You are warmly invited to an Edinburgh Infectious Diseases half-day workshop on Big Data and Infection on Wednesday 29 November.

This event brings together a range of speakers from the NHS, basic biological science and computer science perspectives, focused on the use big data of in infection medicine. The aim is to understand the needs of users, governance issues and the potential to develop bespoke IT solutions, including those required for data integration.

Provisional programme

12.40 Introduction - David Dockrell

12:45 NHS

Mudenda Munkombwe (eHealth Project Officer, Business Intelligence Team, NHS Lothian) - ehealth, NHS Lothian’s spotlight for infectious disease surveillance
David Perry (Head of Scientific Computing, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh) - Challenges of working on clinical datasets in the academic environment
John Sturgeon (eHealth Head of Programmes and Development, NHS Lothian) - Data visualisation: Infection Intelligence Platform

13:45 Computer science

Will Whiteley (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh) - Electronic health record research: problems and opportunities
Michael Gutmann (Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh) - Bayesian Inference for Intractable Infectious Disease Models
Claire Grover (Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics University of Edinburgh) - Extracting
Information from EHRs using Natural Language Processing

14:45 Coffee and cake

15:15 Basic science

Peter Ghazal (Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh) - Large-scale confirmatory data of immune signatures in diagnosing infections
Aziz Sheikh (Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh) - Exploiting Big Data to advance research capabilities
Damian Mole (Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh) - APPreSci - Acute Pancreatitis Precision Science

16:15 Table top exercises and round up

17:00 Finish

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases workshop: Big Data Approaches to Infection