NHS-R/NHS.pycom Online Conference Talks 2023 – Ticket for virtual attendance on Monday 09th 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 online conference talks will be hosted via Zoom and take place over the following dates and times:

Monday 09th October 2023 – 1:00pm until 4:10pm (UK time)
Tuesday 10th October 2023 – 1:30pm until 4:40pm (UK time)
Wednesday 11th October 2023 – 1:00pm until 4:10pm (UK time).

Please may we kindly ask that you register to attend each day of the conference talks 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 designing the conference schedule – watch this space for updates!

Time	Speaker	Presentation Type	Presentation Title
13:00	Chris Beeley	Welcome Speech	Welcome!
13:05	Gabriel Agbobli	Plenary Talk	Explainable AI in Healthcare: Interpreting and Validating Machine Learning Models in R
13:25	Dr. Tillman Weyde	Plenary Talk	Foundations of Programming, Statistics, and Machine Learning
13:45	Tom Michaelis	Plenary Talk	Using Machine Learning models to uncover healthcare inequalities
14:05	Ioanna Thoma	Lightning Talk	Differential accuracy amongst demographic groups in prediction of emergency hospital admissions in Scotland
14:15	Lydia Briggs	Lightning Talk	Predicting patient pre-med requirements with R
14:25	To Be Confirmed	Lightning Talk	To be Confirmed
14:35	James Jones	Lightning Talk	Creating a faecal immunochemical test (FIT) symptomatic colorectal cancer (CRC) pathway data visualisation tool.
14:45	Sally Thompson	Lightning Talk	System Dynamics in health and social care – trying to fit square data into round models
14:55		Refreshment Break
15:05	Jake Tufts	Lightning Talk	The primary care cost of Long Covid
15:15	To Be Confirmed	Lightning Talk	To Be Confirmed
15:25	Richard Wilson	Lightning Talk	Understanding hospital associated mortality using SHMI for an ICS
15:35	Chris Mainey	Plenary Talk	Modelling count data: what is ‘overdispersion’ and why should you care?
15:55	Simon Wellesley-Miller	Lightning Talk	Impact on the Waiting List from Optimising Elective Care Pathways using Process Mining and Discrete Event Simulation
16:05	Chris Beeley	Thank You and Short Closing Speech	Thank you!
16:10		End of Online Conference Talks

Ticket Information

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

Attendance to the full event virtually.

Accessibility

A Zoom link will be provided to you to attend the conference talks virtually. Please note that subtitles are likely to be generated by Zoom thus, may encounter some issues converting technical language and acronyms to text.

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
The NHS-R/NHS.pycom Conference 2023 at Edgbaston Stadium on Tuesday 17th October 2023 and Wednesday 18th October 2023 (can be attended in-person or virtually)
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 Type

Conferences

Event Date

October 9, 2023

Event Time

1:00 pm - 4:10 pm

Event Venue

Online

Event Registration

Only authorised members can sign up to this event, please log in first to register.

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