Dominic King

UK Lead & Medical Director at Google Health

Speaker

Dominic is the UK Lead at Google Health working across a diverse set of set of emerging healthcare technologies. Dominic previously led the DeepMind Health team that moved into Google Health in September 2019. His team has advanced AI research projects in medical imaging and electronic health records research that led to publications in Nature and Nature Medicine. They built and deployed Streams as a mobile medical assistant in leading NHS hospitals that has been proven to deliver faster, better care and reduce costs. Dominic is a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, where he previously worked for nearly a decade as an academic general surgeon. He has published >100 academic articles in patient safety, digital health and public policy. Dominic has a PhD in Behavioural Economics and co-wrote the ‘Mindspace’ framework, which was used by the UK Prime Minister to establish the Number 10 ‘Nudge Unit’ or Behavioural Insights Team. The clinical app company he co-founded, Hark, was acquired by Google in early 2016.