Dean's Special Lecture: Medicine and Health in the Information Age
Date: Monday 18 December 2017
Time: 1.30pm–2.30pm
Venue:
Theatre 1 (G21), Ground Floor
Alan Gilbert Building
161 Barry St, Parkville
University of Melbourne
Enquiries:
Please contact Nora Li
T: 8344 9350
E: n.li@unimelb.edu.au
About the lecture
Professor Aziz Sheikh is visiting Melbourne to assist in the planning and implementation of the University’s Data and Health strategy, jointly led by the Faculties of MDHS and Engineering. He is a world leader in population data science and health informatics, and leads the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh.
About Professor Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh is Professor of Primary Care Research and Development and Director of the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences at The University of Edinburgh. He is Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, NHS Lothian, Director of the 16-university Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Director of the NIHR Global Respiratory Health Unit (RESPIRE), Director of the Scottish Allergy and Respiratory Academy, and Co-Director of the NHS Digital Academy.
Professor Sheikh has substantive academic and health policy interests in leveraging the potential of health information technology and data science to transform the delivery of health care and improve population health, which have led him to work with numerous governments, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank. He serves on the Steering Group and as Chair of the Evaluation Group of the WHO’s 3rd Global Safety Challenge on Medication Safety as adviser to its Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office.
He is an editorial board member of PLOS Medicine, Medical Care, Health Informatics Journal and BMC Medicine, and is Editor-in- Chief of Nature Partnership Journal: Primary Care Respiratory Medicine. Professor Sheikh has, together with colleagues across the world, held research grants in excess of £69m, has more than 1000 peer-reviewed publications, and more than 42,000 citations to his work.