Invited talks
- “Risk prediction algorithms for cancer – do they impact clinical judgement and decision making in general practice?” CRUK Early Diagnosis Research Virtual Session. 31 May 2023.
- “What factors might encourage AI use in medicine?” PhD seminar, Imperial College Business School. 2 March 2023.
- “Cancer risk algorithms and their interaction with clinical judgement.” Wolfson Institute of Population Health Research seminar, Queen Mary University of London, 19 July 2022 (Virtual).
- “Interaction between cancer risk algorithms and clinical judgement.” Cancer Diagnostic Technology Summit (CDT21), 14 May 2021 (Virtual). http://www.sensor100.com/CDT2021/CDT21_Pre_Conf/index.html
- “Cancer risk algorithms and their interaction with clinical judgment”. Yale Center for Medical Informatics Special Lecture. Yale School of Public Health, 1 March 2021 (Virtual). https://publichealth.yale.edu/event/71666/
- “Debiasing in action: decision support for medical diagnosis”. LSE Psychological and Behavioural Science seminar series. London School of Economics and Political Science, 4 December 2018.
- “Decision support for diagnosis”. Keynote. European Diagnostic Error in Medicine conference. Bern, Switzerland, 30-31 August 2018.
- “Improving diagnosis in primary care with an early intervention decision support system”. Quality & Safety Seminar series. Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group, University of Leeds, 30 November 2017.
- “Communication in the diagnostic process in primary care”. Teenage Cancer Trust 9th International Conference, Edinburgh, 6 December 2016.
- “Supporting physicians’ first impressions: a design for diagnostic decision support”. Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Berlin, 16 September 2016.
- “Decision support for medical diagnosis: early is best”. Centre for Decision Research, Leeds University Business School seminar series, 2 December 2015.
- “Computer-aided diagnosis in general practice.” Royal College of General Practitioners, London, 2 May 2015.
- “The power of first diagnostic impressions and how to influence them”. 3rd Cancer Research UK research conference. London, 26 March 2015.
- "Optimum diagnosis" (The Adam Hay lecture). The Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group meeting (CCLG), Manchester, 26/1/2015.
- “What can psychology tell us about why early cancers may be missed by GPs?” Meeting of the National Cancer Research Institute, London, 23 October, 2014.
- “Heuristics and biases in reasoning”. University of Tromsø, Norway, 20/11/13.
- “Clinical intuition”. University of Tromsø, Norway, 20/11/13.
- “Supporting diagnosis via computerised systems: early reminders vs. late alerts”. The 8th European Workshop on Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, NL, 5-6 April, 2013.
- “Experience, confidence and information distortion in physicians’ diagnostic judgements”. The London Judgment and Decision Making group seminar series, Department of Psychology, University College London, 30/11/11.
- “Cognitive errors”. The Royal Society of Medicine (Section of Clinical Forensic and Legal medicine), London, 18/6/2011.
- “Information distortion in clinical judgements”. Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality seminar series, Imperial College, London, 31/3/2011.
- “Diagnostic reasoning, error, and decision support: What is likely to work?”. Symposium on “Connections with Medical Decision Making” at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, November 20-22, 2010.
- “Diagnosis in Family Medicine: Predictors of accuracy, causes of error”. 3rd International Conference on Diagnostic Error in Medicine, Toronto, Canada. 26/10/2010.
- “Diagnostic error in Primary Care: causes and remedies”. LINNEAUS Euro-PC Conference, University of Manchester, 19/10/2010.
- “The rationale behind GP decisions”. Teenage Cancer Trust 6th International Conference on Teenage & Young Adult Cancer Medicine. The Royal Society of Medicine, London. 8/6/10.
- “Narrow focus and coherence in medical diagnostic judgments”. Psychology department seminar series, Kingston University, 28/4/2010.
- “Coherence-based reasoning in medical diagnosis”. Symposium on “Connections with Medical Decision Making” at the annual conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA, USA, November 21-23, 2009.
- “Researching clinical diagnosis using case scenarios”. Psychology department seminar series, University of Bolton, 28/01/09.
- “Doctors’ decision-making processes and diagnostic error/delay”. Meeting of the National Cancer Research Institute. The Royal College of Physicians, London. 5/12/07.
- “Effects of information gathering and experience on the diagnosis of difficult problems by General Practitioners”. The London Judgment and Decision Making group seminar series, Department of Psychology, University College London, 7/11/07.
- “Diagnosis in primary care: GP experience & case difficulty”. National Patient Safety Agency, London, 24/1/07.
- “Developing a taxonomy of adverse events & near misses in primary care”. 2nd International Forum on Confidential Reporting Systems, organised by CIRAS (Confidential Incident Reporting & Analysis System for the railways) and the NPSA, 2/12/04, London.
- “Studying doctors’ cognition in relation to patient safety”. ASTI workshop (Adaptive Systems and Tailored Information – MRC-funded research network). 27/04/04, Birmingham, UK.
Guest Lectures
To improve diagnosis, intervene as soon as it starts., Bradford Institute for Health Research, Yorkshire Quality and Safety Group, Bradford, 2017
Medical Decision Making: psychological underpinnings and study methods (half-day course), University of Lucerne, Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2017
"Medical Decision Making" (2-hour lecture to MSc in Health Psychology), University College London, London, 2017
Communication in the diagnostic process in primary care, Teenage Cancer Trust 9th International Conference and 1st Adolescent and Young Adult Global Cancer Congress, Edinburgh, 2016
Supporting physicians’ first impressions: a design for diagnostic decision support, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Berlin, Germany, 2016
"Medical Decision Making" (2-hour lecture to MSc in Health Psychology), University College London, London, 2016
Decision support for medical diagnosis: early is best, Leeds University Business School, Centre for Decision Research, Leeds, UK, 2015
Research Staff
Research Student Supervision
Furnivall,D, The economics of cancer referral in primary care
Kourtidis,P, Psychological mechanisms of early decision support
Petrova,D, Communicating benefits and risks of cancer screening: What factors influence physicians' risk communication?