Interdisciplinary team science is fundamental to our activities and ensures the Centre is an environment for sharing, learning, and developing.
Our members champion our work, promote our visibility, and drive an ethos that values contribution, encourages sharing of expertise, and celebrates success.
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- Senior Leadership Team
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- Professor Lesley Anderson Chair in Health Data Science
- Krzys Adamczyk Research Assistant
- Ms Jane Bourque DaSH Operational Lead
- Dr Lucia D'Ambruoso Senior Lecturer
- Dr Caroline Franco Lecturer
- Dr Santosh Gaihre Lecturer
- Dr Sharon Gordon, Programme Co-ordinator and Institute Administration Manager
- Dr Aravinda Guntupalli Senior Lecturer
- Dr Simon Sawhney Senior Clinical Lecturer
- Associate Directors
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Dr Jillian Evans 
Dr Heather Morgan 
Professor Nir Oren 
His research interests revolve around decision making in automated systems and the explanation of those decisions, as well as human-machine collaboration.
Dr John Thomson 
Dr Gordon Waiter 
- Institute Administration Coordinator
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- ACHDS Staff
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- Mr Krzys Adamczyk Research Assistant
- Diana Al-Alahmad Research PG
- Professor Lesley Anderson Chair in Health Data Science
- Dr Raul Berrocal Martin Research Fellow
- Jane Bourque DaSH Operational Lead
- Miss Diane Brown DaSH Research Co-ordinator
- Dr Antonietta Chaliou DaSH Research Co-ordinator
- Dr Lucia D'Ambruoso Senior Lecturer
- Mrs Stacey Dawson DaSH Lead Research Co-ordinator
- Jaroslaw Dymiter DaSH Analyst and Programmer
- Dr Luke Farrow SCREDS Clinical Lecturer
- Dr Caroline Franco Lecturer
- Dr Santosh Gaihre Lecturer
- Michael Gent DaSH Junior Analyst
- Dr Sharon Gordon Programme Co-ordinator and Institute Administration Manager
- Ms Alisha Graham Honorary Research Assistant
- Dr Aravinda Guntupalli Senior Lecturer
- Dr Warren James Research Fellow
- Dr Kasuni Kalubowila Honorary Research Fellow
- Mrs Gail Mew Institute Administration Coordinator
- Ms Vicky Munro DaSH Research Coordinator
- Emilia Piltonen Research Assistant
- Dr Helen Rowlands DaSH Senior Analyst
- Dr Simon Sawhney Senior Clinical Lecturer
- Amal Sebastian DaSH Junior Analyst
- Dr Bernhard Scheliga DaSH Analyst and Research Coordinator
- Dr Kusum Singal Research Fellow
- Emma-Louise Tarburn Research Assistant
- Irmina Zborowska Project Administration Coordinator
- Post Graduate Students
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Miss Emma-Louise Tarburn PhD Student
- ACHDS Members, Associate Members and Research Partners
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- Professor Pamela Abbott Chair in Education, Professional Learning PGT
- Dr Rosalind Adam Senior Clinical Lecturer
- Dr Lorna Aucott Emeritus Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Dolapo Ayansina Research Fellow
- Dr Will Ball Honorary Advanced Research Fellow
- Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya Vice Principal, Global Engagement
- Dr Mairead Black Reader
- Dr Jess Butler Honorary Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Hanne Bruhn Research Fellow
- Dr Carl Counsel Reader (Clinical)
- Professor Peter Edwards Vice Principal, Regional Engagement
- Mr Jon Eilbeck Head of Programmes and Development, Dept of eHealth, NHS Grampian
- Dr Shona Fielding Honorary Senior Lecturer
- Professor Nick Fluck
- Dr Faiza Gaba Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
- Dr Rosemary Hollick Senior Clinical Lecturer
- Dr Adalia Ikiroma Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Lisa Iversen Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Marjorie Johnston Honorary Clinical Lecturer
- Dr Andrew Keen Clinical Lead for Innovation, NHS Grampian
- Mrs Nicky Laird Honorary Administrator
- Professor Amanda Lee Chair in Medical Statistics
- Mr Christopher Littlejohn Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
- Dr Gerald Lip Clinical Director North East Scotland Breast Screening Programme, Consultant Radiologist, NHS Grampian
- Dr Angus Macleod Senior Clinical Lecturer
- Dr Mary Joan MacLeod Personal Chair, Clinical
- Dr Andrew McLean Honorary Associate
- Dr David McLernon Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Chris McNeil Research Fellow
- Dr Charlene McShane Honorary Lecturer
- Professor Philip Mackie Honorary Professor
- Miss Lyn Mair Honorary Research Assistant
- Dr Milan Markovic Interdisciplinary Fellow
- Dr Kathryn Martin Senior Lecturer
- Professor Zofia Miedzybrodzka Personal Chair (Clinical)
- Dr Rosie Mitchell-Hay Consultant Radiologist, NHS Grampian & Honorary Clinical Lecturer
- Dr John Mooney Honorary Senior Lecturer
- Dr Heather Morgan Dean for Enterprise & Innovation, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Brian Morrisey Honorary Associate
- Professor Peter Murchie Personal Chair (Clinical)
- Professor Alison Murray Emeritus Professor
- Dr Mintu Nath Senior Lecturer
- Dr Rumana Newlands Research Fellow
- Dr Emmanuel Okpo Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
- Professor Nir Oren Personal Chair, Dean for Research Performance
- Professor Shantini Paranjothy Honorary Clinical Chair in Public Health
- Professor Sam Philip Honorary Professor
- Professor Craig Ramsay Honorary Professor
- Professor Ehud Reiter Chair in Computing Science
- Dr Magda Rzewuska Advanced Research Fellow
- Dr Anca Sandu-Giuraniuc Lecturer
- Dr Rachel Smith Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Neil Scott Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Jamie Smith Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
- Professor Val Speirs Chair in Molecular Oncology
