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Professor R I Kitney OBE FREng Professor Kitney is Professor of BioMedical Systems Engineering in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College, London; he is also Deputy Chairman and Technical and Strategic Director of ComMedica Ltd - a medical IT company which recently won the Wall Street Journal Award for Technology Innovation (www.commedica.com), he is also the founder of ComMedica. Kitney has worked in BioMedical Engineering and Healthcare for the last 25 years. He has published over 300 papers in the fields of biomedical signal and image processing, medical informatics and the general application of computers to healthcare. He was the Founding Head of the Department of BioEngineering, Imperial College (1991-2001), and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College. Kitney has been a member of both British Government and European Commission Committees on the application of Information Technology to healthcare and is involved in the formulation of healthcare policy for the UK and to the EU. He is Chairman of The Royal Academy of Engineering’s UK Focus for BioEngineering and recently wrote a major policy paper for the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) on the Role of Engineering in the Post Genomic Age. He has also been a consultant to a number of major international companies. Kitney has worked on the study of arterial disease, cardio-respiratory control, biomedical image processing related to magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound, the development of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS), and 3D visualisation techniques. Professor Kitney has worked extensively in the United States and has been a Visiting Professor at MIT since 1991. He is a Co-Director of the Imperial College-MIT International Consortium for Medical Information Technology. Professor Kitney was made a Fellow of the World Technology Network in 1999 for his innovative work in the fields of health and medicine. He was also made an Academician of the International Academy of BioMedical Engineering in September 2003 (this is the highest honour bestowed by the International Federation of BioMedical Engineering Societies). He was recently made a Fellow of the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute (FCGI). In June 2001, Professor Kitney was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Information Technology in Healthcare. |
Please Contact Tania Briggs t.briggs@imperial.ac.uk (PA to Prof Richard Kitney)
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