Edwin Jesudason
Edwin is a Clinician Scientist Fellow and Health Foundation Leadership Fellow. He is Chair of Patients First and Consultant in Cardiac and Neuroprogressive Rehabilitation at NHS Lothian.
Clinician Scientist Fellowships This fellowship provides five years of funding to enable talented clinicians to pursue academic research alongside their clinical practice
We work with Academy of Medical Sciences to run this fellowship for outstanding professionals who are committed to improving and inspiring practice through advances in clinical research.
The Clinician Scientist Fellowship includes:
- five years’ funding to cover personal salary
- an allowance for research expenses
- a leadership development programme
- mentoring from an Academy of Medical Sciences fellow
- extensive opportunities to network with experts and peers
Through the programme, fellows have the opportunity to build the foundations for a career in clinical academic medicine while conducting valuable research that will improve the quality of care for patients.
The programme focuses on research within disciplines where there is a national shortage of expertise, including anaesthesia, paediatric disciplines, pathology, psychiatry, radiology and surgery.
The Clinician Scientist Fellows are a core group of research-led clinical academics who are able to cultivate and lead key research programmes and teams. From 2013, new fellows will also be exploring the links between their discipline and improvement science, offering a unique opportunity to maximise learning in order to improve quality in health care.
Benefits
An evaluation of the Clinician Scientist Fellowships identified the following benefits:
- Helped participants to attract further investment in clinical academic medicine from other organisations. Thirteen fellows had received more than £4.2m in additional research funding.
- Gave fellows the opportunity to become leaders in their field. Several fellows have received prestigious awards. Others have been featured on documentaries about their research. Some have gone on to establish research centres or been awarded professorships.
- There are indications that the academic centres where the research is being carried out are increasingly being recognised as centres of excellence for clinical academic training.
Dr David Church
David is a Clinical Scientist Fellow and a medical doctor specialising in Oncology at Oxford University.
Dr Jayati Das-Munshi
Jayati is a Clinical Scientist Fellow and Clinician Scientist in the Department of Health Service and Population Research, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
Dr Estée Török
Estée is a Clinical Scientist Fellow and Senior Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dr Gareth Ackland
Gareth is a Clinical Scientist Fellow and Lecturer in Critical Care at University College London.
Luke Devey
Luke is Vice President, Head of Translational Science, Immunology at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson.
Dr Barry Seemungal
Barry is a Clinical Scientist Fellow and Consultant Neurologist and Senior Lecturer in Neurology at Imperial College London.
Dr Jonathan Fallowfield
Johnathan is a Clinical Scientist Fellow and Senior Clinical Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Dr Anna Gilmore
Anna is a Clinician Scientist Fellow and Professor of Public Health at the University of Bath.
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