Professor of Secure Health Technologies
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.