Niels Peek, PhD FACMI FIAHSI

Niels Peek is Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Manchester, and director of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute for Health Technlogy Research and Innovation. He has a background in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and his research focuses on translational data science for clinical risk prediction, personalised and precision medicine, patient safety, and multimorbidity. Professor Peek has co-authored more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is the former the President of the Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. From 2016 to 2020, he led the Greater Manchester Connected Health City, which was part of a £20M government investment to establish a learning health system in the North of England. In April 2017, he organised the Informatics for Health 2017 conference in Manchester which was attended by more than 800 people from 30 countries. He also co-chaired the Scientific Programme Committee of MEDINFO-2017, the 16th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, which was held in Hangzhou, China, in August 2017. He is associate editor of BMJ Health and Care Informatics, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine journal. He is a member of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, and a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), and a fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).