Networking Break
Tables: 2nd Floor
Coding clinic – Cheuk Ting Ho
MDU – Oliver Lord
BoneFinder Technology – Claudia Lindner
Scan – Akash Raj
Funding – Helen Compton and James Naylor
HOPCo – Stuart Hubbard
NHS LLM – Mark Fox & Subodh Tailor
Q&A via Slido
https://app.sli.do/event/ipUPxnVi9X7JPSxf4K8EsE
After having a career as a Data Scientist and Developer Advocate, Cheuk dedicated her work to the open-source community. Currently, she is working as AI developer advocate for JetBrains. She has co-founded Humble Data, a beginner Python workshop that has been happening around the world. She has served the EuroPython Society board for two years and is now a fellow and director of the Python Software Foundation.
Oliver has been a Medico-Legal advisor at the MDU for over 10 years, prior to this he was a consultant psychiatrist. As a keen amateur coder he has an interest in the practical application of AI and the medico legal implications. He has written MDU articles on AI governance and provides regular talks on the safe use of AI in healthcare.
Dr Claudia Lindner is a Senior Research Fellow and Sir Henry Dale Fellow in Translational Medical Imaging at The University of Manchester. Her career includes over 20 years of international experience in the development and application of computational methods, working within multi-disciplinary teams in both industrial and academic settings. Claudia uses methods from computer vision, machine learning and data science to develop automatic systems for analysing structures in medical images, with a particular focus on musculoskeletal applications. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, and is dedicated to impactful research, actively advancing her work towards real-world solutions.
Claudia is a member of the steering committee of the Worldwide Collaboration on OsteoArthritis prediCtion for the Hip (World COACH) Consortium, a member of the Royal College of Radiologists Clinical Radiology Academic Committee, a member of the Versus Arthritis College of Experts, and an editorial board member for BJR Artificial Intelligence. In her role as the Translation Lead for the Christabel Pankhurst Institute for Health Technology Research and Innovation, Claudia directs her efforts towards facilitating the translation of research findings into benefits for society and leads the development of the Pankhurst Health Technology Translation Toolkit.
Helen joined the NIHR CC in 2016 to lead on stakeholder engagement activity with the charity and MedTech communities and provide leadership and delivery across several high profile strategic and operational projects across NIHR.
Helen engages with SMEs, clinicians and charities to support MedTech innovators access the NIHR and wider life sciences ecosystem.
Helen gained an extensive background working at the science-policy interface in Defra (>9 yrs) across several high-profile government programmes. She commissioned R&D programmatic evidence that supported changes in both UK policy and international cooperation and has experience synergising research activity across government departments for domestic and international reporting. Helen has developed evidence supporting several national government strategies and presented evidence-based findings at all organisational levels and internationally to the OECD.
Whilst at the National Physical Laboratory Helen developed extensive touchpoints across the UK public research infrastructure primarily around health and the sectors that impinge on it. She contributed to a national measurement strategy for the UK on behalf of government and helped government prioritise its chemical and biological metrology research funding to support emerging areas of UK measurement need necessary to support industrial growth.
Helen is interested in health innovation and MedTech and has advisory roles in:
• Board member to CW Innovation, the partnership between Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and the Trust’s hospital charity, CW+
• Trustee Orthopaedic Research UK
James Naylor is a Senior Marketing Manager for Johnson & Johnson MedTech and works across digital technology and Hips. James has been in Orthopaedics as part of Sales or Marketing for more than 20 years starting as a sales rep and moving through to his current role as a Strategic Marketer for the Global Group. In his current role James is responsible for the management and delivery of digital projects within Hips and owns the future roadmaps for digital technology Globally for Hips. James’ role involves sourcing companies and products that fit the roadmaps and onboarding those companies as valued partners.