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WMG Professor named as part of award-winning research team

Professor Theo ArvanitisOur Professor Theo Arvanitis, Chair in e-Health Innovation and Head of Research at our Institute of Digital Healthcare (IDH), and his colleagues Omar Khan and Sarah Lim-Choi Keung, were part of the winning Warwick Research Team at the annual University of Warwick awards on Friday (12th May) night.

 

The winning team was made up of colleagues from WMG’s IDH, Warwick Medical School and Warwick Computer Science who are working alongside doctors at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire and Tommy’s baby charity on the development of the Tommy’s National Miscarriage Research Centre.

 

The work of the Warwick team is internationally recognised as pioneering and has already delivered new treatment options that are currently being tested in clinical trials. The new Tommy’s centre now enables 24,000 women per year to access treatment and support and participate in Tommy’s research studies. Tommy’s #misCOURAGE campaign continues to grow and resonate with women, attracting a UK and global audience. To date the campaign has reached over 16 million women on Facebook with 7 million of them watching the campaign film; 7,000 taking part in a miscarriage survey and over 1,000 women bravely sharing their personal #misCOURAGE story.”Prof Theo Arvanitis Retweeted Warwick InsiteWell done all for excellent work on Tommy's Research in Miscarriage @IDHwarwick we are proud to be part of the team & unit @TheoArvanitis

 

Professor Arvanitis, who leads the team at IDH, is creating an online electronic patient record system to link into three Tommy’s Centres (in Coventry, Birmingham and London). The clinical details and histories of women attending the centres will be uploaded from existing hospital records into the collaborative online system. The results of current and additional Tommy’s investigations will also be uploaded; these will include thyroid function tests thrombophilia screening, coeliac disease screening and additional Tommy’s investigations such as endometrial tests, sperm function and DNA fragmentation tests.

 

The system will include links to general practice databases, hospital maternity systems, electronic clinical results systems and a module for self-reported patient outcomes, to enable collection of information from patients subsequently attending elsewhere than the participating centres. Thus comprehensive pregnancy outcome data will be available for the purposes of existing and future studies in addition to routine clinical practice.

Mon 15 May 2017, 16:19 | Tags: Theo Arvanitis Research