International Activity –
Member of IFMBE Assembly (and IUPESM) (2001-2004).
Elected VP IEEE EMBS for two terms (2000 – 2003) - Chair of Members and Chapters Activities Committee (2000 – 2001); Chair of Conference Committee (2002 – 2003); Chair of Infostructure Committee (2004); Co-organiser of IEEE-ITAB Summer School 2002 and 2004; Chair of Organising Committee for IEEE-ITAB 2003.
Chairman of IMEKO TC-13 (Measurement in Medicine and Biology) (1998-2003).
Chair of Advisory Board in Telehealth and Telemedicine, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong (2001-2007).
Member (Co-organiser) of Faculty of Health Technology College (‘Bologna’ programme), University of Zagreb (2003).
Advisor to University Research Committee, Free University of Brussels re STARLAB Informatics Research Group (Sep 2003 and Sep 2004).
Registered EU ‘expert’ (EX2002B054772).
Advisor to the Committee on Appointments and Promotion, Oakland University, USA (Dec 2003).
Member IEEE TC on Computational Biology and the Physiome (2009-).
Active research collaboration with University of Rennes – Prof Jean-Marc Schleich immersive secondment (2009-2010) – to be sustained to 2015.
National Activity –
President, Institute of Measurement and Control (2007-8 – first term of Office exceeding one year for 45 years); Past-President (2009 -2011).
elected VP InstMC (2000 – 2006) – Member of Council (2000- ); Member of Executive Board (2000- ); Chair of Science and Technology Committee (2000-2003); Member of Audit Committee (2009 -); Delegate to the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee (an Associate Parliamentary Committee) (2007 -); Member of Joint Government Liaison Working Group for Measurement and Control Technologies (2007- ).
Member of Executive Board, UK Medical Informatics Society (1997- ).
Member of External Board, Centre for Health Informatics, City University (2003- ).
Member of IET Health Professional Network (2003- ).
Member of EPSRC Peer Review College (2006- )
East Midlands Regional Activity –
Co-Director, Da Vinci Health Technology Innovation Network.
Member University Hospitals Leicester Trust SDO Programme Board (2003- 2007).
University Activity –
City University
Department of Systems Science
2nd Year Tutor (1988) – while still a PhD Student
Course Director – BSc Management and Systems (1989-1995)
Centre for Measurement and Information in Medicine
Course Director – BSc Health Technologies (1995-1998)
Loughborough University
Department of Information Science
Head of Department (2000-2003)
Course Director – MSc Information and Knowledge Management (2003-2008)
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Executive Director of Systems Programmes (UG; PG; Short course)
Research Leader – Biophotonics and Health Technologies Research Group
Expertise
Health Informatics pervasive computing perspective
Health/Pharma Informatics
In Silico Biology
Integration of complex systems
Modelling Complex Adaptive Systems
Multiscale Modelling
Systems Engineering
Systems Theory and Practice
Technology Development and Roadmapping
Wearable computing
Biomedical engineering
Keywords
systems
multi-scale modelling
bio-medical engineering
digital health
2008 – date Professor of Information Engineering, Loughborough University
1998 – 2008 Professor of Information Science, Loughborough University
1995 – 1998 Senior Lecturer in Systems Science, City University
1989 - 1995 Lecturer in Systems Science, City University
1988 – 1989 Research Associate, Dept Systems Science, City University
1988 Founding Director of CSW Informatics Ltd (ceased trading 2008)
2002 Founding Director of SP Informatics Ltd
2008 Director, MS3 Ltd
Biomedical Engineering
2001 DH Clinical Headings £50,000
(9 mo) Investigated the use of common metadata for information that crosses an organisational boundary (PI) – with the Winchester and Eastleigh Hospital Trust
2001 UN FAO Integration of Distributed Information System £55,000
(10 mo) One of the first uses of a web services model to integrate distributed information sources: rolled out to other agencies of the UN (PI) – withCity University and CSW Informatics Ltd
2002 UHL Cardiac Operations Waiting List £27,000
(36 mo) A multidisciplinary systems approach was taken to improve the performance of the Cardiothoracic Dept at Glenfield Hospital (PI)
2003 EPSRC e-Medic £283,500
(36 mo) Investigated the use of incorporating an ICT element into the next generation of inhaler devices, in order to deliver drugs to the lungs (Co-I) with the Universities of Bath and Southampton, CSW Informatics Ltd, and Vectura Ltd.
