Staff

Mr Alastair Canaway

Mr Alastair Canaway

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 ...

Mrs Karen Carter

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 ...

Dr Andrea Eugenio Cavanna

Dr Andrea Eugenio Cavanna

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.

Dr Odette Chagoury

Dr Odette Chagoury

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.

Mrs Leigh Challinor

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 ...

Dr Shiao-yng Chan

Dr Shiao-yng Chan

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 ...

Dr Wei-Chih Chang

Dr Wei-Chih Chang

Research Fellow

Neurotrauma and Neurodegeneration

Dr Chang found the interests of neuroscience in his early undergraduate, and eventually he was fascinated by the physiology of neurons and the neuronal network interactions. To find the answers, Dr Chang equipped himself with different aspects of electrophysiological skills. Currently Dr Chang is doing the post doc training in Prof. John Jefferys’ group and he wants to bring the pioneering ...

Dr Amanda Chapman

Dr Amanda Chapman

Research Fellow

Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Amanda Chapman is a research fellow in health economics, specialising in health technology assessment of medical devices in particular.

Professor Iain Chapple

Professor Iain Chapple

Professor of Periodontology and Consultant in Restorative Dentistry

School of Dentistry

Iain Chapple is Professor and Head of Periodontology within the School of Dentistry, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, the University of Birmingham. Iain is also honorary Consultant in Restorative Dentistry with Birmingham Community Health Trust and has honorary consultant contracts with University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust and Birmingham Children’s Trust. Iain ...

Dr Yen-Fu Chen

Research Fellow

Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Yen-Fu Chen is a Research Fellow in Systematic Review and Quality Improvement. He joined the research team led by Professor Richard Lilford in 2010 and is currently working with the West Midlands Quality Institute on research related to quality improvement in health care.

Yen-Fu previously worked as a systematic reviewer in the West Midlands Health Technology Assessment ...