Speaker Profiles
CONFERENCE 2021
Dr Julian Brown
GP and Former Regional Prescribing Lead
Dr. Julian Brown is a General Practitioner in West Norfolk and founder of Eclipse Solutions. His web-based systems are now protecting more than 24 million patients.
He has been a GP for 24 years and has had a special interest in diabetes since 2006. He was the GP Prescribing Lead for Norfolk from 2008-2013 and the Long Term Conditions Lead for West Norfolk CCG from 2013-2015. He is considered one of the leading experts on admission avoidance systems and is researching the improvement of outcomes through automated patient feedback, best practice identification and patient self-manangement plans.
He is passionate about optimising health economics through IT and the utilisation of population health management.
Carol Roberts
Chief Executive Officer, PrescQIPP CIC
Carol Roberts is Director of Strategic Prescribing at Eastern Academic Health Science Network (EAHSN).
Carol Roberts is the lead pharmacist for the East of England Strategic Health Authority having been the Head of Medicines Management at both West Essex PCT and then Waltham Forest PCT. She is passionate about medicines management and has introduced many innovative schemes to enhance medicines management in the East of England.
Professor Yoon K Loke
Professor of Medicine & Pharmacology, UEA.
Dr. Yoon K Loke is Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of East Anglia, and Convenor of the Cochrane Adverse Effects Methods Group. He has extensive experience in conducting systematic reviews of adverse effects and is the lead author of Chapter 19 in the Cochrane Handbook
of Systematic Reviews. His current work is focused on pharmacoepidemiological data and best methods of evaluating harmful effects of healthcare interventions.
Dr. Loke is Chair of the Joint Speciality Committee for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Royal College of Physicians London, and also Regional Speciality Advisor for the Eastern Region.
Dr Tim Ballard
National Clinical Advisor General Practice, online and independent primary medical services
The Care Quality Commission
Tim Ballard is a GP in rural Lancashire. Prior to joining The Care Quality Commission in 2016 he was Vice Chair at the RCGP. Tim had also been a member of Council for 12 years, an RCGP examiner and the lead for the consultation skills module that became the CSA. Tim is National Clinical Advisor for General Practice, online health care and independent primary medical services. He is also passionate about environmental sustainability especially in relation to health and is helping CQC to develop its new strategy in relation to this.
Dr Jeanine Smirl
GP & Protect NoW Clinical Lead
Jeanine trained in London and has been a GP since 1991. She has been an educator and trainer since 1994. Currently she is a GP partner at St Stephens Gate Medical Practice in Norwich with a patient list size of 19,500. She has worked as a clinical adviser for Norfolk & Waveney CCG since 2016 with a special interest in out of hospital care and population health management. She is the Clinical Director of Norwich PCN with a population of 240,000 and a director of OneNorwich Practices Ltd. Due to her leadership roles during the pandemic, Jeanine is one of the nominees for “GP of the Year” in the Primary Care Awards 2021.
During the pandemic she participated in a large-scale digital population health effort led by PSL and the Norfolk & Waveney CCG- “Covid Protect” which supported the vulnerable shielded population. This project which has been evaluated by the Yale School of Public Health and the Eastern Academic Health Science Network (Cambridge UK) and has been short-listed for numerous National Awards. This has led to a host of similar large scale population health projects under the banner of “Protect NoW” across Norfolk & Waveney.
Professor Michael Inouye
Systems Genomics & Population Health, University of Cambridge
Mike grew up in the Seattle area before beginning undergraduate study in 1999 at the University of Washington, where he graduated with BSc’s in biochemistry and economics. As a 19 year-old freshman, Mike began analysing data from the draft Human Genome Project, spending several years doing research in gene finding and protein structure prediction. He continued studying protein structure as a graduate student at UCLA, but returned to genomics in 2005 when he moved to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Cambridge, UK). While at Sanger, Mike completed his PhD with Prof Leena Peltonen and Prof Gert-Jan van Ommen and was heavily involved in the analytics for the first wave of genome-wide association studies as well as large-scale studies integrating multi-omic data. After a postdoc at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (Melbourne, AU), he was recruited to the faculty at the University of Melbourne in 2012 where he built a research program in systems genomics with a focus on clinical and public health applications. In 2017, Mike was recruited to the Baker Institute and the University of Cambridge to set up a lab spanning Australia and the UK that focuses on core areas of systems genomics, including polygenic risk scores, integrated analysis of multi-omics data and development of analytic tools.
Dr Dahai Yu
Senior Research Fellow, School of Medicine, Keele University
Dr. Dahai Yu is a Senior Research Fellow in Chronic Disease Surveillance at Keele University. He has extensive experience
in using both primary and secondary electronic health records for clinical epidemiological studies, population-level heath surveillance, prognostic factors and prognostic models and methodological studies. His current works are focused on pharmacoepidemiological studies using primary care electronic health records linked with secondary care records to evaluate the clinical outcomes of healthcare interventions.
Dr Yu has attracted consultancy and research collaborations nationally and internationally. He has published 70 original peer-reviewed research publications and contributed to £3.0 million grant income.
Emma Cooper
LLM Information Rights Law and Practice, Kafico Ltd.
Emma is an Information Law Consultant that has worked with public sector and private organisations for over 10 years. She is a Data Protection and Freedom of Information practitioner with a passion for integration and information rights. She specializes in the privacy impacts of artificial intelligence in public sector decision making.
Julian Young
Eclipse Operations Lead
Julian worked for 14 years with AstraZeneca within a variety of roles culminating as Commercial and Supply Chain Manager for the UK Marketing Company. He was the Commercial Operations Director for Proteus Digital Health between 2011 and 2015. He has been part of the Prescribing Services Ltd team since 2015 as the operations lead.
Beata Yousaf
Eclipse Clinical Pharmacist
Graduated from University of Hertfordshire and trained at King’s College Hospital, London.
Over 20 years of experience working across different sectors of pharmacy including community, hospital, and primary care.
Currently working as a PCN clinical pharmacist in Lincolnshire and as the clinical pharmacist lead for the new Training Academy.