Rowland Illing

Dr. Rowland Illing serves as Chief Medical Officer and Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences for Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role he oversees strategy and engagement for healthcare and life science customers worldwide, including providers, payors, medical device, biopharmaceutical companies and technology partners. His work centers on enabling customers to leverage core cloud technology and innovation, such as generative artificial intelligence, agents and robotics to drive better data utilization for improved efficiency, research and patient outcomes. He also works directly with teams internal to AWS on which technologies can be built and scaled most effectively to support healthcare and life science customers globally. An Academic Interventional Radiologist by training, Dr. Illing was previously Director of the Interventional Oncology Service at University College Hospitals London. He holds positions as Honorary Associate Professor at University College London and Visiting Professor of Informatics and Imaging at Oxford University. His professional affiliations include membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, fellowships of the Royal College of Radiologists and Royal Society of Medicine, and senior fellowship of the UK's Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. He represents both Amazon and AWS in the Leadership Consortium of the US National Academy of Medicine, and is a member of the Board of Directors of HIMSS Global. Dr. Illing maintains an active presence in academia through ongoing presentations and publications in the field.

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