Dr Shankar Sridharan is a Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist and board-level, Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He is a proven, senior leader in digital transformation.

He qualified as a doctor from Imperial College Medical School (St Mary’s Hospital), London. His NHS practice is based at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London – which is one of the top Childrens Hospitals Globally. He specialises in the diagnosis, treatment, and on-going care of all types of heart disease affecting babies, children, and teenagers.

He has enhanced the United Kingdom’s clinical Informatics standing; over the last few years he has led a £100 million digital transformation at GOSH and taken the hospital from being in the lowest 10% of digitally mature hospitals in the NHS to GOSH having unique digital capability and being formally accredited as having Europe’s first HIMSS Level 7 OEMRAM site.

He personally, created the UK’s MIO (Medical Information Officer) role that is now globally adopted across the UK, Europe, and the US to leverage clinical expertise in digital healthcare transformation.

Shankar led the inception, design & development of the NHS DRIVE Unit (Digital Research, Informatics & Virtual Environments. This is the 1st first healthcare. DRIVE is referenced in the NHS Topol review as an exemplar of open data ecosystem needed to benefit from AI’s potential.

At present, he leads the largest generative AI programme in healthcare, globally. This programme creates a scientific approach to assess ambient AI technology across the NHS and show scalable benefit. This 5000-patient evaluation across multiple NHS sites with differing clinical focus and digital maturity: Adult care, Paediatrics, Mental Health, Ambulance Trusts, Primary Care, Community Pharmacy and A&E. The programme also aims to show how the NHS can scale and operationalise this AI capability to improve capacity, flow and the quality of care that we deliver.

He aims to harness the power of technology, data, and analytics to create hospitals without walls, make medicine more human again and unlock a deeper sight from the data. His key driver is to use digital capability to provide safer, smarter and kinder care.