Helena Coggan
Real-time AI for emergency-department care quality
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Boston Children's Hospital
Your week at a glance
- Small group — you facilitate Group 2 · Lyra on Day 1 (Problem framing).
- Job talk — Day 6 (Sat, Jun 27), 11:15 AM · Room A · Alder 107.
- Poster — Day 7 (Sun, Jun 28) · Session A (9:15–10:15 AM).
Helena Coggan is a postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children's Hospital, working with William La Cava. Her research concerns clinical decision support tools for use in the emergency department, developed using large-scale electronic health record databases.
Before moving to Boston, she completed her PhD at University College London (2025). Her doctoral thesis focused on agent-based simulations of lung tumour evolution, and was supervised by Prof. Jasmin Fisher with support from Profs. Nicholas McGranahan and Karen M. Page. Before that, she obtained undergraduate and master's degrees in physics from the University of Cambridge (2017-2021).
Awards & honors
Recognition
- EPSRC-funded PhD studentship, University College London (2021-2025)
- The Francis Crick Institute PhD Student Symposium - Best First-Year Speaker Award (2023)
- UK Graduate Modelling Camp - Best Student in Group Award (2022)
- Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting - invited talk (2023)
- High First (81.6%), ranked 8th of 107; First in the General Paper (94.3%), BA & MSci Natural Sciences (Physics), University of Cambridge
- The Catalyst named one of 2015's Debuts of the Year by the Guardian and Amazon (literary)