HEAD INJURY RESEARCH
at the University of Cambridge, Department of Medicine.
Projects are proposed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, Division of Anaesthesia http://anaesthetics.medschl.cam.ac.uk/ and funded in part by the above organisations.
Health Foundation/Academy of Medical Sciences Clinician Scientist Fellow
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Dr Virginia Newcombe completed her PhD in neuroimaging and traumatic brain injury in 2009. Her research interests include using imaging as a biomarker for prognosis, the trajectory of traumatic brain injury and outcomes after critical illness.
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With projects based in the Emergency Department and Neurosciences Critical Care Unit her research encompasses the entire spectrum of TBI from mild to severe. She divides her time between research and clinical training in intensive care and emergency medicine.
NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine
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Dr Sophie Richter is a NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine.
Her research focuses on the development of decision tools for the prognosis and management of traumatic brain injury in the emergency setting.
This is closely intertwined with her interest in rigorous data analysis including the handling of missing data.
She is Internal Examiner for the Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Clinical Practice (PHEM) and Faculty Member for Regional Critical Appraisal Training.
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RCEM Doctoral Research Fellow and Emergency Medicine Higher Speciality Trainee
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Dr Daniel Whitehouse is a current PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge alongside working as a Higher Specialty Trainee in Emergency Medicine. His work focuses on diagnosis and outcomes following traumatic brain injury. Specific areas of interest include the use of biomarkers and neuroimaging for TBI diagnostics, sports-related head injury, and the use of epidemiological data to explore population-level outcomes following trauma.
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Research Assistant
Anne Manktelow is a Research Assistant working with patients recovering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The departmental studies that she has worked on include outcome research which follows up patients using MRI scanning and neurocognitive testing as well as investigating the effects of cognitive enhancers on patients with cognitive deficits post head injury.