using smartphones to track Activity in relation to disease

• Core Team

Miss E W Macharia

Miss Macharia is an early-years researcher. Her PhD project is titled: “Risk stratification in gastro- oesophageal reflux.” As a Clinical Research Associate (REMOS trial) and Specialist Trainee in Paediatric Surgery, she has gained experience in the administration of questionnaires, measurement of health status and treatment of children with GOR. She will ensure translation of standard paper-based questionnaires into an efficacious smartphone symptom tracker. Miss Macharia is supervised by Professor Agostino Pierro and Dr Simon Eaton, UCL Insitute of Child Health.

 

Professor Tim Cole

Professor Tim Cole is an eminent medical statistician with a research interest in child growth and paediatrics. He brings experience of statistical analysis of large and complex data sets, and the development of software for the analysis of growth data. Professor Cole will be pivotal in developing the statistical algorithms that will drive the analysis and reporting of data collected.

 

UCL Advances

UCL Advances offers training, networking and business support for staff, students and external entrepreneurs to encourage and enable new enterprises to get going.

We have been working closely with Dr Alastair Moore, DECIDE Project Lead and Mr Richard Groves of Noodlefroot Ltd. The TARDIS project continues to benefit from technical and development support from UCL Advances.

• Our Partners

Great Ormond Street NHS Foundation Trust

We are collaborating with clinicians at GOSH, working together to pilot this app before widespread dissemination. We are working closely with Mr Joe Curry, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Specialty Lead for General Surgery. We have also consulted closely with Dr Mamoun Elawad, Lead Clinician, Department of Gastro-enterology.

 

NHS Choices

NHS Choices is the online 'front door' to the NHS. It is the country's biggest health website and gives all the information you need to make choices about your health. NHS Choices plans to adopt TARDIS GOR as one of the portfolio of e-health tools made available for NHS users.

 

Open Forms Ltd.

OpenForms Ltd. develops software that assists multi-lingual consultations. Working in consultation with the TARDIS project team, OpenForms will articulate the technical specifications for developing smart-phone based research tools.

 

UCL Collaborators

We are extremely grateful to Sean Wallis, Principal Investigator on the Next Generation Tools research project for his critical input in the inception of this project. We have relied on the pathways and networks established in developing the interactive Grammar of Englishapp.

We are also grateful to Dr Daniel Buchan, Research Associate at the UCL Department of Computer Science for his help in developing our RESTful API.

UCL Business

UCL Business is an access point to the wealth of innovation and intellectual property emanating from UCL.
The TARDIS project is working closely with UCLB consultants to develop and maximize the commercial potential of this application.