Ross Upton

Dr Ross Upton is the CEO and founder of Ultromics, a global health technology company providing artificial intelligence solutions to help healthcare professionals around the world better predict patient outcomes in the field of cardiovascular imaging.

The technology is designed to improve both clinical outcomes in patients and save billions of dollars for healthcare systems, by unlocking the full potential of the most widely used modality for diagnosing cardiovascular disease, echocardiography (cardiac ultrasound).

Upton has a broad scientific background having undertaken 4 degrees in the clinical sciences. He went on to complete two masters, one in Clinical Biochemistry and one in Cardiovascular Imaging, before embarking on a PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford.

Upton trained as a sonographer within the NHS while doing his studies, performing echocardiograms and analysing images whilst also studying the data science that underpins Ultromics’ technology.