Vishnu Chandrabalan
Honorary Clinical Professor at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Greater Preston Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVishnu Chandrabalan is a clinician-technologist and Consultant Surgeon with 11 years’ experience who leads data science and AI initiatives within the NHS while holding honorary professorship at Lancaster University. As Head of Data Science and Chief Clinical Information Officer for the Lancashire and South Cumbria Secure Data Environment, he bridges surgical practice, genomics-informed medicine and large-scale secure cloud architectures to make health data actionable for research and care. He has led regional secure data environment design for the North West NHS, co-founded a digital health consultancy, and retains hands-on clinical work in hepatopancreatobiliary and transplant surgery. Known for translating clinical domain knowledge into practical ML and cloud solutions, he combines frontline surgical insight with software and research leadership—a rare mix that helps teams avoid typical data-science blind spots.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Medicine, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Medicine at COIMBATORE MEDICAL COLLEGE (Inst. Code - 007), COIMBATOREDoctor of Medicine (M.D.), Surgery, Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Surgery at The University of GlasgowDip. N.B., General Surgery Residency Program, Dip. N.B., General Surgery Residency Program at Madras Medical CollegeHSC, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, HSC, PHYSICAL SCIENCES at Srinivasa Vidhyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary SchoolFellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, General and Hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, General and Hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery at Royal College of Surgeons of England
English, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (58)
parser10
optimizer10
medicine10
inspect10
tsql9
translation9
sql-parser9
spark9
python9
peg9
weighted9
databricks9
sqlite9
transformation9
devcontainer9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LTHTR-DST/hdruk_avoidable_admissions
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
HDRUK Data Science Collaboration on Avoidable Admissions in the NHS.
Contributions:5 releases, 8 reviews, 47 commits in 9 days
data-sciencedatasciencedevcontainerhdrukhdruk-better-care
vvcb/comorbidipy
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Python package to calculate comorbidity scores including Charlson Comorbidity Score and Elixhauser Score and their weighted variants.
Contributions:1 review, 41 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
pythonscorescalculatepython-packageweighted
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