surrey.

Hatim is an advocate for safe, ethical and responsible digital and AI transformation and ensuring workforce preparedness for new innovations and technologies in health and care. He regularly speaks internationally and has contributed to the publication of academic papers and white papers spanning workforce, education reform, innovation, primary care, digital health and AI.