Dr Zella King
Zella King is a health data scientist in the Clinical Operational Research Unit at UCL. She applies data analytics, machine learning, programming and organisational psychology as tools for better decision making in healthcare operations. Working at the interface between universities and the NHS, she collaborates with researchers, clinicians, and NHS leaders to address practical challenges in the delivery of healthcare.
She developed (with university and hospital colleagues) a real-time application that is in daily use by the patient flow team at University College London Hospital (UCLH) to predict demand for emergency beds. She is lead author on a paper about this work that has been published in Nature Digital Medicine, and has published the code in an open-source Python package called patientflow. She is currently working as an embedded researcher at UCLH, helping tackle some of the hospital’s operational problems using OR and data science, and doing capacity-building for NHS analysts.
