Mathew Lyons

Mathew Lyons is a Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia at the Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, and a practicing Anaesthetics Trainee in South-East Scotland. His research integrates medical informatics, machine learning, and translational engineering to address clinical challenges, particularly in perioperative medicine and maternal health during pregnancy.

• Education:
  • MBChB with Honours, University of Edinburgh
  • PhD in Bioengineering, Trinity College Dublin
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics, Trinity College Dublin
  • Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Trinity College Dublin

His research focuses on leveraging multivariate healthcare data to develop predictive models for surgical outcomes, studying inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) epidemiology, and bridging engineering-clinical practice gaps. Recent work includes machine learning applications in vascular surgery risk prediction and obstetric anaesthesia interventions.

Key article trends span medical informatics, machine learning, and IBD epidemiology, with subfields including predictive modeling, biologic therapies, and data linkage studies.

As an educator, Mathew teaches undergraduate and postgraduate medical students, co-founded the feedback tool MeFB (medicalfeedback.org), and contributes to clinical training programs.