Founded in 1900, the University of Birmingham (UoB) is one of the leading research-based universities in the United Kingdom; the breadth of research expertise is a distinctive characteristic of the University. The last UK Research Excellence Framework 2021, confirmed that 92.5% of the University’s research has global reach, meaning it is recognised internationally in terms of its originality, significance, and rigour. Birmingham is 90th in the 2022 QS World University Rankings, cementing our position in the top 100 universities globally and placing us 10h out of the 24 Russell Group universities to feature in the ranking. The University of Birmingham has extensive experience of EU collaboration and partnerships and in-depth expertise of Framework Programme matters including management, reporting, and auditing. The University has been involved in 315 FP7 projects, 358 projects in H2020 and 53 projects in Horizon Europe, including projects in negotiation; it is ranked 18th for project participation amongst Universities in FP7, according to the Commission’s final FP7 monitoring report (2015).

UoB’s role to CAREPATH will be: in WP1, UoB will lead task 1.3 in terms of Quality Assurance, Risk Management and Data Management. In WP4, UoB will lead Task 4.2 of the interoperability framework and Task 4.8 Integration, Deployment and Maintenance of CAREPATH Solution. UoB is strongly involved in WPs 2, 5, 6, and 8, while it will have some involvement to WP7. In terms of WP8, UoB, being an academic institution, has a world-leading track record and experience in scientific/academic publications and will lead dissemination efforts (T8.3).

The Digital Health Technology Research Group (DHT) is part of the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Birmingham. DHT’s objective is to enhance the quality, safety, accessibility, and productivity of healthcare by supporting the implementation of digital solutions for the public, patients and professionals, underpinned by rigorous, multi-disciplinary research, development and evaluation. DHT has an 8-strong team including software engineers and health informaticians. DHT brings strength in the areas of technological solutions of connectivity within and across domains, building databases and applications, and developing training for end-users. It has an established track record of both national grants and NHS commissioned work (e.g., Electronic Healthcare Record Systems Connectivity, Semantic Interoperability and Integration of Healthcare Data, Secondary Clinical Research Databases for coordination of Clinical Trials, National Functional Imaging Database for the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group, etc.), as well as a strong participation on number of EU grants; including currently as co-ordinator of a the C3-Cloud Horizon 2020 research programme.

Professor Theodoros N. Arvanitis

Chair of Digital Health Innovation and Director of The Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, University of Birmingham and Associate Director of Health Data Research UK (HDR UK – Midlands). His research interests include biomedical engineering, neuroimaging and health informatics (clinical systems interoperability and clinical decision support), with strong academic and industrial experience in software engineering for healthcare. Theodoros is University of Birmingham’s Principal Investigator for CAREPATH.

Dr George Despotou

George is an Associate Professor in digital health systems and assured IT systems at University of Birmingham, a Chartered Engineer (MIET) and a European Engineer (FEANI). His research interests include complex systems integration, safety and security assurance, healthcare systems modelling, clinical decision support, health analytics, interoperability of healthcare systems, and explainable and assured AI. His role in CAREPATH includes clinical decision support and safety assurance.

Dr Sarah N. Lim Choi Keung

Sarah is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Informatics, with a Computer Science background and has worked in the digital health and health data science areas. Sarah’s research interests are the development and evaluation of tools and solutions for supporting healthcare stakeholders, and the effective use and reuse of healthcare data, in particular, interoperability and standardisation within and across healthcare and clinical research domains.

Mohammed Omar Khan

Omar is the Lead Software Engineer at the Institute of Digital Healthcare. He has extensive experience in applying rigorous software and biomedical engineering practices to the healthcare sector. Throughout his career, Omar has been responsible for all aspects of the product development life-cycle, including design, development, testing, implementation, administration and maintenance. Omar will assist on the design and deployment of the Interoperability solutions in CAREPATH.

Dr Helen Muir

Helen Muir has 15 years of working in Higher Education managing departments, and leading on the development and management of multi-million pound research portfolios, and university-wide and departmental strategies, systems and processes. Her doctorate investigated factors influencing the higher incidence of pedestrian road traffic casualties in the most socio-economically deprived areas. Her role on CAREPATH is to manage the University of Birmingham budget and resources.