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Claire Tochel is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical Informatics within the Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on medical informatics applications in ophthalmology, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disorders using retinal imaging and large-scale health data.
Her primary research interests include:
- Medical Informatics
- Ophthalmology and Optometry
- Diabetes and its complications
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Retinal Imaging biomarkers
- Systematic Reviews
- Epidemiology and population health
Recent publications demonstrate trends in leveraging retinal vascular patterns for systemic disease prediction, analyzing microvascular complications in diabetes during infectious outbreaks like COVID-19, and developing novel data linkage methodologies. Her work frequently utilizes UK Biobank data and the Scottish Collaborative Optometry-Ophthalmology network (SCONe) repository.
Scientific Awards:
- No scientific awards were mentioned in the provided sources.
Advising and Grants:
- No information on student advising or research grants was found.
Labs and Teams:
- Active contributor to the Scottish Collaborative Optometry-Ophthalmology network (SCONe), developing community-acquired retinal image repositories.
- Core member of the Centre for Medical Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on data-driven population health research.
