Role: Sandy is the Business Support Administrator, providing administrative support to the Director of the BHF Data Science Centre and BHF DSC Health Data Scientist Team. Credentials: Sandy has been an Administrator and Executive assistant in a variety of small… Read more
Archives: Team members
Beth Friel
Role: Beth is a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Manager for the BHF Data Science Centre, leading on the delivery of the PPIE Strategy to ensure meaningful involvement and engagement of patients and the public to shape and influence… Read more
Laura Sherlock
Role: Laura is an Early Career Health Data Scientist at the BHF Data Science Centre. Credentials:Prior to joining the BHF Data Science Centre, Laura undertook a PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where she leveraged data from clinical trials and… Read more
Miranda Scanlon
Miranda is a member of the BHF Data Science Centre Public Advisory Group and contributes to the Kidney Data Science Catalyst. Miranda has been a kidney patient all her adult life, diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease at 18. She had a living… Read more
Jessica Farrow
Role:Jessica is the Communications Manager for the Centre, leading on communications and events around cutting-edge cardiovascular research, to tell the compelling story of the Centre’s impact.Credentials:Jessica previously worked in the Research Communications team at Diabetes UK. She led on Diabetes… Read more
Kate McAllister
Kate was the BHF Data Science Centre Communications Manager. Previously, Kate was a PR and Media Manager for Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Kate has a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Cambridge and worked in industry… Read more
Poh-choo Pang
Poh-Choo is a business strategist and life science innovator, with specialisation in real-world data, drug discovery, and translational sciences. Poh brings a unique perspective to the BHF Data Science Centre Public Advisory Group. Her expertise lies in business development within the… Read more
Samira Bell
Role: Dr Samira Bell is the BHF Data Science Centre Associate Director and Theme Lead for the Kidney Data Science Catalyst.Funded by Kidney Research UK in partnership with the BHF, the overarching aim of the Kidney Data Catalyst… Read more
Amy Hodgkinson
Role: Amy was a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement manager at HDR UK working across several areas, including the BHF Data Science Centre, to support the meaningful involvement and engagement of the public and patients in data research.Credentials:Prior to… Read more
Phyllis Windsor
Dr Phyllis Windsor MBE qualified in medicine from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London in 1977, spending four decades working in the NHS, with 28 years as a Consultant Clinical Oncologist in Dundee. She has been active in… Read more
Amy Coombe
Role: Amy is a Research Project Coordinator working across our areas of work. Credentials:Prior to joining HDR UK, Amy was working as a Project Support Administrator for an operational research and data science research team based within the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South… Read more
Frank Harris
Frank is a member of the BHF Data Science Centre Public Advisory Group and contributes to the Stroke Data Science Catalyst. Frank experienced a Stroke two years ago and joined the Stroke Association as public representative. He has recently joined the BHF… Read more
Matthew Tosh
Matthew is a science communicator who has lived-experience of congenital heart disease. He loves empowering researchers to communicate their work effectively and engage with the public. He has coached early-career researchers and students around the world, most notably with FameLab… Read more
Kay Murray
Kay has been living with Type 2 Diabetes for over 12 years, and scores high on ‘at risk category of cardiovascular disease. She is an advocate of a more holistic approach to health problems and interested in finding links between… Read more
Julian Meldrum
Seen here posing with medals received at a Masters swim gala hosted at the London Aquatics Centre in June 2023 by a club he helped to set up 30 years earlier. This marked a return to competitive sport after 5… Read more
Laurence Humphrey-Davies
Laurence is a retired International Oil-Broker (1974 to 2014). In 2020, he joined the British Society for Heart Failure, Patient Advisory Panel and is the current Chair. He is a member of the BHF Data Science Centre Public Advisory… Read more
Mustapha Koriba
Mustapha is a member of the British Heart Foundation (BHF), RSAG (Research Strategy Advisory Group) and has contributed to several BHF projects. Until recently, he ran his own International Consultancy business in Strategy, Operations and Leadership. Prior to this, he… Read more
Melissa Webb
Role: Melissa is a Communications and Administrative Assistant responsible for supporting the BHF Data Science Centre team in their day-to-day activities. Credentials: Melissa has been an administrator in both the private sector and the third sector over the past five… Read more
Jadene Lewis
