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The education, mental health

and informatics

interest group

CLASS is a forum to bring together academics,

clinicians, informaticians, policy makers and other

stakeholders with an interest in mental health,

health informatics, and educational research.

Members can be at any stage in their career and

working in any discipline.

13:00 – 17:00

19th May 2021

Zoom

CLASS

#CLASS_SIG

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MEET THE TEAM

Dr Johnny Downs

Johnny is an NIHR Clinician Scientist at King’s College London

Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child and

Adolescent lead, Centre for Translational Informatics. His research

focuses on the use of digital information for epidemiological

studies examining risks factors and outcomes for childhood

neurodevelopmental and mental health disorders. Johnny's

interests lie within four main areas – patient portals to enhance

patient reported outcomes, natural language processing to refine

the data extracted from free-text electronic records, data-linkage to

integrate non-health data into clinical record analysis, and the

integration of remote monitoring technology into clinical care.

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Lauren Cross

Lauren Cross is a former qualified teacher and Head of Psychology,

with a keen interest in mental health in schools. After gaining her

PGCE (Institute of Education, UCL) she taught for four years in

London and the East of England before completing a Masters in

Educational Research (University of Cambridge). Lauren is currently

working as a research assistant at the Department of Psychiatry

(University of Cambridge) on the RESHAPE project to explore the

impact of Covid-19 on children and young people’s mental health.

Alice Wickersham and Dr Sophie Epstein

Biographies on page 6.