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Mr Neeraj Lal is an Academic Clinical Lecturer in General Surgery.  His major research interest is in the immunogenomics of colorectal cancer, with the aim of developing new immunotherapeutic strategies in this common cancer type.  He has held current and previous research funding from the National Institute of Health and Care Research, Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council ...

Joe is a Research Fellow working in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research (CPROR). He is currently working on the Inclusive PRO study which is supported by the Birmingham NIHR BRC and CRF. 

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Emma Lancashire is currently the trial coordinator for a cluster randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of an obesity prevention intervention in primary school age children. Prior to that she was the research manager for the British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, a long term follow up study of the survivors of childhood cancer.

Professor Deirdre Lane is an Honorary Professor of Cardiovascular Health at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ and an Adjunct Professor of Cardiovascular Health at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Her background is in health psychology and cardiovascular epidemiology and her research examines how cardiovascular disease affects patients’ quality of life and psychological well-being, their ...

Professor Dan Lasserson is the only Professor of Ambulatory Care in the UK. His research group tackles one of the biggest challenges that healthcare is facing – the delivery of acute medical care, where needs are increasing year by year but the available resources to meet those needs are limited. Both primary and secondary care acute services are increasingly stretched and calls for new ...

Anna Lavis is an Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, and the Institute for Mental Health. 

In a range of collaborations across academic, policy and clinical interfaces, her work has two core focuses:

1. Anna leads a programme of research into social media and health, with a particular focus on mental health. She directs the Social Media ...

Ing joined the public health training scheme as an academic clinical fellow after completing her general practitioner training

Amardeep is a Research Fellow based in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and Modelling (BESTEAM) team at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡.

Amardeep’s current main focus is on prediction modelling methodology projects with an application to machine learning.  He recently graduated with a PhD at Keele University and has also previously held a NIHR Research Methods ...

Richard was a full time NHS general practitioner for over 30 years and has previously held academic positions at Oxford and Yale. He is committed to an overarching view of medicine as a scientific and humane enterprise to be shared with patients and society. The term Shared Understanding of Medicine is a fusion of Evidence Based Medicine, Shared Decision Making and Patient-Centred Medicine.

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Elizabeth is an Assistant Professor in applied heath surgical research, global surgery, surgical innovation, and medical devices, and she is a General Surgery Resident

Elizabeth has a background in translational research, international cohort studies and clinical trials, and is formally trained in health research methodology, health economics, qualitative research, behavioural science and ...

Professor Richard Lilford has pursued a successful career in medicine for over 40 years, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology and more recently, health service research. He has research methodological expertise in the evaluation of complex interventions and prospective health economic evaluations of service delivery interventions. He has designed a framework for the evaluation of complex ...

Rachel’s primary focus at present is in global health, particularly in the fields of surgery and maternal health, addressing urgent clinical needs of people living in the global south. As Deputy Trials Management Team Leader, Rachel oversees a portfolio of trials managed by Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, in strategic partnership with and ...

Professor Lip is a clinical researcher, with a major interest into the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation (AF), as well as the pathophysiology of thromboembolism in this arrhythmia.  Furthermore, he has been researching stroke and bleeding risk factors, and improvements in clinical risk stratification.  The CHA₂DS₂-VASc and HAS-BLED scores - for assessing stroke and bleeding risk, ...

Ian Litchfield is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡, with a background in occupational medicine and interests in health service delivery. He uses qualitative and quantitative research methods in the evaluation of service delivery interventions in both primary and secondary care. Ian is currently co-lead of the Centre of ...

Lefan joined the Health Economics Unit as a research fellow in July 2023 and is working closely with Dr Philip Kinghorn on an NIHR funded project about Family Group Conferencing (FGC) within adult social care and mental health.

Lefan will be contributing to the project by collecting primary data and using her expertise in quantitative and economic analytical tools.

Dr Xiaoxuan (Xiao, pronounced "Shau") Liu is an Associate Professor in AI and Digital Health at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, and a Deputy Editor at NEJM AI.

She was appointed a 125^thAnniversary Fellow at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ in August 2024 following her significant number of contributions to ...

Zulian Liu is a Honorary Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research and currently a Senior Systematic Reviewer at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford.

Zulian has worked in various research capacities, undertaking systematic reviews, rapid evidence reviews and health technology assessments for UK regional and national organisations including ...