University of Birmingham
ADLIFE TEAM MEMBER
Professor Theodoros N. Arvanitis
Head of Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering and Head of Digital Health Technology Research Group
Professor Theodoros N. Arvanitis holds the Chair of Digital Health Technology, and he is the Head of the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, at the University of Birmingham. He is also an Honorary Professor and Clinical Scientist at the Digital & Data Driven Research Unit, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. He is one of the Associate Directors of HDR UK for Midlands. Within the University of Birmingham, he also leads the Digital Health Technology Research Group. His research interests span the areas of biomedical engineering, neuroimaging and health informatics (clinical systems interoperability and clinical decision support systems), with a strong academic and industrial experience in software engineering for healthcare applications.
As a Research Leader, he has developed a substantial digital health team that encompasses experience across multiple disciplines, which brings together a rich and long pedigree of knowledge, in interconnectivity, interoperability and deployment of innovative solutions. He has delivered solutions at multiple maturity levels (from lab-based innovation to product deployment) and has established collaboration with major actors in the healthcare industry, including trusts, healthcare IT and medical device companies, as well as patient forums and regulators.
He was the co-ordinator of the €5 million C3-Cloud H2020 Project: A Federated Collaborative Care Cure Cloud Architecture for Addressing the Needs of Multi-morbidity and Managing Poly-pharmacy (PHC-25-2015: 689181), which is high relevant to the ADLIFE project. He has been involved in UK (BSI) and EU (CEN) standardisation work. He is a Charted Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM), Fellow of the Greek Biomedical Health Informatics Association (FGBHI) and a member of various scientific and professional groups (ACM, AMIA, GBHI, IET, ISMRM NYAS, RSM). He is also the Joint Editor-in-Chief at the Digital Health, open access peer-reviewed, journal, published by Sage Publications, UK. In ADLIFE, Professor Arvanitis is the lead investigator from UoB actively involved in WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP7, WP9 and WP10.