Grahame Cumming (Chair)

Innovation Champion

Grahame Cumming is a Senior NHS Manager with 36 years’ experience of service planning across a range of services and patient groups. He is the NHS Lothian Innovation Champion, supporting the delivery of the government vision for a healthier and wealthier Scotland through collaborative working between the public sector, industry, and academia.

Grahame is a senior leader within the East Region Innovation Hub (Borders, Fife and Lothian) which is one of the three national test beds funded through the Chief Scientists Office, within the Scottish Government. He is the Techscaler Programme lead contact for the Hub.

Grahame is a member of the Heriot-watt led Manufacturing Medical Devices Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Emergence Research Project which is exploring the use of Robotics to improve the lives of people living with Frailty.

To aid his knowledge of the challenges faced by industries working in the healthcare space, Grahame has provided advise to an Edinburgh start-up company that was created in response to the Covid pandemic.

Outside of the NHS, Grahame is a Trustee of the Hibernian Community Foundation charity which utilises the power of football to run lifelong learning, employability and health & wellbeing community-based programmes. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and Manufacturing, which encourages and supports enlightened thinking to solve complex social problems and professionally he is a member of the Institute for Health and Social Care Management.