*CANCELLED* Edinburgh Neuroscience Christmas Public Lecture: What does the big data revolution mean for you?

**The UCU union has recently announced full strike action on a number of dates, including Tuesday 03 December 2019. In light of this, and taking into consideration the possible feelings of colleagues who may wish to exercise their right to undertake strike action, we have taken the difficult decision to cancel the Edinburgh Neuroscience Public Christmas Lecture for 2019.**

Join us for Edinburgh Neuroscience's 2019 annual Christmas Public Lecture and find out how the big data revolution is affecting the way we do health research. Professor Cathie Sudlow is one of Edinburgh's Principal Investigators for population health, stroke and dementia research and the head of the Centre for Medical Informatics.

Time: 5.30 - 6.30pm, followed by drinks reception in the Anatomical museum. 

In her Edinburgh Neuroscience Christmas Lecture, What does the big data revolution mean for you?, Prof Cathie Sudlow will describe how the big data revolution is affecting the way we do health research. Increasingly complex data are being collected in very large health research studies and are arising each day from millions of patient contacts in the health service. Prof Sudlow will explain how linking these big health datasets together and analysing them with increasingly powerful computers and advanced methods can bring new insights into how and why diseases such as strokes, heart attacks, cancer and dementia develop, and new knowledge about the best ways to prevent and treat them.

Speaker Biography

Prof Cathie Sudlow is a clinical neurologist and epidemiologist. Her clinical work involves assessing and treating patients with suspected acute stroke (or ‘brain attack’) in the hospital emergency department. Her research interests have always been firmly embedded in the world of big data, with a focus on large scale, collaborative, open science efforts to understand the causes (in our genes, environment and lifestyle), detection, prevention and treatment of major diseases, especially those that affect people in middle and older age.

Prof Sudlow holds several key national roles in big data health research initiatives. She is Director of the Scottish site of Health Data Research UK and inaugural Director of the newly established British Heart Foundation UK Centre for Cardiovascular Health Data Science. From 2011 until November 2019 she was Chief Scientist of UK Biobank, a major international research resource with data and samples of unparalleled breadth and depth from half a million UK adults.