Dr Benjamin Brown

Ben is a GP in Salford and Clinical Senior Lecturer at The University of Manchester. He develops software that uses artificial intelligence to improve health care. Ben is also co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Patchs – an award-winning online consultation system used in over 1000 GP practices and the first in the NHS to use machine learning for natural language processing. Ben’s work has been published in over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has won awards from the International Medical Informatics Association, British Computer Society, and the Society for Academic Primary Care amongst others. In addition to his medical training, Ben has qualifications in Health Informatics (PhD), Public Health (MPH), and Leadership (MSc). Outside work, Ben ‘enjoys’ watching football (he is a long-suffering Leeds United supporter) and spending time with his two young sons who are identical twins.

Speakers have declared that, except for the actual or potential conflicts of interest detailed below, their involvement in this educational activity does not involve any conflict of interest.

Dr Benjamin Brown: I am a GP partner at Langworthy Medical Practice, Salford. I am employed by The University of Manchester where I research the use of AI in health care. I am a part-time Medical Director at, and shareholder in, OneAdvanced who make AI software for the health service.