Niels Peek is Professor of Data Science and Healthcare Improvement at THIS Institute, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, where he leads a programme of research to develop and evaluate possible solutions and interventions to support improvement in healthcare.
Niels has a global reputation for his work on data-driven informatics for healthcare improvement, health data science, clinical prediction models, and computerised decision support tools. With a background in computer science and artificial intelligence, Niels was President of the Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine until 2017. He also led the Greater Manchester Connected Health City, part of a £20 million government investment to establish a learning health system in the north of England.
A widely published researcher, Niels has co-authored more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He is an associate editor of BMJ Health and Care Informatics, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.
Niels was previously based at the University of Manchester, where he was Professor of Health Informatics and led the Christabel Pankhurst Institute, a partnership of academic, healthcare, industry and public sector organisations that aims to accelerate the translation of new technologies into healthcare practice.