Dr. Katie Davey Awarded CBE Outstanding Industry Engagement Award
Dr. Katie Davey, an MBCIU staff member, Senior Lecturer in the Biomedical Engineering Department, and NIF PET Informatics Fellow, has recently received the Outstanding Industry Engagement Award from the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. This award recognises her engagement with industry via research in PET imaging and the use of AI in surgery.
Katie engages with over 20 industry partners across a broad scope of projects. Some highlights include:
- Leading an international project that aims to improve the diagnosis and monitoring of the early stages of Alzheimer’s pathology. Currently medication to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s must be administered during early stages of the disease when it is difficult to detect. This project will thus support the global rollout of Alzheimer’s pathology medications.
- Collaboration with surgeons in AI analysis of laparoscopic video in order to feedback results to surgeons that can improve surgical decision making.
- Developing software that is accessible in the operating theatre to assist surgeons in identifying gall stones in routine x-ray imaging performed during laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery.
- Developing software which assists urology surgeons by providing AI guidance in finding the ureteric orifice.
- Developing AI software which can predict the efficacy of chemotherapy prior to surgery in patients with oesophageal cancer based on their histology results.
- Katie has also organised and presented a PET masterclass by Eli Lilly, developed national data strategies for imaging, validated motion correction algorithms for PET imaging, conducted time series analysis for brain pulse monitors, and is developing software to identify patients who are at risk of micro strokes after a major stroke.
