Category: Team Members

Profile coming soon

Alison Smith is a Lecturer in Health Economics based at the Academic Unit of Health Economics (AUHE) in the University of Leeds. She has extensive expertise on the economic evaluation of medical tests and devices, specialising in in-vitro diagnostics and the use of early health technology assessments and model-based cost-effectiveness analyses. She has experience in working across a range of disease areas, and is also involved in the supervision of PhD students.

Dr Helen Hughes is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, and Associate Professor in Organisational Psychology. Helen is the Behaviour Lab Director at Leeds University Business School, where she leads a purpose built, interdisciplinary facility to enable and support the study of human behaviour.

The Behaviour Lab community explores behaviour through observation, experiments, and eye tracking, as well as through virtual and augmented reality. The Lab partners with business and organisations, as well as other academic disciplines such as Engineering and Medicine. Helen’s own research applies socio-technical theory to explore the social dynamics of workplace relationships, and the future of work. She is passionate about translating research into usable insights and strategies, so that it can contribute to the work of academic and practitioner communities.

Helen works with a wide range of organizational partners, and regularly contributes to policy and practice discussions in her areas of specialisation. Her research has been published in international journals and edited books, and has been featured by media outlets including the BBC, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the Guardian, as well as radio and podcasts.

Emma is a Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School. She is a passionate researcher focussed on understanding the human, behavioural experience of work. Her current role within the HRC adopts a socio-technical approach to complex problems such as technology change and multi-organisation collaboration. She is particularly interested in the benefits of pursuing interdisciplinary research. With a previous background in industry and consultancy, Emma conducts research with a focus on collaboration, innovation and impact.

 

Peter Culmer is Professor of Healthcare Engineering at the University of Leeds, leading the Healthcare Mechatronics Group. He brings research expertise in the development of medical devices with a focus on sustainability and global healthcare. He leads research into sustainable materials for Circular Medical Devices (EPSRC ReMed project, with Loughborough University) and leads the Sustainability theme of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care. He sits on the UK IMechE Biomedical Engineering Division (BMeD) committee and Innovations in Global Surgery organisation, working as an advocate for sustainable, global healthcare engineering.

https://www.imeche.org/industry-sectors/biomedical-engineering

https://surgicalinnovations.org/wpp/

Adam is delighted to be the co-lead along with my colleague Professor Pete Culmer for the sustainability cross cutting theme within the Leeds Healthtech Research Centre. It is an exciting time for innovation and technology within the sustainable healthcare delivery space and we have ambitious plans to engage with our industry partners and colleagues to deliver real progress in this area.

Adams’s clinical focus is as an Emergency General Surgeon with a focus on the delivery of unplanned surgical care admissions. He is passionate about improving healthcare for this traditionally underserved patient cohort and work hard to deliver new and dynamic pathways to put patients in the right place at the right time, first time. Additionally using ambulatory pathways and initiatives such as the virtual ward means patients can be managed in their own home environment.

Adam is focussed on the delivery of sustainable and green options in surgery working hard towards the future net zero targets. As such he led a Leeds based team to victory in a national competition ‘Green Surgery Challenge’ co-hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Health and Royal College of Surgeons (Eng). Looking at the delivery of net-zero laparoscopic surgery thereafter has allowed him to bring his knowledge to the delivery of surgical techniques across a spectrum of presentations. He works closely with NHSE and other partners in this area and has presented internationally on the subject.

Adam trained in Liverpool as a post-graduate having completed initially a BSc in Pharmacology. As part of his studies he spent a year working with the pharmaceutical firm, Pfizer. He subsequently pursued surgical training throughout the Yorkshire region. He completed a research MD focussed on using oncolytic viruses to treat metastatic cancers and has published widely in a number of areas including in high impact journals and authored a number of book chapters.

Additional areas of interest include surgical training and particularly changing cultures to flatten hierarchy and develop the next generation of surgeons  also has a keen interest in global surgery and has worked both locally and in Uganda to deliver a number of laparoscopic simulation courses.

He is delighted to be part of the HRC and excited to see the outcomes it delivers over the next 5 year

Dr Rory Turnbull is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Healthcare Mechatronics Laboratory at the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds. He brings expertise in medical device development, robotics, automation, and medical device regulation. Having completed his PhD in assistive lower limb exoskeletons, he has since worked on various projects, including assay automation, nuclear pipe inspection robots, wearable device development, and medical device evaluation. Working alongside Professor Peter Culmer on the Surgical Theme he will be using mechatronics and automation to help meet the sustainability themes objectives.