AI is rapidly evolving and diversity of data is vital to its application within the NHS and wider healthcare. BAPIO could play an important role to ensure this diversity. 

To promote, educate, contribute and engage with responsible, diverse and trustworthy AI/digital technologies in health and social care

• To engage members with special interest in AI/robotics/digital technologies under the BAPIO umbrella
• To promote the interests of members interested in this rapidly evolving field
• To promote the development of expertise within a diverse grouplike BAPIO
• Promote the speciality by education and training

Chair: Prof Prokar Dasgupta OBE, Professor of Surgery, Chair in Robotic Surgery and Urological Innovation at Kings College London

Co-Chair: Mr. Pankaj Chandak (RCSEng Hunterian Professor and Paediatric Transplant and Research Fellow, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Evelina London Children’s Hospital; UCL Institute of Child Health Developmental Biology and Cancer Dept & Zayed Centre for Research in Rare Diseases in Children; School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences KCL)  

Co-Chair: Mr. Rajesh Sivaprakasam (Consultant Surgeon, Lead for Robotics Renal Failure Surgery, Co-Chair, Multi-Specialty Robotic Research Group at Barts Health NHS Trust)

Membership of the forum is only open to BAPIO members. Members who are keen to join should please email admin@bapio.co.uk as well as to  prokar.dasgupta@kcl.ac.uk.