A surgeon among engineers
DA Rew Consultant General Surgeon
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, UK
A bridge from technology funding to healthcare solutions.
For the past decade, I have developed and led a digital transformation programme at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. This has brought me into contact with many interesting and diverse members of the digital engineering community. In May 2016, we brought members of this group together for a novel joint surgical–EPSRC symposium at the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland national conference in Belfast. In consequence, I was invited to apply and to join the SAT for health technologies, with effect from January 2017. At the time, the principal focus of the theme had been in imaging technologies, perhaps with a ‘radiology-centric’ emphasis. Membership of this team imposed on me a steep learning curve among a professional community of very experienced, able and talented individuals who were drawn primarily from the major university engineering faculties.
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