Our Team
We Believe That Changing the Future, Means Thinking Differently.
Meet The Team
Dr Sylvester Gomes
FOUNDER & CHIEF INVESTIGATOR
Sylvester is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Evelina London Children's Hospital and a clinical researcher with a focus on digital health and artificial intelligence in acute paediatric care. As site lead for PERUKI (Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland), he plays a key role in national research collaborations and serves as Principal Investigator for several multicentre studies. Outside the hospital, he enjoys high-octane driving, flying model airplanes, and the occasional salsa dance.
Lawrence Adams
LEAD ANALYTICS ENGINEER
Lawrence is a data engineer and data scientist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital, where he leads work to transform complex electronic health records into research-ready data. Drawing on his clinical background, he helps connect data from multiple NHS trusts to support large-scale research, using modern tools to ensure the data is accurate, consistent, and meaningful for improving patient care.
Aleksandra Foy
DATA ANALYST
Aleksandra is the Natural Language Processing (NLP) lead for Cogstack and is based at the Guys and St Thomas' Hospital. She will play a crucial role for data extraction from EPIC and our NLP platform, CogStack. She will guide the methodology and undertake the data analysis aspects of this project, coordinate with the data teams, develop the machine learning algorithms, and analyse results in conjunction with the clinical experts and statisticians.
Vitaliy Onlinyk
SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPER
Vitaliy is a passionate and innovative software engineer who leads the product development team at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust. He is responsible for designing, developing and delivering cutting-edge solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. He has over 10 years of experience in various domains such as web development, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. He is also a Scrum Master and a mentor for junior developers. He enjoys learning new technologies and sharing his knowledge with others.
Phil Assheton
STATISTICIAN, Phase 1
Phil has extensive experience in tutoring and advising statistics for courses and academic projects at the University of Lincoln. He has years of experience in coding statistical models at investment banks in London. He has a PhD in Probabilistic Neural Networks (Durham/ Lincoln Universities), MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Artificial Intelligence from Durham University (First Class Honours).
Jacob Shaw
PATIENT & PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT MEMBER
Jacob is is a student and a member of the Evelina London’s Youth Forum. He is a member of the AiSEPTRON study’s Young Person’s Advisory Group (YPAG), having joined in 2023 ahead of phase two. He maintains a strong interest in both healthcare and data science, and outside of school is a Cadet First Aider with St John Ambulance.
Ewan Carr
STATISTICIAN
Ewan holds a MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics and a PhD in Social Statistics. His research interests are in applying novel statistical techniques to longitudinal and routine clinical datasets. His experience extends over a wide range of analytical methods, including latent variable techniques, multilevel modelling, and more recently, machine learning and topological data analysis. He is a keen user of R and Python, and has many years of experience with Mplus and Stata. He teaches on a wide range of statistical techniques and lectures on courses in R, ‘Statistical Programming’, ‘Statistical Modelling’, ‘Research methods for multilevel data’ and supports delivery of other modules within the department.
Emily Jin
SENIOR PRODUCT DATA SCIENTIST
Emily Jin is a medical doctor and data scientist at the London AI Centre (part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust), where she applies her clinical expertise to develop AI-based solutions using electronic health data. She sits at the intersection of healthcare and technology, helping translate complex hospital data into insights that drive improved patient outcomes.
Anthony Shek
DATA SCIENTIST
Anthony is a data scientist with a PhD in Clinical Neuroscience/Data science. His current work involves creating and deploying state of the art NLP pipelines in and across large London hospitals. He has experience with large language models and implementing and integrating them into real-world electronic health records systems and doctor workflows. He builds tools to aid clinicians uncover trends from millions of records for service improvement and insights into disease progression.
Dr Harpreet Dhanoa
DATA SCIENTIST, Phase 1
Harpreet has PhD in Astrochemistry and Computational Astrophysics from the University College, London. She is a DiRAC (Distributed Research Utilising Advanced Computing) Fellow seconded to the Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital. She has as expertise in working with large datasets, using machine learning in multiple contexts including healthcare, and working with clinical teams to support and improve patient care through data analysis.
