University of Warwick
ADLIFE TEAM MEMBER
Professor Theodoros N. Arvanitis
Chair of Digital Health Innovation and Director of The Institute of Digital Healthcare
Theo is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham. He has been recently part of the newly MRC-Wellcome Trust funded €35 million Health Data Research UK Initiative, where he is the Associate Director of the Midlands Substantive Site of the UK-wide network. Within Warwick, he leads the Biomedical Informatics, Imaging and Healthcare Technologies 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, Theo 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.
Professor Arvanitis is currently the coordinator 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) and a member of various scientific and professional groups (IET, AMIA, NYAS, RCS, ISMRM). 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 WARWICK actively involved in all work packages of the project.