Dr MaryAnn Ferreux

MaryAnn is the Chief Medical Officer for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and a Non-Executive Director for Kent and Medway NHS Partnership Trust. She has 20 years clinical experience working across both the Australian and UK health system, with specialist qualifications in health system leadership, management, and population health. She has held Board level roles as a medical leader in both primary and secondary care and is passionate about using digital and innovation to improve the patient experience for underserved communities, deliver better integration, and ensure equitable access to care. She is a thought leader for health equity in innovation and is leading on several projects to explore gender and racial bias in AI, debias policymaking and increase women in leadership for digital and technology.

She has a special interest in researching health equity and the impact of the social determinants of health; her current doctoral studies explore the impact of organisational behaviours and policy making on health inequalities in the NHS. She is leading several initiatives to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in medicine and is a Trustee and Chair of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) EDI Committee. MaryAnn is committed to using her position to role-model an inclusive leadership approach whereby she supports, mentors and coaches, people from disadvantaged backgrounds to widen participation in medicine and increase diversity within healthcare leadership.