Dr Lauren Walker

Lauren Walker is Clinical Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics at University of Liverpool. She contributes to outpatient clinics, inpatient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings for adults with complex multimorbidity &polypharmacy. She co-chairs a National Polypharmacy Services Consortium (PPSC), a collaborative venture between Clinical Pharmacologists, Pharmacists, Geriatricians and GPs to create a unified, sustainable approach to improvingpolypharmacy. She undertakes medicines optimisation through a multispecialty,multimorbidity virtual multidisciplinary team that has improved outcomes through reduction in all-cause admissions, a service that was shortlisted for the BMJ 2021 awards. She has co-developed a machine learning approach to identify disease and prescribing trajectories in people with complex care needs, utilizing existing health records (www.SERENDIP.org.uk) and co-leads the NIHR funded DynAIRx project utilising AI to improve prescribing. Lauren is also one of the senior investigators for the Agile trial (https://www.agiletrial.net/), the only UK Government-funded early-phase trial platform for Covid- 19 therapeutics.