Dr. Durnell is part of the WHO’s Roster of Experts who are involved in various areas related to digital health, such as strategic approaches, areas for intervention and governance structures for regulations and adoption of digital health solutions and products.  Members have an understanding and experience working in digital health, national or large scale digital health programs and policy, artificial intelligence and health, virtual and augmented reality in healthcare, biomedical innovation, robotic surgery, wearable technologies and health and wellness, traceability (e.g.

Dr. Durnell will be presenting a keynote addressing technology-driven healthcare and its impact on predictive anlaytics.    The Harvard Business Review (October 2012) called data scientist "The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century."   You can be both an actuary and an expert on big data for continued market value in a world increasingly dependent upon predictive analytics.    http://www.soa.org/prof-dev/events/2019-predictive-analytics-symposium/  

Presented to the talented engineers at Amazon Lab126 on Technology-Driven Healthcare.

A digital healthcare revolution is changing the human experience. Virtual reality (VR) or immersive technology is creating a significant leap in the health and wellbeing space—transforming healthcare by leveraging technology. The therapeutic use of VR can assist us in living the good life—the healthy life. Technology used in this way may hold the key to teaching us how to deconstruct fear and anxiety—the experience of suffering—and enhance our wellbeing. Because VR can evoke a cognitive state, researchers are measuring the behavioral responses.

Medicine promises to become the biggest vertical market for the use of VR.  Recent research has demonstrated that VR is changing healthcare outcomes by structuring it—by augmenting it—by replacing it. Dr. Durnell discusses how advances in virtual reality are changing patient results.