- Dr Gowri Sripada Senior Lecturer
- Dr Roger Staff Honorary Professor
- Professor Norval Strachan Emeritus Professor
- Flavio Soares Correa da Silva Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Diane Swallow Senior Clinical Lecturer
- John Thomson
- Dr Melanie Turner Advanced Research Fellow
- Professor Steve Turner Honorary Professor
- Professor Wamberto Vasconcelos Emeritus Professor
- Dr Rute Vieira Senior Lecturer
- Dr Gordon Waiter Reader
- Dr Pauline Williams Senior Clinical Lecturer
- Dr Struan Wilkie Consultant Radiologist, Clinical Lead for RIS/PACS NHS Grampian
- ACHDS Graduate Associates
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Dr Lina Altayeb , Lina trained as a pharmacist in Sudan where she undertook a master's in Clinical Pharmacy in 2012. In 2016, she was awarded the Elphinstone scholarship by the University of Aberdeen and started her PhD with Dr Simon Sawhney studying the use, safety and effectiveness of medicines in kidney disease using routinely collected health data. Lina's project has been funded by the NHS endowment grant on successful application. Her research interests include chronic diseases, patient safety, pharmacoepidemiology, drug utilization and health informatics.
Dr Dorota Chapko Dorota completed her PhD in 2016 and worked with Prof Alison Murray and Prof Corri Black as a Post-doctoral research fellow looking at age-related cognitive, emotional and physical functioning decline and investigating how occupational profile and childhood intelligence contribute to this triad of impairment in late life.
Jennifer Hove MPH PhD student at the University of Witwatersrand. Her PhD investigates the role of community participation in improving health using a participatory action research approach in rural South Africa. She previously worked as processing officer at Zimbabwe. Her career took a complete shift in 2009 when she moved to South Africa and worked for a Public Health organisation where she also obtained MPH. She has been working in rural South Africa and her quest is to advocate and promote equity in health.
Benon Karara is a Rwandan national and the CEO of Dataplus-Rwanda, a youth-led research organization. He has a research experience in areas like adult literacy, impact evaluation, gender studies, social economic development, and agriculture. Karara is passionate about youth empowerment and economic development through problem-solving research interventions.
Denny Mabetha BNutr Qualified dietitian currently working as a coordinator for VAPAR Project, serves as a link between Wits/Agincourt HDSS and Mpumalanga Department of Health and other Departments at Province and District levels. Denny is currently studying towards her postgraduate Master of Science in Field epidemiology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Dr Oladapo B. Oladeinde MBBS MSc Medical doctor trained at University of Benin, Nigeria graduated 2008. Associate fellow of National Post graduate Medical College of Nigeria. MSc (distinction) Global Health and Management in 2019 University of Aberdeen. Since 2011, clinician in Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital rural Nigeria. Supports generation of quality data shaping policies to strengthen health systems in Nigeria and sub Saharan Africa at large.
Dr Shifa Sarica , Shifa completed her PhD in 2018 Evaluating the health burden of autoimmune disease with Dr Neil Basu and Prof Corri Black.
Deen Tissera BSc (Hons) MSc PhD candidate in Public Health at the University of Aberdeen holds a Master's degree in Global Health and Management. Vice Chair and Councillor for George St Community Council involved in a local community food initiative to tackle food poverty. Also involved in a number of health projects globally, including war zone volunteering and humanitarian disaster relief missions in Sri Lanka.
Dr Oghenebrume Wariri MBBS MSc FWACP (Paed) Medical doctor trained at University of Benin, Nigeria and Paediatrician Federal Teaching Hospital Gombe and Jos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. Master of Science (MSc) Global Health and Management (distinction) University of Aberdeen. Wariri works the MRC Unit the Gambia at the LSHTM as a research Clinician on vaccinology research.
- ACHDS Industry Partners
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- Inaugural Directors
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Dr Dimitra Blana
Dimitra has an interdisciplinary background in both biomedical and computer engineering. Dimitra's research focus is developing modelling tools, with a particular interest in human movement. She is passionate about improving research culture, and promoting open and reproducible research practices.
Ms Katie Wilde
Katie Wilde is Interim Head of Applications. Katie has expertise in Data Management, and Governance, and extracting complex electronic data for health research. Katie works under a Digital and Information Services remit of providing digital solutions for researcher needs.
Professor Corri Black
Corri Black is Professor of Public Health, and during her illustrious career at the University of Aberdeen, she was the Director of the Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science (ACHDS), Clinical Lead for the Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH), as well as a Consultant in Public Health for NHS Grampian.
Corri's academic expertise involves using electronic health and care records to study health conditions, care journeys and outcomes, drive methodology, and influence health, care and policy. Utilising the Learning Health System approach, she bridging the gap between research and application deliberately blurring the boundaries between academia and NHS as an enabler for change.