Alan is a surgeon-scientist who leads the healthcare machine learning research group at Google Health in London (and formerly for healthcare at DeepMind).
He led DeepMind and Google’s teams in four landmark studies in Nature and Nature Medicine focusing on AI for breast cancer screening with Cancer Research UK, AI for the recognition and prediction of blinding eye diseases with the world’s largest eye hospital (Moorfields) and medical records research with the Veterans Affairs developing AI early warning systems for common causes of patient deterioration, like acute kidney injury.
He is leading work on how machine learning approaches can best promote AI safety as the team takes forward its early research into products for clinical care. Alan continues to practice clinically and supervise PhD students as a lecturer in the vascular surgery department of Imperial College, London.
