Dr Elspeth Whitby Senior Lecturer

About me

Elspeth is a Clinician Scientist Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Sheffield University.

She is an Honorary Consultant at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Her areas of interest are based around obstetric imaging with MRI including the fetus, the placenta and post mortem imaging. She runs a national service for fetal imaging for all body areas and for assessing for placental invasion.

Despite having an academic post, her work has been driven by local need and requests from the clinicians so is heavily clinically based. She is also part of the team that has established the world’s first clinical service for imaging the post mortem fetus and neonate.

In addition, she works as part of a sociology team looking at the impact of MRI as a technology on patient care in the clinical setting both for in utero and post mortem imaging. The aim of this collaboration is to understand the landscape in which the team works and how that integrates with society. This has altered Elspeth's clinical practice in many ways, hopefully for the better.

Her service is streamlined and designed so appointments are available at short notice, but no appointment slots are unfilled. She has tried to develop a ‘lean service’ model within the current working environment. Recently Elspeth has joined forces with two clinical consultants to develop Sheffield’s paediatric neurosciences service.