Dr Rachna Chowla

Joint Director of Clinical Strategy (King's Health Partners)

Title:

KHP and my role in hypertension as part of the Vital 5 in SEL

Biography:

Dr Rachna Chowla is a GP in Southwark, a Clinical Lead for Clinical Effectiveness Southwark and a Joint Director for Clinical Strategy at King's Health Partners (KHP). She supports KHP work within Primary Care, working in partnership with South East London CCG and also supports the work of King's Department of Population Health Sciences.

Dr Georgia Richards

King's Prize Research Fellow

Title:

Harnessing information from death investigations to enable learning

Scope:

This talk will share insights on the development of the Preventable Deaths Tracker and the ongoing research of Dr Georgia Richards to establish pipelines to improve how information from the Coroner Service is used to inform learning following deaths.

Biography:

Dr Georgia Richards is an Epidemiologist, Health Research Scientist, and King's Prize Research Fellow at King's College London. She founded and leads the Preventable Deaths Tracker, a national vigilance platform that harnesses information from coroners to learn lessons following inquests. She has a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD/DPhil) from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Biomedical Sciences with First Class Honours in Pharmacology from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Dr Richards has expertise in evidence-based healthcare, open science, drug safety and death investigations. Her research focuses on improving the safety of health interventions and care by understanding how to prevent premature deaths using information from coroners. Georgia's interests are in patient safety, harms, pharmacoepidemiology and pharmaco-device-vigilance, with a focus on opioids and interventions used in the management of people with chronic pain. She has developed several tools to improve the dissemination of research, including the Catalogue of Opioids, the Healthy Cities Toolkit, and the Preventable Deaths Tracker.

Dr Richards has freelanced in the private sector as a Consultant Safety Epidemiologist for AstraZeneca and advised the Government on systems and data for death investigations by delivering written and oral evidence in the Palace of Westminster for the follow-up inquiry into The Coroner Service. In June 2024, Georgia received the King's Prize Fellowship and joined the Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences. Prior to King's, Georgia was a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Oxford where she coordinated modules in Evidence-Based Medicine and Systematic Reviews for the Oxford Medical School and MSc in Evidence-Based Healthcare. She has supervised the research of over 40 undergraduate and graduate medical students and is actively supervising 2 MSc and 4 PhD students. She has more than 50 academic publications and has a H-index of 16.