Dr Hugo Leroux

Senior Research Scientist

+61732533614
LVL 5 UQ HEALTH SCI BLD 901/16
HERSTON QLD 4029 AUSTRALIA

https://people.csiro.au/l/h/hugo-leroux

Biography

Dr Hugo Leroux is a Research Scientist within the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), a part of CSIRO’s Health & Biosecurity Business Unit.

Hugo has expertise in data integration and semantic interoperability of clinical, research and pathology data. His work has applied semantic technologies to integrate ontological information with clinical data in order to expedite querying, reasoning and visualisation techniques exposing the meaning and utility of the clinical data that is applied to biomarker and drug discovery in medicine.

Within the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and infectious diseases domains, Hugo has implemented a data integration pipeline to automate the inherently manual laboratory data reporting process into a dynamic repository based on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) paradigm that expedites the semantic interoperability and reuse of the laboratory data to facilitate their analysis and reporting.

Hugo has developed the first CDISC ODM to HL7 FHIR mapping and model in 2016 and has been an invited contributor to the HL7 biomedical research and regulations (BR&R) working group meetings (WGM) and appointed co-chair for the February 2020 WGM in Sydney, Australia. In 2018, he was appointed to lead a Nationally connected Health and Clinical Research Network in collaboration with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and comprising the NHMRC, Digital Health CRC, Office of the National Data Commissioner and key universities.

Prior to his research role, Hugo was a Software Engineer/Analyst with five years’ experience in a commercial environment, working in model-driven development, service-oriented architecture and information retrieval fields. He holds a PhD from Monash University where he investigated the effectiveness of Software Visualisation to expedite comprehension. He is a Fellow of Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) and has been elected to the state branch of the AIDH (formerly Health Informatics Society of Australia) since 2014 and appointed co-vice-chair from 2016-2018.

Current Roles

Clinical Data Management
Designing and managing electronic data capture solutions
Semantic Web Development
Designing and implementing semantically interoperable solutions for clinical research
Data Integration and Semantic Interoperability
Designing and implementing data integration pipeline for laboratory data reporting processes

Academic Qualifications

1996

Bachelor of Science (HONS) in Computing and Information Systems
2000

Master of Computing by Research
2006

PhD

Achievements and Awards

2011-2011

ICT Centre Supporting Science Award for the Health Information Systems project
CSIRO
2017-2017

Health and Biosecurity - Excellence in Support Award
CSIRO
2018-2018

Health and Biosecurity - Outstanding Collaboration Award
CSIRO
2018-2018

Performance Cash Reward
CSIRO
2019-2019

Health and Biosecurity - Outstanding Collaboration Award
CSIRO

Community and Corporate Citizenship

2014-2016

Treasurer of the HISA QLD board
2013-2014

Co-Secretary of the HISA QLD board
2016-2018

Co-Vice-Chair of the HISA QLD board
2018-present

Elected member of the Australasian Institute of Health Informatics
2020-present

Fellow of Australasian Institute of Health Informatics
2016-present

Reviewer, Journal of Medical Internet Research
2013-present

Reviewer, Journal of Biomedical Semantics
2013-present

Reviewer, Australasian Medical Journal
2013-2014

Program Committee, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Health (AIH)
2017-present

Reviewer, Plos One
2019-present

Reviewer, Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)

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