Dr. Natalie Pankova holds a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and has worked as a scientist and executive in pharma, biotech and healthtech companies, as well as across academic and hospital institutions. Through this work she understands the challenges in communication of data between healthcare stakeholders as well as between healthcare professionals and patients. She is now Chief Operating Officer at Metadvice, a company building AI-based clinical decision support solutions to enable doctors to combine the avalanche of newly available medical information into their clinical practice, while enabling patients to retain access rights to data using distributed ledger technology. She led healthcare efforts at the Government Blockchain Association in the UK, facilitating discussions between the healthcare industry and the public sector, and participates in a number of blockchain healthcare initiatives.