All of us together: UK Health Data Research Alliance Symposium - December 2020
Join us for our second UK Health Data Research Alliance Symposium on 1 December.
About the event
The UK Health Data Research Alliance is pleased to invite you to join us for its second Symposium, bringing together teams from across the Health Data Research Hubs, Innovation Gateway, Alliance, and wider strategic partners.
The agenda has been formulated with the help of the Advisory Committee. The latest version will be updated regularly on this page.
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Audience
The intended audience for this event includes:
- All those working as part of the UK Health Data Research Alliance, Health Data Research Hubs, or Innovation Gateway and all members of the HDR UK community
- Members of the wider health data landscape in the UK and internationally, including NHS, academia, government, industry, and charities
- Public, patient and practitioner representatives
Meeting objectives
This event will help to further the aims of Health Data Research UK’s infrastructure work and foster collaboration across the institute. It is also a fantastic opportunity to showcase and celebrate achievements across the UK Health Data Research Alliance, the Health Data Research Hubs, the Innovation Gateway and other partners.
The objectives of the Symposium will be:
- To bring the NHS, academia, government, industry and charities communities together to drive forward the UK’s health data research strategy
- To celebrate what has been achieved, what lessons have been learnt and share the journeys
- To build a sense of community and collaboration to achieve even more together
Click here to find out about the last Alliance Symposium and watch the recording
Lightning talks
Health Data Research UK is delighted to have invited applications from start-ups, technologists and innovators to present health data research innovation projects as 4-minute lightning talks at the next UK Health Data Research Alliance Symposium on 1 December 2020. The deadline for submissions was 9 November at 16:00.
Please note applications are now closed.
Speakers
Check out some of our fantastic speakers below, or view the full agenda to see all confirmed speakers.
Ottoline Leyser
Chief Executive, UK Research & Innovation
Douglas Gurr
Head, Amazon UK
Ewan Birney
Director, European Bioinformatics Institute
Neena Modi
Professor of Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London
Sarah Henry
Director, Methods, Data & Research, Office for National Statistic (ONS)
Cathie Sudlow
Director, BHF Data Science Centre
Nic Timpson
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Bristol
Emily Jefferson
Director, Health Informatics Centre (HIC), University of Dundee
Indra Joshi
Director of AI, NHSX
Amitava Banerjee
Associate Professor in Clinical Data Science and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust
Laura Shallcross
Clinical Lecturer, UCL
Rich Fry
Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Sciences, Swansea University
Jill Hopkins
Global Head, Ophthalmology Personalised Care, Roche-Genentech
Derek Stewart
Patient Representative, Health Data Research UK and PA Consulting
Caroline Cake
CEO, HDRUK
David Ford
Professor of Health Informatics, Swansea University
Gerry Reilly
CTO, Health Data Research UK
Advisory Committee
The Alliance Symposium’s objectives and content is being guided by an advisory committee made up of representatives from across Health Data Research UK, as well as public and patient representatives.
Advisory committee members:
- Caroline Cake, Health Data Research UK (chair)
- Bryan Deane, ABPI
- Matt Cooper, DATA-CAN – The Health Data Research Hub for Cancer
- Jill Hopkins, Roche
- Margaret Grayson, Patient Representative
- Tom Smith, Patient Representative
- David Seymour, Health Data Research UK
- Cathie Sudlow, BHF Data Science Centre
- Richard Dobson, King’s College London
- Neena Modi, Imperial College London
- Mark Avery, Eastern AHSN
- Gerry Reilly, Health Data Research UK
- Ben Gordon, Health Data Research UK
- Maria Koufali, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust
- Sinduja Manohar, Health Data Research UK
‘It is fantastic to be involved in bringing together the Alliance Symposium. Public and patient involvement is crucial to the work of the Alliance, Health Data Research Hubs and the Innovation Gateway, and I am excited to hear about the progress that HDR UK is making at the event.’
Margaret Grayson, Patient representative, Advisory Committee for the Alliance Symposium
The Health Data Research Hubs, UK Health Data Research Alliance and Health Data Research Innovation Gateway are all part of the Digital Innovation Hub Programme. The Programme is funded by UK Research and Innovation’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund as part of the Data to Early Diagnosis Grand Challenge.
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