Dr Atul Anand
Reader
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Primary PhD Supervisor for: Konstantin Georgiev, Coco (Yiqing) Wang
PhD Co-supervisor for: Matthew Lowry, Lara Johnson, Yasmin Al-Din, Victoria Barber-Fleming, Michael McDermott, Thulani Ashcroft, Yvonne Ding, Kieran Sweeney
Past PhD students supervised
Dimitrios Doudesis (awarded PhD)
Research summary
I am interested in the use of routine health and social care data to improve outcomes for older people. This is in line with my clinical work as a consultant geriatrician at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. I am the clinical data lead for the DataLoch programme – a data repository of health and social care data in South East Scotland – that is improving access to research-ready datasets for the region. I am interested in understanding the impact of multimorbidity in our population, and refining the way we establish the presence of chronic health conditions from electronic health records. I am a co-investigator on the AIM-CISC Programme (AI in Multimorbidity: Clustering in Individuals, Space and Clinical Context) and lead a NIHR/EPSRC development award for Systems Engineering to improve care transitions for people with multimorbidity (SET4). My work focusses on identifying novel actionable insights from routine electronic health records, such as to identify rehabilitation needs. I retain a wider interest from my PhD on the impact of cardiovascular disease on older adults, and have been a co-investigator on the HighSTEACS and HiSTORIC cluster randomised trials. I am a passionate advocate for these methodologies to improve representation and inclusion of older people in clinical trials.