Appointment of new AHSN Director of Insight

I am pleased to let you know that we have appointed Dr David Kryl as Director of Insight for the AHSN.

 David’s career has revolved around strategy, performance and project management in complex environments. He received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, and supplemented this with an economics degree from the University of London. He has a particular interest in using clinical, health services and management evidence to improve clinical outcomes for patients. David previously held a dual role as Head of Business Intelligence at the National Institute for Health Research and Research Leader in the RAND Europe Innovation and Technology Policy team. At the NIHR, David implemented a monitoring and evaluation framework for health research outputs and outcomes, while, through RAND Europe, he evaluated the effectiveness of funding programmes in matching policy.

Prior to this David worked at Cancer Research UK, where he helped establish impact assessment frameworks for scientific research programmes. He was also part of the change management team responsible for updating grant management processes. David has also contributed to building science capacity in developing countries both in the private sector, through a biotech start-up, and the United Nations System.

David will be starting with the AHSN on 21 November. He will be joining us at our stakeholder conference on Wednesday (19 October) so I hope he will have the opportunity to meet some of you there.

Bill Gillespie, Wessex AHSN CEO