R in Health Sector

!!!! (please, make sure you register for this event at Eventbrite page https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/r-in-health-sector-tickets-63754394109. Registrations at Meetup.com page only won't be considered) !!!!

R Ladies London have a pleasure to announce a special meetup that this time will revolve around R in Healthcare. We have some pretty amazing speakers lined up with equally amazing hosts and the venue! So get ready for some serious learning about how R can and is used in the Health sector.

AGENDA

18:00 - 18:30 - Doors open, food, networking.

18:30 - 18:45 - Hotels.com and R-ladies intro.

18:50 - 19:10 - Fiona Grimm, Health Foundation: Using R and Shiny to track winter pressures in the NHS

19:15 - 19:30 - Zoë Turner: NHS Clinical Development Unit: Using R in Mortality Surveillance within a mental and general health secondary care provider

19:35 - 19:50 - Lori Edwards Suarez: NHS Clinical Development Unit: Learning & Using R to support front end staff

19:50 - 20:10 - Ania Kosicka: Department of Health and Social Care: TBA

About Fiona

Fiona is a Senior Data Analyst at the Health Foundation, where she works on research projects that use linked patient data to get new insight into the quality of health and care. She has a PhD in biochemistry and likes to experiment with data visualisation in R and Shiny.

About Zoë

Zoë has worked for 6 years as an analyst in the NHS and is currently a Senior Information Analyst at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, who provide general and mental health services. Her main technical language is SQL but she has been learning R for just over a year. She has a degree in Philosophy and curates the Twitter account @AppliedInfoNott.

About Lori

Lori has worked as an analyst for nearly 2 years at Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. Her role is to support Liaison Psychiatry across the county. There are two clinical aspects to this. Emergency Liaison for acute trust patients (ED & Wards) and Outpatient appointments for the overlap of Mental & Physical Health. Lori's background is a master’s degree in Bioinformatics with Molecular Genetics, where R was taught alongside Perl, SQL and Java.

About Ania

Ania works as Head of Parliamentary Business, Intelligence and Research within the Workforce Directorate at the Department of Health. Prior to this she worked as Head of Health at the Centre of Workforce Intelligence which specialised in long-term NHS workforce planning. Ania has a PhD in endocrinology and her current focus includes looking at best ways, to provide robust evidence to Ministers and, to inform policy decisions.