'Medicine in the 4th Industrial Revolution' with Prof Andrew Morris

Past Event

Date
 13 November 2023, 5:00pm - 6:15pm

Location
 Oxford Martin School & Online
34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets), Oxford, OX1 3BD

Event Recording:

With increasing connectivity, advanced analytics, automation, and advanced-manufacturing technology, how can health care embrace this digital revolution?

Join Professor Andrew Morris, Director of Health Data Research UK, where he will describe the pace of change along with the risks and opportunities for the future delivery of health care and practice of medicine in the 4th industrial revolution.

He will also review the Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), the national institute of health data science, with examples of how uniting the UK’s health data on up to 68M people can enable discoveries that improve people’s lives.

Andrew Morris portrait

Professor Andrew Morris
Director, Health Data Research UK

Professor Andrew Morris became the inaugural Director of Health Data Research UK in August 2017. He is seconded from his position as Professor of Medicine, and Vice Principal of Data Science at the University of Edinburgh, having taken up position in August 2014. Prior to this Andrew was Dean of Medicine at the University of Dundee.

Andrew was Chief Scientist at the Scottish Government Health Directorate (2012-2017) and has served and chaired numerous national and international grant committees and Governmental bodies and currently chairs the Scottish Committee on Pandemic Preparedness.

His research interests span informatics and chronic diseases. He has published over 330 original papers, attracted over £50 million in grant funding and was the principal investigator of several programme grants including the Wellcome Trust United Kingdom Case Control Collection for Type 2 Diabetes, Generation Scotland, a study of the genetic health in 50,000 Scots, the Wellcome Trust funded Scottish Health Informatics Programme (SHIP), and the Farr Institute in Scotland.

In 2007 he co-founded Aridhia Informatics, which uses high performance computing and analytics in health care.

Andrew was previously Governor of the Health Foundation (2009-2017), a leading UK charity that supports quality improvement in health care, and chaired the Informatics Board at UCLPartners, London (2014-2017). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medical Sciences.