2003 EU DOC@home €10,000
(24 mo) Managed the EU DOC@home project that produced a system for recording home monitored physiological variables (Project Manager) – with a consortium of SMEs from Estonia, Latvia, Sweden, Finland and the UK.
2005 EPSRC Technology Roadmapping £52,828
(33 mo) Investigated the use and extension of technology roadmaps into the health sector. (Co-I)
2006 EPSRC/DTI KTP Clinical Trials Support System £184,000
(24 mo) Transferred knowledge from UN system (see above) for use in the UK’s first hospital-based Clinical Trials Support Unit (PI) – with University Hospitals of Leicester
2006 EPSRC Bridging the Gap (Maths, ICT, Engineering) £187,000
(36mo) Multidisciplinary approach to common systems-based problems. (Co-I)
2009 EPSRC Project Fallot £9,000
(12 mo) Producing a voice annotated simulation of the Tetralogy of Fallot for use in Clinical Education (PI) – with University of Rennes
Professor Summers has supervised over 30 PhD Students (1989 – date).
View all Professor Summers’s publications in the central publications database
Selected Publications
Price, S. and Summers, R., Clinical Knowledge Management: The Role of an Integrated Drug Delivery System, Idea Group, Hershey, USA, May 2005, pp 182-195.
Vyas, H. and Summers, R., ''An Information-Driven Approach to Pharmacogenomics'', Pharmacogenomics, 6(5), 1st July 2005, 473-480, ISSN 15701603.
Doherty, N.F., Dudhal, N., Coombs, C.R., Summers, R., Vyas, H., Hepworth, M. and Kettle, E., ''The Application of Benefits Realisation Practices to the Development of a Clinical Trials Support System'', European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, Montpellier, France, September 2007, 11 pp.
Zheng, J., Hu, S., Chouliaras, V. and Summers, R., ''Feasibility of Imaging Photoplethysmography'', In: Proceedings of BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, IEEE Computer Society, Sanya, Hainan, China, May 2008, pp. 72-75.
Chouliaras, V., Hu, S., Summers, R., Echiadis, A., Azorin-Peris, V., King, I. and Zheng, J., ''Real-time VLSI Architecture for Bio-Medical Monitoring'', In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Technology and Application in Biomedicine, Shenzhen, China, May 2008, pp. 463-468.
Summers, R., Vyas, H., Dudhal, N., Doherty, N.F., Coombs, C.R. and Hepworth, M. “Innovations in Clinical Trials”, In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, Canada, August 2008.
Summers, R. and Betker, A.L., “Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Bioengineering (Minisymposium)”, In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, Canada, August 2008.
Doherty, N.F., Dudhal, N., Coombs, C., Summers, R., Vyas, H., Hepworth M. and Kettle, E. (2008) “Towards an Integrated Approach to Benefits Realisation Management – Reflections from the Development of a Clinical Trials Support System”, The Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, vol. 11 (2), pp. 83-90. (www.ejise.com)
Price, S. and Summers R., “Exploration of Sector Level Roadmaps”, In Proceedings of the Third International Seville Seminar on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis, Seville, Spain, October 2008.
Summers, R., “Envisioning art: Engineering Icons”, Inaugural Lecture, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, November, 2008.
Summers, R., “Knowledge Management in Clinical Trials”, In: The Evolution of Data Management in Pharma, Amsterdam, November, 2008 (Keynote: www.pharmadata-event.com)
Price, C. and Summers, R., (2009) “ Decision Support in Large Scale Healthcare Information Systems: The Challenge of Integrating Ontologies”, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology.
Summers, R., “Disruptive Technologies in Healthcare”, In: Proc. Symposium on Disruptive and Emerging Technologies in Healthcare”, City University, London, May 2009. (Keynote)
Summers, R., “From Disruption to Innovation” In: Proceedings of the VII IEEE UKRI PG Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, Oxford, July 2009. (Also available via IET.TV at …) (Keynote)
Mitchell, N., Randell, R., Foster, R., Dowding, D., Lattimer, V., Thompson, C., Cullum, N. and Summers, R. (2009), “A national survey of computerized decision support systems available to nurses in England”, Journal of Nursing Management.
Summers, R., Hu, S., Echiadis, A., Azorin-Peris, V. and Chouliaras, V. (2009), “Innovation for personalization: a healthcare case study” In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, USA, September 2009.
