Aziz Sheikh at IGHPE 2018 in Kuala Lumpur

Professor Aziz Sheikh, presenter at IGHPE’s 2018 meeting in Kuala Lumpur, discusses the ways health informatics is changing the health professional what today’s health professionals most need to understand about health informatics. Dr. Sheikh is Professor of Primary Care Research & Development and Director of the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences at The University of Edinburgh. He is Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, Director of the 16-university Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Director of the NIHR Global Respiratory Health Unit (RESPIRE), Director of the Scottish Allergy and Respiratory Academy, and Co-Director of the NHS Digital Academy, and holds visiting chairs at the University of Birmingham (UK), Queen Mary’s University of London (UK) and Maastricht University (the Netherlands). He is Co-Director of Harvard Medical School’s Safety, Quality, Informatics and Leadership (SQIL) Program.