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ICAT Trainee Network

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The ICAT Trainee Network is a newly formed group with the aim of connecting academic trainees at different levels within the ICAT pathway. It is founded and led by current trainees, who welcome your input into its future remit and activities.

Our remit is to provide a means of both formal and informal mentorship and collaboration between academic trainees at the University of Birmingham. While still under development, this webpage allows a trainee to search through current members via specialty, specific research interest or skillset. All listed members are happy to be contacted directly.

Future social and educational meetings will be posted below. Our aim is to deliver content that is specific and tailored to the needs of our members, at all academic training levels. If you have a question about the network or want to get involved further, please contact Dr Karl Payne.

A

Acute Medicine

Professor Elizabeth Sapey

Email: e.sapey@bham.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)121 627 2000

Anaesthetics

Professor Fang Gao Smith

Email: f.gaosmith@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 371 3236

Dr Tonny Veenith

Email: T.V.Veenith@bham.ac.uk

Dr Dhruv Parekh

Email: d.parekh@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 371 3249

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Vinay Chavda

Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology
ACF
Email: v_chavda@hotmail.co.uk

Mantegh Sethi

ENT
ACF
Email: sethim@doctors.org.uk

Ahmad Abou-Foul

ENT
Doctoral Fellow
Email: a.abou-foul@bham.ac.uk

Mohammed Nimir

Histopathology
Doctoral Fellow
Email: m.n.k.nimir@bham.ac.uk

AMS Clinical Lecturer Starter Grant

Daisy Wilson

Geriatrics
ACL
Email: d.v.wilson@bham.ac.uk

Rima Smith

Obstetrics and Gynaecology
ACL
Email: r.k.smith@bham.ac.uk

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
ACL
Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

ANCA Associated Vasculitis

Catherine King

Renal Medicine
BHP Fellow
Email: c.king@bham.ac.uk

Dimitrios Chanouzas

Nephrology
Nephrology Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Research Fellow
Email: d.chanouzas@bham.ac.uk

Acute Care

Shaun Thein

Respiratory Medicine

Doctoral Fellow/PhD Student

Email: o.s.thein@bham.ac.uk

B

BHP (ITM) Fellowship

Shaun Thein

Respiratory Medicine
Doctoral Fellow/PhD Student
Email: o.s.thein@bham.ac.uk

Catherine King

Renal Medicine
BHP Fellow
Email: c.king@bham.ac.uk

Pip Nicolson

Haematology
ACL
Email: p.nicolson@bham.ac.uk

Hannah Nieto

ENT
ACL
Email: h.dixon@bham.ac.uk

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
ACL
Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Grant

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

ACL

Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

BHP Clinical Academic Research Partnership Fellowship

Dimitrios Chanouzas

Nephrology

Nephrology Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Research Fellow

Email: d.chanouzas@bham.ac.uk

British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowship

Pip Nicolson

Haematology

ACLEmail: p.nicolson@bham.ac.uk

Biomarker Development

Karl Payne

 Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
ACL
Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

Paul Nankivell

ENT/Head and Neck surgery
Senior Lecturer
Email: p.c.nankivell@bham.ac.uk

Bioinformatics

Mohammed Nimir

Histopathology
Doctoral Fellow
Email: m.n.k.nimir@bham.ac.uk

Hannah Nieto

ENT
ACL
Email: h.dixon@bham.ac.uk

Ahmad Abou-Foul

ENT
Doctoral Fellow
Email: a.abou-foul@bham.ac.uk

Jake Mann

Paediatric Hepatology
ACL
Email: j.p.mann@bham.ac.uk

Breast Cancer

Islam Abdelaziz

Histopathology

ACF

Email: islam.abdelaziz@nhs.net

Burns and plastics

Professor Naiem Moiemem

Email: naiem.moiemen2@nhs.net

C

Cardiology

Professor Dipak Kotecha

Email: d.kotecha@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)121 371 8122

Professor Jon Townend

Email: john.townend@uhb.nhs.uk

Dr Mark Thomas

Email: m.r.thomas@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 8679

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Mr Nigel Drury

Email: n.e.drury@bham.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)121 333 8731

Clinical Trials

Lauren Quinn

Endocrinology and diabetes
Doctoral Fellow/PhD Student
Email: l.quinn.1@bham.ac.uk

