Khadija Whiteley is a Design and Innovation Engineering, working within the Clinical Engineering Innovation (CEI) team within Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH). CEI are a small inter-disciplinary team made up of designers, clinical scientists, engineers, and regulatory technical specialists. Their work, informed by systems engineering and user-centred design, seeks to identify unmet clinical needs within CUH and deliver novel medical technologies to service this need.

Prior to joining CEI, Khadija has had a varied career within the medical devices industry, having previously worked for companies CMR Surgical, Zimmer Biomet and NAMSA as a specialist within biocompatibility and toxicology. Khadija has, through her work within CEI, developed her knowledge of the UK and EU regulatory landscape for medical devices further, as well as her knowledge related to the regulatory requirements specific to software and AI as medical devices. Her role within CEI involves coaching innovators out of University of Cambridge and elsewhere through the regulatory process for medical device, and enabling subsequent clinical use of prototype medical technologies within CUH.