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Monday 31st March 13.00-17.00
Hosted by HDR UK’s Big Data for Complex Disease consortium, this symposium brought together researchers from across HDR UK’s Driver Programmes and wider Institute who are interested in using health data modelling to understand risk and disease trajectories, better-informing prediction, prevention, and treatment across the population. The symposium was an exciting opportunity for researchers working with novel methodologies and tackling challenges in working with health data across various diseases, co-morbidities, and types of EHRs to share their work and insights.
Keynotes
The symposium featured two excellent keynote speakers who discussed statistical and machine learning approaches to modelling longitudinal data:
Professor Tingting Zhu, Associate Professor in AI for Digital Health in the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford. Her research interests lie in machine learning for healthcare applications, and she has developed probabilistic techniques for reasoning about time-series medical data. Her work involves the development of machine learning for understanding complex patient data, with an emphasis on Bayesian inference, deep learning, and applications involving the developing world.
Professor George Ploudidis, Professor of Population Health and Statistics at the UCL Social Research Institute. He is a multidisciplinary quantitative social scientist and a longitudinal survey methodologist. His research interests relate to socioeconomic and demographic determinants of health over the life course and the mechanisms that underlie generational differences in health, well-being and mortality. His methodological work in longitudinal surveys focuses on applications for handling missing data, causal inference and measurement error.
Short Talks
Read and reviewed by public contributors and symposium organisers, abstracts for six Short Talks were chosen and featured as part of the symposium:
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