I am a UK-trained neurosurgery resident and am excited to be the Podium Institute’s first clinical DPhil student. Following completion of medical school at UCL and early postgraduate training in London, I began my neurosurgery training in the West Midlands deanery through a competitive Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF) with the University of Birmingham. It was there that I developed a strong interest in sports concussion and neurotrauma, which has evolved into the focus of my DPhil project. I am also passionate about digital health, technology and entrepreneurship and I hope to explore these fields further during my time at Oxford. Ultimately, I aim to develop a career as an academic neurosurgeon with a focus on innovation and technology partnerships.
Research Project
Sports-related concussion is presently a clinical diagnosis with considerable variability in athletes’ recovery, highlighting the need for an individualised approach. Current approaches to develop objective fluid-based biomarkers are limited by lack of baseline profiling and inconsistent post-injury sampling. Through the Podium Institute Multimodal Concussion study, we are integrating fluid biomarkers with pitch-side MRI and wearable technology collected at pre-season and in-season timepoints to identify objective biomarker targets for the diagnosis of sports-related concussion.
Supervisor: Prof. Constantin Coussios and Mr Tim Lawrence.