Topic: Engineering for Health Research Our guest Guest speaker: Richard Beare is the technical lead for the National Centre for Healthy Ageing Data Platform project, Senior Research Fellow, working in the Peninsula Clinical School, Central Clinical School, Monash University and Principal Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, where he works with the Developmental Imaging group. Richard is a research engineer with many years of experience delivering computational solutions to medical research problems. Richard was one of the researchers responsible for designing the NCHA Health Research Data Platform which will underpin the centre’s research and translational activities. His work focuses on using computational tools to enhance medical research and clinical practice. Examples include using natural language processing to make hospital text records useful for research purposes, geospatial modelling for planning health service delivery and MRI in clinical studies, neurosurgery and clinical trials.