Role: Jadene is an Early Career Health Data Scientist providing data management and curation support with the national Trusted Research Environments (TREs). Credentials: Prior to joining the BHF Data Science Centre, Jadene worked within the NHS and the PIONEER Data… Read more
William Whiteley
Role: Professor Will Whiteley is the BHF Data Science Centre Associate Director and Theme Lead for the Stroke Data Science Catalyst. The focus of Will’s theme is to enable approved research teams to use data from… Read more
Ross Forsyth
Role: Ross is a Research Project Manager at BHF Data Science Centre working across our areas of work. Credentials: Ross has worked as a Research Project Manager for the last 10 years in a… Read more
Matt Sydes
Role: Professor Matt Sydes is Head of Data-Driven Clinical Trials at NHS England. Matt was the BHF Data Science Centre Associate Director and Theme Lead for Data Enabled Clinical Trials. Credentials: Matt is responsible for co-leading… Read more
Annette Jackson
Role: Annette was Executive Assistant to Professor Cathie Sudlow, former director of the BHF Data Science Centre, and Professor Steffen Petersen, Interim Director of the BHF Data Science Centre. Annette provided administrative support to the Director and BHF DSC Health… Read more
Peter Rogers
Peter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1966. His business career was spent in business unit management with responsibility for teams delivering technology projects to banks and airlines. Since then, he has had a number of expert by experience… Read more
Margaret Rogers
Margaret’s experiences include various healthcare professional, public health and health services researcher roles. Whilst she acknowledges that the re-use of health and administrative data is vital to improving the health and wellbeing of the population, she believes that this… Read more
Mike Molete
Mike has been a patient champion and a carer ambassador for over 10 years. He is a fervent advocate of ethnicity, diversity and inclusion of the underrepresented and often marginalised groups of our society. He is passionate about participating and… Read more
Anwar Gariban
Anwar retired from the pharmaceutical industry after thirty years of service. He worked in sales and marketing and also have experience in training. After retirement he joined the Medway School of Pharmacy as a member of the lay advisory… Read more
Suzannah Power
Suzannah has many years’ Board level experience. She started her career in political research and has since worked in marketing, customer research and international education. She has been an advisor on many NICE Guideline Development Groups and a patient… Read more
John Walsh OBE
John is a retired chartered engineer who survived a heart attack in 1995. As a result of John’s experience, he became interested in cardiology and joined his local Community Health Council. In 2003 he was elected as the chair of… Read more
Steven Wambua
Role: Steven is a PhD student. He applies sequence clustering methods to understand care trajectories where multiple conditions occur within the same patient over time. Credentials: Prior to joining the HDR UK PhD programme, he worked as a statistician at… Read more
James Farrell
Role: James is an Early Career Health Data Scientist and provides data management and curation support within Trusted Research Environments (TREs). Credentials: Prior to joining the BHF Data Science Centre, James was a postdoctoral data scientist at the Centre… Read more
Mehrdad Mizani
Role: Mehrdad is a Health Data Scientist in the BHF Data Science Centre. Credentials: He has a background in computer engineering with a PhD in Medical Informatics from METU University Ankara. Before joining the HDR UK, Mehrdad… Read more
Sarah Lessels
Role: Sarah is a Senior Operations Programme Manager working across our areas of work. Credentials: Prior to joining HDR UK, Sarah was a Principal Trial Manager within the Scottish Clinical Trials Research Unit. This involved working on all aspects… Read more
Spiros Denaxas
Role: Professor Spiros Denaxas is the BHF Data Science Centre Associate Director and Theme Lead for Defining Disease. The focus of Spiros’s theme is to create computer-friendly information to better define cardiovascular disease. These are added… Read more
Reecha Sofat
Role: Professor Reecha Sofat is the BHF Data Science Centre Associate Director and Theme Lead for Enhancing Cohorts. The focus of Reecha’s theme is facilitating the linkage of large, ‘omics-rich’ cohorts to electronic health records to… Read more
Steffen Petersen
Role: Professor Steffen Petersen is Director (Interim) of the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre which aims to enable data-led research to improve heart and circulatory health. Steffen works closely with the Centre’s Director and the Associate Directors to… Read more
Samaira Khan
Role: Samaira is the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Manager for the BHF Data Science Centre and leads the implementation of the PPIE Strategy to work in partnership with patients, the public, NHS, researchers and clinicians. Credentials:… Read more
Jemma Austin
