With 14 million in England living with MLTC, driven by an ageing population, it’s a growing concern. Notably, 20% of 25-64-year-olds have multiple conditions, and those in deprived areas develop MLTC earlier. In this session, we will discuss how four UK Research Collaboratives are tackling the challenges faced by patients with multimorbidity using AI and data analytics. MLTC patients incur over half of NHS primary and secondary care costs. The current single-condition focus in clinical services burdens MLTC patients and their carers, complicating management for health services. The NIHR has awarded over £23 million of funding to support research using AI to understand MLTC trajectories, merging data science with health and social science expertise.
Prof Simon Fraser
Professor of Public Health, School of Primary Care, Population Science & Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
Simon is Professor of Public Health at the University of Southampton. His research aims to understand the determinants, burden, inequalities and adverse outcomes associated with long-term health conditions in order to inform prevention. He leads one of the NIHR-funded AIM Research Consortia using AI to investigate multiple long-term condition multimorbidity.
Prof Gyuchan Thomas Jun
Professor of Socio-technical System Design, School of Design & Creative Arts, Loughborough University
Professor Gyuchan Thomas Jun is a Professor of Socio-technical System Design at School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University. His expertise is in applying systems thinking approaches to healthcare incident investigation, quality improvement and AI-based innovation in healthcare. He is currently leading DECODE, an NIHR-funded research project applying machine learning approaches to effective care coordination for people with learning disabilities.
Prof Krish Nirantharakumar
Professor of Health Data Science & Public Health, University of Birmingham
Prof Michael Barnes
Professor of Bioinformatics & Director of the Centre for Translational Bioinformatics, Queen Mary University of London
Michael co-leads The Centre for Translational Bioinformatics (C4TB), at Queen Mary University of London and is a Fellow of the Digitial Environment Research Institute, QMUL. His team work across diverse research areas, including genomics, drug discovery, stratified medicine, machine learning and health informatics with a unified objective to drive forward translation into the clinic.
He brings an industrial perspective to the C4TB, drawn from 16 years of leadership of bioinformatics teams in the pharmaceutical industry. Michael is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and an HDR-UK Investigator, and co-leads the Genomics England Stratified medicine genomic interpretation clinical partnership.
Co-Chair: Monica Fletcher OBE
Honorary Research Fellow, The Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh
Monica Fletcher is the former Chief Executive of Education for Health.
She is also Chair of the UK Inhaler Group, Knowledge Exchange Lead for the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, and Chair of the European Respiratory Nurses Association (ERNA).
Monica is involved in influencing national and international policies through her activities including membership of the WHO’s Global Alliance Against Respiratory Disease (GARD), the European Respiratory Society, the American Thoracic Society, the European COPD Coalition, and the International Primary Care Respiratory Group. She is an Associate of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease, University of Michigan.
Monica is honoured with an OBE for services to nursing.
Co-Chair: Dr Mario Moroso
Assistant Director Research Programmes, NIHR Coordinating Centre
Dr Mario Moroso PhD Assistant Director, Research Programmes, NIHR Coordinating Centre. Mario oversees a large research portfolio addressing key UK priorities in healthcare, public health and social care, either via the NIHR Policy Research Programme, or through dedicated strategic initiatives such as the NIHR AI for Multiple Long-Term Conditions (AIM) programme, the Work and Health scheme, or the COVID-19 work.
Dr Mario Moroso, Monica Fletcher OBE, Prof Gyuchan Thomas Jun, Prof Krish Nirantharakumar, Prof Michael Barnes, Prof Simon Fraser
