Shera is a GP in East London and is the chair and co-founder of the multi award-winning Shuri Network. As the former Chief Medical Officer and executive lead for clinical governance at NHS Digital she provided clinical, strategic and digital expertise to national programmes including the Covid vaccination and testing programmes, therapeutics, the NHS App and digital products used by millions of people to access information, health services and live healthier lives. 

She started the Shuri Network in 2019 as she is passionate about increasing diversity, innovation and safety and to encourage other women from minority ethnic groups to lead and engage with digital transformation. She was awarded the international Richard von Weizsäcker Fellowship by the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin in 2023 to examine the German digital health strategy and help develop new insights that will help health systems deliver more equitable and innovative care. 

Shera has held national leadership roles with NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care, helping to develop and implement health policy, new models of care and Integrated Care Systems. 

Shera has volunteered as a clinician in countries including Sudan, Laos, Indonesia and Greece with NGOs working in war and disaster zones and with displaced populations. She studied at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard School of Public Health on the NHS Executive Fast Track programme and has completed an M.B.A., M.A. in Inter-professional Education and a Nuffield Trust Fellowship on cross-organisational learning with Sunderland Athletic Football Club.

Lisa has been CIO at the Royal Marsden since August 2018, overseeing a comprehensive programme of digital transformation, having previously been CIO at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust from 2014. She started her career in the NHS as a Biomedical Scientist (Microbiology) before moving into a variety of technology roles within healthcare, including a stint in Dubai.

Lisa is currently Chair of both the London CIO Council and the Digital Health CIO Advisory Panel.

During her career, Ola has played a key role in the development of the digital agenda and healthcare technologies at the Trust, regionally and nationally. She has led on a number of complex national projects for the ambulance sector and wider healthcare community, including the Unified Communications project where she was responsible for supplier engagement and implementation, and was instrumental in sharing learning from the roll-out in Yorkshire to benefit other ambulance services across the country. Ola has also worked at the centre of the integration of the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record, part of NHS England’s Local Health and Care Record Exemplar Programme, enabling frontline ambulance staff, clinical hubs and remote clinical staff to access patients’ full recent medical histories to make more informed decisions around treatment decisions.