OUR TEAM

Banerjee Lab

Academic Staff

Ami heads up the Banerjee Lab. He is Professor of Clinical Data Science at UCL and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, UCLH and Barts Health. After qualifying from Oxford, Ami trained as a junior doctor in Oxford, Newcastle, Hull and London. His interest in preventive cardiology and evidence-based medicine led to a Masters in Public Health at Harvard(2004/05), an internship at the World Health Organisation(2005) and DPhil in epidemiology from Oxford(2010). He was Clinical Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Birmingham, before taking up the position of Senior Lecturer in Clinical Data Science and Honorary Consultant in Cardiology at the Farr Institute of Health Informatics in August 2015. In addition to general cardiology, he has special interest in heart failure and atrial fibrillation, and also the role of informatics and electronic health records in delivering better patient care.

Ashkan joined the UCL Institute of Health Informatics as postdoctoral data scientist since 2020. Ashkan held his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from University of Tabriz, Iran, worked as data scientist since 2018 in Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and developed award-winning predictive models for predicting non-attendance in secondary care during his second PhD in Informatics. His major interest is health data science, machine learning, and image processing. 

Dr Yi Mu

Yi is a researcher in health economics at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics, analysing the cost-effectiveness of healthcare utilisation for patients with long COVID. Yi is finishing her PhD in Economics from City, University of London. Her research focused on policy evaluation, particularly how policies affect physical and mental well-being. She has completed an MA in Economics from New York University and another from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests are health economics, policy evaluation and development economics.

David is a mixed methods researcher at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics (IHI), where he is evaluating the effectiveness of integrated care pathways to improve long COVID care.  David previously worked at UCL’s Department of Primary Care and Population Health, where he helped develop, implement and evaluate a clinically supported digital tool for people with long COVID. Before this, at Imperial College London, his research and work centred on improving the quality, delivery and efficiency of health and care services, to improve outcomes for patients and the public.  
 
David holds a PhD in Clinical Medicine Research from Imperial College London, an MSc in Biomedical Sciences from UCL and completed an undergraduate module in Neurobiology at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health.  
 
David's research interests include public health, digital health, health informatics and health inequalities. 

Dr Shoba Poduval

Shoba is an Academic GP and Clinical Lecturer completing a NIHR Data & Skills Enhancement Fellowship in data science co-supervised by Professor Ami Banerjee at UCL IHI and Professor Rohini Mathur at QMUL. Shoba will be exploring how data science can be used to explore ethnic health inequalities, building on policy research completed last year with the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities (OHID-London). Shoba is also kept busy by son Bodhi, and is a cooking, art and yoga enthusiast.

PhD Students

Alex is a gastroenterology registrar currently on out of programme as a clinical research training fellow completing a PhD supervised by Prof Laurence Lovat and Dr Ami Banerjee. His research interests lie in harnessing health data to see if it can predict the development of gastrointestinal cancers and its pre-cancerous states. He is also interested in improving health service pathways and outcomes, especially in light of the challenges faced in the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Professional Services

Sarah Clegg 

Sarah joined the Institute of Health Informatics in 2019 and is Research Manager for the Banerjee Lab.

Former Team Members

Dr Anish Bhuva
Dr Nick Chen
Dr Jennifer Davidson