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Irrum Afzal

Jun 26, 2026

1:26
But if you could just start telling me in your own words, kind of how you ended up in this world in orthopedics and how you became sort of a digital health transformation specialist.
1:39
Sure, so I actually did work experience back when I was a university student at the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Professor Field's research department and while I was there I was able to see all the different kinds of projects that were going on and from there I did my week placement and then went back off to university and then I would come in just ad hoc when I could and continued doing some projects with some of the research fellows that were working in the department and then I remember one day Prof Field asked me if I was doing everything I wanted to in life and I had just told him that I'd finished my degree and I was going off to do the next degree.
2:22
And he said, where are you going to study and what will you be studying? So I told him I was going to be studying public health at Imperial College London.
2:31
So then from there on, I then did projects with him and I've worked with him since I was a university student until today.
2:41
So still, and it's been a nice, and I've learned a lot throughout the journey.
2:46
And One of my big pieces of research was looking at the accuracy of the National Joint Registry data and seeing whether there was a discrepancy in what was recorded at the time of surgery versus what was actually the reason for surgery.
3:04
for the re-operation and on the basis of that we identified that there were discrepancies that were recorded and reported back to the National Joint Registry.

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8:42
So tell me a little bit, who is behind GAPS and how does it connect to the other work that you do?

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