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HeRC Director named as Mbassador – a Global Ambassador for Manchester

Posted on February 9, 2016

Prof Iain Buchan invited to help advance Manchester's international profile

Selected as one of 14 high-profile industry leaders chosen to maximise their global networks and help advance Manchester's international profile.

Watch this short video promoting the Mbassador programme.

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The Mbassador programme is managed by Marketing Manchester (part of MGC) and was officially launched at Manchester’s King Street Townhouse Hotel on 26 January, 2016.

As part of his role as a Global Ambassador Prof Buchan will highlight the city and signpost the opportunities it offers at international meetings and conferences over the coming year.

Prof Buchan was selected to represent Manchester thanks to his alignment to two of the cities key priority areas for development: Digital Technology and the Life Sciences.

Director of the Health eResearch Centre, Prof Buchan is Professor in Public Health Informatics and leads the Centre for Health Informatics, which he founded, at The University of Manchester.  Nationally, he is also CO-Director of The Farr Institute for Health Informatics.

Internationally, Prof Buchan is one of the world’s leading researchers in using big data to improve health and care, and was only the third Briton to be honoured with Fellowship of the American College of Medical Informatics.  He leads a multi-disciplinary team of around 60 researchers, who are the UK’s most published group in the field, working not only on making scientific discoveries from health data but also building new tools to empower patients and clinicians to take better decisions.

Prof Buchan also conceived the new Connected Health Cities programme due to be launched in March.

Find out more about the Mbassadors programme here.

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Notes for editors:

The Health eResearch Centre (HeRC) is delivering large scale, population wide health research by harnessing the power of information and technology.

Led by The University of Manchester and bringing together research excellence across the North of England (in partnership with the universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and York) the Health eResearch Centre is increasing the pace of progress in the UK’s health sector by turning under-used health information into new knowledge.

The Health eResearch Centre – People | Data | Methods

For more information please visit our website www.herc.ac.uk #datasaveslives

Enquiries:

Stephen Melia

Communications and Public Engagement Officer

Tel: 0161 306 7876

Mobile: 07757 310213

Email: stephen.melia@manchester.ac.uk