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Stakeholder Summit – 24th March 2026

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This is your chance to find out more about the West Midlands SDE, the types of research we support and how we can boost your projects.

  • West Midlands SDE Stakeholder Summit
  • Date: Tuesday 24 March 2026
  • Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
  • Location: Midlands Arts Centre
  • Register your interest

The first West Midlands SDE Stakeholder Summit gathers our team, data providers and data users to examine our progress and discuss how the service can develop in future.

We are aiming to work together to form new partnerships, building on existing collaborations between the NHS, industry partners and local universities.

09.30Tea/coffee and networking
10.00Compère welcome and introduction to the West Midlands SDE: Dr Paul Clift, Clinical Lead for the Centre for Rare Diseases & Professor Simon Ball, SRO West Midlands SDE
10.32Dexter: Professor Krish Nirantharakumar. King’s College London and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
10.47Q&As
11.02Sonata: at scale evaluation of a novel cancer diagnostic: Professor Sudha Sundar and Dr Carole Cummins. University of Birmingham
11.17Q&As
11.33Comfort break
11.45DaRe2THINK: A new reality of data-enabled, remote follow-up, randomised trials embedded in NHS Primary Care: Professor Dipak Kotecha
12.00Digital Clinical Trials: Professor Matt Sydes. NHS England
12.50Lunch – networking time / Lunch & Learn sessions (13.30-13.50)
– West Midlands SDE Data Access Committee (DAC): Alice Young & Julianne Jimenez. West Midlands SDE
– PPIE in the West Midlands Secure Data Environment: Andrea Clark. West Midlands SDE
– A practical guide to national research databases, epidemiological tools, and emerging regional data infrastructures: Professor Nicola Adderly. university of Birmingham.
– West Midlands SDE Technology Matters: Stephen Perks. West Midlands SDE
14.02Central and South Genomic Medicine Service (GMS) – developing the Data and Digital provision for clinical care and research: Professor Tony Williams & Gareth Masson. University Hospitals Southampton & Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
14.17Histofy: Professor David Snead
14.32Q&As
15.03Comfort break
15.15National update | Hilary Fanning MBE and Melissa Hoffman. NHS England
15.47Delivering a Deep Data Service: Kerrie Woods & Jim Davies. To be joined by panel members. Thames Valley and Surrey SDE and West Midlands SDE
Video – Public perspective
16.25Conclusion & close: Professor Simon Ball

If you join us, you will hear more on topics such as:

  • digital clinical trials
  • genomics
  • Dexter – automated analyses
  • imaging data and the SDE
  • West Midlands SDE’s Data Access Committee
  • national updates.

Please register your interest in joining us for the Stakeholder Summit.

Meet the speakers

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Dr Paul Clift 

Clinical Lead for the Centre for Rare Diseases

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Master of Ceremonies

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Professor Simon Ball

Senior Responsible Officer West Midlands Secure Data Environment

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Responsible Officer

Professor Krish Nirantharakumars headshot

Professor Krish Nirantharakumar

Clinical Professor in Public Health and Health Data Science Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine

King’s College London and University Hospitals Birmingham

Presenter

Professor Sudha Sundars headshot

Professor Sudha Sundar

Professor of Gynaecological Cancer

University of Birmingham

Presenter

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Dr Carole Cummins

Honorary Associate Professor

University of Birmingham

Presenter

Professor Dipak Kotecha MBChB PhD (Clinical Cardiology) MSc (Clinical Trials) FRCP FESC FHEAs headshot

Professor Dipak Kotecha MBChB PhD (Clinical Cardiology) MSc (Clinical Trials) FRCP FESC FHEA

Professor of Cardiology & Cardiac Imaging and Consultant Cardiologist

Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingam, UK | Julius Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands | University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.

Presenter

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Professor Matt Sydes

Head of Data-Driven Clinical Trials and Cohorts

Data for R&D, NHS England

Presenter

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Professor David Snead

Chief Medical Officer

Histofy

Presenter

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Professor Tony Williams

Professor of Translational Medicine

University Hospitals Southampton

Presenter

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David Snead

Chief Medical Officer

Histofy

Presenter

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Hilary Fanning MBE

Senior Responsible Owner, Data for Research and Development Programme

NHS England

Presenter

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Melissa Hoffman
Presenter

Kerrie Woodss headshot

Kerrie Woods

Director, R&D clinical informatics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Thames Valley and Surrey Secure Data Environment

Presenter

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Gareth Masson

Central and South GMS Head of Data and Digital

Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital

Presenter

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Professor Jim Davies

Technical Lead R&D Clinical Informatics

Thames Valley and Surrey Secure Data Environment

Presenter

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Professor Nicola Adderley

Professor of Epidemiology and Real-World Evidence

Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham

Lunch and Learn

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Andrea Clark

Engagement and Consultation Consultant

Arden & GEM CSU

Lunch and Learn

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Alice Young

West Midlands Secure Data Environment Project Support Officer - R,D&I

University Hospitals Birmingham

Lunch and Learn

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Julianne Jimenez

West Midlands Secure Data Environment Project Assistant

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust

Lunch and Learn

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Stephen Perks

Principal Technical Lead – RD&I Health Data Research, West Midlands Secure Data Environment

University Hospitals Birmingham

Lunch and Learn

Please register your interest in joining us for the Stakeholder Summit.

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