I am a senior Data Scientist in the UK National Health Service (NHS). I lead an analytical team at North Central London ICB. I have experience in patient safety, public health, statistical and machine learning models, clinical networks and acute trust informatics. I have led the Patient Safety Measure team at NHS England and the establishment of a data science team at Healthcare Evaluation Data (HED), a national NHS analytics service from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

I completed my PhD in applied statistics and machine learning at UCL in 2020, focussing on methods for analysing incident reporting data in the NHS using multi-level models, Generalized Additive Models, tree and random forest methods and natural language processing (NLP). I also have a strong interest in training and teaching. I'm a senior fellow of the NHS-R community and member of their technical advisory group.

I’m particularly into R, but skilled in SQL and several other languages. Skilling up in Python at the moment.

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