Dr Atul Anand

BGS RADC Member (AAGM Representative)

Atul is a Senior Lecturer in Health Data Research at the Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh and Honorary Consultant Geriatrician in Edinburgh. He is the Clinical Lead for DataLoch – the Secure Data Environment for Health and Social Care research in South East Scotland. Atul’s own work focuses on improving care pathways for older people with frailty and multimorbidity using routine data, particularly through risk identification and implementation of systems-based changes. Cardiovascular disease has been a focus of this work, through testing and deploying new approaches to the diagnosis and rule-out of myocardial infarction in randomised trials across Scotland. He is Secretary of the Association of Academic Geriatric Medicine and Vice Chair of the BGS Cardiovascular Specialist Interest Group.