Professor Dipak Kalra, PhD, FRCGP, FBCS, plays a leading international role in the research and development of Electronic Health Records, including the reuse of EHRs for research. A former London general practitioner, he has, over the past 25 years, led the development of standards on EHR interoperability, personal health records and data protection and leads multiple EU Horizon 2020 and IMI projects in these areas.

Dipak is the President of The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (www.i-hd.eu). This is a multi-stakeholder not-for-profit body that supports healthcare and research organisations, and patients, to capture and reuse better quality health data. Dipak is a Professor of Health Informatics at University College London and Visiting Professor at the University of Gent.