The Dept of Population Health Sciences is pleased to announce the next department seminar.

Please join this seminar online through Teams

Details

3pm, hybrid – Seminar Room 6.07, 6^th Floor, Addison House -  4th June 2025

Speaker

Olga Kostopoulou, Reader, Imperial College London

Title

Algorithm-supported risk prediction in medical decision making: two online experiments and some modelling

Biography

Olga is Reader in Medical Decision Making at Imperial College London. Previously, she held academic positions at the University of Birmingham (lecturer) and King’s College London (senior lecturer). She holds a PhD in Psychology from Cardiff University. She studies cognition and decision making in healthcare using predominantly quantitative methods. She has conducted extensive research on diagnosis and diagnostic error in primary care. Her current interests include the impact of decision support tools on doctors’ thinking and decision making, the representation of uncertainty, and the acceptability of AI by patients and providers. Olga was the 2021-22 President of the  Society for Medical Decision Making and is Associate Editor of  Medical Decision Making,  MDM Policy & Practice, and  Frontiers in Cognition.