Richard Dobson

Role: Senior Programme Committee
Affiliation: Kings College London, UK

Richard Dobson is a Professor of Medical and Bio Informatics, head of Health Informatics at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), and the Farr Institute and UCL BRC. He co-chairs the recently launched Centre for Translational Informatics (www.slam.nhs.uk/about/core-facilities/centre-for-translational-informatics). His research is motivated towards enabling a “panor-omic” view of patients through the integration of genomics data with data derived from patient records, the exposome, social graphs and remote monitoring to develop strategies for P4 medicine, namely, medicine that is precise, predictive, preventative and participatory. The research has required the extensive use of computational approaches as such machine learning, the creation of software tools, development of a hospital development environment and large private cloud infrastructure with safe haven status to enable integration of patient datasets.

The work has led to a rich portfolio of academic collaborations, some key ones include TwinsUK (http://www.twinsuk.ac.uk), HipSci, (http://www.hipsci.org), GENAROAD (http://goo.gl/840zfe), the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (http://www.med.unc.edu/pgc) and The Center for Behavioural Intervention Technologies, Northwestern, Chicago (CBITS; http://goo.gl/ScNIxt).

Industry collaborations include the EU IMI2 RADAR-CNS (radar-cns.org), European Medical Information Framework (EMIF; http://emif.eu/), Kconnect (Kconnect; http://www.kconnect.eu), Janssen, Biogen, GE, SomaLogic (US Biotech; http://www.somalogic.com/), Lilly, Illumina, SAGE Bionetworks (http://sagebase.org/), Ontotext (http://www.ontotext.com/), Pharmidex, Genomics England, InterSystems (http://www.intersystems.com/), Angel (http://www.angelsensor.com/), Intel, IBM, SoftwareAG and FitBit (official partner).