Caroline Morton

Caroline Morton studied Medicine and International Health at the University of Birmingham before moving to London to work as a doctor. She completed an Epidemiology MSc at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She later set up the fist course in the UK training doctors and medical students to learn programming ("Coding for Medicine") which later developed into a 10 week module and wrote a textbook covering the same topic called "Computational Medicine", Elsevier 2018. In 2019, she moved to University of Oxford to work as an Epidemiologist and Software Developer and was key in developing OpenSAFELY - a trusted research environment that processed COVID-19 data during the Pandemic. This resulted in over 40 peer reviewed papers including Nature, the Lancet and the BMJ. Together with Maxwell, she has had to develop cutting edge techniques in Rust to solve problems in developing a Virtual Emergency Room app for training new doctors. She therefore has real-world experience of writing and deploying async rust in production.