Dr Theo Fotis is Principal Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton/ UK. As a nursing futurist is an active researcher in the area of Digital Health.
He is a frequent visitor to Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia as a visiting lecturer and consultant respectively and he has a strong network of collaborators nationally and internationally both within his research field and in the disciplines of computing and engineering.
In 2015 he coined the term ‘Digital Nursing’, to define a future workforce of health care innovators with the special knowledge and skills to utilise digital technologies for patient benefit.
In 2018 he was named one of the Top 50 Healthcare IT leaders in Europe by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS Europe), the largest health IT membership organisation in the world.
He is currently leading a Digital Health Living Lab, where citizens, health professionals and industry are working side by side on health innovation through co-creation.
