event programme

Neurology + digital health Date: Friday 4 March, 8.30am – 12.30pm

Venue: UCLPartners Boardroom, 170 Tottenham Court Road, W1T 7HA

Time 8.30

Breakfast

9.00

Welcome from Chair Charlie Davie, UCLPartners

9.10

Panel discussion: • • • • • •

10.00

Junaid Bajwa, MSD and Velocity Health Amanda Begley, UCLPartners Alexander Leff, UCL Andrew Morris, UCLPartners George Pepper, Shift.ms Harpreet Sood, NHS England

Five-minute pitches from researchers, start-ups and SMEs: • • • • • • • • • •

NeuroGesture: Digital telehealth of hand function – James Teo, Kings College Hospital Listen-in: Gamification of an aphasia therapy app – Alexander Leff, UCL Monitoring with wearables and apps in neuro-metabolics – Elin Haf Davies, Aparito Bringing co-design to health with Thought Sort – Anindita Ghosh, Shift.ms Join Dementia Research – Piers Kotting, UCL High-dimensional modelling of stroke – Parashkev Nachev, UCL PREDICT-PD: Early identification of Parkinson’s – Alastair Noyce, UCL Stroke prevention services – David Patterson, Helicon Health NeuroResponse – Bernadette Porter, UCLH WebEDSS: a digital assessment tool for MS – Alison Thomson, QMUL

11.00

Keynote talk: Healthcare in the information age Andrew Morris, UCLPartners

11.30

UCL Festival of Digital Health Closing Ceremony • • •

Ann Blandford, UCL Institute of Digital Health Patty Kostkova, UCL Festival of Digital Health Harry Hemingway, UCL Institute of Health Informatics

11.45

Lunch and networking

12.30

Event close

@UCLPartners #FDH2016

Chair biography Charlie Davie | @davie_charlie Managing Director, UCLPartners AHSN Charlie joined UCLPartners in 2009 as Stroke Lead and subsequently took on the role of Programme Director for Neurosciences. He was appointed as Director of the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) in 2014 and became Managing Director in May 2015. He provides strategic leadership for the AHSN and its integrated programmes, supporting the operational and clinical directors in transforming care for patients and populations. Before joining UCLPartners, Charlie was the clinical lead for stroke services at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, where he continues his clinical work as Consultant Neurologist. He has also been the stroke lead for the North Central London Cardiovascular and Stroke Network. Charlie played a pivotal role in redesigning stroke services in London, which has resulted in significantly improved outcomes. He has published extensively in several areas of clinical neurology. His current research interests include service reconfiguration and clinical outcomes. He has been an editor of The European Journal of Neurology for over 10 years and serves on the board of the UCL Institute of Digital Health and DigitalHealth.London. He currently represents the 15 AHSNs on the Government’s Life Sciences Cabinet.

Panel biographies Junaid Bajwa | @drjbajwa Director of Healthcare Services, MSD UK Junaid’s personal drivers are to work towards improving population health, improving the patient experience of care, and work with health systems to reduce the overall per capita cost of healthcare spend (what the IHI describe as the Triple Aim). Junaid qualified as a GP in 2009 and has since gone on to undertake a number of roles within the NHS, including being a Governing Body Member for the NHS Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group (leading on mental health, IT, and supporting integrated care), working with the Royal Borough of Greenwich as a Public Health Associate, and being a Council Member for the London Clinical Senate. In 2014, Junaid was seconded onto the NHS Leadership Academy as part of its Fast Track Executive Programme; and since April 2015 has become the Director of Healthcare Services for MSD in the UK. Junaid is a co-founder of the VelocityHealth accelerator programme, which is being run as a collaboration between MSD and Wayra Open Future (Telefonica’s digital start up accelerator). This is the first programme of its kind in the digital preventative healthcare space and is looking to accelerate a select number of UK start-ups developing products and services in this area.


Amanda Begley | @amanda_begley Director of Innovation and Implementation, UCLPartners Amanda is Director of Innovation and Implementation at UCLPartners. Her particular focus is to build partnerships and expertise to deliver innovation at scale and pace for patient and population benefit. She is currently leading the work at UCLPartners on the NHS Innovation Accelerator, delivered in partnership with the Health Foundation and NHS England and in collaboration with AHSNs across the country. Amanda is a Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation. Following her PhD, Amanda joined the NHS as an Assistant and Trainee Clinical Psychologist. Amanda has worked as a commissioner and senior manager across primary, community and secondary care, and as Head of Innovation at London’s Strategic Health Authority. While at UCLPartners, Amanda completed a part time secondment as a GSK Fellow.

