Professor Hatim Abdulhussein

Professor Hatim Abdulhussein is the Chief Executive Officer for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and alongside this role, he continues to practice as a General Practitioner. 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 co-founded the ‘Topol Programme for Digital Health Fellowships’ launched by Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in 2019 and 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.