Dr Patricia Fitzpatrick is Full Professor of Epidemiology & Biomedical Statistics & Subject Head for Public Health, University College Dublin & Consultant in Preventative Medicine, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. She is also Consultant Epidemiologist/Director of Evaluation for the National Screening Service, Ireland.

Tanya D. Geertse is a PhD-student on breast cancer screening and quality assurance. With expertise in radiology and data analysis, she focuses on evaluating screening performance and developing tools for training of screening radiologists. Tanya has performed studies on the value of audits, supplemental training of screening radiologists, added value of prereading screening mammograms by radiographers and the dilemma of recalling well-circumscribed masses. She collaborates with multidisciplinary teams (epidemiology, radiology and pathology) to improve the screening performance of radiologists.

Ethan A. Halm, MD, MPH, MBA is a tenured Professor Medicine and the Vice Chancellor for Population Health at Rutgers University Biomedical and Health Sciences in New Jersey, USA. In this role, he aims to advance Population Health initiatives in research, education, and clinical care across the Rutgers University schools of medicine, public health, nursing, pharmacy, health professions, dentistry, and graduate studies. He is also the Deputy Chief Population Health Officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health System, a 12 hospital regional healthcare network that is the leading academic health system in the state of New Jersey.

Hofvind is leading BreastScreen Norway, with focus on quality assurance and evidence based improvement of the program.

Rableen has over 12 years of operations experience in various health care settings. Her current portfolio includes managing operations for two provincial cancer screening programs – breast and lung. Previously, as a primary care manager she developed and implemented the Primary Care Networks and established the first Community Health Centre with the Ministry of Health. Rableen has a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Master of Arts in Healthcare Leadership. Rableen resides in Vancouver with her husband and two sons. In her spare time, she is exploring a good cup of coffee with a park nearby for the toddlers!

My name is Hanna Ribbing Wilén, MD, PhD. I am a general surgeon working at the emergency and trauma surgery division at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge in Stockholm, Sweden, and researcher affiliated to Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science and Education Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden. My field of research is colorectal cancer screening strategies, fecal occult blood test, interval cancers and gender differences in screening.