
Dr Amrita Kumar
Clinical AI Lead & Consultant Radiologist
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Amrita has been named 2023 Top 60 Influential Women in UK for leading innovation in the use of AI within the NHS. She was appointed as a substantive Consultant Radiologist at Frimley Health in 2013 with a subspecialist interest in breast cancer screening.
She is a nationally recognised and published clinician implementing AI in the UK, working with vendors, academia, across 5 NHS hospital providers in Southeast England covering a population of 6 million, undertaking real-world implementation and prospective AI trials in breast and lung cancer pathways.
She won the 2024 NHS Parliamentary Award for the first of its kind AI working group in UK setting up formal AI implementation and governance frameworks, which has been used as an exemplar across multiple NHS hospitals.
Amrita was appointed as Chair for the National AI & Innovation Special Interest Group at the British Institute of Radiology in 2022 where she advises on AI strategy and implementation within healthcare in UK. She has been appointed as an AI advisor to Royal College of Radiologist & NHS England/Department of Health in 2023 to aid in development of an NHS AI strategy.