Dr Scott Cunningham

Scott is Technical Consultant at the University of Dundee and has fifteen years of experience in software architecture design, development and project management within healthcare.

He is technical lead for NHS Scotland's shared electronic record for diabetes: SCI Diabetes Collaboration (SCI-DC). This system has been hugely influential in the understanding of diabetes and received an award for "Excellence in Major Healthcare IT Development" at the eHealth Insider Awards in October 2011.

Scott has an active research interest in the patient-focused aspects of Health Informatics and received Scottish Diabetes Group funding in 2007 for the development of the My Diabetes My Way website, where he is Technical Lead of the team. The records access module, allowing patients across Scotland direct access to their diabetes record, received "Best initiative supporting self-care" at the Quality in Care Diabetes awards in October 2013.  Scott and his team have a track record of taking research development grants to the level of fully integrated national services.