Richard holds a dual appointment as Professor of Health and Medical Informatics at King's College London and at the Institute of Health Informatics, University College London. He is the Head of the Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, at King’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. 

Richard is Deputy Director of the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, as well as its Theme Lead for Informatics. He is co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Driven Health.

Richard has over 20 years' experience developing data and Artificial intelligence (AI) with the NHS. Significant contributions to the healthcare sector include co-founding the CogStack platform, which supports clinical decision-making and healthcare research by processing large volumes of clinical text to reveal crucial insights, being deployed across numerous UK Trusts as well as providers across the EU, Australia, Asia and the USA. Another major area of focus is in the emerging domain of mobile health where his team have developed the award-winning open source RADAR-Base platform, enabling the collection and analysis of patient generated data through wearables, for example, FitBit, smartphones and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This platform is used globally across many physical and mental health conditions.

Foresight is a recent development of the CogStack family, using large language modelling technologies, similar to ChatGPT, to learn from millions of patient records and accurately predict next medical events. He partners with regulators at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), InnovateUK and the Equalities Commission on initiatives such as the fairness innovation challenge  to ensure safe and fair use of this kind of AI in healthcare. This work has been extended to development of a national foundation model of electronic health records (Foresight-SDE) for 51m people through a partnership with NHS England, Databricks, Amazon Web Services, Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) and the British Heart Foundation. 

Richard has established strong links with the technology and pharma industry, charities, and academia. He sits on advisory groups for UK national strategy, policy and funding. He leads data and AI work streams for several industrial and academic, pan-European major programmes and UK collaborations including the Office for Life Sciences and the NIHR Mental Health Mission (MHM). 

Richard’s research has garnered significant media attention, particularly for its impactful contributions to healthcare through the development of innovative technology. The CogStack platform has been highlighted for its potential to revolutionise patient care, being featured in the Chief Medical Officer's annual report, Secretary of State's keynote addresses and The Sudlow Review. His work has received numerous awards for AI in Health and Care and the societal benefits of his research are profound, improving healthcare delivery, enhancing patient experiences, and contributing to better health outcomes on a broad scale.

Research interests

• Bioinformatics
• Biomarkers
• Modeling
• Next generation sequencing
• Machine Learning
• Data Integration
• Networks

Teaching

• Bioinformatics, Interpretation and Data Quality in Genome Analysis
• Research Project
• Fundamental Neuroscience

Expertise and public engagement

• Population & Health Services Research working group, informing the Strategy Steering Group. Responsible for providing a narrative for inclusion in the final DoH 10-year strategy document. Department of Health (2016)
• Joint leadership for the GeL EHR Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership (GeCIP) & Clinical Data and Life Course working group, Genomics England (2016-present)
• Member - aims to harness 1% of NHS IT funding for an open platform in healthcare to meet the needs of 21st Century Healthcare, 1% Open Digital Platform Challenge Fund Push (2016-present)
• BioResource Sequencing and Informatics Committee Member, NIHR (2012-present)
• Member of the University College London Hospital (UCLH) Research Systems Strategy Group (2016-present)
• Member of the King’s Health Partner (KHP) Informatics Strategy group (2016-present)