- Dysphagia Assessment and Management
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Acute Kidney Injury Research
- Voice and Speech Disorders
- Diabetes Treatment and Management
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Contact Dermatitis and Allergies
- Emotional Labor in Professions
- Tracheal and airway disorders
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
- Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Dermatology and Skin Diseases
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Mesenchymal stem cell research
- Digital Imaging in Medicine
- Kawasaki Disease and Coronary Complications
- Animal testing and alternatives
- Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
- Therapeutic Uses of Natural Elements
Alberta Health Services
2025
University of Toronto
2024
University of Oxford
2023
Clinical Research Consultants (United States)
2018-2022
Leicester Royal Infirmary
2021
University of Birmingham
2020
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2020
Google (United States)
2020
University of Auckland
2019
Imperial College London
2018
One kind of between-list and two kinds within-list temporal order memory were examined in a patient with selective bilateral hippocampal lesions. This damage disrupted for all three memory, but left item word pair recognition relatively intact. These findings are inconsistent claims that (1) lesions, like those the medial lobe (MTL) cortex, disrupt recognition, (2) lesions to same degree. Not only was intact patient, further evidence indicates her other associations between items is also...
The corpus callosum has become a key area of interest for researchers in severe mental illness. Disruptions fractional anisotropy the have been reported schizophrenia and major depressive disorder. No change oligodendrocyte density overall size either illness, suggesting that gross morphology is unchanged, but subtler organisational disruption may exist within this structure. Using high-resolution oil immersion microscopy, we examined cross-sectional nerve fibre axonal myelin sheath; using...
Hand eczema is a common inflammatory dermatosis that causes significant patient morbidity. Previous studies comparing psoralen–ultraviolet A (PUVA) with narrowband ultraviolet B (NB‐UVB) have been small, nonrandomized and retrospective. To conduct an observer‐blinded randomized controlled pilot study using validated scoring criteria to compare immersion PUVA NB‐UVB for the treatment of chronic hand unresponsive topical steroids. Sixty patients clobetasol propionate 0·05% were receive either...
Abstract Background Swallowing therapy is commonly provided as a treatment to lessen the risk or severity of dysphagia secondary radiotherapy (RT) for head and neck cancer (HNC); however, best practice not yet established. This trial will compare effectiveness prophylactic (high low intensity) versus reactive interventions swallowing in patients with HNC undergoing RT. Methods multi-site, international randomized clinical (RCT) include 952 adult receiving who are at high post-RT dysphagia....
<h3>Background</h3> Bone graft substitutes are widely used in spinal surgery. Here, serious complications associated with the bone substitute GeneX presented. contains tri-calcium phosphate and calcium sulphate. <h3>Methods</h3> was three patients who had decompression fusion. Mice were also injected GeneX, demineralised matrix (DBX) or saline subcutaneously. After 24 h extent of tissue damage inflammation sections quantified. To understand licensing process for substitutes, US Food Drug...
To explore whether the meaning of a word changes visual processing emotional faces (i.e. awareness and attention), we performed two complementary studies. In Experiment 1, presented participants with emotion control words then tracked their for competing using binocular rivalry paradigm. Participants experienced face congruent longer than word-incongruent face, as would be expected if was biasing toward (unseen) face. 2, similarly prior to presenting divided field Emotion were either in...
Patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are often screened repeat chest X-ray within 6-12 weeks following an admission. This practice is aimed to detect underlying lung malignancy, which can be difficult identify initially when acute infiltrate present on X-ray. We conducted a study the use of follow-up X-rays after admission CAP determine yield suspected or diagnosed cancer.During 2-year period, January 2010-January 2012, we evaluated all patients over age 50 who had no previous...
Purpose We assessed experienced clinicians' perceptions of benefits and drawbacks to the clinical adoption pharyngeal high-resolution manometry (HRM). This article focuses on professional institutional factors that influence HRM by speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Method Two surveys (closed- open-ended questions) a series focus groups were completed with SLP members both American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Dysphagia Research Society (DRS). Transcripts inductively coded for...
Hand eczema is one of the most common skin diseases with some studies estimating that up to 10% European population has degree hand at any time. There are various causes people having a genetic tendency and others developing due their jobs, often result washing in healthcare or hospitality sectors. The initial treatment avoid obvious triggers use plenty moisturising creams. If problems continue steroid creams prescribed. These measures enough but if continues patients then offered either...