Global healthcare perspectives, local Queensland choices

About the event

As Queensland’s healthcare sector continues to transform, how can we learn from our global peers while making the appropriate local choices? 

Around the world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the healthcare industry by enhancing diagnostics, personalising treatment plans, and streamlining healthcare processes and administrative tasks. However, AI is just one of several mega trends facing the healthcare sector, including the need for much greater focus on prevention and wellbeing and workforce needs. The transformations needed in the sector require significant investments in technology, infrastructure and skilled personnel. 

We invite you to attend UQ Future of Health Research Hub event on Wednesday 4 June. Hear global perspectives from our presenters and how these learnings can shape the future of Queensland and Australia’s health landscape.
 

Guest speakers

Professor Ritu Agarwal
Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor and Co-director of the Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, Johns Hopkins University

Ritu Agarwal is the Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and Health at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She is also the founding co-director of the Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence (CDHAI). Professor Agarwal is an expert in the strategic use of information technology, digital transformation of healthcare, health analytics, and artificial intelligence applications in health. Prior to joining the Carey School, she was a Distinguished University Professor and the Robert H. Smith Dean’s Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. She was also the Founding Director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Smith School.

Professor Xitong Guo
Professor of School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology

Xitong Guo is a professor of Information Systems and director of the eHealth Research Institute at the Harbin Institute of Technology. His research focuses on eHealth with special interests in healthcare data enabled service management for citizen wellness. He attended the Lindau 2011 Economics Nobel Laureates Meeting and is PI for the State Key Program and Outstanding Scholars of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His work has been published in MISQ, ISR, POM, JOM, JMIS, JAIS, EJIS, ACM TMIS, DSS, IJEC, ICIS, among other outlets. He received a Ph.D. in Information Systems at the City University of Hong Kong jointly with a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2005.

Moderator

Professor Andrew Burton-Jones
Future of Health Research Hub Lead, The University of Queensland

Andrew has extensive experience teaching IT governance and control, systems analysis and design, and digital health. He undertakes research in three areas, his first area focuses on how effectively organisations use IT. This includes studying the effective use of electronic health records in health authorities. His second research area focused on improving methods to analyse and design IT systems, including examining ways to improve the specification of user requirements. His third research stream focuses on improving theories and methods used by researchers in the Information Systems discipline.

Event host

Associate Professor Nicole Hartley
Future of Health Research Hub Lead, The University of Queensland

Associate Professor Nicole Hartley is the MBA Director at UQ Business School. Nicole's career as an academic has spanned 19 years at institutions in both Sydney and Queensland. She is an internationally recognised research academic in the field of services marketing and digital technology. Nicole's current research agenda focuses upon exploring customer perceptions in response to the advent of technology and various forms of disruption in the delivery of services, particularly healthcare.

The event will provide the perfect opportunity to hear from like-minded industry professionals and enjoy a complimentary hot breakfast. Places are limited, register by 12pm on Wednesday 28 May 2025 to secure your place.