About
Dr. Angus Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), within the Biostatistics & Health Informatics department. He joined in January 2018 after transitioning from biomedical science to computer science and NHS software development. His research focuses on applying natural language processing (NLP) to electronic health records (EHR), particularly in mental health contexts.
Education: PhD in NLP from University of Sheffield, with prior work on the GATE NLP framework. Career: Former NHS biomedical scientist and software developer, leading to an interest in medical terminology and EHR analysis.
Research Interests: NLP applications in healthcare, knowledge representation, and EHR textual data analysis. Specific projects include developing pain assessment models, analyzing violence reports in mental health records, and creating clinical decision support systems like CogStack. Collaborations include the RE-STAR project on adolescent mental health resilience and the VISION consortium on violence health impacts.
Key Publications (2023-2025): Systematic reviews on multimodal EHR analysis, NLP models for pain and recovery detection, and frameworks like VIEWER for mental health visual analytics. Over 977 citations reflect contributions to clinical NLP and health informatics.
Grants/Projects: Lead or co-investigator on projects including Advance Choice Documents Implementation, VISION: Violence, Health and Society, and the UK's HDR UK National Text Analytics initiative.
Lab/Teams: Active in the Biostatistics & Health Informatics department and CogStack development team, collaborating across King's Health Partners and NHS trusts.
