The Team

Da Boss

Prof S. Ramani Moonesinghe

Graduated from UCL Medical School in 1997, where she was president of the medical students' union, and did her postgraduate training in internal medicine at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals. In 2015 She began a fellowship in Improvement Science with the Health Foundation. She was inspired by Katharine Lloyd-Williams, an anaesthetist and educationalist who oversaw the creation of the UK’s first medical school completely open to both male and female students.

She was appointed to UCL Hospitals in 2010 as consultant in Anaesthetics and Critical Care Medicine, and is also Honorary Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Co-Director of the NIHR funded Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe)

Between 2008 and 2012, She was a Council Member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. In June 2016, she was appointed Director of NIAA Health Services Research Centre and also in 2016 she was appointed Associate National Clinical Director for Elective Care at NHS England. She has been the NIAA academic training advisor since 2012 and a NIAA Board member from 2009. In 2017 she was selected to join the Q initiative in the founding cohort, an initiative led by the Health Foundation to improve care quality for NHS patients.

Minions

Rachel Baumber

1) Main project – Perioperative predictors and quality of life outcomes following complex orthopaedic surgery (using PQIP data).

2) Projected finish date: July 2021.

3) Can help with: Managing research and clinical commitments simultaneously, IRAS applications, applications for funding, systematic reviews.

James Bedford

1) Main projects: Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme (PQIP) and pomVLAD.

2) Projected finish date for PhD/MD: August 2019.

3) Can help with: Data analysis, data visualisation, online dashboards, R, risk adjustment modelling, NHS Digital linkage, Scottish PBPP applications.

Chris Evans

1) Main projects: Evaluation of the Little Journey app.

2) Projected finish date for PhD: Good question - August 2021.

3) Can help with: Innovation & app development, Deployment of innovation in NHS - links with AHSN, IRAS submission and ethics, setting up and co-ordinating single and multi-centre RCTs and Grant applications.

Dermot McGuckin

1) Main projects: A retrospective linked-data cohort study investigating the feasibility and value of linking primary care electronic health record data with secondary care administrative data to identify inpatient complications occurring after major surgery and better describe the epidemiology of postoperative complications and healthcare resource utilisation.

2) Projected finish date: August 2022

3) Can help with: data analysis (Stata, Python, R); regression modelling; MRC/NIHR grant applications.

Cyrus Razavi

1) Main projects: CASAP

2) Projected finish date for fellowship: August 2019.

3) Can help with: Programming in Javascript and Python, Arduino, Raspberry Pi.

Arun Sahni

1) Main projects: Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme (PQIP), looking at patient reported outcome measures in the perioperative period.

2) Projected finish date for PhD/MD: August 2019.

3) Can help with: Working out how to work with R, IRAS applications, time management.

Amaki Sogbodjor

1) Main projects: CASAP

2) Projected finish date for PhD/MD: To be decided.

3) Can help with: Systematic reviews, IRAS applications, grant applications.

Duncan Wagstaff

1) Main Project: Qualitative Evaluation of PQIP.

2) Finish date of OOP(R): May 2019.

3) Can help with: Qualitative Research; Scoping Reviews; Global Health; IRAS & REC applications; MPhil to PhD Upgrade process.

Danny Wong

1) Main project: SNAP-2: EPICCS.

2) Projected finish date for PhD/MD: February 2019 (very optimistic).

3) Can help with: Data analysis, R, regression modelling, IRAS applications, Ethics, CAG (Section 251), Scottish PBPP applications, drawing maps, MPhil to PhD Upgrade process, Application process for OOPR to count to training.

Justin Kua

1) Main projects: NOAHs ARC 1 and CAESARV (a.k.a. 'The Obs Siblings'... I'm thinking of a better name...)

2) Projected finish date: [*Error - Data outside normal limits*]

3) Can help with: Making memes, GIF selection for social media, general comedic value... But learning slowly from Master Danny Wong.

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