Moomna Waheed

Digital health researcher and project contributor with a PhD in Health Informatics and extensive experience in clinical data analysis, stakeholder collaboration, and program coordination. Proven record of impactful research on physical examination and telehealth translatability, with a strong presence in academic publishing and national health informatics conferences. Seeking to contribute to EMPHN’s Audit and Feedback Program by driving evidence-based care improvements through collaborative leadership and practical insight.

• Participated, presented, and published research work at multiple conferences.
• Published multiple Journal articles in peer-reviewed journals
• Become a part of the patent writing team at metabolic health solutions
• Winner of multiple software development competitions.

• Recognition of Physical Examination Tasks (Clinical Tasks) in GP Consultations, Developed a rule-based NLP system to automatically detect clinical physical exams from text transcripts. Validated approach with manually annotated data from 8 clinical reviewers.
• Multi-Modal Analysis of GP-Patient Physical Interactions, Combined CNN-RNN architecture with transfer learning to extract visual patterns of Human-Human and Human-Object Activities. Delivered actionable insights into examination practices adaptable to telehealth.
• Audit & Feedback Contribution (Ongoing), Working on models to benchmark primary care activity against best-practice standards. Collaborating on behavior change through feedback loops and clinical data interpretation.

• Waheed, M., Xiong, H., Lau, A. (2024). What physical examinations are observed during an in-person GP consultation? IJMI.
• Waheed, M., Xiong, H., Lau, A. (2024). Automated Extraction of Physical Examination Interactions in General Practice Consultations: A Multi-Modal Using Images and Text Based Approaches. HIC 2024. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI240922
• Lane, J., David, K., Ramarao, J., Ward, K., Raghuraman, S., Waheed, M., & Lau, A.Y.S. (2023). Translating Primary Care to Telehealth: Analysis of In-Person Consultations on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease. BJGP Open, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2022.0123
• Waheed, M., Lau, A.Y.S. (2025). Translatability of Physical Examination to Teleconsultation in Primary Care. J Telemed Telecare. (Accepted)
• Waheed, M., Hussain, S., Khan, A.A. et al. (2020). A methodology for image annotation of human actions in videos. Multimedia Tools and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09091-2

• HIC 2024, Oral presentation, Peer-reviewed research paper on multi-modal extraction of physical examinations.
• HIKM 2024, Presenter, Text-based regular expression framework for detecting clinical examination.
• AI.CARE 2023, Poster and abstract presentation, Verbal-nonverbal task analysis in GP consultations.
• ERHIC Symposium, Emerging researcher presenter, Showcasing early PhD work on telehealth readiness.
• BWCCA 2018, Presenter, Published paper on load balancing in cloud-fog architecture.

• Academic Writing for Publication – Macquarie University
• Science Writing Workshop – Macquarie University
• PEELI English Teaching – British Council
• Currently Enrolled: Certificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping (FNS40222)
• Induction Training for Educators – QAED