UOL Postdoc Day

Dr Elpida Vounzoulaki is a Postdoctoral Epidemiologist at the Leicester Real World Evidence Unit, Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester. She has a solid background in clinical practice and research, having graduated with a BSc(Hons) in Nursing, an MSc in Medical Research, and a PhD in Diabetes Epidemiology. Her primary interests include cardiometabolic complications, women’s health conditions and real world epidemiology. In this talk, Elpida will discuss how the strategic use of routinely collected data from the UK (including data from the CPRD and HES) can help us understand how gestational diabetes affects maternal health and how we can improve outcomes following pregnancy, ultimately improving women's health across the lifespan

Naomi is a BHF 4-Year PhD student working in Professor Gavin Murphy’s research group supervised by Dr Marcin Wozniak at the University of Leicester. She previously obtained her MSc in Biochemistry from the University of Manchester and her MRes in Cardiovascular Science from the University of Leicester. Naomi's research is focused on the impact of multimorbidity on cardiac surgery outcomes and is currently involved in researching acute kidney injury (AKI) has an adverse outcome of cardiac surgery.

I did my PhD in France, working on the genetics of cardiac diseases followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ottawa Heart Institute in Canada. I joined the University of Leicester in 2008 with a Welcome Trust funded fellowship before taking on the management of the Genomics Core Facility of the University. As a research facility manager, my role is to support all groups, staff and students involved in research in Genomics. I provide them with guidance, training and technical and scientific assistance to run their projects. However, I also have particular interest in respiratory and cardiovascular research, and the development new genomic technologies.

A group of academics, post-docs and PhD students in the Biostats Research group have come together to develop a series of resources to facilitate the implementation of PPIE in statistical methodology research. These include a survey on current attitudes, two animations describing the importance of PPI and some example case studies, a glossary of statistical terms, and a workshop for methodologists. I will give a brief overview of the work we have undertaken as a group and how it can have a positive impact on researchers moving forward.