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HDR UK Scotland and the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) will be hosting a joint webinar this September!
This webinar will give an introduction to both the CSO and the CSO Innovation Fellowship Programme. Attendees will hear presentations from the CSO team, along with a talk from a current Innovation Fellow about their research in synthetic population data. Find out more and register for the webinar online.
We will hear from the following speakers:
Katie Wilde (Chair), co-director of HDR UK Scotland, Katie will provide an introduction to the webinar and discuss the agenda for the event.
Professor David Lowe, Clinical Lead for Innovation, In this Presentation, David Lowe will provide a short introduction covering the CSO strategic vision.
Sean Anderson, Senior Policy and Programme Manager, 'Chief Scientist Office Overview and Innovation Fellowships'. In this presentation, Sean Anderson will give a short overview of the Chief Scientist Office and the CSO Innovation Fellowship Programme.
Chris Sainsbury, Innovation Fellow, 'Generating Conditional Synthetic Data for Trial Emulations'. In this presentation, Chris Sainsbury will discuss his current research. Here, he is using a machine learning methodologies (generative adversarial neural networks, and a conditional variational autoencoder) to produce synthetic populations of individuals from routinely collected Electronic Health Record data. From this, the effect size of therapeutic interventions of interest can be estimated.
Following the presentations, there will be an opportunity for a Q&A with the speakers.
*Please be aware this webinar will be recorded.
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