Speaker
Professor Andrea Cipriani
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Biography
Andrea Cipriani is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and honorary consultant psychiatrist in the NHS. As a clinical academic, his research focuses on the evaluation of treatments in mental health, mainly mood disorders and schizophrenia. His interest in evidence synthesis has now a specific focus on data science and precision mental health, trying to assess the validity and interpretation of innovative statistical and machine learning approaches to better inform the decision-making process between patients and clinicians to personalise treatment in routine clinical care. He is currently Director of GALENOS (Global Alliance for Living Evidence on Anxiety, Depression and Psychosis - funded by the Wellcome Trust), Director of the NIHR Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility, Lead of the Data Science Theme of the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre and Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Mental Health.