Realistic Synthetic Data in Healthcare: driving innovation, enabling application, and assuring validation

Prof Theodoros N. Arvanitis, RT, DPhil, CEng, FRSM, FGBHI - Chair in Digital Health Technology - University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Professor Theodoros N. Arvanitis is a Life-Long Fellow of the Greek Biomedical Informatics and Health Informatics Association (FGBHA) and he is EFMI’s Scientific Project Officer. He holds the Chair of Digital Health Technology, he is the Head of the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, and affiliated with Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the College of Medicine and Health, at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is also an Honorary Professor and Clinical Scientist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, and an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Digital Healthcare at the University of Warwick (which he led previously before his current appointment). He is one of the Associate Directors of HDR UK for Midlands. Within the University of Birmingham, he leads the Digital Healthcare and Medical Imaging Research Group. He is also the Editor-in-Chief at Digital Health, an open access peer-reviewed, journal, published by Sage Publications, UK.

His research interests span the areas of biomedical engineering, neuroimaging, and health informatics (in particular, clinical decision support systems), with a strong academic and industrial experience in software engineering for healthcare. As a Research Leader, he has developed a substantial digital health team that encompasses experience across multiple disciplines, which brings together a rich and long pedigree of knowledge, in interconnectivity, interoperability and deployment of innovative solutions. In particular, he has a long-standing expertise in the field of quantitative image analysis and radiomics. He has delivered solutions at multiple maturity levels (from lab-based innovation to product deployment) and has established collaboration with major actors in the healthcare industry, including trusts, healthcare IT and medical device companies, as well as patient forums and regulators.

Professor Arvanitis has a substantial academic publication record (Google Scholar Profile h-index=52), while he has received research funding from national (UK), European and international governmental funding agencies, charities and industry. He is currently the research leader, representing the University of Birmingham, in European projects under the Horizon Europe programme, related to security of health data (MedSecurance project) and synthetic health data (INSAFEDARE project), in amongst other funded research projects. He has been involved in UK (BSI) and EU (CEN) standardisation work. In addition to his life-long fellowship of the Greek Biomedical Informatics and Health Informatics Association (FGBHI), he is a Charted Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM), and a member of various scientific and professional groups (ACM, AMIA, GBHIA, IET, ISMRM NYAS, RSM).

Email address: t.arvanitis@bham.ac.uk