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Stakeholder Summit banner | Save the Date - Tuesday 25th March 2026

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 & Professor Simon Ball
10.22Linking genomics to cancer slides / rare diseases to genomics: Professor Tony Williams
(Presentation content tbc): Professor Sudha Sundar and Dr Carole Cummins
10.37(Presentation content tbc): Professor Sudha Sundar and Dr Carole Cummins
10.52Q&As
11.23Comfort break
11.35Digital Clinical Trials: Professor Dipak Kotecha
11.50Digital Clinical Trials: Professor Matt Sydes
12.05Q&As
12.40Lunch – networking time / Lunch & Learn sessions (13.30-13.50)
– West Midlands SDE Data Access Committee (DAC): Alice Young & Julianne Jimenez
– PPIE in the West Midlands Secure Data Environment: Andrea Clark
– A practical guide to national research databases, epidemiological tools, and emerging regional data infrastructures: Professor Nicola Adderly
– West Midlands SDE Technology Matters: Stephen Perks
14.02Dexter: Professor Krish Nirantharakumar
14.17Histofy: David Snead
14.32Q&As
15.03Comfort break
15.15National update | Hilary Fanning MBE and Melissa Hoffman
15.47Deep Data Service: Eastern England SDE / Thames Valley and Surrey SDE / West Midlands SDE
Video – Public perspective
16.25Conclusion & close: 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

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Professor Tony Williams

Professor of Translational Medicine

University Hospitals Southampton

Presenter

Professor Sudha Sundars headshot

Professor Sudha Sundar

Professor of Gynaecological Cancer

University of Birmingham

Presenter

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Dr Carole Cummins

Honorary Senior Lecturer

University of Birmingham

Presenter

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Professor Dipak Kotecha

Professor of Cardiology & Consultant Cardiologist

University of Birmingham

Presenter

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Professor Matt Sydes

Head of Data-Driven Clinical Trials and Cohorts

Data for R&D, NHS England

Presenter

Krish Nirantharakumars headshot

Krish Nirantharakumar

Honorary Professor in Public Health
Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine

University of Birmingham

Presenter

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David Snead

Chief Medical Officer

Histofy

Presenter

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Hilary Fanning MBE

Hilary Fanning, Senior Responsible Owner, Data for Research and Development Programme

NHS England

Presenter

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Melissa Hoffman
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

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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