Graham McIlroy

Haematology
ACL
Email: g.w.mcilroy.a@bham.ac.uk

Paul Nankivell

ENT/Head and Neck surgery
Senior Lecturer
Email: p.c.nankivell@bham.ac.uk

Dimitrios Chanouzas

Nephrology
Nephrology Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Research Fellow
Email: d.chanouzas@bham.ac.uk

Dmitri Nepogodiev

Public Health
ACL
Email: d.nepogodiev@bham.ac.uk

Clinical Oncology

Dr David Fackrell

Email: david.fackrell@uhb.nhs.uk

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Professor Jamie Coleman

Email: j.j.coleman@bham.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 377

Cytomegalovirus

Catherine King

Renal Medicine
BHP Fellow
Email: c.king@bham.ac.uk

Dimitrios Chanouzas

Nephrology
Nephrology Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Research Fellow
Email: d.chanouzas@bham.ac.uk

Cancer Research UK CRTF

Dimitrios Chanouzas

Nephrology
Nephrology Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Research Fellow
Email: d.chanouzas@bham.ac.uk

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
ACL
Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

Mohammed Nimir

Histopathology
Doctoral Fellow
Email: m.n.k.nimir@bham.ac.uk

Cell Culture/Cell Biology

Oliver Pickles

Medical Oncology
ACL
Email: opickles@nhs.net

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
ACL
Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

Jake Mann

Paediatric Hepatology
ACL
Email: j.p.mann@bham.ac.uk

Clinical Research Network Scholarship

Dimitrios Chanouzas

Nephrology

Nephrology Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Research Fellow

Email: d.chanouzas@bham.ac.uk

COPD

Kay Por Yip

Respiratory Medicine/Acute CareACL

Email: k.p.yip@bham.ac.uk

D

Diabetes UK Fellowship

Lauren Quinn

Endocrinology and diabetes

Doctoral Fellow/PhD Student

Email: l.quinn.1@bham.ac.uk

Dentistry

Professor Thomas Dietrich

Email: t.dietrich@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)121 466 5494 (Secretary)

Dermatology

Digital pathology

Islam Abdelaziz

Histopathology
ACF
Email: islam.abdelaziz@nhs.net

Mohammed Nimir

Histopathology
Doctoral Fellow
Email: m.n.k.nimir@bham.ac.uk

Diabetes

Lauren Quinn

Endocrinology and diabetes

Doctoral Fellow/PhD Student

Email: l.quinn.1@bham.ac.uk

E

ENT Surgery

Mantegh Sethi

ENT
ACF
Email: sethim@doctors.org.uk

Neil Sharma

ENT/Thyroid
Associate Professor
Email: n.sharma@bham.ac.uk

Paul Nankivell

ENT/Head and Neck surgery
Senior Lecturer
Email: p.c.nankivell@bham.ac.uk

Hannah Nieto

ENT
ACL
Email: h.dixon@bham.ac.uk

Ahmad Abou-Foul

ENT
Doctoral Fellow
Email: a.abou-foul@bham.ac.uk

Endocrinology

Lauren Quinn

Endocrinology and diabetes
Doctoral Fellow/PhD Student
Email: l.quinn.1@bham.ac.uk

Rima Smith

Obstetrics and Gynaecology
ACL
Email: r.k.smith@bham.ac.uk

Endocrinology and diabetes

Dr Niki Karavitaki

Email: n.karavitaki@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 415 8715

Professor Kristien Boelaert

Email: k.boelaert@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 7400

ELISA

Daisy Wilson

Geriatrics
ACL
Email: d.v.wilson@bham.ac.uk

Shaun Thein

Respiratory Medicine
Doctoral Fellow/PhD Student
Email: o.s.thein@bham.ac.uk

Kay Por Yip

Respiratory Medicine/Acute Care
ACL
Email: k.p.yip@bham.ac.uk

Epigenetics/Methylomics

Oliver Pickles

Medical Oncology
ACL
Email: opickles@nhs.net

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
ACL
Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

Epidemiology

Dmitri Nepogodiev

Public Health

ACL

Email: d.nepogodiev@bham.ac.uk

F

Flow Cytometry

Daisy Wilson

Geriatrics
ACL
Email: d.v.wilson@bham.ac.uk

Dimitrios Chanouzas

Nephrology
Nephrology Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Research Fellow
Email: d.chanouzas@bham.ac.uk

