| Surname | Forenames | Date of Birth | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ingram | David | 6/11/1945 | Married |
| Degrees | |||
| 1967 | BA, Oxford University, Physics with Theoretical Physics | ||
| 1976 | PhD, London University | ||
| 1984 | FBCS, Fellow of the British Computer Society | ||
| 1990 | CEng, Chartered Engineer | ||
| 1998 | MRCP(Hon) Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London | ||
| Current Post | |||
| Professor of Health Informatics and Director of the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, University College London | |||
| Summary of previous posts | |||
| 1967-69 | Technical Manager, Vickers Ltd. Medical Group | ||
| 1972-75 | Senior Physicist, DHSS experimental computer project | ||
| 1975-80 | Lecturer in Medical Computing and Physics (Dept. of Medicine, The Medical College of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, University of London | ||
| 1980-85 | Senior Lecturer in Medical Computing and Physics | ||
| 1985-89 | Reader in Medical Computing | ||
| 1990-95 | Professor of Medical Informatics | ||
General Areas of Interest
Mathematical modelling of biological and clinical systems, informatics in medical education, formal methods for modelling information requirements and architectures, development and validation of information systems to support clinical practice.
Career Summary
David Ingram has held posts in industry, the National Health Service and University Medical Schools. After undergraduate physics at Oxford and several years in the medical engineering industry, he studied computer science and completed doctoral research on the mathematical modelling of biological systems at University College London. He then worked in the experimental computing programme of the NHS, developing real-time systems for nuclear medicine, radiotherapy and neo-natal intensive care, before taking up an academic post in medical computing and physics at The Medical College of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, in 1975, within the Department of Medicine.
David contributed extensively to the computer programmes for modelling human physiology, developed at Bart’s and McMaster University, which were published by Oxford University Press and became widely known and used throughout the world. He was appointed Reader in 1985 and Professor of Medical Informatics in 1990, the first in the UK in this new field. He led the multi-professional group which developed the joint nursing and medicine clinical skills laboratory at Bart’s, the first in the UK. In 1995, David returned to UCL, at the invitation of the Provost, to set up and lead a new Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, at the heart of a new Whittington Hospital Archway Campus.
Over the past ten years, David has led and been partner in major national and European R&D projects in areas of educational computing (The Europe Against Cancer initiative), electronic healthcare records( European Union GEHR, Synapses, Synex projects, involving academic, health care and industrial partners in all EU countries and totalling some 15MECU) and tropical medicine (Wellcome Trust Tropical Medicine Resource). The EU work is now being taken forward, internationally, to provide clinical and technical foundations for evolving CEN and ISO standards in information management for health care services.
David has participated over 20 years in conferences and on specialist professional committees of the RCP and other medical and scientific Royal Colleges and Institutions. His Centre at UCL has recently been selected to lead a Focal Institute of Health Informatics within the UK Technology Foresight Programme. In recent times, David has been guest lecturer on a programme of visits to Universities and conferences across Australia. He is currently working on development of new clinical services and information systems to support care of patients with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
David has been Vice-President and Treasurer of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine in the UK and Patron, nationally, of CONCAH (Continuing Care at Home), which brings together some twenty charities concerned with the long-term care of people with neurologically-related diseases. He is a Trustee of Starthere, a new charity devoted to building high-street terminals to guide people to appropriate sources of help and advice on their healthcare needs.
Key Publications
Hinds, C.J., Ingram, D., Adams, L., Cole, P.V., Dickinson, C.J., Kay, J., Krapez, J.R. and Williams, J. (1980) Initial evaluation of the clinical use of a holistic model of human respiration in artificially ventilated patients, Clin. Sci. & Mol. Med., 58, 83-91.
Bloch,R.F., Ingram,D., Sweeney,G.D., Ahmed,K., and Dickinson,C.J.(1980) Macdope: A simulation of drug disposition in the human body. Mathematical Considerations, J.Theoret. Biol. 87,211-236.
Hinds, C.J., Ingram, D and Dickinson, C.J. (1982) Self-instruction and assessment in techniques of intensive care using a computer model of the respiratory system, Intensive Care Medicine, 8, 115-123.
Ingram, D and Bloch, R.F (Eds.) (1984) "Mathematical Methods in Medicine. Part 1, Statistical and Analytical Techniques", J.Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 452pp.
Ingram, D and Bloch, R.F (Eds.) (1986) "Mathematical Methods in Medicine. Part 2, Applications in Clinical Specialities", J. Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 514pp.
Saunders L, Ingram, D and Warrington S. (1985) The pharmacokinetics and dynamics of oxprenolol. J.Pharm. and Pharmacol.,37,802-806.
Ingram, D., Dickinson, C.J., and Ahmed, K.A. (1987) A simulation of human respiration, gas exchange and control, Oxford University Press.
Saunders,L., Ingram, D. and Jackson, S.J (1989) "Human Drug Kinetics", Oxford University Press, 257pp
Ingram, D. , Jones, R.V., Lant, A.E. and Findlay, I.G.(1990) 'Cancer Patients and their Families at Home' - An educational Package for General Practitioners and District Nurses based on an interactive Videodisc. Computers in Education, 16, 211-216.
The Tropical Medicine Resource (1993) Wellcome Trust international archive of tropical diseases with tutorials and case studies on videodisc and compact disc.
Ingram,D.(1995) GEHR: The Good European Health Record, In Health in the New Communications Age, M.F. Laires, M..J. Ladeira and J.P. Christensen (Eds), IOS Press, 66-74.
Ingram D. & Murphy J. (1996) Integrating Informatics into the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Report on a Pilot Project, in van Bemmel JH & McCray (eds) Yearbook of Medical Informatics, IMIA, Schattauer
Prizes
1991 Versalius prize for anatomy teaching, USA, for The Anatomy Project
1992 International Visual Communications Association Bronze award, for 'Cancer Patients and their Families at Home'
1992 BMA Silver Award, for 'Cancer Patients and their Families at Home'