Role: Jemma was a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Officer supporting the Centre’s operations team and PPIE manager, ensuring patient and public voice was embedded in our work at all stages. Credentials: Prior to joining HDR UK, Jemma was… Read more
Helen Grice
Helen is a public and patient contributor for the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre and has been involved with the Smartphone and Wearables programme on a patient advisory steering group since May 2021. She joined the project because… Read more
Nicola Monk
Nicola is a Voluntary Partnerships Manager for NHS England and a specialist in the involvement of volunteers in the work of the NHS and in children’s charities having previously worked for the NSPCC and Barnardo’s. She is passionate about… Read more
Alan Keys
Alan’s background is in insurance management. He has over 18 years PPI experience, mainly cardiovascular. This includes the Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project Domain Expert Group, Care Quality Commission hospital inspector, Clinical Commissioning Group Governing Body, Council of British… Read more
Lynn Laidlaw
I am passionate about involving patients in research, not just as participants but in governance and decision-making processes to shape health research from the outset through co-production. I have extensive experience working with multiple organisations and research teams across the… Read more
Tim Chico
Role: Professor Time Chico is the BHF Data Science Centre Associate Director and Theme Lead for Smartphones and Wearables. The focus of Tim’s theme is exploring how data from apps and wearables, linked to other… Read more
Rouven Priedon
Role: Rouven Priedon is a Research Project Manager at the BHF Data Science Centre. He oversees the CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT Consortium, which lies within our Whole Population Data area of work. Read more
John Nolan
Role: John’s role is to ensure the availability and utility of data within national Trusted Research Environments (TREs), through overseeing the provision of essential data management and curation. Credentials: John has experience of working with health data for research, as… Read more
Tom Bolton
Role: Tom Bolton is a Senior Health Data Scientist in the BHF Data Science Centre. Tom works to ensure the availability and utility of data within national Trusted Research Environments, through overseeing the provision of essential data management and curation. Read more
Lars Murdock
Role: Lars’ role as a Health Data Scientist is to provide essential data management and curation to support research within the Trusted Research Environments (TREs) for each nation within the UK. Credentials: Prior to joining the BHF Data Science… Read more
Fionna Chalmers
Role: Fionna is an Early Career Health Data Scientist providing data management and curation support within the national Trusted Research Environments. Credentials: Prior to joining the BHF Data Science Centre, Fionna was a data analyst for Generation Scotland, a… Read more
Zach Welshman
Role: Zach’s role is to provide essential data management and curation to support research within the national Trusted Research Environments. Credentials: Most recently, Zach worked at DATA-CAN, the HDR UK Research Hub for Cancer and at NHS Digital. As a… Read more
Anna Stevenson
Role: Anna is an Early Career Health Data Scientist, providing data management and curation support within the national Trusted Research Environments. Credentials: Prior to joining the BHF Data Science Centre, Anna was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of… Read more
Ewan Pearson
Role: Professor Ewan Pearson is the BHF Data Science Centre Associate Director and Theme Lead for the Diabetes Data Science Catalyst. The focus of Ewan’s theme is to support research of relevance to both diabetes and… Read more
Michelle Williams
Role: Professor Michelle Williams is the BHF Data Science Centre Associate Director and Theme Lead for Imaging. The focus of Michelle’s theme is to explore better use of unstructured data: addressing the challenges of accessing,… Read more
Angela Wood
Role: Professor Angela Wood is the BHF Data Science Centre Associate Director and Theme Lead for Whole Population Data and plays a leading role in the BHF Data Science Centre’s CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT Consortium. Read more
Lynn Morrice
Role: Lynn is the Operations Director for the BHF Data Science Centre and leads the implementation of the centre’s strategy to improve the public’s cardiovascular health through the power of large-scale data and advanced analytics across the UK. Credentials: Prior… Read more
Jackie MacArthur
Role: Doctor Jackie MacArthur is Senior Scientific Programme Manager in the BHF Data Science Centre. Jackie works to deliver the Centre’s objectives; to improve the public’s cardiovascular health through the power of large-scale data and advanced analytics across the… Read more
Cathie Sudlow
Role: Professor Cathie Sudlow was inaugural Director of the BHF Data Science Centre from January 2020 to August 2024. Cathie was Chief Scientist and Deputy Director of Health Data Research UK, the UK’s institute for health data science and Director… Read more