Luke Daines

Project: Improving the accuracy of asthma diagnosis in clinical practice

Early Career Researcher overview

Project: Improving the accuracy of asthma diagnosis in clinical practice

Based at: University of Edinburgh

Email: Luke.daines@ed.ac.uk

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Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research Clinical Research Fellow, Luke Daines

Luke’s current research seeks to improve the accuracy with which a diagnosis of asthma can be made in clinical practice. He was awarded a Chief Scientist Office Clinical Academic Fellowship (2017) for “deriving and validating a clinical prediction rule for the diagnosis of asthma in primary care”. The asthma diagnosis prediction model was developed into a Clinical Decision Support System in collaboration with Optimum Patient Care and Tactuum in a project funded by Asthma UK / Innovate UK (2018). He is now exploring the potential for natural language processing to support the diagnosis and early detection of asthma (and other respiratory diseases) using free text held in primary care records.

About me

Dr Luke Daines graduated from the University of Edinburgh with MBChB in 2010. During his medical studies, he completed an intercalated BSc in Anatomical Sciences at Bristol University.

Completing his GP training in 2015, Luke joined the University of Edinburgh as an Academic Clinical Fellow in General Practice. During his first year he completed a qualitative study exploring patient views on supported self-management for asthma, part of the IMP2ART programme of work.

Luke contributed to the diagnosis chapter of the British Thoracic Society / Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network asthma guideline in 2016. His interest in asthma diagnosis was further developed during a Master’s in Public Health (2016/17) when he completed a travel fellowship at the Technical University of Munich to investigate the importance of alternative reference standards in evaluating diagnostic tests for asthma.

Alongside his academic commitments, Luke works as a GP for Murieston Medical Practice.

Luke completed his PhD through the Centre. Read his student profile for details of his PhD project:

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