Abstract
Do doctors specialising in medical data science choose it because they dislike working with patients? Over the past decade or so Cathie Sudlow, Professor of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Director of the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Data Science Centre, has emerged as a leading force in medical informatics, so the question is clearly one for her. “Absolutely not”, is her amused response. But, as she concedes, circumstances have changed over time. When Sudlow took on her BHF role in 2020, she had to stop her clinical work entirely. In the 10 years before this she had still been seeing neurology patients weekly and describes her withdrawal from this aspect of medicine as “a natural progression rather than a dichotomy”. At school in Edinburgh she enjoyed science. “But I always had a leaning towards medicine because it was a way of combining science with a kind of schoolgirlish desire to do something for the community…I really did not then have inklings of a research career. It was more a desire to be working directly with people in a clinical context”, she says. So what changed?
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