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.

Janina Buchholz

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.

Lee Hibbard

Karlien Hollanders

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.

Hui Huang

Dipak Kalra

Fredrik Lindén

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

Julia Persson

Patricia Ripoll

Satu Salminen

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

Karolina Vraniaková

Tjasa Zaic

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.