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Will Brown

Will Brown

Dr Will Brown is a Senior Research Associate and Consultant Neurologist at the University of Cambridge specialising in multiple sclerosis, where he leads the Cambridge Big Data in Multiple Sclerosis (Brown) research group.

Aug 27, 2026

17:25
And I think it is very important because this means that we can probably expand our clinical outcome battery, say, and use this, uh, reported by patients.
17:36
Yeah.
17:36
I, I strongly agree, Carmen.
17:38
Um, I think that multidimensional, uh, data, uh, and also moving a- away from some of the traditional definitions that we've used for MS disease stages are gonna be key to, uh, to really personalizing care.
17:51
Um, if I may, um, I think we need to remember that more data do not rescue a poorly defined clinical question.
17:59
And so what I really mean by this is The randomised control trial i-is the gold standard for proving cause and effect a-and the reason for that, uh, or the lessons from it are ones that we can take into observational work.
18:13
Uh, and, uh, of course there's been a big emphasis on this on target trial emulation recently.

7 MINS LATER

25:03
How do you see these predictive modeling programs essentially being implemented into clinical practice and starting to influence treatment decisions as a starting point? And then what do you see as the, the things that still need to happen for it to get to that point?

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