Meet the team

Core Team

NIHR HRC-DDR Director

Olivia Brookes

Programme Manager

Jeffrey Faint

Project Research Officer

Charlotte Whitehouse

Project Research Officer

Amrita Cheema

Project Support Officer

Prof Liam Grover Theme: Medical Devices

Theme Lead and Director of the Healthcare Technologies Institute (University of Birmingham)

Prof Theo Arvanitis Theme: Digital and Data

Theme Lead and Head of Electronic, Electrical & Systems Engineering (University of Birmingham)

Dr Jonathan Gregory Theme: Digital and Data

Co-theme Lead and Honorary Research Fellow (Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)

Prof Simon Bach Theme: Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Theme Lead and Professor of Colorectal Surgery Director (Royal College Surgeons (Eng) Robotic and Digital Surgery initiative)

Prof Samia Nefti-Meziani Theme: Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Co-Theme Lead Director of the Birmingham Robotics Institute (University of Birmingham)

Fran Ives Theme: Human Factors and Usability Testing

Co-Theme Lead, Chartered Human Factors Specialist (Health Innovation West Midlands)

Prof Richard Lilford Theme: Health Economics and Value Proposition

Theme Lead, Professor of Public Health & NIHR ARC-WM Director (University of Birmingham)

Prof Tracy Roberts Theme: Health Economics and Value Proposition

Co-Theme Lead, Professor of Health Economics (University of Birmingham)

Zainab Abdali Theme: Health Economics and Value Proposition

NIHR HRC-DDR Health Economics Research Fellow

Prof Alastair Denniston Theme: Regulations

Theme Lead, Consultant Ophthalmologist and Honorary Professor, specialising in AI and Digital Health Technologies, (University of Birmingham)

Dr Xiaoxuan Liu Theme: Regulations

Co-lead for AI and Digital Health Research and Policy (University of Birmingham)