University of Leicester/ Apollo Healthcare: Improving the Health and Wellbeing of People Through Applied Research

Please register for the sessions of the conference you would like to attend, details of the sessions are as follows:

Tuesday 14 July

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome

Session I Centre for Digital Health and Precision Medicine
UoL Chair: Professor Sir Nilesh Samani
Apollo Chair: Dr Sujoy Kar

10:15 – 10:30 Centre Overview 
Prof Sir Nilesh Samani

10:30 – 11:00 Exemplar Project 1 – AI in Orthopedics
Prof Jit Mangwani & Dr Raju Vaishya

11:00 – 11:30 Exemplar Project 2 – AI in Uterine Cancer
Dr Esther Moss & Dr Rooma Sinha

11:30 - 11:45 Break

11:45 – 12:15 Exemplar Project 3 – Advancing Mesothelioma Management via AI 
Prof Dean Fennell

12:15 – 12:45 AI tools – the long pathway to improving clinical care
Dr Sujoy Kar

12:45– 13:30 Lunch

Session II Current and Future Health Questions
UoL Chair: Professor Kamlesh Khunti
Apollo Chair: TBC

13:30 – 14:00 Ethnicity and Health Inequalities
Dr Daniel Pan, UoL; Prof Ravi Mahajan, Apollo Healthcare
Exploring health gaps between population groups, including those related to ethnicity, culture, wealth, disability, geography and education with a worked example (Total Health).

14:00 – 14:30 Multiple Long-term Conditions
Prof Kamlesh Khunti UoL; Dr Anupam Sibal, Apollo Healthcare
Improving the health, care and safety of the growing number of people with more than one long-term condition.

14:30 – 15:00 Healthy Ageing
Prof Prabhakaran Dorairaj, AIMS; Dr Prasun Chatterjee, Apollo Healthcare
Promoting healthy ageing and perspective of the NIHR Global Health Partnership between UK and India.

15:00 – 15:15 Break

15:15 – 15:45 Environment and Health
Samuel Cai, UoL; Dr Sai Praveen Haranath, Apollo Healthcare
Investigating the impact of the environment on health and health outcomes

15:45 – 16:15 Preventative Health
Prof Sam Seidu, UoL; Dr Shivkumar J, Apollo Healthcare
Exploring one of the NHS three shifts (Treatment to Prevention), including a worked example (ProHealth).

16:15 End of first day

Wednesday 15 July

Session III Future Research Opportunities
UoL Chair: Professor Chris Brightling
Apollo Chair Professor Anupam Sibal

10:00 – 10:45 Cardiovascular – Dr Shivkumar, Dr NN Khanna Apollo Healthcare and Prof Gerry McCann UoL

10:45 – 11:30 Respiratory and Infection – Dr Ravi Mahajan, Dr Sai Praveen Apollo Healthcare and Prof Chris Brightling UoL

11:30 – 11:45 Comfort Break

11:45 – 12:30 Lifestyle and Metabolic – Dr Shree Vidya, Dr Sudhakar, MASLD Team and Prof Tom Yates UoL

12:30 – 13:15 Cancer Prevention – Dr Rooma Sinha, Dr Mukta Mahajan Apollo Healthcare and Prof Jacqui Shaw UoL

13:15 – 13:30 Day 2 Leadership Remarks
Professor Sir Nishan Canagarajah, President and Vice Chancellor, University of Leicester

13:30 – 14:15 Lunch

Session IV Novel Approaches and Health
UoL Chair: Professor Huiyu Zhou,
Apollo Chair: Dr Sujoy Kar

14:15 – 14:45 Machine Learning and Data Engineering
Professor Huiyu Zhou, UoL; Dr Sujoy Kar, Apollo Healthcare
Efficient and appropriate design of future research studies and maximum use of existing evidence, including large-scale linked data resources.

14:45 – 15:15 Translating and Implementing Sustainable Service Improvement
Professor Gregory Maniatopoulos, University of Leicester; Dr Sai Praveen, Apollo  Healthcare
Ensuring that research findings are widely shared with public and partner organisations to improve health and social care with a global perspective.

15:15 – 15:45 Is there any point of AI in Medical Practice?
Gang Xu, Medical Direcor University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Dr Anupam Sibal, Apollo Healthcare
An NHS and Apollo Executive View

Conclusions and Actions
UoL Chair: Professor Chris Brightling
Apollo Chair: Dr Aswin Sayiram

15:45 – 16:15 Wrap Up
Presentation of agreed action points and next steps in collaboration, including opportunities for student and staff exchanges.

16:15 End of conference