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Neil Reeves is Professor of Secure Health Technologies based in the Medical School at Lancaster University. His research is focussed on digital health technologies and cyber security. He has a strong track-record of research with digital medical devices, particularly in diabetes where he led the first proof-of-concept clinical trial showing the efficacy of smart pressure-sensing insoles for diabetic foot ulcer prevention, published in the Lancet Digital Health. Neil also led one of the first clinical trials showing the efficacy of vibrating insoles for improving gait and balance published in Diabetes Care.

Neil is currently leading the EPSRC-funded ‘Socksess’ project developing smart-sensing socks for diabetic foot ulcer prevention. He co-developed (with Prof. Moi Hoon Yap) a novel Artificial Intelligence-driven mobile app (FootSnap-AI) for diabetic foot screening and monitoring and won the Oracle Innovator Accelerator Grant to scale-up and translate this towards clinical practice with industry partners.

Neil has led externally funded research supported by UK and international funding bodies including the National Institutes of Health (USA), EPSRC and Diabetes UK. He works across the health technology sector with medical technology companies to progress health solutions and sits on scientific committees including EPSRC’s Healthcare Technology strategic advisory team, Innovate UK’s Innovation Accelerator and Medical Charity Scientific Committees (Great Foundations).

He is on the Editorial Board for several journals and serves an expert assessor and Scientific committee panel member for major UK and international funding bodies. He has published ~170 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (ORCID: 0000-0001-9213-4580) and has an ‘H-Index’ of 50 (Scopus).