NHS-R/NHS.pycom Conference 2023 – Ticket for in-person attendance on Tuesday 17th October 2023

Conferences

Conference Information

We are very excited to announce that the NHS-R Community will be hosting its annual conference, including pre-conference online talks, online workshops and the main conference, during October 2023. The main conference will be a hybrid event enabling both delegates and speakers to attend in person at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham UK or online via Zoom link.

The main conference will take place over the following dates and times:

Tuesday 17^th October 2023 – 9:00am until 5:00pm (UK time)
Wednesday 18^th October 2023 – 9:00am until 4:15pm (UK time).

Please may we kindly ask that you register to attend each day of the conference separately.

Conference Content

The aim of the NHS-R Community is to promote the use of R (+ other open source solutions) to the health and care sector.

We are currently in the process of confirming the conference schedule – watch this space for updates!

Time	Speaker	Presentation Type	Presentation Title
09:00		Welcome/Sign-in
09:25	Chris Beeley	Welcome Speech	Welcome!
09:30	Brian Tarran	Keynote Talk	Forging community links: NHS-R, the Royal Statistical Society and Real World Data Science
10:00	Zoe Hancox	Lightning Talk	Using Hypergraphs to model multimorbidity
10:10	Richard Wood	Lightning Talk	Near real-time prediction of hospital performance metrics using scalable random forest algorithm
10:20	Divya Balasubramanian	Lightning Talk	Forecasting emergency department admissions for operational decision support in the NHS
10:30	Daniel Weiand	Plenary Talk	Predicting Antimicrobial Resistance Rates using R and Sharing the Results in the form of Parameterised Reports produced using Quarto
10:50	Ferran Espuny-Pujol	Lightning Talk	Survival hazard estimation using B-splines: R package development and learning sharing
11:00		Refreshment Break
11:25	Robin Lovelace	Keynote Talk	Data Science for Active Travel Planning: streets, schemes and networks
11:55	Toni Stansfield	Lightning Talk	Linking hospitalisation and climate data to explore the health impacts of heat waves
12:05	Martina Fonseca	Lightning Talk	Portable and interactive geographic mappings with Leaflet – supporting rapid stakeholder requests
12:15	Paul Carroll	Lightning Talk	Process Mining to Generate Healthcare Pathways
12:25	To Be Confirmed	Plenary Talk	To Be Confirmed
12:45	Helen Young	Lightning Talk	Discrete Event Simulation as a right-sizing tool for daycase unit design
12:55	Andy Poole	Plenary Talk	Urgent Care Transformation – How to develop and evaluate what if scenario’s collaboratively and openly
13:15		Lunch Break
14:15	To Be Confirmed	Plenary Talk	To Be Confirmed
14:35	To be Confirmed	Plenary Talk	To Be Confirmed
14:55	Milan Wiedemann	Lightning Talk	Testing the data extraction logic of Electronic Health Records using OpenSAFELY
15:05	Steve Piper	Lightning Talk	Using R to automate the generation of performance matrixes from Fingertips
15:15	Richard Wilson	Lightning Talk	Generating outcome framework slide packs for ICS
15:25		Refreshment Break
15:50	YiWen Hon	Lightning Talk	Pxtextmining: Open coding, open working in qualitative patient feedback analysis
16:00	Nicola Farthing	Lightning Talk	R dashboard design for a varied customer base
16:10	Jacqueline Grout	Lightning Talk	Getting started with collaboration on GitHub: Crunching webinar attendance data with R and Shiny
16:20	Ozayr Mohammed	Lightning Talk	Evidence Mapping in Shiny
16:30	Neil Bray	Lightning Talk	Strategies to reduce cognitive load when coding
16:40	Humaira Hussein	Lightning Talk	Comparative efficacy of type 2 diabetes treatments in randomised controlled trials using network meta-analysis methods
16:50	Chris Beeley	Thank You and Short Closing Speech	Thank you!
17:00		End of Conference
17:15	Chris Beeley	Networking Session	‘Speed Dating’ Inspired Networking Session
18:00		End of Post-conference Activity

Ticket Information

By registering for this event ticket, you will qualify for the following:

Attendance to the full-day event at Edgbaston Stadium
Access to additional in-person activities (to be announced shortly!)
Food and beverages will be available at the venue. Please note that all catering provided as part of the conference will be vegan or vegetarian. Please notify us of any specific dietary requirements via nhs.rcommunity@nhs.net.

Accessibility

Accessibility information can be found here:

Please note that we have not been involved in the verification of the information recorded on the websites listed above.

If you require any additional information or have any accessibility requests, please do not hesitate to contact the Conference Team via nhs.rcommunity@nhs.net.

Additional Conference Related Activities

Please note that the conference will also include the following separate activities:

A series of online workshops from Thursday 28th September 2023 until Friday 06th October 2023
A series of online conference talks from Monday 09th October 2023 until Wednesday 11th October 2023
A post-conference ‘speed dating’ inspired networking session to provide community member’s with an opportunity to be introduced to other event attendees in the afternoon of Tuesday 17^th October 2023 (in-person attendance required)
A post-conference social in the evening of Tuesday 17^th October 2023 (in-person attendance required).

Event Speakers

Brian Tarran

Keynote Speaker

I am a writer and editor with 20 years of experience covering the research and data space. I have worked for the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) for the past 8 years, and was editor of Significance Magazine (a joint publication of the RSS, the American Statistical Association and the Statistical Society of Australia) prior to the launch of Real World Data Science. I am a former editor of Research-Live.com and was launch editor of Impact magazine, both published by the Market Research Society.

Robin Lovelace

Keynote Speaker

Robin Lovelace is Associate Professor of Transport Data Science at the Leeds Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) and Head of Data and Digital at the government agency Active Travel England. Robin specializes in data science and geocomputation, with a focus on developing geographic methods applied to modeling transport systems, active travel, and decarbonisation. Robin has experience not only researching but deploying transport models in inform sustainable policies and more effective use of transport investment, including as Lead Developer of the Propensity to

Cycle Tool (see www.pct.bike), the basis of strategic cycle network plans nationwide. Robin has led numerous data science projects for organizations ranging from the Department for Transport to the World Bank.
Robin is author of popular open source software packages including R packages stplanr, and stats19. He has authored three reproducible and open source textbooks, Microsimulation with R, Efficient R Programming, and Geocomputation with R.

Event Type

Conferences

Event Date

October 17, 2023

Event Time

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Event Venue

In-person, Edgbaston Stadium, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B5 7QU

Event Capacity

200

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