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Featured Speakers
The Medicine Policy Series explores the evolving role of pharmacy in delivering integrated, community-focused care in line with NHS ambitions. Through a series of closed-door roundtables, forums, and insight reports, this series brings together diverse senior healthcare leaders to identify practical improvements that support the integration and expansion of pharmacy services across the care continuum.
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Reena Patel
MPharm, PGDip, IP
Senior Healthcare Strategy Consultant & Principal Pharmacist
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Reena is a pharmacist, clinical safety officer, and senior healthcare strategist with over 15 years’ experience across primary, secondary, and system-level care. She specialises in digital innovation, healthcare transformation, population health management, and workforce development. A UN Women UK Delegate and national advisor, Reena leads transformation in long-term condition management, women’s health and integrated care. She also mentors women and men in career development & leadership, promoting work-life balance and personal fulfilment through diverse careers.
David Edeson
BPharm,MPharm
Associate Director for Medicines Optimisation & Clinical Director for Long Term Conditions, West Yorkshire ICB
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David brings over eight years of experience delivering strategic healthcare initiatives across a range of long-term conditions. As Associate Director for Medicines Optimisation and Clinical Lead for Long Term Conditions, he leads system-wide programmes that bridge innovation and implementation to drive meaningful change in communities and reduce health inequalities.
Dr Arrash Yassaee
BA, MBBS, MPH, MBA
Deputy Director (Medtech Innovation), NHS England
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Dr Arrash is a Deputy Director at NHS England, where he oversees policies and programmes to support the development, adoption, and scaling of promising and proven innovations across the NHS. Prior to this, he held global roles in industry, where he was responsible for world-first digital products and supported the uptake of novel medicines in Europe, North America and Asia. Arrash is also an academic paediatrician at Imperial, with research interest in developing new methods for evaluating and assuring health innovations.
Laura Boyd
BA, MScE
Epidemiology, MSc Development Studies, Director of Digital Partnerships, Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber
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Laura is Director of Digital Partnerships at Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber. In this role, she works across Yorkshire's three Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) to anaylise how we optimise data infrastructure and assets across our region to improve health outomes and reduce inequalities for our popilations and best support our NHS workforce. Laura is also the Co-founder of Into-Action Health.