Dr Afzal Chaudhry

Dr Afzal Chaudhry was previously a Consultant Nephrologist, Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) and the Director of Digital (CIO) at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust (CUH) where he led the eHospital programme, delivering a hospital-wide HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 electronic patient record (the first in the UK), and the Informatics component of the Population and Quantitative Science theme in the Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. In 2017 Dr Chaudhry was recognised as the UK ‘CCIO of the Year’ and in 2019 he was recognised as both ‘CDO of the Year’ and ‘Digital Ambassador of the Year’ at the UK national Digital Technology Leaders Awards.