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Dr Ranj Singh
PATIENT &
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT LEAD
Dr. Ranj Singh is a Locum Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Evelina London, BAFTA-award-winning television presenter, magazine columnist and best-selling author. He has also held ambassador roles for various charities, including the UK Sepsis Trust. He has a keen interest in health promotion and science communication with the public and has received many awards for his work on-screen, in-print and online.
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Eleanor Clarke
PATIENT &
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT MEMBER
I’m Eleanor, I’m 29 from the West Midlands. I enjoy crafting, sports and spending time outdoors. I work in Human Resources, and my passion for action on sepsis comes from suffering from it in 2017 when I was 22 years old.
Carlo Schillaci-Rowland
PATIENT &
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT MEMBER
I am a year 9 student who is about to embark on beginning my GCSEs. My favourite subjects are Biology, Chemistry and Maths as I find them interesting. Outside of school, I enjoy karate, reading and playing the saxophone in the school Jazz Band. When I am older I would like a career within the field of Biochemistry. I am excited to be a part of the project to help me gain a better understanding of sepsis, how technology can help advance medicine further, and hope this will help me to decide what areas of Biochemistry I wish to pursue in the future.
Prof. Ian Maconochie
CLINICAL EXPERT
Dr Ian Maconochie is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, and Professor of Practice, Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Imperial College at Imperial College London. Ian has an interest in evidence based practice, vital signs and resuscitation science as well as health services evaluation. He has published over 250 peer reviewed and reports including the European Guidelines from 2010. He has also published extensively about vital signs and on PEWS systems. Ian instigated the setting up of the Association of Paediatric Emergency Medicine for the UK and Ireland (APEM), and in training for the UK and European curricula for paediatric emergency training, and is past President of the Research arm of APEM, and for the Paediatric Emergency Research Network UK and Ireland.
Ronnen Bhattacharya
PATIENT &
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT MEMBER
I am a year 9 student studying for my GCSEs. My interests are football and playing my electric guitar. In the future, I wish to be a teacher or a musician, but it is still unclear! I am hoping that this project will increase my general knowledge in a variety of subjects, especially in research and technology, and to gain some experience working with a scientific team.
Prof. Akash Deep
CLINICAL EXPERT, SEPSIS LEAD
Dr. Akash Deep is a Paediatric Intensivist and Director of Paediatric Intensive Care at King's College Hospital. He is the medical advisor to the UK Sepsis Trust Executive Committee and represents England in the Core Panel Group for standardising pathways for the care of acutely unwell children in the Emergency Department. Dr. Deep is also the main author for the National Paediatric Sepsis Toolkits for Paediatrics and has co-authored the safety netting leaflet for sepsis awareness for parents in the UK. He is actively involved in sepsis awareness campaigns for the schools and GPs. Dr. Deep is actively involved in clinical research and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. He regularly presents his work and lectures in the UK and abroad.
Prof. Damian Roland
CLINICAL EXPERT
Prof. Damian Roland is an experienced Paediatric Emergency Medicine clinician scientist with considerable experience in the development of educational resources and their evaluation especially e-health technologies. He has an international profile in the utilization of scoring systems to improve the recognition of ill and injured children in emergency and acute care settings. The Paediatric Observation Priority Score developed by Prof. Roland is highlighted by the Intercollegiate Committee on Standards of Care for Children and Young People in emergency settings.
He has a strong interest in Social Media as a means of Knowledge Translation using the twitter accounts and blogs. He has strong connections with both the Royal Colleges of Emergency Medicine and Paediatrics and Child Health and sits on the Paediatric Emergency Medicine Advisory Group for both organisations. As head of service of Children’s Emergency Department of the Leicester Royal Infirmary he is already well placed to move forward initiatives with the local integrated care system.