Inaugural HDR UK Early Career Researcher Forum

Places at the first annual forum for HDR UK’s early career research community and the wider alumni network have now sold out.

The conference is a unique opportunity for fellows, PhD students, technologists, and alumni from across HDR UK to come together, share knowledge, and network.

The event will feature lightning talks, workshops, research showcases, and poster sessions, providing an engaging platform for ECRs to present their work and connect with peers and experts in health data science.

There will also be representation from industry partners including AWS, AstraZeneca and Genomics England among others.

One objective is to encourage discussion between early career researchers and their peers in order to foster stronger links between them.

It will also be a chance to find out about the remarkable careers being pursued by HDR UK Fellows, celebrate the graduation of the first HDRUK-Turing Wellcome PhD cohort and welcome the new Driver Programme Fellows to the HDR UK community.

• A  limited number of travel bursaries are available.
• To reserve your place click here.
• Email learn@hdruk.ac.uk for more information and to find out about bursaries.

Agenda

09:30 – 10:00: Arrival Refreshments. Registration: Co-hosted by Fatemeh Torabi and Elliot McClenaghan.

10:00 – 10:20: Opening Address, Professor Jenni Quint. Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology and Co-Director of HDR UK’s Inflammation and Immunity Research Driver Programme at Imperial College London.

10:20 – 11:05: Where Are They Now? Research Updates from HDR UK’s First Fellows including:

• Dr Rona Strawbridge: My academic career journey in Health Data Science
• and Dr Honghan Wu: From Gamer to Professor
• Kluivert Boakye Duah: Guiding the Future: A Journey Through Mentorship.

11:05 – 11:15: Break

11:15 – 12:15: HDR UK-Wellcome Doctoral Science Showcase. HDR UK-Wellcome Doctoral Science Showcase featuring:

• Fabian Falck (University of Oxford)
• Emma Whitfield (University College London): Using electronic health records to evaluate the potential for earlier diagnosis: Emergency presentations in 18 conditions
• Haoting Zhang (University of Cambridge): Improved uncertainty estimation for the decision-making of drug combination synergies.

12:15 – 13:15: Lunch

13:15 – 13:45: Introducing HDR UK’s Programme Fellows. Lightning Talks by:

• Amal Rammah: The Kids’ Environment and Health Cohort, a new national data resource for child health and environmental research
• Cosmika Goswami: A computerised clinical decision support tool(s) to improve antipsychotic prescribing among hospitalised patients in the acute care setting in Scotland
• James Mitchell-White: Large language models for OMOP Mapping
• Naomi Launders: Physical health inequalities in people with severe mental illness
• Thomas Starkey: Developing and validating a multivariable model to predict severe bleeding in patients using direct oral anticoagulants

13:45 – 14:45: Research Workshops.  First come first served basis on the day

• Developing a resilient Artificial Intelligence profession: observations from the UK’s skills landscape (Matt Forshaw)
• Leading on funding applications and stimulating your future research opportunities (Emily Ball  and Ben Yarnall)
• Producing analysis-ready datasets in TRE/SDE setting (Venexia Walker)
• Telling your story: Communicating health data research (Ruth Milne and Anna Woolman).

14:45-16:00: Scientific Poster and Technology Walk Through Session

16:00 – 16:45: HDR UK Early Career Technology Showcase.

• Branwen Snelling: Designing a search engine for health metadata and research resources
• Erum Masood: Supporting FAIR Data Principals through Data Standardisation for the benefit of Real World Evidence Studies
• Fionna Chalmers: Defining Disease with Data: Development, Validation, and Sharing of EHR Phenotyping Algorithms at the BHF Data Science Centre

16:45 – 17:20: Keynote Address – Marta Milo. Marta Milo is the Director of Computational Biology – Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca.

17:20 – 17:30 Closing Remarks. The closing remarks will include a poster competition and walk through prize announcement.

17:30 – 18:30: Drinks Reception: Tea, coffee, water, sparkling beverages, wine and beer.

Free professional photography

Members of the HDR UK Alumni Network can have free headshots taken by a professional photographer at the event – a great resource for LinkedIn, website biographies, conference speaker profiles and many other uses.

If you are not already a member of the Alumni Network you can sign up for free on the day.