Specialised Foundation posts in Exeter
The below clinical academic supervisors host academic foundation trainees and can often accommodate projects relevant to a range of clinical interests. However, there is a wide range of research undertaken in the University of Exeter and projects can often be arranged with other research teams if you have a particular interest. To discuss further please contact Professor Angus Jones (angus.jones@exeter.ac.uk).
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Louise Allan
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Neurology, psychiatry of old age Professor Louise Allan is a geriatrician. She has a specialist interest in the Neurology and Psychiatry of Old Age. Current research themes focus on falls and physical health care in dementia, the effects of delirium upon cognitive decline, and non-Alzheimer’s dementias including post-stroke dementia and Lewy body disease. |
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Rob Andrews
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Diabetes, Exercise, Obesity Professor Andrews is an endocrinologist with interests in diabetes and exercise. His research group is able to offer projects in the following areas; predicting glucose changes with exercise, effect of hyperglycaemia on co-ordination, exercise, diabetes and pregnancy, exercise and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. |
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Jon P Evans |
Orthopaedics Jonathan P Evans is a clinical academic orthopaedic surgeon specialising in shoulder and elbow surgery. His research focuses on patient outcome assessment, particularly the modern analysis and implementation of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs). He is also actively involved in research exploring the genetics of upper limb pathology, the application of artificial intelligence in x-ray assessment, and clinical trials. |
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Jon T Evans |
Orthopaedics Jonathan T Evans is a clinical academic orthopaedic surgeon spending half his time as a hip surgeon and the other half in the University of Exeter. He works on the data analysis team for the National Joint Registry and has several research interests including peri-prosthetic femoral fractures, sustainability in orthopaedics and prosthetic joint infection, he is also the chair of the Exeter Hip Research Group. |
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Andrew Hattersley |
Diabetes, Genetics Professor Andrew Hattersley is an endocrinologist whose research combines state-of-the-art molecular genetics with physiological and clinical investigations in patients. A key theme of his approach is that his scientific discoveries are rapidly and effectively translated into improvements in clinical care. His research groups is able to offer projects in a range of subjects: areas with recent academic trainees working in areas including endocrinology, neurology, paediatrics, genetics, elderly care and renal medicine. |
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Angus Jones |
Diabetes, Global health Professor Angus Jones is an endocrinologist whose research focusses on clinical questions directly relevant to the management of diabetes. He uses a combination of multicentre clinical studies and existing trial and observational datasets to answer clinical questions relating to diabetes classification and treatment. He leads a program of research (NIHR Global Health Group) investigating diagnosis and management of diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Tamsin Newlove-Delgado |
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Professor Tamsin Newlove-Delgado is a consultant in public health whose research concentrates on public health aspects of the mental health of young people, influenced by her clinical experience in child and adolescent psychiatry prior to entering public health medicine. She has a particular interest in the transition from child to adult services, and in the application of epidemiological methods for service planning. She is currently leading a surveillance study of Sydenham’s chorea and is also a member of the Catch-us study team focussing on transition in young people with ADHD http://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/catchus/.
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Jane Masoli |
Epidemiology, Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Ageing Professor Jane Masoli is a consultant geriatrician and a senior clinical research fellow in epidemiology. Her main personal research focus is on cardiovascular ageing and polypharmacy, using big data approaches and genetic epidemiology. She is also a work-package lead for the MRC funded GEMINI multimorbidity collaborative and the Clinical Research Network lead for Ageing and Multiple Long-Term conditions in the Peninsula. A placement can be tailored to the individual’s interests in any medical or surgical specialty, as the epidemiology group use large-scale data to understand a broad range of conditions in the context of ageing and multimorbidity. |
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Richard Oram |
Diabetes, autoimmune disease, renal medicine, Professor Richard Oram is a renal physician who studies the biology of type 1 diabetes and the use of genetic risk score to diagnose autoimmune disease. Academic foundation trainees would have the opportunity to work on either the biology of type 1 diabetes using data from existing studies, or to work on autoimmune disease using the UK biobank combining analyses of phenotype data with genetic risk scores for a variety of autoimmune diseases.
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Kash Patel |
Diabetes, endocrinology, genetics Professor Kash Patel is an Endocrinologist main area of research includes understanding the genetics of diabetes and other endocrine diseases with a focus on Monogenic and Type 1 diabetes. His research uses next-generation sequencing technology and large data sets to improve diagnosis and understanding of monogenic diabetes in humans. |
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Adilia Warris
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Paediatric infectious diseases, medical mycology Professor Adilia Warris is Paediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist and a Co-Director of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter. Her research profile has a strong translational focus and specific areas of interest include antifungal resistance, antifungal stewardship, and host-fungus interactions. She offers a wide range of projects in Medical Mycology that can range from clincial trials and clinical data through to the laboratory.
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