Insigneo research theme meeting - Healthcare data/AI

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Event details

Monday 5 December 2022
3:00pm
The Medical School, The Medical School, The University of Sheffield, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield, S10 2RX
Insigneo Members please check your calendar invitations for joining details.

Description

Programme: Insigneo Healthcare Data and AI workshop: “Using data from smartphones and wearables for health research”

As co-Directors of the Healthcare Data and AI theme of the Insigneo Institute we look forward to welcoming you to this workshop.

Our aims are to: 

  • identify and connect research groups using wearable data in health research
  • co-design the IT infrastructure required to link wearable with NHS data to support multiple projects
  • discuss and build on our research collaborations with Google Health/Fitbit

We are very pleased to be joined by Dr Ali Connell and Dr Reena Chopra from Google Health with whom Insigneo is building a range of collaborations in this area.

Meeting Schedule

Time

Title Speaker
15:00-15:10 Introduction to the Healthcare Data and AI theme Haiping Lu
15:10-15:20 The South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub and enabling IT infrastructure for wearable research Tim Chico
15:20-16:00 The Google Health/South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub partnership Dr Ali Connell and Dr Reena Chopra, Google Health
16:00-16:20

3-min project presentations: covering:

What is the research question of the project?

What is the data they want to collect/are collecting?

What (AI and non-AI) technologies and analysis will they use?

What other data (especially healthcare data) are they collecting/linking to?

Ellen Buckley

Tecla Bonci/Kirsty Scott

Aziz Al Baraikan

Chris Burton

Chris McDermott

16:20-16:30 Round up and summary of actions/next steps Haiping Lu / Tim Chico

Dr Ali Connell 

Ali is a Clinical Research Scientist at Google Health working on Health Impact initiatives in the UK and Europe. He completed his PhD at the UCL Institute of Human Health and Performance and is a practicing doctor at UCLH.

Dr Reena Chopra 

Reena is a Clinical Research Scientist at Google Health working on medical artificial intelligence research. She is a practicing Optometrist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and completed her PhD at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

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Telephone: +44 114 222 0158

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