Mother and her baby son

Team

The eLIXIR team includes members from King’s College London Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine and King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences (IoPPN). 

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Professor Lucilla PostonPrincipal Investigator of the eLIXIR study

Professor Lucilla Poston is Tommy's Charity Professor of Maternal & Fetal Health and Director of the Tommy’s Maternal & Fetal Research Unit based at St Thomas’ Hospital. She is the Research Lead for King's Health Partners' Institute of Women and Children's Health and leads a large multidisciplinary research team which investigates disorders of pregnancy including premature birth, pre-eclampsia and the complications arising from maternal obesity. Her own research focuses on maternal nutrition, obesity and gestational diabetes, with a focus on the early life origins of health and disease.

Professor Poston is President of the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG) and was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2009. She was appointed NIHR Senior Investigator, Emeritus in 2017, having succeeded twice in open competition. In the same year, Lucilla was awarded a CBE for services to Women’s Health.

Professor Robert StewartCo-Investigator of the eLIXIR study

I lead the Clinical and Population Informatics theme of the SLAM Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, and have been academic lead for the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) application since its development in 2007-08. CRIS is a ground-breaking data resource providing researcher access to anonymised electronic health record data on over 400,000 mental health service users in order to promote translational research for improving mental health. This has included an extensive programme of data enhancement through linkages and applied natural language processing in clinical text fields. I have had longstanding interests in the interface between mental and physical health, in the epidemiology of dementia and other late-life mental disorders, and in international mental health.

Dr. Mark AshworthLambeth Primary Care Data Linkage Lead

Mark Ashworth has combined an academic primary care research career with a clinical career in inner-city general practice. His main research interests are - multimorbidity and the pathways to multimorbidity - antibiotic prescribing and reducing the risk of antibiotic resistance - psychosis in ethnic minority communities - psychometrics and the development of PSYCHLOPS, a patient-generated mental health outcome measure - primary care quality indicators.