Engineering for Health and Care
Thematic Leadership Group
The SRPe Engineering for Health and Care Thematic Leadership Group (EH-TLG) is a national strategic research resource that provides expertise to government, industry and the wider UK and international research community.
The EH-TLG membership comprises key experts from across Scotland's leading universities delivering world-class research and development at the interface between engineering and healthcare and its underpinning technology areas.
Leadership and membership details of the EH-TLG are provided below:
CHAIR: Professor Patricia Connolly
Professor Biomedical Engineering / Director of the Strathclyde Institute of Medical Devices, University of Strathclyde
Members
Professor Iain Gibson
Professor of Biomaterials & Regenerative Medicine, University of Aberdeen
Dr Edward Chadwick
Reader in Bioengineering, University of Aberdeen
Dr Esther Smith
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Engineering & Physical Sciences University of the West of Scotland
Dr Srinjoy Mitra
Senior Lecturer Electronic Engineering
University of Edinburgh
Dr Julien Reboud
Reader in Biomedical of Biomedical Engineering
University of Glasgow
Professor Amir Hussain
Professor, School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment,
Edinburgh Napier University
Dr Sinan Sinanovic
Reader, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering,
Glasgow Caledonian University
Dr Ketan Pancholi
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Robert Gordon University
Dr Jan Vorstius
Senior Lecturer in Engineering, University of Dundee
Prof Marc Desmulliez
Professor, Institute of Sensors, Signals & Systems, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences,
Heriot-Watt University
Claire Ordoyno
Executive Director, Scottish Research Partnership in Engineering (SRPe)
Strategic Outlook
The interface between engineering and healthcare presents a significant, complex and multi-disciplinary field of opportunity and challenge for our nation. The Scottish research base has major strengths across a wide range of engineering and technology areas where application to the research fields and key areas of challenge across healthcare can produce major impact and benefits to society. These include medical devices and technologies; imaging and photonics; diagnostics, assistive and interventional healthcare technologies.
The research excellence and critical mass offered by SRPe can make a substantial difference for Scottish and UK science, industry and healthcare with Scotland being well positioned to benefit from a number of real opportunities and initiatives within the global market. To deliver truly innovative solutions beyond incremental advancements it is essential to have strongly integrated research and development with good links between the NHS, academic and commercial sectors active in healthcare research and delivery.
Sub-Themes
Our sub-themes align with the grand challenges and opportunities within engineering for healthcare and its application sectors. They align with the strengths and capabilities of Scotland across the interface between engineering and healthcare and the opportunities for growth and synergy which can be catalysed by adopting a pan-Scottish collaborative approach across the university research sector with industry and the public sector. They reflect the challenges and opportunities that exist today and are anticipated for the future based on knowledge of megatrends (e.g. population growth, growing demand for customised products; ageing population and workforce; changing skills needs), technological trends / innovations (emerging and disruptive technologies e.g. the Internet of Things (IoT); digitalisation & scale-up), emerging policies and opportunities for economic growth and critical challenges on our society such as pandemics.
SRPe's Sub-Themes within the Engineering for Healthcare theme are:
Healthcare Technologies and Devices of the Future
Improving Patient, Consumer and Clinician Experience
Smart Technology for Global Transformation and Inclusion
Innovation Pipeline for Medical Industries
Key Underpinning Research & Technology Areas
The key research and technology areas underpinning the Engineering for Healthcare theme are:
Data & Digital Technologies
Medical Devices & Technologies
Sensors & Measurement Technologies
Imaging & Photonics
Assistive and Interventional Healthcare Technologies (Including robotics)
Tissue Engineering & Synthetic Biology
Micro-electronics (including MEMS)
Diagnostics & Therapeutic Imaging
Advanced Manufacturing
Advanced Materials
Modelling & Computation
Synthetic Biology
Environment Engineering and Sustainability
Health Economic Assessment