Summary
Connor is a medical doctor and an Imperial GP specialty registrar. He holds an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Primary Care at Imperial College London and is simultaneously training on the NHS Digital Health Leadership Programme.
His research is in health policy, medical innovation and digital medicine. Connor has meaningful experience in both the public and private sector. He has worked at NHS England, the UK Health Security Agency, startups and venture capital firms.
During his time as a student at Imperial, Connor started the SleepImperial initiative, a pioneering health promotion campaign targeted at addressing the unmet need of improving the sleep quality and quantity of the 22,700 students and staff at Imperial, he co-founded the International Sleep Charity to continue this passion.
Education
MBBS, Medical Degree, Imperial College London
BSc, Medical Sciences with Management, 1st Class, Imperial College London
PG Dip candidate, Digital Health Leadership, Imperial College London
MPhil, Bioscience Enterprise, University of Cambridge
Upon graduating medical school, Connor was the recipient of the Imperial College London Outstanding Student Achievement Award.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Qiu CS, Ashrafian H, 2024, Once a doctor, always a doctor., J R Soc Med, Vol:117, Pages:42-44
Qiu CS, Majeed A, Khan S, et al., 2022, Transforming health through the metaverse, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol:115, ISSN:0141-0768, Pages:484-486
Xie R, Liu J, Cao R, et al., 2021, End-to-End Fovea Localisation in Colour Fundus Images With a Hierarchical Deep Regression Network, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol:40, ISSN:0278-0062, Pages:116-128
Li X, Shen L, Shen M, et al., 2019, Deep learning based early stage diabetic retinopathy detection using optical coherence tomography, Neurocomputing, Vol:369, ISSN:0925-2312, Pages:134-144
Li X, Shen L, Shen M, et al., 2019, Integrating Handcrafted and Deep Features for Optical Coherence Tomography Based Retinal Disease Classification, Ieee Access, Vol:7, ISSN:2169-3536, Pages:33771-33777
Qiu CS, 2017, The Impact of a Gamified World on Medical Education, Education for Health, Vol:30, ISSN:1357-6283, Pages:256-257
Qiu CS, 2017, The utility of gamification in public health., Indian Journal of Public Health, Vol:61, ISSN:0019-557X
Conference
Spence J, Khan S, Qiu C, et al., 2022, 1279 Improving adolescent wellbeing through reducing screen time usage, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Abstracts of the RCPCH Conference, Liverpool, 28–30 June 2022, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Noordeen S, Ergisi M, Popovic R, et al., 2021, 49 A pilot meta-analysis on concussion-related sleep disturbances, BSS Scientific Conference 2021 abstracts book, British Thoracic Society
Qiu CS, Sadnan G, Yu Y, et al., 2019, P008 A novel study on noise frequencies in a general medicine ward at a district general hospital in the UK, BSS Scientific Conference Abstract Book, Birmingham, England, British Thoracic Society
Qiu C, Yu Y, Cheema A, et al., 2019, P009 The need to educate university students about sleep, BSS Scientific Conference Abstract Book, Birmingham, England, British Thoracic Society
Xie R, Liu L, Liu J, et al., Pathological Myopic Image Analysis with Transfer Learning, Medical Imaging with Deep Learning
Eifan AO, Orban N, Hwang W, et al., 2017, Increased expression of SMAD7 in persistent allergic rhinitis, Congress of the European-Academy-of-Allergy-and-Clinical-Immunology, WILEY, Pages:85-85, ISSN:0105-4538