Continua Advisory Board

Advised by leaders who have shaped how care, safety and digital-health systems work.

Independent expertise across healthcare, mental health, digital health, AI, governance, policy, regulation, safety, adoption and large-scale transformation.

Continua’s Advisory Board brings together distinguished leaders from healthcare, digital health, AI, clinical governance, regulation, public policy, payer and provider strategy, medical education and system transformation.

Their collective experience helps keep our work clinically grounded, ethically responsible, strategically robust and focused on measurable improvements in safety, access, equity and outcomes.

Advisory Board

Leaders across health systems, AI, safety, policy and digital-health scale.

Professor Mike Bewick
Visionary former Deputy Director of NHS, medical school dean and strategic board advisor

Professor Mike Bewick MB.MS MRCP, MRGCP, FRCP

Professor Mike Bewick is an experienced NHS executive board medical director and strategic advisor, with nationally recognised leadership across strategy development, commissioning and clinical governance in primary and secondary care. He was previously Deputy NHS Medical Director to Sir Bruce Keogh at NHS England and has advised national policy, medical education and digital health programmes.

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Mike has led clinical and management teams locally, regionally and nationally, working with NHS England, government ministers and provider organisations on emerging strategy and clinical direction. A recognised thought leader, he has authored publications, instigated debates and helped shape clinical excellence. He developed masters level courses in digital health and served as interim Dean of Medicine at St. Mary’s University, London.

Geoffrey M. Pradella
Government, provider and payor strategy and non-profits

Geoffrey M. Pradella, B.A., B.A. (Hons), M.A., LL.M.

Geoffrey M. Pradella has 25 years of international experience across business, government, non-profits and higher education. He is Chief Executive Officer of KBH+, the ecosystem built around the Kids Brain Health Network and Foundation, and brings expertise in organisational capacity, strategy, governance, complex change, policy, human rights, community inclusion and innovation.

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Geoff has served on a wide range of medical, editorial, legal, arts and community boards. He is Chair of Genome Alberta and a Founding Director of the Canadian Museum of Recorded Music and Culture Foundation. He previously served as Chief Strategy Officer for Alberta Health Services and as Senior Strategic Advisor to the Minister of Health. His education includes an LL.M. from the University of Edinburgh, a B.A. (Honours) and M.A. from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Calgary.

Prashant Parida
AI strategy, enterprise transformation and preventive health

Prashant Parida

Prashant Parida is a technology and transformation leader at IBM focused on AI strategy, enterprise transformation and measurable societal impact. He believes technology’s highest purpose is to improve quality of life globally, particularly in healthcare and education, and co-founded Mission10X to identify transformative innovation early and scale it through talent, capital and markets.

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Prashant has more than two decades of experience at the intersection of AI, healthcare, strategy and execution. His work spans AI strategy, portfolio management, enterprise transformation and the global scaling of AI-enabled platforms. He is also the founder of PreventiveHealth.Online and collaborates with global stakeholders through UN-aligned digital health initiatives focused on responsible, evidence-based health innovation. He holds an MBA from XLRI, an engineering degree from VSS University of Technology, and executive education from Stanford University and The Wharton School.

Stuart Harrison
Clinical safety, medical device and SaMD regulation and assurance

Stuart Harrison

Stuart Harrison has helped lead the clinical safety movement in the NHS for more than 20 years, refining clinical safety and risk management systems, rewriting NHS safety standards and embedding safety engineering principles into health software assurance. He is co-founder and director of ETHOS Ltd and brings expertise across clinical safety, medical devices, security, information governance and GDPR.

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Stuart’s background is in safety-critical engineering across automation, automotive, nuclear, defence and health. He was one of the original authors, reviewers and implementers of NHS clinical safety standards and has contributed to international safety, security and effectiveness standards. He has supported clinical assurance for more than 1000 health software systems and provided subject matter input to more than 3000 service incidents with patient-safety impact. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Engineer and is studying part time for a PhD at the University of Warwick.

Hassan Chaudhury
Expert in digital health solutions, startups and ecosystem development

Hassan Chaudhury

Hassan Chaudhury works globally across digital health as an entrepreneur, advisor and former UK Government specialist. He founded a real-world evidence agency, Health iQ, which was acquired by CorEvitas, and later served as Global Digital Health Specialist at Healthcare UK, supporting firms entering and exporting from the UK across 96 countries.

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Hassan has a special interest in helping the NHS develop sustainable commercial models around data and digital. He is Head of Commercial at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust and Commercial Director for DATA-CAN, the Health Data Research Hub for Cancer. He is an Expert in Residence at The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering at King’s College London, has taught at UCL Global Business School for Health and supports founders through accelerators including the NHS Innovation Accelerator, P4 Precision Medicine Accelerator, MedTech SuperConnector, EqualityX and KQ Labs.

Steve Mackenney
Digital and AI solutions, health policy and patient outcomes

Steve Mackenney

Stephen Mackenney, M.A. (Cantab.), is a senior executive, founder and health policy specialist with more than 20 years of experience across government health systems, clinical governance, patient safety and digital health innovation. He is recognised for bridging policy, clinical standards and technology, translating what should work into what can scale across real-world health systems.

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Stephen previously served as Head of Quality and Safety at the UK Department of Health, where he helped develop national healthcare quality standards that formed the basis for inspections across England. His public-sector work also included leadership on patient safety, clinical audit, pharmaceutical pricing regulation and GP remuneration, with international secondments supporting system reform through the WHO and the European Commission. As co-founder of an advanced AI-driven healthcare analytics system, he oversaw quality-improvement projects across 11 countries and four continents.

How advice is used

Independent expertise to strengthen the work, not slow it down.

Advisors help Continua test assumptions, surface clinical and implementation risk, understand the needs of health systems and keep solutions aligned with safety, evidence, equity and measurable impact.

Grounded expertise for safer scale

Better mental-health innovation needs serious clinical, technical and system judgement.

Continua works with advisors, partners and implementation leaders who can help validated mental-health solutions reach the people who need them safely, equitably and effectively.

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