Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Midlands

Director

Professor Simon Ball, Director of Digital Healthcare, University Hospital Birmingham

Associate Directors

• Professor Theodoros Arvanitis Professor of e-health innovation and Head of Research at the Institute of Digital Healthcare, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick
• Professor Anthony Brookes, Professor of Bioinformatics & Genomics, Department of Genetics & Genome Biology University of Leicester
• Professor Georgios Gkoutos, Professor of Clinical Bioinformatics, College of Medical & Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham
• Dr Phil Quinlan, Director, UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre, Department of Computer Science University of Nottingham

Partners

• University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
• University of Birmingham
• University of Leicester
• University of Nottingham
• University of Warwick

Research initiatives

• Representing, integrating and analysing patient level healthcare data for discovery and personalised care
  Principal Investigator: Professor Georgios Gkoutos
• Making diverse healthcare and biobank data discoverable
  Principal Investigator: Professor Anthony Brookes
• Connecting the environmental with the individual to improve health of populations
  Principal Investigator: Professor Matt Keeling