Alexander Leff | @alexander_leff Reader in Cognitive Neurology, UCL Alex is a Reader in Cognitive Neurology at the UCL Institute of Neurology and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. His main clinical and academic interest is in cognitive rehabilitation, especially in the field of acquired language disorders (aphasia). Alex has developed two web-based rehabilitation tools that can be used by therapists and patients with hemianopia and, along with his team, is working on two more ambitious apps for aphasia.

Andrew Morris Professor of Medicine, University of Edinburgh Andrew is Professor of Medicine, Director of the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics 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. He is seconded as Chief Scientist at the Scottish Government Health Directorate. His research interests span informatics and chronic diseases. He is Director of the Farr Institute in Scotland funded by the MRC and nine other funders and Convenor of the UK Health Informatics Research Network, representing a £39M investment in health informatics research. In 2007 he co-founded Aridhia Informatics that now employs over 70 people in Scotland and uses high performance computing and analytics in health care, with deployments in the UK, Middle East and Australasia. Andrew is a Governor of the Health Foundation, a leading UK charity that supports quality improvement in health care and also chairs the Informatics Board at UCLPartners.


George Pepper | @gpeps Co-founder, Shift.ms George is the co-founder of Shift.ms – the social network for people with MS. The community is aimed at supporting adjustment to MS from diagnosis onwards. Shift.ms provide a platform for its members to support each other, while producing content that allows its users to acknowledge and actively manage their condition. Shift.ms believes that MS doesn’t mean giving up on ambitions, just rethinking how to achieve them. Founded together with Freddie Yauner, www.shift.ms launched in 2009 following George’s own experience of coming to terms with MS. Aged just 22, the diagnosis came at a time when George was faced with key decisions about relationships, family and career. Although diagnosis is most common when people are in there 20s and 30s, there was a lack of support for those recently diagnosed. The online community has grown to over 8,000 registered members and receives over 20,000 visitors per month. Shift.ms is a community run organisation. Shift.ms has received funding from the Wellcome Trust and Nominet Trust and works in partnership with hospitals across the UK and Ireland, including UCL, Barts and The London, Edinburgh, Salford, Liverpool and Leeds. Prior to joining Shift.ms as an employee in 2012, George worked for a marketing agency, specialising in managing commercial partnerships.

Harpreet Sood | @hssood Senior Fellow to the CEO, NHS England Harpreet is currently Senior Fellow to the CEO of NHS England and a GP trainee. Harpreet’s key projects at NHS England include: healthcare prevention with the implementation of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme; innovation and digital health policy, where he is currently leading on the Wachter Review; and transformation of care for the elderly population. Harpreet did his clinical training at King’s College London and Imperial College Business School and practiced as an academic clinical trainee in the NHS. Following this Harpreet did a Masters in Public Health (MPH) at Harvard University with a focus on international health policy and he cofounded a digital health start-up in paediatric asthma adherence. Post-MPH, Harpreet was a Deland Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston where he focused on diffusing innovation through complex organisations with the launch of the Brigham Innovation Hub (iHub).


Five-minute pitches NeuroGesture: Digital telehealth of hand function James Teo | [email protected] Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | @KingsCollegeNHS Listen-in: Gamification of an aphasia therapy app Alexander Leff | @alexander_leff UCL | @ucl Monitoring with wearables and apps in neuro-metabolics Elin Haf Davies | @elinhafdavies Aparito | @aparitohealth Bringing co-design to health with Thought Sort Anindita Ghosh | @shiftspeaks | [email protected] Shift.ms | @shiftms Join Dementia Research: More people in more research more quickly – join a movement towards a future without dementia Piers Kotting | @PKotting UCL | @ucl High-dimensional modelling of stroke Parashkev Nachev | [email protected] UCL | @ucl PREDICT-PD: Early identification of Parkinson’s Alastair Noyce | @predictpd | [email protected] UCL | @ucl Stroke prevention services David Patterson Helicon Health | @heliconhealth NeuroResponse Bernadette Porter | [email protected] University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | @uclh WebEDSS: A digital assessment tool for MS Alison Thomson | @somehow_related | [email protected] Queen Mary University of London | @QMUL
