Professor Kathrin Cresswell

Kathrin Cresswell is Professor of Digital Innovations in Health and Care at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. She is a social scientist with extensive expertise in the formative evaluation of digitally enabled change and improvement programmes across health and care settings. Her work focuses on understanding how health information technologies are implemented, used, and scaled in real-world contexts, including electronic health records, artificial intelligence, decision support systems, robotics, and patient-facing digital applications. She has consulted for organisations including the World Health Organization, Harvard Medical School, NHS England, and the UK Department of Health and Social Care. Professor Cresswell is a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics and a member of the International Academy of Quality and Safety in Health Care. She has published over 140 peer-reviewed scientific papers and secured £56 million in research funding.