Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

Dr Mohammad Ubaydli is the editor of Surgical Sieve. This is a publication of Idiopathic.com, a company he founded in 2000. Idiopathic also sells Wobulator software, which provides a revolutionary new way of looking at interlinked data.

Mohammad is a doctor and programmer who uses IT to improve healthcare.

He graduated as a doctor with a first-class degree from Cambridge University. His research project, ImmunoSim, won the Fulton Roberts Immunology Prize that year. This was the first time that a software project received the prize.

Since then, he has continued to combine his medical and computing knowledge. He has worked for several institutions and companies around the UK and the USA. This includes developing the software for Project Palm at Cambridge University, which allowed medical students to share their learning using handhelds. In this project, he also provided teaching, training and technical support to thirty medical students on the best use of their machines.

In 2001, he co-founded Medical Futures, which launched the Medical Futures Innovation Awards. The awards, now a much-anticipated annual event, have greatly raised awareness amongst doctors on the process of using their ideas and inventions to improve healthcare. The event also raises money for UK hospitals.

During his first year of clinical practice, he was still able to lecture and consult on the use of handhelds in medicine. He also co-founded Medical Approaches, the world's first peer-reviewed electronic medical text, available for all handheld platforms. For this, he was elected to the Executive Committee of the British Medical Informatics Society. He is now a Visiting Research Fellow at the National Centre for Biotechnology Information in the USA.

Email Mohammad with feedback, ideas and comments at mo@surgicalsieve.com.