ABOUT
Professor Wickramasinghe is the Professor of Digital Health and the Deputy Director of the Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute at the Swinburne University of Technology and inaugural Professor – Director Health Informatics Management at Epworth HealthCare. She also holds honorary research professor positions at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Northern Health. After completing 5 degrees at the University of Melbourne, she was awarded a full scholarship to complete PhD studies at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, the USA and later she was sponsored to complete executive education at Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, the USA in Value-based HealthCare. For over 20 years, Professor Wickramasinghe has been active, researching and teaching within the health informatics/digital health domain in the US, Germany and Australia with a particular focus on designing, developing and deploying suitable models, strategies and techniques grounded in various management principles to facilitate the implementation and adoption of technology solutions to effect superior, value-based patient-centric care delivery. Professor Wickramasinghe collaborates with leading scholars at various premier healthcare organizations and universities throughout Australasia, the US and Europe and is well published with more than 400 referred scholarly articles, more than 15 books, numerous book chapters, an encyclopaedia and a well established funded research track record securing over $25M in funding from grants in US, Australia, Germany and China as a chief investigator. She holds a patent around analytics solution for managing healthcare data and is the editor-in-chief of two scholarly journals published by InterScience: Intl. J. Biomedical Engineering and Technology(www.inderscience.com/ijbet) and Intl. J Networking and Virtual Organisations(www.inderscience.com/ijnvo) as well as the editor of the Springer book series Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. She received the prestigious 2020 Alexander von Humboldt award for outstanding contribution to a scientific discipline (Digital Health).