Healthcare Analytics for Professionals

KWSH is delivering the course in partnership with NUS Centre for Health      Informatics

Dr Danny Poo is a Specialist in Big Data Analytics, Health Informatics, Software Engineering, and Information Management.

Dr Danny Poo has more than 30 years’ experience in Software Engineering and has become passionate in Health Informatics and Analytics over the last 10 years. Dr Poo is the founding director of the Centre for Health Informatics at the National University of Singapore. The Centre is the lead provider of human capital in Health Informatics and its mission is to train healthcare and IT professionals to use Health Informatics to find new and better ways of delivering healthcare to achieve enhanced patient care and satisfaction. The Centre also serves as a hub for Health Informatics research and information exchange. Dr Poo serves in the Steering Committee of the Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) since 1994 and was the Vice-Chairman of the APSEC Steering Committee from 2003 to 2005. He was also the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of two highly successful International Conference on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare in 2013 and 2014. Dr Poo is currently a tenured Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. His research area includes Big Data Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, Software Engineering and Information Management.

Dr Poo received his Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Science and Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computation from the University of Manchester in 1988, 1985, 1983 respectively.