Dr Daisy Wilson MBChB PhD

Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Clinical Lecturer

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 371 3264
Email
d.v.wilson@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
University 麻豆精选 Research Laboratory
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
B15 2WB

Dr Wilson is a consultant geriatrician and clinical lecturer at the Department of Inflammation and Ageing. Her research interests are focussed on the interplay between frailty, sarcopenia and immune dysfunction.

Qualifications

• Fellowship of Higher Education Academy, 2019
• PhD, University 麻豆精选, 2018
• Membership of the Royal College of Physicians London (MRCP) 2012
• MRCP Geriatrics 2012
• Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods in Cognitive Aging, University of Edinburgh 2011
• MBChB, University 麻豆精选, 2008

Biography

Dr Wilson qualified as a clinical doctor in 2008 and completed her specialist training in both Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine in 2022.

She was awarded an MRC-ARUK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research funded fellowship to complete her PhD from the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University 麻豆精选.聽 This was an investigation into immunesenescence in frailty and sarcopenia and was supervised by Professors Janet Lord and Elizabeth Sapey.

Following her PhD she was awarded a NIHR funded academic clinical lectureship post in Geriatric Medicine.聽 She has held this post since 2018.聽 During this period of time she has diversified her research interests and has been successful in a number of grant applications as both principle and co-investigtaor.聽 Notably an Academy of Medical Sciences Starter Grant for Clinical Lecturers for the investigation of acute sarcopenia recovery in a Covid-19 model and a UK Spine Knowledge Exchange grant for investigation of senescence and biomarkers in an extensively clinically characterised cohort.聽

She is a member of the steering committee for Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative (GeMRC) and has played an active role in study design, set up, recruitment, analysis and dissemination of all projects to date.聽 These have included the international project collecting outcomes in older patients with Covid-19.

Since 2022 she has been speciality lead for Geraitric Medicine for the MBChB course.聽 She has overseen the transition of the curriculum from 4th to 3rd year and adapted the content to align it with the standardised MLA curriculum.聽 She has a Fellowhsip from the Higher Education Academy for recognition of her teaching activities.聽

She is a member of the current SUSTAIN cohort at the University 麻豆精选 which aims to equip future leaders in research with effective skills to drive future change in the research landscape.聽 She is also an active member of the Research and Academic Committee at British Geriatrics Society.聽

Clinically she works as a visiting consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.聽 聽

Teaching

• MBChB year 3 – geriatrics module
• MBChB year 4 – geriatrics module
• MBChB year 5 – acute care module

Research

  • Immune dysfunction in frailty and sarcopenia
  • Senescence in multi-morbidity
  • Repurposing old therapeutics for new frailty related targets

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Geriatric Medicine Core Dataset Extended Working Group, Welch, C, Wilson, D, Sayer, AA, Witham, MD & Jackson, TA 2023, '', BMC Geriatrics, vol. 23, no. 1, 168.

Anderson, BM, Wilson, DV, Qasim, M, Correa, G, Evison, F, Gallier, S, Ferro, CJ, Jackson, TA & Sharif, A 2023, '', International journal of nephrology, vol. 2023, 5885059 .

Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative 2023, '', European Geriatric Medicine.

Anderson, BM, Wilson, DV, Qasim, M, Correa, G, Evison, F, Gallier, S, Ferro, CJ, Jackson, TA & Sharif, A 2023, '', BMC Nephrology, vol. 24, no. 1, 16.

Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative 2022, '', BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care .

Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative, Welch, C & Wilson, D 2022, '', Age and Ageing, vol. 51, no. 2, afab243.

Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative, Covid Collaborative, Jackson, T & Wilson, D 2021, '', Age and Ageing, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 617-630.

Welch, C, Majid, Z, Andrews, I, Hassan-Smith, Z, Kamwa, V, Picton, H, Wilson, D & Jackson, TA 2021, '', BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, vol. 13, no. 1, 3.

Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative & Wilson, D 2021, '', BMJ open, vol. 11, no. 5, e042440.

Welch, C, Greig, C, Masud, T, Wilson, D & Jackson, TA 2020, '', Aging and Disease, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1345-1351.

Wilson, D, Drew, W, Jasper, A, Crisford, H, Nightingale, P, Newby, P, Jackson, T, Lord, J & Sapey, E 2020, '', The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, vol. 75, no. 12, pp. 2320-2325.

Welch, C, McCluskey, L, Wilson, D, Ni Lochlainn, M, Taylor, JK, Gaunt, V, Giridharan, K, Jelley, B, Cunningham, EL, Healy, R & Doshi, M 2019, '', BMC Research Notes, vol. 12, no. 1, 348. ,

Comment/debate

Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative 2020, '', Age and Ageing, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 733-737.

Review article

Lee, H, Wilson, D, Bunting, KV, Kotecha, D & Jackson, T 2023, '', Ageing Research Reviews, vol. 86, 101860.

Lochlainn, MN, Cox, NJ, Wilson, T, Hayhoe, RPG, Ramsay, SE, Granic, A, Isanejad, M, Roberts, HC, Wilson, D, Welch, C, Hurst, C, Atkins, JL, Mendon莽a, N, Horner, K, Tuttiett, ER, Morgan, Y, Heslop, P, Williams, EA, Steves, CJ, Greig, C, Draper, J, Corish, CA, Welch, A, Witham, MD, Sayer, AA & Robinson, S 2021, '', Nutrients, vol. 13, no. 7, 2349.