In this lecture, Prof Dan Lasserson will describe the concept of, and evidence for, delivering acute medical care in the place that patients call home. Prof Lasserson runs an acute hospital at home service from the Geriatric Medicine department at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and is a Past President of the UK Hospital at Home Society. With advances in diagnostic and monitoring technology, more patients could be assessed and treated without any conveyance to hospital if that is their choice. Drawing on his recent research based at Warwick University Medical School and presentation of clinical cases he has managed, we will see how patients with higher acuity medical problems and complexity can be given a care pathway that is personalised as well as delivering key processes of healthcare at home.

 

Lecturer Spotlight:
Dan Lasserson trained in Medicine in London after a Philosophy and Natural Sciences degree in Cambridge. He undertook training in acute hospital medicine with research posts in neurology and stroke medicine in London and then completed academic training in primary care in Oxford, examining the interface between specialists and generalists in the delivery of acute stroke and transient ischaemic attack services.
After a Clinical Lectureship in Primary Care in Oxford, Dan worked in both general practice and acute medicine and working with both an acute trust and community trust set up a community acute assessment unit which won the Guardian Healthcare Innovation Award for Service Delivery in 2013.
Prior to his move to Birmingham, Dan developed a new clinical role as a Senior Interface Physician working across the interface of primary and secondary care in acute medicine whilst undertaking research supported by the BRC and CLAHRC in Oxford. He was the Clinical Lead for Diagnostics and Pathways in the Oxford Academic Health Science Network and has progressed the use of point-of-care diagnostics to support change in healthcare delivery.
He now leads the Acute Care Interfaces Theme of the NIHR ARC West Midlands and the Acute Ambulatory Care and Future Hospital Theme of the NIHR Community Healthcare MedTech and In Vitro Diagnostic Cooperative. His work for the Society for Acute Medicine includes organising and delivering the annual UK wide hospital benchmarking audit (SAMBA).

Sigrid Berge van Rooijen, University of Wageninen, will give the distinguished lecture ”AI in Health, Latest Developments and the impact of EHDS” on 7th November at 11am at Maynooth University. 

 

Lecturer spotlight:

With a background in healthcare and MedTech, Sigrid Berge van Rooijen has seen how slow current systems work. Even in the countries that are praised having the best healthcare systems in the world. Becoming a strong voice in the MedTech world she is passionate about how healthcare can benefit by using the power of AI. The future of healthcare is only possible when embracing technology, and AI will make it possible the achieve better treatment for both patients and clinicians alike. As founder and AI consultant at Eir Health, she is helping the medical world realize the potential of AI. Keeping the patients at the center of the developments.