He is Senior Medical Director in Pfizer’s Global Medial Affairs with oversight of the company’s cardiovascular therapeutic area in the Asia Pacific Region. He has a long involvement with digital solutions in healthcare and the role of the medicines industry, having been a member of the AMA/RACGP General Practice Computing Group in the 90s and the electronic Decision Support Working Group of APMA, the forerunner of Medicines Australia. Dr Subramaniam was on the boards of Health Informatics New Zealand (NZ) and the NZ Health IT Cluster, and has represented NZ on the International Medical Informatics Association. He has been on the editorial boards of NZ’s Health Care and Informatics Review Online (HCIRO) and Australia’s the e-Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI). Kannan has also been an independent reviewer for Science and Technology initiatives for the EU and the NZ Government.