Senior Lecturer
School of Immunity and Infection
Jorge Caamaño is Senior Lecturer in Immunology at the School of Immunity and Infection.
Jorge has published more than 50 papers in scientific journals, as well as book chapters and reviews in gene expression and signal transduction. He has received major funding from MRC, BBSRC, and the European Union.
Senior Clinical Tutor
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Anna Caley is a course organiser for the final year medical students on their Community Based Medicine placements and a General Practitioner.
Clinical Tutor in Physiotherapy
Nursing and Physiotherapy
Helen Callaghan is a Clinical Tutor in Physiotherapy and an experienced musculoskeletal physiotherapist. Helen has a specialist interest and background in the assessment and treatment of spinal disorders.
Helen has an interest in Work related Health issues and uses this to collaborate with colleagues on ergonomic studies and factors affecting healthcare ...

Reader in Epidemiology and Director of Graduate Studies, School of Health and Population Sciences
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Melanie Calvert, PhD, has extensive experience in the design and analysis of clinical trials, trials methodology research, economic evaluation and clinical epidemiology. Her primary research interests focus on outcomes research, including the use of composite and patient reported outcomes, notably quality of life. Dr Calvert has over 50 publications, including work in major international journals ...

Doctoral Researcher
Health Economics
PhD title: Capturing family benefits of end of life care for resource allocation.
Supervisors: Professor Joanna Coast and Doctor Hareth Al Janabi
Alastair Canaway is a Doctoral Researcher within the Health Economics Unit’s team.
Alastair is in the infancy of his research career but has already made significant steps towards ...
Postgraduate Manager
Medical and Dental Sciences
Karen joined the University in 2001 and worked in the School of C&EM until January 2009 when she commenced her current role. Karen has overall administrative management responsibility for postgraduate research and postgraduate taught programmes in the College and works closely with the Head of College Graduate School, Professor John Gordon and the College Director of PG T, Dr Geoff ...

Honorary Reader in Neuropsychiatry
School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
Andrea E. Cavanna is Honorary Reader in Neuropsychiatry and Consultant in Behavioural Neurology at the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust. He is also Deputy Director for the MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry.

Senior Trials Manager
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Dr Odette Chagoury is the Senior Trials Manager within the Primary Care Clinical Research and Trials Unit (PC-CRTU). She leads the Trial Management Team on an operational level.
Odette has a PhD in Cancer Immunology and her main research interest is Immunity and Infection. She directly manages this portfolio of studies within the Unit.
Governance Support Officer
Medical and Dental Sciences
Leigh works as a Governance Support Officer, providing administrative support to the Clinical Trials Quality Assurance Manager and the Director of the Human Biomaterials Resource Centre (HBRC).
Leigh’s role involves providing assistance with the preparation and updating of key policies and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents and providing ...

Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Obstetrician
Reproduction, Genes and Development
Shiao Chan is a practicing Consultant Obstetrician who heads the Endocrine Antenatal Clinic at the Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, UK. She is also a Health Foundation Clinician Scientist who runs a research program at the Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, UK. Her particular research interest is in thyroid hormone action in the fetal brain and in ...