Teresa Sides

Understanding the Barriers to Artificial Intelligence (AI) Adoption Within Primary Care: A Novel Model for Acceptance and Resistance

Teresa is a dedicated researcher and experienced professional with a career spanning over two decades in the civil service, the NHS and academia. Her research focuses on the transformative impact of emerging technologies, particularly addressing barriers to their adoption in primary care. Building on her master’s degree in 2020, which explored reducing missed appointments in primary care. Teresa’s current PhD research at the Open University examines the interplay between resistance to change and technology acceptance, with a focus on ensuring innovations like AI promote equity in healthcare access and outcomes 

Her professional background includes roles as an IT specialist in a Welsh GP practice and a civil servant for the Department for Work and Pensions. Both positions honed her expertise in systems improvement and stakeholder engagement, always prioritising support for society’s most vulnerable.    

Outside her professional work, Teresa has been a Parent Governor with a special interest in Special Educational Needs (SEN). She actively supported the school community by delivering Autism awareness presentations and organising events to ensure SEN children and their families received comprehensive support.  

Teresa’s commitment to equity, inclusion, and technological progress defines her impactful contributions across all areas of her work and research. 

Melete Foundation

We founded Melete in 2019 because our life experience told us that motivated and inspiring people are absolutely the basis of positive change in the world. Our vision is to seek out such people and help them create the credibility that will enable the realisation of their talents.

We are looking for people with ideas that they can put into practice to create self-sustaining social good, to nurture ideas that have the potential to benefit those who are disadvantaged in any way and give an opportunity for exceptional people to have the extra financial freedom that a scholarship provides to create a space to realise their talents.

Our aim is to seed innovative approaches which have the potential to take root and blossom into self-sustaining enterprises. We also want to encourage the networking of amongst an innovative community dedicated to social good such that each member gains insights from fellow collaborators ad together have the potential of being far more than the sum of their parts.

John and Kitty Chisholm

https://melete.foundation/