ProfessorDeclan O'Regan

Prof Declan O'Regan is British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiovascular AI, MRC Investigator and Consultant Radiologist. He leads the Computational Cardiac Imaging Group at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences. He is also Director for Imaging Research at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is theme co-lead on the Imperial College BHF Centre of Research Excellence.

He is committed to science engagement and is a past Roentgen (UK) and Rowan-Williams (Australasia) travelling professor lecturing internationally on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. He is a past board member for the British Society of Cardiac MR and currently chairs the Publications Committee of the Society of Cardiac MR. He is also a member of the MRC Clinical Training and Career Development Panel. He has recently been an Associate Editor for the European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging and is currently a Guest Editor for Circulation.

His research is focussed on using machine learning to discover mechanisms that underpin cardiovascular disease by integrating data from human imaging, genetics and environmental risk factors. His work includes developing algorithms for predicting human survival from cardiac motion and understanding how complex traits influence the risk of heart failure. He also collaborates with industry to accelerate progress in drug discovery using automated genotype-phenotype modelling. HIs work is funded by the Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, Heart Research UK, National Institutes of Health, Calico Labs and Bayer AG.

Lab website: oreganlab.org