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Vasa Curcin

Professor Vasa Curcin

Professor of Health Informatics

  • Joint Head of Department, Population Health Sciences

Research interests

  • Biomedical and life sciences

Biography

About 

Dr Vasa Curcin is a Professor  in Health Informatics at King’s College London and leads the Digital Health Group, focusing on reproducibility solutions based on data provenance, embedding clinical trials into routine practice, decision support systems as means of implementing Learning Health Systems in practice, and machine learning methods for detecting depression and anxiety disorders from social network behaviours.

Vasa completed his PhD at Imperial College London on semantics of scientific workflow systems. While working as a Bioinformatics Product Manager at InforSense Ltd, the application of his thesis to large real-world patient databases resulted in one of the earliest workflow-based phenotyping tools that has been used in both academic and industrial settings. He was a Farr Future Leader, is the King's lead for Health Data Research UK network’s Phenomics and Clinical Trial Informatics themes. He is a co-director of the DRIVE-Health Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health.

Teaching

4CCS1DBT - Database Technologies

The publication feed is not currently available.

Research

AI network
Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Understanding AI in social and economic contexts where an intelligent entity may be interacting with other entities

Doctor and patient
CONSULT

Wellness sensors to support patient decisions in managing their healthcare

Project status: Ongoing

London landscape
Ageing Research at King's (ARK)

Cross faculty consortium addressing ageing and healthy longevity.

Stroke Research Group thumbnail 780×440
Stroke Research Group

We are a multidisciplinary group (epidemiologists, stroke physicians, GPs, social scientists, statisticians, health informaticians and health economists) focused on stroke and with a wider interest in vascular long-term conditions and analytics.

Biomedical Informatics
Digital Health

Digital Health Research Group is a multidisciplinary group of informaticians, clinicians, psychologists and computer scientists, researching the role of data and knowledge in medical research and practice.

Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data

We aim to improve the lives of stroke survivors through a programme of stakeholder engagement, data collection, analysis and modelling, and use in practice.

Project status: Ongoing

public health inequality mask 780x440
Health Inequalities, Societies and Systems

Central to our research is understanding and tackling the systemic and intersecting drivers of disparities in health over the life course such as racism, gender, crime, precarious livelihoods, environmental pollution, and inaccessible health care. We work collaboratively across the School of Life Course and Population Sciences to strengthen the theoretical aspects of population health research.

241121 4CAT
KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London

KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research.

Project status: Ongoing

News

AI tackles huge problem of antimicrobial resistance in intensive care

Artificial intelligence (AI) can provide same-day assessments of antimicrobial resistance for patients in intensive care – critical to preventing...

A patient lies in a hospital bed, their head is out of frame

New Nobel Prize winner comes to King's to speak with students

Dr John Jumper, one of the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, came to King’s College London the day after the announcement to talk to students.

Dr John Jumper and students at King's

King's EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health partners with online banking start-up

Two new projects at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health (DRIVE-Health) at King’s College London will help harness healthcare data for...

DRIVE-Health symposium 2024

King's Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health awarded multi-million EPSRC funding

The Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded £7.9 million to King’s Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data-Driven Health...

Artificial Intelligence Computing Data AdobeStock_200146313(1)

Patient-level factors predominantly influence women's uptake of GP health checks

Non-uptake of health checks amongst women in ethnically diverse South London are more likely to result from patient level rather than GP practice level factors

Female doctor

King's College London joins ELIXIR-UK

By joining the intergovernmental organisation King’s will be more meaningfully involved in discussions around access to bioinformatics resources

Bioinformatics

Interdisciplinary King's team win Best Demo for CONSULT healthcare project

An interdisciplinary team from King’s, led by academic staff from the Department of Informatics, has won Best Demo at the 6th International Conference on...

Smartphone and stethoscope

Events

18Oct

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Vasa Curcin

Inspiring talks with some of our brightest minds

Please note: this event has passed.

Features

Professor Wendy Hall and Professor Vasa Curcin: What makes a good work-life balance?

Professor Wendy Hall, Deputy Head of the Department of Nutrition & Dietetics, and Professor Vasa Curcin, Joint Head of Department, Population Health Sciences,...

Guys-hero

Spotlight

Where does data come from?

The origin, or 'provenance' of data is important to gaining trust in policies and processes that are data driven.

question-key

The publication feed is not currently available.

Research

AI network
Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Understanding AI in social and economic contexts where an intelligent entity may be interacting with other entities

Doctor and patient
CONSULT

Wellness sensors to support patient decisions in managing their healthcare

Project status: Ongoing

London landscape
Ageing Research at King's (ARK)

Cross faculty consortium addressing ageing and healthy longevity.

Stroke Research Group thumbnail 780×440
Stroke Research Group

We are a multidisciplinary group (epidemiologists, stroke physicians, GPs, social scientists, statisticians, health informaticians and health economists) focused on stroke and with a wider interest in vascular long-term conditions and analytics.

Biomedical Informatics
Digital Health

Digital Health Research Group is a multidisciplinary group of informaticians, clinicians, psychologists and computer scientists, researching the role of data and knowledge in medical research and practice.

Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data

We aim to improve the lives of stroke survivors through a programme of stakeholder engagement, data collection, analysis and modelling, and use in practice.

Project status: Ongoing

public health inequality mask 780x440
Health Inequalities, Societies and Systems

Central to our research is understanding and tackling the systemic and intersecting drivers of disparities in health over the life course such as racism, gender, crime, precarious livelihoods, environmental pollution, and inaccessible health care. We work collaboratively across the School of Life Course and Population Sciences to strengthen the theoretical aspects of population health research.

241121 4CAT
KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London

KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research.

Project status: Ongoing

News

AI tackles huge problem of antimicrobial resistance in intensive care

Artificial intelligence (AI) can provide same-day assessments of antimicrobial resistance for patients in intensive care – critical to preventing...

A patient lies in a hospital bed, their head is out of frame

New Nobel Prize winner comes to King's to speak with students

Dr John Jumper, one of the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, came to King’s College London the day after the announcement to talk to students.

Dr John Jumper and students at King's

King's EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health partners with online banking start-up

Two new projects at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health (DRIVE-Health) at King’s College London will help harness healthcare data for...

DRIVE-Health symposium 2024

King's Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health awarded multi-million EPSRC funding

The Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded £7.9 million to King’s Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data-Driven Health...

Artificial Intelligence Computing Data AdobeStock_200146313(1)

Patient-level factors predominantly influence women's uptake of GP health checks

Non-uptake of health checks amongst women in ethnically diverse South London are more likely to result from patient level rather than GP practice level factors

Female doctor

King's College London joins ELIXIR-UK

By joining the intergovernmental organisation King’s will be more meaningfully involved in discussions around access to bioinformatics resources

Bioinformatics

Interdisciplinary King's team win Best Demo for CONSULT healthcare project

An interdisciplinary team from King’s, led by academic staff from the Department of Informatics, has won Best Demo at the 6th International Conference on...

Smartphone and stethoscope

Events

18Oct

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Vasa Curcin

Inspiring talks with some of our brightest minds

Please note: this event has passed.

Features

Professor Wendy Hall and Professor Vasa Curcin: What makes a good work-life balance?

Professor Wendy Hall, Deputy Head of the Department of Nutrition & Dietetics, and Professor Vasa Curcin, Joint Head of Department, Population Health Sciences,...

Guys-hero

Spotlight

Where does data come from?

The origin, or 'provenance' of data is important to gaining trust in policies and processes that are data driven.

question-key