We are delighted to welcome Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham OM KBE PC FRS, Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London, Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College NHS Trust and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, as our guest speaker for the 2023 Zienkiewicz Lecture.

Professor Lord Darzi will deliver a lecture entitled ‘Health Care Transformation through Science and Technology’.

Abstract

Whilst many of the disruptive innovations of the past century have been in healthcare, our health systems remain overly focussed on ‘sick care’.

A shift toward preemption and early identification and intervention of at-risk patient-groups based on their pre-disease and disease status could help mitigate many components of our current health burden. This can re-direct our health efforts towards those of higher quality and safety through next generation technological tools that range from digital sensors and interventions, AI-enabled decision-support and precision targeting in the climate of genetic and epigenetic sequencing and modification.

These technologies can help transform health processes, behaviours and ultimately our heath culture so that we can fundamentally deliver a universal need to add life to years beyond those of years to life.

Professor Lord Darzi is a Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College NHS Trust and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Darzi is Chair of the NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative, Course Director, NHS Digital Health Leadership Programme and Chair for the Pre-emptive Medicine and Health Security Initiative at Flagship Pioneering UK.

Professor Lord Darzi leads a large multidisciplinary academic and policy research team, publishing over 1,500 peer-reviewed research papers focused on convergence science across engineering, physical and data sciences, specifically in the areas of robotics, sensing, imaging and digital and AI technologies. He is Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and past president of the British Science Association.

In 2002, Professor Darzi was knighted for his services to medicine and surgery, and in 2007 was introduced as Lord Darzi of Denham to the UK’s House of Lords as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health. He has been a member of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council since 2009 and was awarded the Order of Merit in 2016.

More details to follow.

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Mae'n bleser gennym groesawu'r Athro yr Arglwydd Darzi o Denham OM KBE PC FRS, Cyd-Gyfarwyddwr y Sefydliad Arloesi Iechyd Byd-eang yng Ngholeg Imperial Llundain, Llawfeddyg Ymgynghorol yn Ymddiriedolaeth GIG Coleg Imperial ac Ymddiriedolaeth Sefydliad GIG Royal Marsden, fel ein siaradwr gwadd ar gyfer Darlith Zienkiewicz 2023.

Bydd yr Athro Arglwydd Darzi yn traddodi darlith o'r enw 'Trawsnewid Gofal Iechyd drwy Wyddoniaeth a Thechnoleg'.

Mae’r Athro Darzi yn Gyd-gyfarwyddwr y Sefydliad Arloesi Iechyd Byd-eang yng Ngholeg Imperial, Llundain ac ef yw deiliad Cadair Llawdriniaeth Paul Hamlyn. Mae’n Llawfeddyg Ymgynghorol yn Ymddiriedolaeth y GIG Coleg Imperial ac Ymddiriedolaeth Sefydliad y GIG Royal Marsden. Yr Athro Darzi yw Cadeirydd Cydweithrediad Mynediad Carlam y GIG, Cyfarwyddwr Cwrs Rhaglen Arweinyddiaeth Iechyd Digidol y GIG a Chadeirydd y Fenter Meddygaeth Ragataliol a Diogelwch Iechyd yn Flagship Pioneering yn y DU.

Mae’r Athro Darzi yn arwain tîm ymchwil academaidd a pholisi rhyngddisgyblaethol mawr, sydd wedi cyhoeddi dros 1,500 o bapurau ymchwil a adolygwyd gan gymheiriaid. Mae’r rhain yn canolbwyntio ar wyddoniaeth gydgyfeirio ym meysydd peirianneg, gwyddor ffisegol a gwyddor data, yn benodol ym meysydd roboteg a thechnolegau synhwyro, delweddu, digidol a deallusrwydd artiffisial. Mae’n Gymrawd o Academi y Gwyddorau Meddygol a’r Gymdeithas Frenhinol, Cymrawd er Anrhydedd o’r Academi Frenhinol Peirianneg a chyn-lywydd Cymdeithas Wyddoniaeth Prydain.

Yn 2002, cafodd yr Athro Darzi ei urddo’n farchog am ei wasanaethau i feddygaeth a llawdriniaeth, ac yn 2007, cafodd ei gyflwyno’n Arglwydd Darzi o Denham i Dŷ’r Arglwyddi yn y DU fel Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Iechyd. Mae ef wedi bod yn aelod o Dra Anrhydeddus Gyfrin Gyngor ei Fawrhydi ers 2009 a dyfarnwyd yr Urdd Teilyngdod iddo yn 2016.

Mwy o fanylion i ddilyn.

Zienkiewicz Lecture 2023