People
Meet the academic, teaching and professional services staff, as well as PhD students, within the School of Medicine.
If you would like to contact the School, please see the contact page for details.
Dr Richard Bellis
Associate Lecturer in Medical Humanities
Dr Andrew Blaikie
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology; Global Health; Early Diagnosis; Frugal Technology; Medical Education
Dr Rachel Davies
Senior Lecturer
Molecular Basis of Cancer; Assessment of Medical Students; Attainment Gap;
Dr Devesh J Dhasmana
Clinical Senior Lecturer
Respiratory infection; bronchiectasis; pneumonia; severe airways disease
Dr Sandhya Duggal
Lecturer in Medical Sociology and Communication Skills
Dr Iain Finnie
Associate Lecturer - Medical Students Welfare Adviser
Dr Emma Gale
Senior Research Fellow
sleep, sleep disorders, circadian rhythms, circadian misalignment, social jetlag, obesity, adolescents, children, teenagers
Dr Andreas Haag
Lecturer
Bacterial pathogenesis • Bacterial evolution • Bacterial adaptation • Regulatory ecology of bacterial pathogens • Mobile genetic elements • Bacteriophages • Phage lifecycle regulation • Host–mobile genetic element interactions • Horizontal gene transfer
Prof Matthew Holden
Director of Impact
Professor
Pathogen Genomics, Antibiotic Resistance, Public Health Genomics, Bacterial Evolution, MRSA, SARS-CoV-2
Dr Peter Imoesi
Associate Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Pathophysiology
Mr Jude Kirabo
Visiting Scholar
Mr Benedict Leonard-Hawkhead
Research Fellow in Medical Statistics / Health Data Science
Prof Andy Lynch
Professor of Statistics in Bioscience
Statistics; Cancer; Genomics; Computational Biology
Dr Morag Mansley
Lecturer
Epithelia; Ion/Solute Transport; Hormones; Renal Physiology; Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Prof Colin McCowan
Professor in Health Data Science
Heath Data Science, Health Informatics, Clinical epidemiology, Routinely collected health data
Dr Bernadette O'Hare
Reader
Global Health Equality; Fundamental Human Rights; The Right to Health; Children's Rights; Paediatrics; Child Health
Prof Silvia Paracchini
Professor of Neurogenetics and Genomics
Human genetics, neurodevelopmental disorders, dyslexia, handedness
Dr Samantha J. Pitt
Reader
Cardiac Dysfunction; Intracellular Calcium Dynamics; Ion Channel; Metal Ion Homeostasis
Dr Paul Reynolds
Lecturer
Pathology; Tumour Microenvironment; Immuno-oncology; Carcinoma Associated Fibroblasts; Cancer Drug Resistance.
Dr Wilber Sabiiti
Principal Research Fellow
Tuberculosis, Respiratory medicine, Microbiome, Molecular Diagnotics, Antimicrobial Resistance, One health, Immunology/vaccines, Translation of Research to policy and practice, Low- and Middle- Income Countries research capacity building.
Prof Morven Shearer
Professor
Professor/Provost of St Leonard's College and Director of the Graduate School
Medical ethics and law; research ethics; interdisciplinarity; scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)
Dr Kathryn Steven
MBChB Deputy Programme Director, Phase Two
Dr Alan J. Stewart
Reader
Cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Metabolism; Metal-protein interactions; Metallomics; Plasma proteins; Proteomics
Prof Frank Sullivan
Professor of Primary Care Medicine
General Practice; Primary Care; Clinical Trials; Health Data Science; Systematic Reviews
Dr Javier Tello
Lecturer in Pharmacology
Reproduction; Infertility; Brain Hormones; Neuroendocrinology; Endocrinology; Transgenic animals; Gene therapy
Dr Victor H Villar
Research Fellow (Liquid Biopsy/Novel Biomarkers)
Dr John Winpenny
Senior Lecturer
Physiology; Ion channels: Medical education; Widening access; Assessment
Dr Yiran Zhou
Research Assistant for the Evaluation of Community Based Medical Education
Dr Muge Cevik
Honorary Research Fellow
infectious diseases; medical virology; clinical research; epidemiology
Prof Stephen Gillespie
Emeritus Professor
Tuberculosis; Clinical trials; Antibiotic resistance; MBLA; Scattered Light Integrated Collection (SLIC)
Dr Gozde Ozakinci
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Health psychology; Population and Behavioural Sciences; Cancer; Physical activity; Wellbeing; Sustainability; Health behaviours; Communication
