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SUMMARY:Big data and small talk: why we need both - Prof. Nick Steel\, Nor
 wich Medical School\, University of East Anglia
DTSTART:20191129T130000Z
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CONTACT:Rosa Attwood
DESCRIPTION:Alexander Fleming discovered the world's first antibiotic 91 y
 ears ago\, and medicine became a science. Austin Bradford Hill's criteria 
 for causal relationships between exposure and outcome 54 years ago\, follo
 wed by Archie Cochrane's call for doctors to assess the effectiveness of t
 heir treatments\, paved the way for evidence-based healthcare. 8 years ago
 \, Demis Hassabis founded the artificial intelligence company DeepMind. Ar
 tificial intelligence is likely to disrupt healthcare at least as much as 
 the introduction of penicillin or randomised controlled trials. \n\nAt thi
 s seminar Professor Nick Steel will present research findings on the inter
 face between data and individual patient care\, and reflect on the changin
 g role of doctors in the era of big data and AI.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\n
 Nick Steel is Professor of Public Health\, Head of Health Services and Pri
 mary Care Research Group Norwich Medical School\, University of East Angli
 a.\n\nNick’s research interests focus on preventing adverse events and i
 mproving outcomes in people with complex health problems managed in primar
 y care. Current research projects include a study of GPs and people with m
 ultiple conditions setting goals together\, measuring health in older part
 icipants in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing\, using the Global Bu
 rden of Disease Study in England\, analysis of primary care databases (THI
 N and CPRD)\, and primary healthcare for vulnerable adults including refug
 ees.\n\nAfter graduating from Bristol medical school\, he trained in gener
 al practice in Yorkshire\, Australia and New Zealand. Working as a general
  practitioner in the contrasting environments of urban deprivation in West
 er Hailes\, Edinburgh and rural North Norfolk\, he became interested in th
 e different views of patients\, GPs and hospital clinicians about the bala
 nce of benefits and harms from treating raised blood pressure. He went on 
 to train in public health and health policy at the University of Cambridge
  and RAND Health in California as a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy\
 , before returning to the ideal research population of Norfolk.\n\nHe teac
 hes medical students and doctors in training\, and supervises postgraduate
  students and doctors and specialists on the NHS regional public health tr
 aining programme.\n\nFind out more: https://people.uea.ac.uk/n_steel\n\n
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Uni
 versity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge
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