Heather Duncan

Heather was born and completed undergraduate education in South Africa and qualified in Paediatrics and Paediatric Intensive Care in the UK following a Fellowship in Critical Care at Toronto Hospital for Sick Children in 2003. She is a Paediatric Intensive Care consultant at Birmingham Children’s Hospital with broad research interests in clinical service development, quality improvement, risk reduction, innovation in health care and cost effectiveness. A major focus has been developing Paediatric Early Warning to reduce avoidable cardiac arrest and death. Her current focus is collaboration with Isansys and Aston University Applied Mathematics to develop Real-Time Adaptive Indicators of Deterioration (RAPID) for patient specific early warning. How can healthcare can learn from applied mathematical analysis developed in finance, motorsport and environmental monitoring to detect changing patterns in patient physiology.