Debbie Wake
CEO and Clinical lead
MyWay Digital Health
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Diabetologist, academic, co-founder MyWay Digital Health, national/ regional clinic & device data-integrated diabetes platforms with personalised advice.
My organisation
About me
Dr Debbie Wake (DW) (PI) is an UK NHS physician (consultant) and academic with University of Edinburgh Centre for Medical informatics/ Usher Institutes. She is also clinical lead for Scotlands national MyDiabetesMyWay self-management platform, and co-founded spin out company MyWay Digital Health, now delivering large data-linked regional services in UK/ internationally supporting >1.8 m people with diabetes, pre-diabetes, cardiovascular (CVD) disease, CVD risk, and weight management, demonstrating significant health improvements and £10m’s of cost savings. These platform are generally linked to existing electronic health service routinely collected data and remote device data and deploy rules and machine learning models to driving automate advice around management and self-management of diabetes , including linking patient to appropriate online courses and resources.
Debbie received the IUK Women in Innovation award in 2019, is an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow, and National Clinical Entrepreneur. She has led international diabetes education projects in Kuwait (supporting >1000 students on CPD and Cert, Dip, MSc programmes) and in China (Shenzhen Peoples Hospital/ Hainan diabetes centre)
Academically she has >75 peer reviewed publications and > £7m (35mSAR) in grant/ innovation funding to deliver cutting-edge research/ innovation around digital health/ artificial intelligence for diabetes/long-term conditions. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deborah-Wake . She is passionate about scalable population health, education and technology/ data-driven solutions.
Skills
- Clinical
- AI
- innovation
- Self-management
- Education
- Digital Health
- Apps
- data-integration
- decision support
Interests
- Digital Health
- AI
- innovation
- Self-management
- Apps
- data-integration
- Artificial Intelligence
- decision support
- Education