24 February 2026
What is your role?
I’m Adam and I’m a data scientist and AI developer working in the CogStack team at King’s College Hospital. I work primarily on the development of a clinical registry for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia patients, which is designed to use natural language processing (NLP) to extract valuable insights from unstructured written reports and present this in a useful format to clinicians.
It’s planned that the registry will plot patient timelines to illustrate frequency of clinical events and use the data to infer a patient’s risk of infection, allowing for a more proactive treatment approach.
Alongside working on the registry, I’ve also contributed to data requests for the CogStack team and I’m working on linking CogStack data with the South East London Plasma Cell Disorders Registry to allow automatic updates with the Epic electronic patient record system.
What do you enjoy most about your role?
It’s great to be able to work to support the care of a whole cohort of patients on a population level.
I’ve always enjoyed coding and problem solving. Having previously experienced how difficult it can be to access and visualise useful historic data you want to see, being able to help resolve this with open-source code feels very rewarding. It’s nice to be able to see step-by-step improvement in the registry daily and to have the creative authority over its design.
What inspired you to get into this work?
I previously worked as a clinical scientist in radiotherapy and worked with large quantities of medical data. This included a project involving extracting data from clinical systems and carrying out independent mathematical modelling to determine whether there were any potential treatment errors that had occurred.
This opened my eyes to the amount of clinical data stored within the NHS which can potentially be used for patient benefit if analysed with the right tools.
What is the impact of your work and what is the benefit of working in partnership?
The registry is designed to improve patient outcomes for long-lasting chronic conditions and has been built to be adaptable to other conditions as well, so I’m hopeful that we can expand the project to work with other teams and help other cohorts as well. I think it’s important to work together as a team for these projects, as everyone has their own unique skill set, and we can all learn from each other.
Working in partnership with members of the clinical team has been hugely beneficial in understanding complex medical information and how best to present this.
What would be your career top tip?
Don’t be afraid to embrace change. Follow what naturally interests you the most and keep an eye out for opportunities that come your way.
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