Prof. Andrew David MORRIS

Prof. Morris became the inaugural Director of Health Data Research UK, the national institute for health data science, in August 2017. Its mission is to unite the UK’s health data to enable discoveries that improve people’s lives. HDR UK is an international exemplar of open collaborative team science. Its strong inter-disciplinary leadership team across the UK is leading the design and delivery of an open, interoperable federated and trustworthy health data research ecosystem.

Andrew is seconded from his position as Professor of Medicine, and Vice Principal of Data Science at the University of Edinburgh, having taken up position in August 2014. Prior to this, Andrew was Dean of Medicine at the University of Dundee.

Andrew was Chief Scientist at the Scottish Government Health Directorate (2012-2017) and has served and chaired numerous national and international grant committees and Governmental bodies.

His research interests span informatics and data science of chronic diseases. He has published over 330 original papers, attracted over £50 million in grant funding and was the principal investigator of several programme grants.

In 2007 he co-founded Aridhia Informatics, which uses high performance computing and analytics in health care.

Andrew was previously Governor of the Health Foundation (2009-2017), a leading UK charity that supports quality improvement in health care, and chaired the Informatics Board at UCL Partners, London (2014-2017). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medical Sciences and awarded a CBE in the 2018 Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.