Peter Hughes

ORCID: 0000-0003-4419-1112
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Research Areas
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Disaster Response and Management
  • Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Global Health and Surgery
  • Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • Human Resource and Talent Management
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation
  • Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • Brain Metastases and Treatment
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • Lung Cancer Research Studies
  • Diverticular Disease and Complications
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Wisconsin Parkinson Association
2024

Springfield University Hospital
2004-2023

Government of New Zealand
2023

Marymount University
2023

Bangor University
2023

Southport and Formby District General Hospital
2016-2022

St. James's Hospital
2017-2022

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
2020-2022

Uganda Virus Research Institute
2022

King's College London
2020

PURPOSE: To determine the maximum-tolerated dose of tirapazamine when combined with cisplatin and radiation in patients T3/4 and/or N2/3 squamous cell carcinoma head neck. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The starting schedule was conventionally fractionated radiotherapy (70 Gy 7 weeks) concomitant 75 mg/m 2 290 (before cisplatin) weeks 1, 4, alone 160 three times a week 2, 3, 5, 6. Positron emission tomography scans for tumor hypoxia ( 18 F misonidazole) were performed before during radiotherapy....

10.1200/jco.2001.19.2.535 article EN Journal of Clinical Oncology 2001-01-15

Reported levels of mental health and psychosocial problems rose during the 2014-2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Sierra Leone.As part emergency response, existing plans to create units within hospital framework were brought forward. A nurse-led support service, with an inpatient liaison service outpatient clinic, was set up at largest government country. One nurse trained general nurses psychological first aid, case identification referral pathways. Health-care staff attended well-being...

10.2471/blt.16.190470 article CA cc-by Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2017-10-31

PURPOSE: To determine the efficacy and safety of epirubicin, cisplatin, infusional fluorouracil (5-FU) chemotherapy followed by radiation with concurrent cisplatin in patients locally and/or regionally advanced nasopharyngeal cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Thirty-five were treated three cycles induction epirubicin 50 mg/m 2 75 combined continuous-infusion 5-FU 200 daily for 9 weeks, chemoradiation 60 Gy 2-Gy fractions 20 5 days weeks 1 6. RESULTS: Median age was 43 years, 74% had World Health...

10.1200/jco.2002.07.011 article EN Journal of Clinical Oncology 2002-04-01

Management of patients with head and neck carcinoma advanced nodal disease is controversial. The purpose this analysis was to evaluate the efficacy toxicity definitive radiotherapy followed by planned dissection in bulky disease.The records 52 who were treated between 1989 1995 at Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute a after radical reviewed. All had one or more nodes >/=3 cm maximum diameter, 94% being staged N2-3. most common primary site oropharynx (56%). Sixty percent either T2 T3 primaries...

10.1002/(sici)1097-0347(199910)21:7<606::aid-hed4>3.0.co;2-g article EN Head & Neck 1999-10-01

Despite the increasing burden of mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders, a significant treatment gap for these disorders continues to exist across world, especially in low- middle-income countries. To bridge gap, World Health Organization developed launched Mental Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) mhGAP Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) help train non-specialists deliver care. Although mhGAP-IG has been used more than 100 countries in-service training, its implementation pre-service...

10.1186/s13033-020-00379-2 article EN cc-by International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2020-06-29

From 1960 through 1981, 15 patients with cerebellar medulloblastoma, aged 16 years or over, were referred for irradiation following surgery. All received craniospinal irradiation; three adjuvant chemotherapy. Five-year and 10-year survival rates of 63% 38%, respectively, obtained. The main cause treatment failure was tumor recurrence in the posterior fossa. local recurrences presented late, none developing within first 3 years. One patient suffered systemic disease. prognosis relapse poor....

10.3171/jns.1984.60.5.0994 article EN Journal of neurosurgery 1984-05-01
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