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SUMMARY:Can a wearable a day keep the questionnaire away? - Professor Aide
 n Doherty (Oxford Population Health)\, Mr. Charilaos Zisou (Oxford Populat
 ion Health)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250616T140000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250616T150000
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DESCRIPTION:HDRUK Oxford Monthly Meetup\, Monday 16 June 2025\, 2:00 pm 
 – 3:00 pm\n\nSpeakers:\n1) Professor Aiden Doherty\; Professor of Biomed
 ical Informatics\, Oxford Population Health\, University of Oxford\n2) Mr.
  Charilaos Zisou\; Oxford Population Health\, University of Oxford\n\nAbst
 ract:\nSmartphones and wearable devices provide a major opportunity to tra
 nsform our understanding of the mechanisms\, determinants\, and consequenc
 es of diseases. For example\, around 9 in 10 people own a smartphone in th
 e United Kingdom\, while one-fifth of US adults own wearable technologies.
  This high level of device ownership means that many people could contribu
 te to health research from the comfort of their home by offering small amo
 unts of time to share data and help address health-related questions that 
 matter to them. A leading example is the seven day wrist-worn acceleromete
 r data measured in 100\,000 UK Biobank participants between 2013-2015 that
  has led to important new findings. These include discoveries of: new gene
 tic variants for sleep and activity\; small amounts of vigorous non-exerci
 se physical activity being associated with substantially lower mortality\;
  and no apparent upper threshold to the benefits of physical activity with
  respect to cardiovascular disease risk. However\, challenges exist around
  cost\, access\, validity\, and training. In this talk I will review progr
 ess made in this exciting new area of health data science and share opport
 unities to provide new insights into physical activity\, sleep\, heart rhy
 thms and other exposures relevant to health and disease.\n\nShort Bios:\n1
 ) Professor Doherty is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Profess
 or of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Oxford. His team of ~20 
 researchers develop reproducible methods to analyse wearable sensor data i
 n both clinical trials and very large health studies to better understand 
 the causes and consequences of disease. The team has played a key role in 
 the collection of wearable sensor data in over 150\,000 research participa
 nts across the UK and China as well as complementary open human activity r
 ecognition validation datasets to further enhance these resources. His tea
 m develops open software tools and data resources for machine learning met
 hods to measure sleep\, sedentary behaviour\, physical activity behaviours
  and steps.\n\n2) Mr. Zisou is a DPhil student in Population Health at the
  University of Oxford\, supported by the Oxford British Heart Foundation C
 entre for Research Excellence\, and also a Clarendon scholar. His research
  focuses on investigating the genetic factors influencing device-measured 
 physical activity and their impact on cardiovascular disease risk. To this
  end\, he leads the work of the ACTIGEN consortium\, an international coll
 aboration conducting a meta-analysis of genomic and wearable device data f
 rom over 200\,000 individuals across diverse populations.\n\nMode: Hybrid\
 nIn-person Venue – Richard Doll Lecture Theatre\, Richard Doll Building\
 , Old Road Campus\, University of Oxford\nTo attend online – please regi
 ster (link below)\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Aiden Doherty (Oxford Population H
 ealth)\, Mr. Charilaos Zisou (Oxford Population Health)
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre
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