On 7th Feb, the Usher Institute is hosting an event looking at methodical challenges around multimorbidity research. Hosted by our Director, Prof. Bruce Guthrie, we encourage you to attend this event. The programme is below, and for further details, and to register, click here. Programme 09:15 Platform opens for attendees to log in 09:30 Welcome & overview - Bruce Guthrie, The University of Edinburgh Session 1 – Measuring multimorbidity 09:50 Talk 1: Variation in the definition and measurement of multimorbidity in research - Iris Ho, The University of Edinburgh 10:00 Talk 2: How to operationalize physical and mental health conditions using routine records - Regina Prigge, The University of Edinburgh 10:10 Talk 3: How to efficiently harmonise data across different birth cohorts for multimorbidity research - Jorge Arias de la Torre, King's College London 10:20 Questions and discussion 10:40 Break 10:55 Talk 4: Defining depression in health datasets - Kelly Fleetwood, The University of Edinburgh 11:05 Talk 5: Pooled cohort data: challenges and remedies to temporal variability in depression measurements and its consequence for multimorbidity trajectory - Alexandru Dregan, King's College London 11:15 Questions and discussion Session 2 – Methods for clustering and trajectories 11:30 Talk 6: A comparison of methods for identifying multimorbidity patterns - Amy Ronaldson, King's College London 11:40 Talk 7: Modelling trajectories of disease in multimorbidity for the population of Wales - Rhiannon Owen, Swansea University 11:50 Talk 8: On clustering of multiple long term conditions: what can we do more with machine learning? - Sohan Seth, The University of Edinburgh 12:00 Questions and discussion 12:20 Break 12:30 Chaired panel discussion Chair: Caroline Jackson, The University of Edinburgh Panel: Alexandru Dregan, Bruce Guthrie, Rhiannon Owen 12:50 Closing remarks - Bruce Guthrie 13:00 Close Download the programme PDF Methodological Challenges in Research on Physical-Mental Health Multimorbidity - Feb 2022 - Programme (201.66 KB PDF) Publication date 19 Jan, 2022
