Child Health AI Network – NIHR HRC in Paediatrics and Child Health

THEME

CHILD HEALTH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK

THE NEED

There are currently no established jobs or well-defined infrastructure to integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) into the NHS environment, despite it having extensive potential benefit for both patients and clinical teams.

Recent NHS and government commissioned reviews have therefore identified the need for NHS Trusts to develop capacity in the NHS to utilise data to drive decision-making and to create platforms/resources to utilise AI/ML.

FOCUS

The Child Health Artificial Intelligence Network (CHAIN) theme will support and drive AI/ML solutions at four levels:

Project management, including working across the other four HRC themes to identify a specific area for development of AI /ML research.
AI/ML testbed, based at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for Children.
Creating infrastructure, including bespoke analytics for clinical and operational projects as well as the development of standardised tooling/reporting/dashboards.
Patient and public involvement and engagement, including the recently established digital healthcare inequalities steering group at GOSH for Children.

This theme cross-cuts across our other themes to ensure that AI/ML is supported and developed across our portfolio of projects where required.

CASE STUDIES

Coming soon!

TEAM

PROF ANDREW TAYLOR

THEME LEAD

Professor Andrew Taylor is the Director of Innovation at GOSH, responsible for the Digital Research, Innovation & Virtual Environments (DRIVE) unit, the Cell & Gene Therapy manufacturing facility, and a new Paediatric Innovation hub.

He has held university and hospital leadership and management roles over the last decade and was the operational lead for GOSH during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.

Clinically, he is an expert in cardiovascular imaging and has established the Centre for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging at GOSH.

PROF NEIL SEBIRE

DEPUTY THEME LEAD

Professor Neil Sebire is Professor of Pathology and Chief Research Information Officer at GOSH for Children. Neil was the inaugural national chief clinical data officer at Health Data Research UK, with a major role in establishing standards for healthcare data interoperability for secondary research use. Neil also runs the GOSH for Children clinical-informatics research programme, and has a particular interest in real world and pragmatic issues relating to health data and informatics.

JESS MCNEILL

PROJECT MANAGER

Jess McNeill is our Project Manager for the Early Life, Mind-Body Integration, and Child Health Artificial Intelligence Network themes. Jess also manages our comms and leads on the Child Health Technology conference. Before joining the team, Jess worked in the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Clinical Research Facility where she managed a portfolio of studies covering infectious diseases, rheumatology, and gastroenterology.

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