Simon Bourne

Dr. Simon Bourne qualified as a doctor from University College London in 1995 and specialised in respiratory medicine. He took up the role as lead COPD consultant, and senior lecturer at University Hospital Southampton in 2007, where he took most of his practice from the hospital, into the community within the first 3 months.

Realising innovation was key to reaching his patients, and delivering quality care at scale, Simon set up new community pathways within Southampton City and later formed a digital health company, my mhealth Limited in 2012. Simon joined the first cohort of NHS Nation Innovation Fellows in 2015 and successfully achieved national procurement of myCOPD in 2015.

Simon is passionate about helping every patient get access to expert advice and interventions at a time and place that suits them. Simon successfully built on the success of myCOPD to build a co-morbidity platform for patients, and clinicians to manage Asthma, COPD, COVID-19, Diabetes and Heart Disease.

His next ambition is to build a next-generation AI engine into the products to enable the delivery of precision medicine at population scale.