Clinical Staff | NIHR SRMRC - Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre

Professor Tony Belli

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Prof Belli graduated from Tor Vergata University in Rome in 1992 with a degree in Medicine and Surgery. He completed a doctoral degree (MD) on neurobiochemistry of brain ischaemia and reperfusion at Tor Vergata University and then moved to the UK in 1994.

He trained as a neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital, Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital.

Prof Belli is on the editorial board several neurology journals and is an advisor to NICE and the Care Quality Commission.

Professor Naiem Moiemen

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Professor Moiemen joined the Birmingham team in 2000 and played a significant role in establishing designated Burns Centre status for adults and children in 2008. He is the Clinical Lead of the Midlands Burn Network ensuring equity of care and seamless clinical pathways across all providers of burns care in the region.

He has led the burns research in Birmingham since 2012 with the opening of the Healing Foundation (now Scar Free Foundation) Burns Research Centre which operated until 2017. The Centre established a strong foundation of clinical and academic collaborations across the UK. Following on from this Professor Moiemen was instrumental in establishing the new Scar Free Foundation Centre for Conflict Wound Research, which commenced activity in September 2018, and is now the Centre’s Director.

In addition, Professor Moiemen is President of the International Association of Burn Injuries (ISBI), past President of European Burn Association (EBA) and the British Burn Association (BBA). He is a member of the senior editorial board of BURNS and Journal of Burn Care Research (JBCR), Journal of Burn and Trauma and past deputy editor of Journal of Burn and Trauma (JBT). Professor Moiemen is on the Board of Trustees of the International Burn Foundation IBF and Board of Trustees of the VTCT Vocational Training Charitable Trust (2018-Current).

Colonel Mark Foster

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Colonel Mark Foster spent 10 years in the British Army, including eight years in pathology before studying medicine at the University of Manchester. After graduating, he undertook the Army Entry Officers Course before completing his senior house officer training at hospitals in Surrey and Bristol. He then had trauma placements as a registrar in South Africa and Bristol before deploying to Iraq for Operation Telic. Since then he has focused increasingly on hand trauma and plastic surgery as his clinical specialty while maintaining a strong interest in academic research and teaching. He took up his current post in February 2011. Col. Foster is a keen SCUBA diver. He is an Advanced Instructor with the British Sub-Aqua Club and has completed the Underwater Medicine Course at the Institute of Naval Medicine, Portsmouth.

Lt Col Richard Blanch

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Richard Blanch is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and a clinical academic at the University of Birmingham. He has a particular interest in ocular trauma and works closely with the NIHR SRMRC where he leads clinical and laboratory-
based research aiming to improve assessment and treatment of eye and brain eye injury.

Richard completed his PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2013 looking at the mechanisms of apoptosis after retinal injury and his current laboratory work is directed towards understanding and preventing retinal cell death after trauma. In particular, his research aims to improve the delivery of neuroprotective therapies to the retina and optic nerve after application as eye drops. His clinical research with the NIHR SRMRC aims to examine the retinal changes associated with critical illness, particularly sepsis and traumatic brain injury, in order to improve the assessment of these conditions. He has received funding from the Ministry of Defence, Fight for Sight, Blind Veterans UK and the Drummond Foundation.

Dr Heidi Doughty

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Heidi Doughty is a consultant in Transfusion Medicine working for NHS Blood and Transplant based in Birmingham, UK. She qualified in medicine from Cambridge University in 1985 before undertaking higher training in internal medicine, haematology and management in Nottingham and London. She completed her doctoral thesis in transfusion medicine in Bergen, Norway.

She has worked in Birmingham since 1998, in a variety of roles from donor services to hospital transfusion practice. Past projects include overseas development and military-civilian health partnerships. She has held positions as Consultant Adviser to the Defence Medical Services and co-chaired the NATO Blood Panel.

She is an honorary Reader at the University of Birmingham and is affiliated with the Birmingham NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre. Her current research and development interests include the multi-disciplinary development and delivery of pre-hospital transfusion and transfusion emergency preparedness.

Mr David Davies

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David Davies graduated from the University of Wales College of Medicine Cardiff, and after completing his initial years of general training in Cardiff began specialist neurosurgical training in 2008, with posts in Nottingham, Coventry and Birmingham. He graduated as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in October 2008. He held a fellowship with the SRMRC from Aug 2013 to 2016. He was appointed academic clinical lecturer in neurosurgery in March 2017.

Within this field his work and specialist interests involve the development of optical techniques within the context of traumatic brain injury, particularly working in conjunction with physical and computer scientists. He is very keen to incorporate contemporary research from the seemingly unrelated disciplines of engineering and computer sciences into the field of neurosurgical trauma. He is involved in many national and international trials into the treatment of a variety of operative and non-operative aspects of traumatic brain injury, and has experience in many specialist techniques including cerebral microdialysis, brain tissue oxygen monitoring and multi-modal MR imaging.

Concussion or mild traumatic brain injury (particularly in sport) is also a key area in which Mr Davies currently works, including the NIHR RECOS and SCRUM studs involving participants elite athletes. Within this context he works as part of the biomarker research team,
particularly investigating the role of micro-RNA and other non-coding genetic material within the context of traumatic brain injury.

Miss Emma Toman

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Emma is a West Midlands neurosurgical, academic trainee currently working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. Her clinical interests include the management of traumatic brain injury and polytrauma. In addition to Emma’s clinical training, she is a member of the University of Central Lancashire Head Injury Management Group and is completing a part-time PhD in “concussion in non-athletes”.

Dr Kamal Yakoub

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Kamal is a native of Alexandria, Egypt, where he graduated with honours from Alexandria University School of Medicine. In 2014, Kamal completed his M.Sc. in interdisciplinary neuroscience from Goethe University, Germany. He was the recipient of the ERASMUS fellowship grant to study the neurobiochemistry of purine and pyrimidine salvage pathways in traumatic brain injury using the in vitro model of rat organotypic hippocampal slice cultures and RT-qPCR, among a range of other molecular biology and fluorescent imaging techniques under the supervision of Professor Antonio Belli at the University of Birmingham. He is interested in pursuing an academic neurosurgical career where all his passions for service, adventure and exploration can be combined as an academic neurosurgeon.

Fiona Howroyd

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Fiona Howroyd works in Critical Care at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham as a Senior Physiotherapist Team Leader. Fiona graduated in 2010 from the University of Birmingham with BSC (Hons) in Physiotherapy and later completed her MRes in Clinical Health Research in 2019.

Fiona has particular research interests in the field of rehabilitation and recovery following critical illness. Fiona is affiliated to the NIHR SRMRC following her co-investigator role with the REVERE projects, led by Dr Charlotte Small. This has included a number of clinical trials evaluating the feasibility and usability of novel interactive technologies to support rehabilitation in critical care. This has included a co-investigator role for the REVERE Move and REVERE Breathe trials. Fiona was also chief investigator for the ICU-CHAT trial; a feasibility study which evaluated a novel communication device for voiceless tracheostomy patients in the ICU. Fiona is now supporting with the DELVE study which aims to evaluate an electronic weaning chart for patients weaning from mechanical ventilation in critical care.

Ms Nabeela Malik

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Nabeela Malik currently works as a NIHR SRMRC Trauma Research Fellow, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, having taken time out of general surgical training on the West Midlands Rotation. Her research interests include: gastrointestinal, laparoscopic and emergency general surgery, major trauma and military surgery, trauma systems of care, triage, and surgery in childhood. Nabeela is also interested in medical education. Nabeela has received BATLS Instructor Recommendation and has partaken in humanitarian military deployment near the Kenyan/Somalian border.