Dr. Rowland Illing is Chief Medical Officer and Director of Global Healthcare and Non-Profits for Amazon Web Services (AWS). He has responsibility for strategy and engagement across healthcare and non-profit customers globally, including providers, payors, and health technology companies. He is particularly focused on technologies like artificial intelligence, and how these can drive innovation in health equity and sustainability, as well as allow healthcare organizations to better harness their data for efficiency and patient benefit.
Rowland is an Academic Interventional Radiologist, trained at University College Hospitals London, where he was Director of the Interventional Oncology Service. He remains Honorary Associate Professor at University College London, in the Division of Surgery and Interventional Science. He is a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management in the UK. He continues to present and publish in the academic literature, is a member of the Digital Health Roster of Experts for the WHO and of the European AI Alliance for the European Commission.
