Population Health Data Science Research Seminar Series

Staff and students from Queen Mary and Barts Health NHS Trust are invited to join us, to: 

• See and share examples of research excellence in health data science from across the Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH) and Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), Queen Mary, Barts Health, and more widely
• Develop deeper knowledge of the many health data sources available for research and hear directly from colleagues who are using them
• Meet new collaborators and share expertise in using electronic health records and multimodal data to improve population health

Upcoming

Thursday 19 November 2026, 12.00-12.50

AI-assisted conceptual model development using patient experience data
Prof. Conrad Bessant (School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences), Dr Fabrizio Smeraldi (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science) and Dr Maryam Abdollahyan (Barts Cancer Institute), Queen Mary University of London and Mebomine.

Patient experience data (PED)—information reported directly by patients and caregivers about their lived experience—are essential in building disease conceptual models—representations of a condition, its symptoms and impacts, and how they relate to each other. Traditionally, conceptual models are generated through time- and resource-intensive qualitative interviews and literature reviews conducted by researchers. Social media offers a promising alternative source of PED. In this seminar, the presenters use Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (a rare type of epilepsy) as a case study to compare social media analysis with traditional approaches and emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, and discuss how social media data might best be combined with AI-assisted methods to produce high-quality conceptual models.

Past seminars

With the consent of the speakers, recordings of our seminars are available to watch here after the event.

Organising committee

Co-chairs: Rohini Mathur, Jianhua Wu (WIPH) and Claude Chelala (BCI) 
Committee members: Fabiola Eto, Judith Offman, Stuart Rison, Mary Thomas, Nicola Firman, Marta Wilk, Sara Calhas, Petra Proitsi, Anna Billington (WIPH)