Dr Elaine Cole is the Director of Research and Innovation for the Pan London Major Trauma System, and a senior lecturer in Trauma Sciences. She is responsible for leading and coordinating pan London research and innovation in relation to the management of severely injured patients. She leads the dissertation project year and research module on the MSc programme. Her main research interests are investigating the predictors and phenotypes of contemporary multiple organ dysfunction (MODS) after major trauma, and the impact of severe injury on older people. In 2016, she led a national point prevalence study called ORDIT (Organ Dysfunction in Trauma), which involved all Major Trauma Centres in England, Wales and Scotland. She is also the Chief Investigator for the pan-London Dunhill Medical Trust funded study called MODET. The study was carried out by research teams at the four London Major Trauma Centres and is investigating the characteristics, predictors and outcomes of MODS in severely injured older patients. The important research will help us better understand the needs and plan the care for an increasing elderly major trauma population.
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Mr Aylwin is a Senior Lecturer in Trauma Sciences and Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the Royal London Major Trauma Centre, Bart’s Health NHS Trust. He qualified from Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and undertook his surgical training in North East Thames and Cape Town, South Africa. He was appointed as a Consultant Vascular & Trauma Surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2013, and became the first Head of Specialty of Major Trauma in 2016. In January 2022 he joined QMUL and Barts Health to co-direct the Masters Programme in Trauma Sciences.
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Professor Karim Brohi is Head of the LondonTIER, Professor of Trauma Sciences at the Blizard Institute, and Consultant Trauma and Vascular Surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust. He is also Director of the North East London and Essex Trauma Network, and Clinical Director for the Pan London Major Trauma System. Professor Brohi’s research interests cover the breadth of trauma sciences - from the acute damage response of the body to trauma, through all phases of trauma care from pre-hospital to rehabilitation and health services research. His fundamental research activity focuses upon trauma-associated coagulopathy (ie clotting abnormalities) and massive transfusion, trauma patient outcomes, systems biology and complexity analysis of trauma critical care. He is also qualified in both anaesthetics and surgery, and worked for the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) in London. Professor Brohi founded the trauma.org website and the ‘Trauma-list’ international discussion group in 1995 to provide free, open access trauma education and information to doctors and other healthcare providers around the world, and to provide a community forum for consultations and advice on patient care and current practice. It was one of the first medical websites on the Internet. In 2016, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Resuscitation Science from the American Heart Association – the first time that the award has been given to a researcher based outside of the United States. He has been named as one of London’s most influential people in the Evening Standard's Progress 1000 list for two years in a row (2018 and 2019) for his work as director of the capital's major trauma network which has led to a 20 per cent reduction in the capital’s mortality rate from major trauma and was vital in saving many victims of the Westminster, London Bridge and Finsbury Park terror attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire.
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Dr Ross Davenport is a Senior Lecturer in Trauma Sciences at C4TS and consultant trauma and vascular surgeon at The Royal London Major Trauma Centre, Bart’s Health NHS Trust. He is a module lead and personal tutor on the MSc programme. His research focus is on trauma-induced coagulopathy, acute response to injury and the treatment of major trauma haemorrhage. He has previously worked in prehospital care for both London and Essex & Herts Air Ambulances. He is co-investigator on the national CRYOSTAT-2 trial evaluating the early use of fibrinogen supplementation (cryoprecipitate) in major trauma haemorrhage. Previously he has worked on a number of other global randomised control trials for evaluation of novel and existing therapies for trauma haemorrhage and organ protection – recombinant Factor VIIa (CONTROL), MP4OX (pegylated haemoglobin-based colloid) and the CRYOSTAT (pilot RCT of early cryoprecipitate).
Colonel Nigel Tai is an honorary clinical senior lecturer on the programme, a consultant trauma and vascular surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust, and UK Defence Medical Service. He specialises in trauma and vascular surgery, balancing his career between clinical practice in both a civilian and military context. His experience in either setting is directly applicable to the other and he strives to promote cross-fertilisation of learning and preparatory training both within the NHS and Army environments. His research interests include the use of probability-based modelling to aid in ‘real-time’ clinical decision–making (e.g. predictive factors for limb amputation after poly trauma) and for use in supporting trauma governance via Bayesian Network mortality prediction.