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:
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 |
13:30 | Chris Beeley | Welcome Speech | Welcome! |
13:35 | Pablo Leon-Rodenas | Lightning Talk | Create a website using Quarto linking RStudio with GitHub |
13:45 | To Be Confirmed | Keynote Talk | To Be Confirmed |
14:15 | To Be Confirmed | Lightning Talk | To Be Confirmed |
14:25 | Priyanka Gagneja | Plenary Talk | Unit Testing in R |
14:45 | Refreshment Break | ||
15:05 | John Grimes | Plenary Talk | Querying FHIR and clinical terminology from Python, using Pathling |
15:25 | Dan Schofield | Lightning Talk | Privacy Fingerprint – a proof of concept project exploring privacy risk in unstructured data in healthcare |
15:35 | To Be Confirmed | Lightning Talk | To Be Confirmed |
15:45 | Mia Hatton | Plenary Talk | An introduction to the Cross-Government and Public Sector Data Science Community |
16:05 | Cosima Meyer | Keynote Talk | Building Bridges: Exploring Open-Source Library Development in R and Python |
16:35 | Chris Beeley | Thank You and Short Closing Speech | Thank you! |
16:40 | End of Online Conference Talks |
Ticket Information
By registering for this event ticket, you will qualify for the following:
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:
Conferences
October 10, 2023
1:30 pm - 4:40 pm
Online
Only authorised members can sign up to this event, please log in first to register.