Amir Mehrkar
Senior Clinical Researcher at NHS
Greater Southampton Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAmir Mehrkar is a clinical informatics leader and practising GP with nine years of experience bridging frontline medicine and national health data platforms. As Senior Clinical Researcher at the University of Oxford he helped design and scale OpenSAFELY to deliver urgent, privacy-preserving analytics across 58 million pseudonymised NHS primary care records during the COVID-19 emergency. He has held senior clinical leadership roles across NHS Digital and NHS England, leading clinical governance, interoperability and platform reviews that translated into national standards and safer clinical software. A hands-on clinician in inner-city Southampton, Amir combines patient-facing practice with strategic programme delivery, stakeholder engagement and data protection expertise. He co-founded INTEROPen and has driven projects that formalised terminology and algorithm coding (eg CHA2DS2-VASc) into national practice—an often overlooked but critical detail that improves software safety. Trained at Cambridge with additional qualifications in healthcare leadership, medical device regulation and data protection, he uniquely blends clinical credibility with technical governance at scale.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery - MB BChir, Medicine, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery - MB BChir, Medicine at University of CambridgeDiploma Healthcare Leadership and Management, Nhs leadership and management, Diploma Healthcare Leadership and Management, Nhs leadership and management at University of BirminghamMedical Device Regulation 2020 Course, Medical Device Regulation 2020 Course at BSI Training AcademyData Protection Practitioner, Data Protection Practitioner at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Persian
Github Skills (6)
job-runner10
gpconnect4
databases4
api-specification3
database3
command-line-interface1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
opensafely/documentation
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Documentation for the OpenSAFELY platform
Contributions:13 reviews, 26 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 7 months
opensafelynon-research
opensafely/carehomes-research
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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