van der Schaar Lab

Revolutionizing Healthcare: tools for acute care

Recording of the van der Schaar Lab’s third Revolutionizing Healthcare engagement session, which took place virtually on December 16, 2020, and was attended by roughly 30 healthcare professionals (primarily clinicians).

The focus of the session was on addressing real-world problems in the acute care setting by matching them to formalisms. During the session, we introduced the lab’s Hub for Healthcare, which contains a classification of some medical problems and associated examples, and then provides formalisms and methods by which they can be solved.

Introduction – 0:00
The meaning and importance of formalisms – 2:43
Self-introduction by acute care clinicians – 8:30
Problems/questions raised by acute care clinicians – 10:43
Mihaela’s responses (formalisms) – 15:43
Introducing the Hub for Healthcare – 48:00
Q&A session – 53:21
Wrap-up – 1:07:16

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Nick Maxfield

From 2020 to 2022, Nick oversaw the van der Schaar Lab’s communications, including media relations, content creation, and maintenance of the lab’s online presence.

Mihaela van der Schaar

Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute in London.

Mihaela has received numerous awards, including the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine from the University of Cambridge (2018), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004), 3 IBM Faculty Awards, the IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award, the Philips Make a Difference Award and several best paper awards, including the IEEE Darlington Award.

In 2019, she was identified by National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts as the most-cited female AI researcher in the UK. She was also elected as a 2019 “Star in Computer Networking and Communications” by N²Women. Her research expertise span signal and image processing, communication networks, network science, multimedia, game theory, distributed systems, machine learning and AI.

Mihaela’s research focus is on machine learning, AI and operations research for healthcare and medicine.