Waqar Shah

01 /Curriculum vitae

Waqar Shah.

Medical doctor and digital-health practitioner with more than six years of NHS experience spanning frontline medicine, clinical workflow transformation, applied artificial intelligence and research.

Leeds, UK · Contact details via the contact page

Digital health and applied AI

Sep 2023 — Jan 2025

NHS Digital Transformation Contributor

Arrowe Park Hospital / Wirral University Teaching Hospital

  • Identified, designed, built and deployed a Microsoft Lists-based renal workflow system; trained nursing staff, supported rollout and handed over on departure.
  • Supported clinical adoption of Microsoft 365 and Power Platform tools — SharePoint, Teams, Lists and Power Apps — for guidelines, formulary access, staff directories and clinical calculators.
  • Contributed frontline clinical input to a 25-clinician AI pilot spanning imaging, natural-language processing and virtual-assistant use cases.
  • Analysed 13 months of emergency-department attendance data for hourly, weekly and seasonal patterns, communicating findings through dashboards.
  • Contributed to an Azure-based HL7-to-FHIR data architecture using Event Hubs, Data Lake, Databricks, Azure SQL and Power BI.

Ongoing

Applied AI Research — 2D-to-3D Vascular Ultrasound Imaging

NHS / university research collaboration

  • Co-inventor of a published UK patent application (GB2702377A) for reconstructing 3D vascular anatomy from 2D ultrasound.
  • Developed the pipeline architecture combining U-Net segmentation, contour and spline processing, mesh generation and 3D modelling.
  • Designed the evaluation methodology around paired-scan comparison with held-out data, using DSC, Hausdorff distance, volumetric overlap, MSE and SSIM alongside observer assessment.
  • Contributed to protocol design, data governance and reproducible cloud-infrastructure planning aligned with UK GDPR and clinical-research requirements.

Clinical practice

Jan 2026 — present

Functional Assessor

Maximus

  • Conduct daily Work Capability Assessments, integrating medical records with structured clinical interviews across physical, mental-health and cognitive function.
  • Produce evidence-based reports within a rules-based digital workflow, balancing clinical reasoning, legislative guidance, risk, safeguarding and impartiality.
  • Develop structured assessment and documentation workflows to improve consistency, completeness and efficiency.
  • Developed and proposed an internal governed-knowledge architecture concept for clinical-AI evaluation and decision support.

Feb 2025 — Dec 2025

Trust Doctor in Orthopaedics

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

  • Delivered ward, on-call and post-operative medical care; performed practical procedures; coordinated care with surgical and multidisciplinary teams.
  • Developed a structured orthopaedic outlier quality-improvement dataset and dashboard covering surgical status, VTE, clinical tasks and discharge barriers.
  • Mentored and onboarded international doctors, supporting safe practice and integration.

Aug 2021 — Jan 2025

Locum Hospital Doctor

Multiple NHS Trusts

  • Worked across renal medicine, general medicine and emergency care, adapting rapidly to different teams, clinical systems and operational pressures.
  • Led and contributed to audits and quality-improvement work, presenting findings at regional meetings.

Aug 2019 — Aug 2021

Foundation Doctor

NHS, Coventry

  • Rotations across general surgery, psychiatry, general practice, gastroenterology and related specialties, including audit and teaching activity.

Education

2014 — 2019

BMBS Medicine

University of Southampton

2017

BSc Clinical Ethics and Law — First Class (intercalated)

University of Southampton

2012 — 2014

BSc Biomedical Science — 2:1

University of Plymouth

Completed

Essentials & Intermediate Digital Clinical Safety

NHS e-Learning for Healthcare

Leadership, teaching and wider contribution

  • Invited contributor to a hospital trust's Clinical AI Board (to Dec 2025), bringing frontline clinical and applied-AI perspectives.
  • Designed and delivered clinician teaching on AI, safe use and prompting, translating technical concepts into practical clinical use.
  • Taught Narrative Writing in Medicine annually at the University of Southampton (2015–2018); received a commendation.
  • UNRWA intern in Amman (2016): researched secondary-healthcare funding for refugees and supported public-health work in Al-Zaatari and Jabal Al-Hussein camps.

Technical toolkit

Python (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, OpenCV)SQLR / SPSSPower BIMicrosoft 365 / Power PlatformHL7 / FHIR conceptsAzure data servicesGit / GitHubResearch methods and statistical evaluation
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