External Advisory Board

The myHealth@myHands project is supported by several external advisors across a range of disciplines such as ethics, digital health, interoperability, and more.

Louise Baker-Schuster

Louise Baker-Schuster is Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer at Sciana – The Health Leaders Network and Senior Project Manager at the Robert Bosch Center for Innovative Health (RBIG). She leads national and international initiatives focused on health leadership, systems thinking, and health literacy, working with partners including WHO, OECD, and health leaders across Europe.

Helen Caton-Peters

Helen Caton-Peters is a Senior Technical Officer for Digital Health at the World Health Organization Europe Region Office in Copenhagen, Denmark. She provides technical and policy guidance to Ministries of Health in 53 countries to leverage data and digital technologies to achieve national public and population health goals. She leads intergovernmental multi-stakeholder collaborations with UN agencies, NGOs, industry, and civil society to support transformation of health systems and services in Europe to improve universal health coverage, protect people in health emergencies and promote equity, health, and well-being. She previously held senior policy roles at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the US Department of Health and Human Services where she formulated national health IT policy, and led initiatives on patient access, privacy, quality, and interoperability. She served for 6 years in Germany as the Deputy Chief Health Information Officer for the US Army Medical Command where she managed informatics teams across a geographically diverse environment ensuring interoperability of clinical information across borders.

Carina Dantas

Carina Dantas has a degree in Law, she is a PhD candidate on Biomedical Sciences (AI ethics) and is the CEO and Chief Investigator of SHINE 2Europe with over 25 years-experience in areas related to health, social aspects and ICT. She is Co-Director of the SHAFE Foundation - Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments, was the Chair of the COST Action NET4Age-Friendly (2020-2024), which gathered over 775 participants from 50 countries and she was Vice-President of the European Covenant on Demographic Change until 2023. Carina is also Committee Member of CEN/CENELEC TC 428, having integrated the Expert Team developing the EU Ethics framework for the ICT Profession; and leading the group of experts designing the Reference Guidelines in the Field of Ethics, Data Privacy and Security, contracted by the AAL Programme. Carina manages several international projects, either as coordinator, WP lead and Task Lead and is evaluator/reviewer/Ethics expert for the European Commission.

Karlien Hollanders

Karlien is a trained healthcare provider herself (pharmacist), has worked in IT within healthcare (Corilus & LynxCare) but above all she’s an experienced Patient Expert as a family caregiver of a seriously ill daughter. Traveling between different hospitals and primary caregivers, brought to light the difficulties in sharing medical data between different healthcare providers. Today, she shares these experiences with a wide audience to help create better patient-centered care. 3 years ago, she also started working as a consultant for the Belgian federal government where she’s working on improving the accessibility to a patient's medical record for both patients and healthcare providers. She's also working on "the Belgian version of MyHealth@myHands" ; www.myhealth.belgium.be

Petra Hoogendoorn

Petra Hoogendoorn has a background in industrial engineering and change management. She is initiated two health apps in oncology, and is lead expert of CEN-ISO/TS 82304-2 health and wellness apps – quality and reliability. Core content of this technical specification is a health app assessment framework and health app quality label. The framework was grounded in 26 existing frameworks, created with a Delphi study with 83 experts across 8 stakeholder groups and aligned with standards. The label was inspired by the design of the very effective EU energy label and tested with persons with low health literacy. Petra coordinated the Horizon Europe Label2Enable project, that co-created the handbook app assessment for 82304-2 and the health app quality report, the more detailed version of the 82304-2 quality label that aims to provide healthcare professionals with the information they need to confidently recommend apps. Petra works as a consultant for health authorities who seek to advance in the digital transformation and benefit from value-adding health apps. Most recently for the Xt-EHR joint action (Article 47 of the EHDS concerns labelling wellness applications), the Dutch Ministry of Health and NHS England.

Dipak Kalra

Fredrik Lindén

Co-founder & Coordinator of MyData Sweden I have extensive domestic and international experience in eHealth and the healthcare industry and I have an understanding of its key business drivers. I have always been driven by a strong patient mission and a desire to improve the efficacy and efficiency of healthcare systems, mainly by improving ICT solutions' ability to connect scientific research and healthcare delivery for mutual benefit.

Lars Lindsköld

Lars Lindsköld, Med.Dr, is a seasoned digital health and medical informatics leader with extensive experience in semantic interoperability, health data management and AI‑driven innovation across European health systems. He serves as President of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and has led numerous international projects on standards, terminologies and data governance, including work with FHIR, openEHR and OMOP. Drawing on a global network spanning Europe, India and China, he advises governments, healthcare providers and industry on implementing trustworthy, data‑driven digital transformations that improve care quality, research and population health. His work strongly advocates patient empowerment and supports the European Health Data Space (EHDS) as a key enabler for secure, citizen‑centric use of health data. He also acts as a Senior Adviser to the SciLifeLab Data Centre at Uppsala University.

Michal Mačát

Michal Mačát is the founder of the Medical Solutions Division at OR-CZ, a company with over 20 years of experience in PACS solutions and a leading position in the Czech market, covering more than 60% of healthcare providers. He is a business leader with extensive experience in medical imaging and digital health. Michal leads strategic projects and international partnerships, with a strong focus on delivering real-world implementations. He has been actively involved in projects for the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, particularly in the area of interoperability and digital infrastructure, contributing to the advancement of frameworks aligned with the European Health Data Space (EHDS). Within the myHealth@myHands project, he brings strategic insight, market perspective, and long-standing experience in building and scaling robust digital solutions.

