Julia Manning Phd Mcoptom Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Multi-disciplinary RSM section providing education in everything digital health, from AI to DTx, Medtech to Consumer Wearables, for everyone involved in the provision of health and care, from clinicians to students, industry to academia.

Digital Health Lead, IXN for the NHSAcademic MSc supervision on clinical and design requirements of novel health technologiesSupport for Women in Engineering in Health Tech Sectors

London, England, United Kingdom

As the Digital Health Lead and Strategic Alliances Adviser (Healthcare) on IXN for the NHS. Julia identifies and nurtures possible new high-impact collaborations between UCL Computer Science staff and students with NHS clinicians, NHS Trusts, life science industries, charities and private providers nationally and internationally. She also supports the development of entrepreneurial activities based on research conducted in the UCL Computer Science department.

Teaching Human Factors in Digital Health (consumer tech, med tech, EHR evaluation and efficiency gains); Qualitative Methods and MSc project supervision (Apps, Gaming and VR for stress, anxiety and spinal cord injury)

London

Funded by an EPSRC scholarship, my research looked at real world use of consumer technologies (aka digital companions) such as apps, wearables and websites for health and wellbeing, and the influence of contexts (macro, meso and micro) on their usefulness and usability. Studying digital support for self-management of stress in the macro-context of education, I created a taxonomy to guide strategic and conceptually informed technology choices, the principles of which should generalise to other conditions and contexts. I also created a guide to populating the taxonomy with rigourously assured digital companion candidates that could be adopted by professionals, specialities or patient groups with security and privacy at the core. Policy, healthcare and workplace well-being pathways are all seeking to harness digital health for improved LTC self-care and elective outcomes. Innovation needs to take place in collaboration within the whole ecosystem, taking human factors including contexts into account, to optimise validity, utility and trust.

Cambridge, Uk

Interim role where I reviewed operational, financial, personnel and workflow activities to streamline and improve productivity. Involved in winning new contract to investigate use of Ed Tech in boy's schools and ongoing work on relationship data analysis and quality in AP provision. The Relationships Foundation is a UK based charity formed in 1994 working globally to support business and the public sector to improve the quality of their key relationships. Harnessing research and technology they provide insight and strategic advice and resources.

I launched 2020health in 2006 as an online think tank to provide anyone the opportunity to contribute to healthcare policy, and explore emerging digital opportunities in health. The aim was to Make Health Personal and Social - Giving people the information, understanding and confidence to take a meaningful role in their health and wellbeing, and create the conditions for a healthier society. Through networking, technology, research, relationships and campaigning 2020health opinion and action in fields as diverse as telehealth, NHS fraud, education, EHRs and vaccination. 2020health led the NHS Leadership Exchange Programme to the USA's VHA in 2013-15 and pioneered and co-founded the Health Tech and You Awards with AXA PPP and the Design Museum 2014-2018. Now Directed by Dr Iseult Roche, some of the public-facing impact can be seen at 2020health.org

Asking questions and critquing policy in health, technology and culture.

JM Eyecare was a specialised optometry practice for people who were housebound, suffering severe mental illness or with learning disabilities. I set it up to demonstrate and deliver a new standard of care for some of the most vulnerable in society, ensuring patient held records of findings and recommendations, and with consent shared with the MDT (GP, Consultant, Social Services, Charity Support Workers etc). Lambeth PCT supported my training in the University of Warwick Certificate in Diabetes Care to enable a sysemic assessment of patients with diabetes. Information on risk of falls, daily living tasks and visual requirements were all clearly stated so the whole MDT were able to meet patients' needs and fully understand visual requirements and limitations. I sat on the National Domiciliary Eyecare Commmittee, sharing good practice nationwide and for 6 years served as a Trustee of the Institute of Optometry. The practice was sold in 2009 to HealthCall Optical, now part of Specsavers.

My responsibilites included:Strategic planning and commissioning of primary and secondary care, public health and mental health servicesImproving health outcomes for Lambeth residentsClinical advisory role for public health and the wider community

I worked in community optometry firstly in Hertfordshire then in London, covering specialities such as behavioural optometry and therapuetic contact lens and post-op clinics at the Royal Free Hospital. I taught as a visiting lecturer at City University before moving to work in south-east London. Increasingly involved in eyecare of the elderly, those with reduced vision and diabetes, I chaired the Local Optical Commitee and ran the LSL Low Vision Committee.

Phd, Human Computer Interaction

Bsc(Hons), Optometry & Visual Science

Member, College of Optometrists

Certificate In Diabetes Care