Featured Profile – 14th Edition of MAGNIFY (STEM Sisters): Winner recipient of the Healthcare Innovator Award

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Media appearance / interview

Description

Type: Esteem / National Recognition
Date: March 2025
Location: Australia-wide
Organiser: STEM Sisters

Description:
Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza was featured as the winner recipient of the Healthcare Innovator Award in the 14th edition of MAGNIFY, a national publication by STEM Sisters celebrating 60 women of colour making outstanding contributions to STEM in Australia.

The Healthcare Innovator Award acknowledges significant achievements in healthcare, medical research, or patient care. Dr Pinero de Plaza was recognised for her work developing and applying the PROLIFERATE and PROLIFERATE_AI frameworks—tools for evaluating innovation and AI in healthcare systems. Her work in the RAPIDx AI project, implemented across 12 hospitals in South Australia, was a key example of ethical, human-centred AI evaluation in action.

Recognised Contributions:

Lead developer of PROLIFERATE and PROLIFERATE_AI

Implementation of ethical AI evaluation in cardiac emergency care (RAPIDx AI project)

Leadership in transdisciplinary teams advancing innovation in aged care, chronic disease, and virtual health

Output Links:

MAGNIFY Issue 14: https://magnify.au/14th-issue/

PROLIFERATE: https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2023.1154614

PROLIFERATE_AI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2025.105810

Impact:
This recognition helps promote diverse leadership in healthcare innovation and reinforces the value of applied, person-centred research in digital health and AI. It also supports national visibility for Flinders University’s contributions to implementation science and care system transformation.

Keywords: Digital Health, AI in Healthcare, Implementation Science, Health Equity, Transdisciplinary Research, Women in STEM, Healthcare Innovation, Flinders University

PeriodMar 2025
Held atSTEM Sisters, Australia
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • AI in Healthcare
  • Digital Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Transdisciplinary Research
  • Women in STEM
  • Healthcare Innovation
  • Equity

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