Paul Bowie
Professor Paul Bowie | PhD MSc C.ErgHF MIEHF FRCPEd FRCGP(Hon)
Paul is a Patient Safety Scientist, Medical Educator and Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors specialist. He has over 30 years of experience in a range of quality and safety leadership and advisory roles in healthcare, medical defence, military medicine and academia. He gained his doctorate in significant event analysis in healthcare from the University of Glasgow in 2004 and has published over 200 articles on healthcare quality and safety in international peer-reviewed journals and co-edited a book on safety and improvement. Paul is Professor of Healthcare Human Factors at the University of Staffordshire University and also works in safety research and education for the NHS in Scotland and the Health Services Safety Investigation Body in England. He is also Honorary Professor in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Mark Billinghurst
Mark Billinghurst
Mark Billinghurst is Director of the Empathic Computing Laboratory, and Professor at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia, and also at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand. He earned a PhD in 2002 from the University of Washington and conducts research on how virtual and real worlds can be merged, publishing over 750 papers on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, remote collaboration, Empathic Computing, and related topics. In 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, in 2019 was given the ISMAR Career Impact Award in recognition for lifetime contribution to AR research and commercialization, and in 2023 elected as a Fellow of the IEEE.