Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Waiting for the Revolution
This year's Annual Teddy Chester Lecture will be given by Professor Paul Taylor, Professor of Health Informatics and Head of the Institute of Health Informatics at University College London.
- Event Time
- 11 Nov 17:00 - 11 Nov 18:45
- Event Location
- Alliance Manchester Business School (online also available).
The risks and benefits of applying AI in healthcare
The last 12 years have seen extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence (AI) that have generated even more extraordinary waves of both media hype and venture capital investment.
Healthcare is in some ways an incredibly attractive sector for the application of AI. In other ways it's particularly difficult - the NHS is at once home to the some of the most advanced technology on the planet, and one of the last places still using fax machines.
This event will look at some of the most dramatic moments in the recent history of AI, and at some unsuccessful attempts to introduce it in the NHS. We'll ask:
- Where the field is now
- What we can do to reap the benefits of AI technology, while avoiding some of the risks.
Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor has degrees in Psychology, in Artificial Intelligence and in Medical Physics. He has worked in industry, healthcare and academia. He first worked on the application of AI in healthcare in 1989, using decision support systems to help in the management of chemotherapy protocols - first at the Institut Bergonie in France and then at what was the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK).
He subsequently obtained a PhD on the use of decision support for the interpretation of mammograms. Since 1997 he has worked at UCL. In 2004, he wrote a textbook on health data science: 'From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge'. He is the director of the UCL UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI enabled healthcare.
Teddy Chester lecture
This annual lecture marks the contribution of Teddy Chester, who was the first professor of social administration at the University of Manchester.
From his appointment in the early 1950s, to his retirement in the 1970s he was an influential pioneer in management development, using evidence and research with policy makers, and working with clinical leaders. He was involved in founding and leading the NHS Graduate Training Scheme, and in founding Manchester Business School.
This event will be facilitated by Simon Moralee, Head of the Health Management Group and Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Management, Alliance MBS.
There will be refreshments served from 5pm with the opportunity for networking before the lecture for those attending in person at Alliance MBS.
