Dr Girish Gupta MB ChB FRCPConsultant Dermatologist, NHS Lothian and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor

Dr Girish Gupta trained in Manchester. His dermatology career has been substantially based in the West of Scotland where in 1999 he was appointed Consultant Dermatologist, NHS Lanarkshire and in 2015 Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in Dermatology, University of Glasgow. Since 2005, he has focused on the management of skin cancer and in 2009 he was appointed as Clinical Lead for the West of Scotland skin cancer network for which he is responsible for the multidisciplinary team meetings, audit and research.

Dr Gupta was appointed Consultant Dermatologist, NHS Lothian and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in 2019.

Other interests include mole screening, topical therapy of pre-cancerous skin conditions, teledermatology and laser therapy.

He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and has a chapter in the Textbook of Dermatology on skin cancer.

Memberships

• British Association of Dermatologists
• European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Skin Cancer
• Fellow Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow Scottish Dermatological Society

Dr Matthew Blackledge, PhD, MsC, Team Leader of Computational Imaging, Institute of Cancer Research, London Advisory PanelExpert Advisory Panel

Dr Blackledge has been working in the field of quantitative cancer imaging for over 10 years, having completed his PhD developing whole-body MRI in 2011 at the Institute of Cancer Research, London.  He has a track record of developing new mathematical and computational techniques in image analysis for guiding personalized treatment management in cancer patients, including development of Bayesian modelling and deep-learning.

Dr Blackledge's lab specialises in the development of computational techniques for automatic detection, visualisation and quantification of heterogeneous tumour changes using imaging for improving how we guide cancer therapies and reduce toxicity.

The team also focuses on the development of innovations in deep-learning for accelerating image acquisition and improving the accuracy of derived imaging biomarkers.

Other affiliations:

• Co-founder of Diafora Medical

Dr Nigel Burrows MD FRCP Consultant Dermatologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Burrows graduated from St Thomas' Hospital, London in 1985 then trained as a dermatology registrar in London and as senior registrar in Cambridge. In 1997 he was appointed as Consultant Dermatologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at Addenbrooke's Hospital with additional clinics at Newmarket Hospital. He treats both adults and children.

Other Positions held

• Clinical lead for Dermatology at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
• President of the British Society for Paediatric Dermatology.
• Staff Governor, Cambridge University Hospitals
• Member of the International Consortium on the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes
• Member of the Royal Society of Medicine

Areas of interest

• General dermatology.
• Skin tumours - benign and malignant.
• Paediatric dermatology.

Memberships

• British Association of Dermatologists
• British Society for Paediatric Dermatology

Professor Amanda Lee MSc PhD Chair in Medical Statistics, University of Aberdeen Director of the Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen

Consultant Statistician NHS Grampian Head of IAHS Postgraduate Education Group.

Following graduation with an MSc Medical Statistics from Newcastle University in 1987, she worked as research statistician in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Dundee between 1987-1993, then moved to the Wolfson Unit for Peripheral Vascular Diseases, University of Edinburgh as senior research fellow for 9 years. In 2003, she joined the University of Aberdeen as medical statistician for the Department of Primary Care, was made Reader in 2004 and attained Professor in 2006. Professor Lee has been co-applicant on c£11m research grant applications, currently has 280 peer- reviewed publications and an h index of 70.

Professor George Crooks OBE MBChB FRCP FRCGP Chief Executive of the Digital Health & Care Institute

Professor George Crooks is the Chief Executive of the Digital Health & Care Institute, Scotland’s national innovation centre for digital health and care. He leads an organisation that is tasked with delivering innovation in digital health and care that will help Scotland’s people to live longer, healthier lives and create new jobs for the economy.

Having worked as a General Medical Practitioner for 23 years in Aberdeen, latterly combining that role as Director of Primary Care for Grampian, he became Medical Director for NHS 24 and Director of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth & Telecare.

Professor Crooks is an expert adviser on digital health to the WHO and European Commission, is on the Board of the European Connected Health Alliance, past President of the European Health Telematics Association and is adjunct Professor of Telehealth at the University of Southern Denmark.

Professor Crooks was awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year Honours List 2011 for services to healthcare.