[11 Oct] Women in Healthcare Data Science

Panel

Julie Jacko, Co-Head of the Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute

Professor Julie Jacko has recently joined the Usher Institute and is the appointed Chair of Health Informatics and Data Science. Her expertise in health informatics, health IT, population health, and human-computer interaction have generated a career lifetime total exceeding $30 million in externally funded research as either PI or Co-PI. She is passionately committed to addressing historic health disparities for marginalised populations, and vulnerable, under-resourced communities. She is also the recent PI/Project Director on a Florida Blue Foundation grant focused on preventing opioid and substance abuse by South Florida's vulnerable youth, through education, research, and community health interventions. An expert consultant in the manufacturing, healthcare and IT sectors, Julie often serves as a strategist for organisations seeking to improve productivity, profitability, and impact.

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Charlotte Lee-Sinclair, Head of Commercial, Limbic

Dr Charlotte Lee-Sinclair is a former doctor and current Head of Commercial at Limbic, an AI in mental health company that built the first AI chatbot to receive Class IIa medical device certification that’s being used in 25% of NHS mental health services. She was previously Chief of Staff and UK Director of Big Health, a market leading mental health digital therapeutics company. She is most well known for achieving two firsts: national reimbursement of a digital therapeutic across Scotland and getting NICE recommendation for Sleepio: a digital therapeutic for insomnia.

Riinu Pius, Senior Data Manager for the Surgical Informatics Research Group, Usher Institute

From computational physics to medical informatics, Dr Riinu Pius is a data scientist with an interdisciplinary background. As a Senior Data Manager at the University of Edinburgh, she’s managed the database for a Guinness World record size international study as well as co-authored the book “R for Health Data Science”.

Kirsty Ward, National Clinical Coordinator for the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit, Public Health Scotland

Kirsty Ward is a registered nurse with over a decade of experience in the field of large-scale national clinical audit. Currently working with the Scottish National Audit Programme at Public Health Scotland, she manages the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit (SHFA) and previously the Scottish Trauma Audit Group (STAG). She is passionate about facilitating the translation of data into actionable evidence which lead to improvements in patient care and outcomes. Kirsty lives in the west of Scotland with her family (including a crazy labradoodle) and loves spending her free time crafting and upcycling as well as collecting an ever increasing variety of plants.

Facilitators

The panel discussion will be co-facilitated by Dr Clare MacRae and Dr Rose Penfold.

Clare MacRae is a General Practitioner and was awarded a Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2021. Her PhD involves using data science to better understand multimorbidity. She works clinically as a GP and holds the MRCGP and MRCPCH.

Rose Penfold is a medical doctor, specialising in Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine.  She is currently undertaking a PhD fellowship at the Usher Institute, funded by the Wellcome Trust. Using routine clinical and national audit data her research is looking at the complex relationships between delirium (acute confusion), multimorbidity (multiple long term conditions), and outcomes, in patients hospitalised due to emergency conditions, such as a hip fracture.