Independent Advisory Board
Independent Advisory Board provides independent oversight and expert advice on the CDT programme, academic direction, strategy and operations.
![]() (Chair) Sheila M. Bird OBE MA PhD CStat FFPH FRCP (Edin) FMedSci FRSE DSc is a Scottish biostatistician whose assessment of misuse of statistics in BMJ led to statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals. Her doctoral work on non-proportional hazards in breast cancer found application in organ transplantation where beneficial matching was the basis for UK's allocation of cadaveric kidneys for a decade. Bird led the MRC Biostatistical Initiative in support of AIDS/HIV studies in Scotland. Bird also designed the European Union's robust surveillance for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in sheep which revolutionised the understanding of scrapie. Bird served on four working parties of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS). As RSS's vice-president for external affairs (2005–09), she introduced statistical seminars for journalists and the RSS's awards for statistical excellence in journalism. She supported Straight Statistics by contributing over 100 articles, many on H1N1 pandemic influenza, others on military fatality-rates in Afghanistan by nationality and cause. Bird led the RSS's campaign for legislation to end the late registration of inquest deaths in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Bird was appointed OBE in 2011 for services to social statistics. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012. In 2018, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. |
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![]() Gerald Lip is the Clinical Director for Breast Screening in the North East of Scotland and the Chief Investigator in the mammography artificial intelligence project in the Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Diagnostics in Scotland. He sits on the Royal College of Radiology Informatics committee, on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Doctoral Training for Biomedical AI in Edinburgh University and is a scientific advisor to the National Covid Chest Imaging Database. A graduate of Trinity College Medicine, along with his medical degree he also qualified with an MSc in Health Informatics and completed his radiology training in Aberdeen. He is an honorary senior clinical lecturer in the University of Aberdeen. Dr Lip has published and spoken on topics nationally and internationally such as patient engagement, innovation in breast imaging techniques quality assurance and safety in breast AI. |
Fiona Reddington is Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships at Our Future Health UK. Fiona helped to establish Our Future Health in 2019 as our Interim Chief Operating Officer before taking responsibility for building our partnerships across the NHS, charities, and industry. She previously spent over ten years at Cancer Research UK where she was responsible for research portfolios in clinical trials, population research, prevention and early diagnosis. She holds a PhD in Neurophysiology from Kings College London (UMDS). |
Samuel Kaski is a Professor of AI in the University of Manchester and Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. In Manchester he is Research Director of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute for Health Technology, and in Helsinki leads the Finnish Centre for Artificial Intelligence FCAI and ELLIS Unit Helsinki. He is an ELLIS Fellow and Turing Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Samuel has broad interests in probabilistic machine learning, with applications especially in user interaction, health and biology. |
Paul Campbell is a clinician with more than 2 decades of clinical experience across a wide variety of disciplines. He is s the Clinical Director for eHealth at NHS National Services Scotland. He is the Honorary Secretary and a Council member at the UK Faculty of Clinical Informatics. |