Gwyddoniaeth a Pheirianneg - Faculty of Science and Engineering
SpeakerProfessor the Lord Darzi of Denham OM KBE PC FRS
Speaker's BiographyProfessor Darzi is Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery. He 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 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.
From: 22 Nov 2023, 6 p.m.To: 22 Nov 2023, 7 p.m.
Location: Watch live on Vimeo - Zienkiewicz Lecture, Other
The 2023 Zienkiewicz Lecture will be livestreamed from the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea on Wednesday 22nd November from 6pm.
Guest speaker Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham OM KBE PC FRS, will deliver a lecture entitled ‘‘Health Care Transformation through Science and Technology’.
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.
Contact: Sam Board (Email: zienkiewicz-lecture@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 3691
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