Naveed Dogar

Naveed Dogar completed her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Informatics at St. George’s Medical School where the focus of her dissertation was on Biometrics. She then went on to complete her Masters in Health Informatics at City University, London. The topic of her Masters dissertation was ‘Clinician-led Development of an Open Source EHR’, whereby a simple spreadsheet was used as a tool for clinicians to design and deploy their own enterprise-scale health records systems.

She presented her work at the Royal Society of Medicine, the International Clubfoot conference and at ITCH, an IT and healthcare conference in Victoria, Canada. Naveed also won an excellence in education award by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community for attaining a distinction and graduating 2nd highest in her cohort. After graduating, she continued her final project in collaboration with staff at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, to deliver an open source Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) for the clubfoot clinic.

She was employed as a clinical analyst on projects implementing open source EHR systems at Nottingham University Hospital and at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, where the EHR continues to support the Fracture Liaison Service as a tool for both routine clinical care and clinical research studies. She also serves as a vice chair for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s research association, which encourages young muslim women to pursue research STEM careers. Her aspirations are to increase access to basic healthcare needs in developing countries.

Naveed is currently undertaking a DPhil at the University of Oxford, where her work focuses on the internationalisation of open source EHRs, combining her research studies with being a mother to two young boys.