Meet Amazing #WomenInData: Data and Technology in Health - HER+Data MCR - October 2020 Meetup
Channel: Her Plus Data Manchester
Date: 13/10/2020

HER+Data MCR is a community working to connect, inspire, support and empower the NW UK’s Women in Data through monthly meetups. For our October 2020 event, we heard lightning talks from inspiring leaders working in health tech and data.

Speakers:

6:38 - Jane Theaker - CEO at Kinomica. A dynamic and pragmatic executive leader with extensive R+D experience underpinned by solid design control expertise gained through the delivery of multiple FDA-approved diagnostic kits. Possesses proven experience at board level having managed and held full P&L responsibility. Responsible for the evolution and development of R+D organisations from site-based to global organisations.

31:20 Lorna Barclay - Data Scientist at Dr Foster. Lorna is a Lead Healthcare Analyst at Dr Foster, a healthcare analytics company owned by Telstra Health, which helps NHS organisations to make better and faster decisions with data and insight. She is responsible for providing subject matter expertise in statistics and delivering data science and predictive modelling projects. Lorna has experience in developing machine learning algorithms and predictive models through previous work as a Senior Data Scientist at the healthcare company IQVIA and as a Data Scientist with customer science company, dunnhumby. She is passionate about using data science to help NHS organisations understand their patient population, provide insights into future performance and outcomes, and ultimately support them in improving patient care. Lorna holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Warwick.

More information:
- HER+Data MCR Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/herplusdatamcr
- HER+Data MCR Twitter page: https://twitter.com/herplusdatamcr
- HER+Data MCR LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/herplusdatamcr