Mohammed Amin Mohammed

Professor Mohammed A Mohammed is an academic with extensive experience of applied health services research, including quality of care, patient safety and improvement science. He has been identified as one of the most influential authors in the field of statistical process control in healthcare.

Mohammed has 100+ peer reviewed publications, including landmark papers in the Lancet (on understanding variation in healthcare), BMJ (on bias in hospital mortality statistics), evaluation of a care bundle (JAMA Surgery) and a prize-winning study that developed an electronic frailty index for primary care (Age and Ageing). Mohammed led the development of the first primary care mortality monitoring system (BJGP) and was an expert witness to the Shipman Inquiry (BMJ). His current research projects include the development of automated risk equations for use in hospitals (BMJOpen). Mohammed has delivered scores of highly rated courses on variation, systems thinking, improvement science and mortality statistics to senior and front-line clinical staff in the NHS over the last ten years.

Mohammed also founded the NHS-R community – which was written up as an exemplar case study for 21st Century data analytics in the NHS. Mohammed is currently working in the NHS as Head of Innovation & Academic Partnerships at the Strategy Unit. His main area of focus is innovative decision support systems. He is emeritus professor at the University of Bradford and Visiting Professor at Cardiff University.