RICHARD DOLL SEMINAR: Getting the best out of electronic health records

Liam Smeeth

Professor of Clinical Epidemiology

Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Liam Smeeth is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, and Head of the Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He also undertakes clinical work as a general practitioner in north London, and is involved in a wide range of activities for the National Health Service. Much of his research is based on making better use of computerised clinical data both to investigate drug effects and disease aetiology.

He holds a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship in Clinical Science and is Deputy Director of the Farr Institute London, one of the four UK Health Informatics Research Centres. His broad interests include disease aetiology, drug effects, genetics and non-communicable diseases in low income settings.