Current active areas of research and the leads for this area include:
Dr Tara Quasim, Senior Lecturer:
Currently overseas the research activity within the group and has a personal interest in long term outcomes from all aspects of critical care and the role of shared decision making in improving patient communication and outcomes.
Dr Chris Hawthorne/ Dr Martin Shaw/ Dr Laura Moss:
The Brain Injury Neuroinformatics group are perfroming research on neurocritical care, waveform analysis in TBI and neuroanaesthesia.
Dr Laura Moss:
Expertise in computer science and artificial intelligence approaches applied to anaesthesia and critical care. Experience of complex data analysis and interested in the automated generation of explanations to create scrutable and accountable clinical artificial intelligence systems. Research has encompassed areas such as hybrid intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, argumentation, knowledge acquisition and human expertise/computation studies.
Dr Rachel Kearns:
Foetal and maternal outcomes from large datasets. She has also performed an RCT in hip fracture patients and been involved in a ground breaking study looking as renal fistual outcomes when performed under GA or regioanl anaesthesia. She is also the lead for the Intercalated BSc in Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine.
Dr Joanne McPeake:
Long term outcomes from critical care and the InS:PIRE clinic. This area included research into Health Inequalities, readmissions to hospital and frequent presentation to the emergency department
Dr Kathryn Puxty:
Expertise is primarily in outcomes for cancer patients in Intensive Care and post ICU survival. She has an interest in all aspects of large data but with current special focus in Burns and Renal outcomes after critical care.
Dr Ben Shelley:
Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care. A world expert in the right ventricle and its role in perioperative morbidity and mortality. Dr Shelley is also perioperative medicine lead.
Dr Malcolm Sim:
Is currently undertaking trials in High Flow Nasal Oxygen in the ICU setting and studies on septic patients using metabolomics. He is the co-lead for taught MSc courses in Critical Care with Dr Mo Al-Haddad