Flo senior medical advisor, UK

Areas of expertise

Digital health
Symptom checkers
Accident and emergency medicine

“At Flo, I am excited to use my knowledge of clinical practice and my product skills to improve the lives of women and people who menstruate, and I feel that there has never been such an important moment to put women’s health issues center stage.”

— Octavia Wilks

Areas of expertise

Digital health
Symptom checkers
Accident and emergency medicine

— Octavia Wilks

Career

Flo Health Inc. – Senior medical advisor, since 2022
Babylon Health – Clinical digital health clinician, 2021–2022
Babylon Health – Clinical artificial intelligence fellow, 2020–2021
St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service Trust – Doctor in accident and emergency department, 2018–2022
Health Education England – Foundation program doctor, 2016–2018
Sexpression:UK – Volunteer committee member, 2012–2016
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties – Junior reader editing the gynecology chapter, 2013

Education

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – Master of Public Health, 2019
The University of Sheffield – Medical degree (MBChB), 2016
University of Bristol – Bachelor of Science in anatomical science, 2010

Appearances and publications in other media

PLOS ONE, vol. 11, no. 7,

27 Jul 2016

“Levels of DNA Methylation Vary at CpG Sites across the BRCA1 Promoter, and Differ According to Triple Negative and ‘BRCA-Like’ Status, in Both Blood and Tumour DNA.”