Piers has been Health Innovation East’s Chief Executive since April 2018.  He has led a transformation of our business, doubling our headcount and increasing our impact for patients, the wider NHS and the health and life sciences industries in our region. From 2019 to 2021 Piers served as Chair of the Health Innovation Network (formerly the AHSN Network) , comprising 15 member organisations and 800 staff.  He also set up and led a team at the Department of Health for six months at the start of the pandemic,  reviewing and implementing new COVID-19 testing technologies, working alongside Cabinet Office colleagues, the diagnostics industry and the UK’s most senior scientists.

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