Julia Persson

Julia Persson is the founder and CEO of Scita Health ApS, a Danish precision health company developing AI-powered clinical decision support to help women prevent chronic disease during perimenopause and menopause. Scita's platform is built on a wallet-first architecture aligned with EUDI Wallet principles of citizen-controlled health data. She is the founding architect of the Nordic Charter for Women's Health 2040, published in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women's Health (January 2026) and developed with 136+ collaborators across five Nordic countries in partnership with the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. Julia brings 20+ years of experience leading digital transformation across regulated sectors.

Patricia Ripoll

Patient advocate, President of Fundación VISIBLE, and Chief Patient Officer, working at the intersection of patient experience, digital health, co-creation and health innovation. Drawing on her lived experience as a chronic migraine patient and more than a decade of advocacy, she specialises in bringing the patient voice into healthcare strategy, research, communication and service design. Through Fundación VISIBLE and initiatives such as MamaTieneMigraña, she promotes health literacy, patient participation and the visibility of invisible conditions. In myHealth@myHands, Patricia brings expertise in patient engagement, real-life experience, user-centred digital health, accessibility, trust and meaningful involvement of citizens in the use of health data across Europe.

Adam Skali

Adam serves as Director of Innovation at the Centre d’Innovation et e-Santé (CIeS Morocco), where he supports the development and implementation of national digital health and AI strategies. As part of this work, CIeS has established an interoperability sandbox for the region to test and validate health data exchange frameworks in real-world conditions, and is collaborating with the Ministry of Health on the country’s AI and interoperability strategy. His work focuses on translating policy into actionable implementation frameworks, including health data systems and multi-stakeholder ecosystem coordination, as well as contributing to regional initiatives such as the International e-Health Forum. He is a board member of the Institute for Human-Centered Health Innovation (IHCHI), where he advances patient-centered, equitable, and prevention-oriented approaches to health innovation. He is also the founder and president of the Young AI Leaders Madrid Hub, part of the United Nations AI for Good ecosystem, where he works with professionals to explore the future of AI in health through collaborative and innovation-driven initiatives. Through these roles, he brings expertise in digital health strategy, interoperability, AI implementation, and the design of multi-stakeholder ecosystems to support scalable and sustainable innovation in projects such as myHealth@myHands.

Willeke van Staalduinen

Willeke van Staalduinen is the CEO of AFEdemy, academy on age-friendly environments in Europe founder and co-director of the SHAFE Foundation (Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments). She graduated as a political scientist and was a nurse in practice in mental healthcare. She worked at the Dutch Parliament as a policy advisor on health politics and internal affairs. During her policy advisor work at a governmental agency, she delivered implementation policy advice on the building of residential care homes, functional requirements for care at home and for independent living of people with chronic conditions or impairments. Since 2013, Willeke worked with the WHO concept of age-friendly cities and communities. She is actively involved in Age-Friendly City The Hague and co-developed with The Hague University of Applied Sciences the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire with which older adults themselves can express their opinions on the age-friendliness of their community. She is the member of the Dutch network of Age-friendly Cities under formation. She was the vice-chair and Grant Holder of COST Action NET4Age-Friendly and is currently active as a Co-coordinator Stakeholders and Management Committee member of COST Action PAAR-net, on participatory approaches with older adults (2023-2027). She is a member of the Age-friendly Western Balkan Countries Network since 2024.

Karolina Vraniaková

Karolína Vraniaková is a Business Development Manager at OR-CZ, where she is responsible for international partnerships and collaboration across digital health projects. She holds a PhD in Company Management and Economics and has over 10 years of experience in healthcare IT. Karolína specializes in medical imaging data and PACS systems, focusing on business development and participating in the implementation of scalable, interoperable solutions adaptable to organizations of different sizes. Her expertise includes business development in digital health and hands-on involvement in implementing these systems in clinical environments. She is also involved in national-level initiatives as a member of a working group of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic focused on medical imaging data. Within the myHealth@myHands project, she brings a strong practical perspective on the implementation of digital health solutions, with a focus on real-world implementation, stakeholder collaboration, and aligning technical systems with organizational needs.

Tjasa Zaic

Tjaša Zajc (Tyasha Zayc) lives and breathes all things digital health. She is a chronic patient who channels her patient journey insights into her work. After a 10 year career as a healthcare journalist she transitioned to the healthcare IT sector, where she worked as a business development specialist for 7 years. Since 2015 she’s done over 400 interviews on the global digital health industry at conferences and through Faces of digital health - a podcast and newsletter that explore how healthcare systems globally adopt technology since 2017. In 2026 she started The Agentic Patient: a podcast series about patient stories and practical insights on safe use of AI as a patient. She is the author of two documentaries - Hopes and hypes around digital health (2016) and (OVER)DOSE - How can we prevent medication errors? (2021). She regularly works with digital health conferences as a content advisor, keynote speaker and professional moderator and is the content lead for HIMSS Europe.

Lu Zheng

As co-founder of Etheros HealthData Foundation and VP head of digital health at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, I would be happy to provide strategic inputs, market and business insights to help advance myHealth@myHands and drive patient/citizen data impact.