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
ACL
Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

Shaun Thein

Respiratory Medicine
Doctoral Fellow/PhD Student
Email: o.s.thein@bham.ac.uk

Maryam Salimi

Dermatology
ACF
Email: m.salimi@bham.ac.uk

Oliver Pickles

Medical Oncology
ACL
Email: opickles@nhs.net

Kay Por Yip

Respiratory Medicine/Acute Care
ACL
Email: k.p.yip@bham.ac.uk

Fetal Health/Growth

Vicky Hodgetts Morton

Obstetrics and GynaecologyACL

Email: v.a.h.morton@bham.ac.uk

G

Get Ahead Grant

General Practice

Ben Williamson

General Practice

ACF

Email: b.williamson@doctors.org.uk

Geriatrics

Daisy Wilson

Geriatrics

ACL

Email: d.v.wilson@bham.ac.uk

Geriatric Medicine

Dr Thomas Jackson

Email: t.jackson@bham.ac.uk

Telephone:  +44 (0) 121 371 3264

Genomics

Islam Abdelaziz

Histopathology
ACF
Email: islam.abdelaziz@nhs.net

Maryam Salimi

Dermatology
ACF
Email: m.salimi@bham.ac.uk

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
ACL
Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

Hannah Nieto

ENT
ACL
Email: h.dixon@bham.ac.uk

Mohammed Nimir

Histopathology
Doctoral Fellow
Email: m.n.k.nimir@bham.ac.uk

Global Health

Catherine Dunlop

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

ACF

Email: catherinedunlop@nhs.net

Gastroenterology

Professor Shishir Shetty

Email: s.shetty@bham.ac.uk

Telephone:  +44 (0) 121 415 8700

Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam

Email: s.thangaratinam.1@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 788 777 5891

Professor Sudha Sundar

Email: s.s.sundar@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 4021

H

Histopathology

Islam Abdelaziz

Histopathology
ACF
Email: islam.abdelaziz@nhs.net

Mohammed Nimir

Histopathology
Doctoral Fellow
Email: m.n.k.nimir@bham.ac.uk

Haematology

Health Economics

Ilfita Sahbudin

Rheumatology
ACL
Email: i.sahbudin@bham.ac.uk

Samuel Latham

Ophthalmology
ACF
Email: samuel.latham@nhs.net

Head and Neck Cancer

Neil Sharma

ENT/Thyroid
Associate Professor
Email: n.sharma@bham.ac.uk

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
ACL
Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

Paul Nankivell

ENT/Head and Neck surgery
Senior Lecturer
Email: p.c.nankivell@bham.ac.uk

Hannah Nieto

ENT
ACL
Email: h.dixon@bham.ac.uk

Ahmad Abou-Foul

ENT
Doctoral Fellow
Email: a.abou-foul@bham.ac.uk

Head and Neck Surgery and ENT (Otolaryngology)

Professor Hisham Mehanna

Email: h.mehanna@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 8753

Mr Paul Nankivell

Email: p.c.nankivell@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 415 8905

I

Infection/Infection Prevention Control

Catherine Dunlop

Obstetrics and Gynaecology
ACF
Email: catherinedunlop@nhs.net

Shaun Thein

Respiratory Medicine
Doctoral Fellow/PhD Student
Email: o.s.thein@bham.ac.uk

Infectious Diseases and Microbiology

Professor Alan McNally

Email: a.mcnally.1@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 4368

Dr Christopher Green

Email: c.a.green.2@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 3113

Dr James Scriven

Email: j.e.scriven@bham.ac.uk

Intensive Care Medicine

Dr Dhruv Parekh

Email: d.parekh@bham.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 371 3249

Immunology

Professor Peter Lane

Email: p.j.l.lane@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 4078

Professor Alex Richter

Email: a.g.richter@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 4069

Immunohistochemistry

Islam Abdelaziz

Histopathology

ACF

Email: islam.abdelaziz@nhs.net

Immuno-oncology

Mohammed Nimir

Histopathology
Doctoral Fellow
Email: m.n.k.nimir@bham.ac.uk

Oliver Pickles

Medical Oncology
ACL
Email: opickles@nhs.net

L

Liquid Biopsy

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

ACL

Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

M

Mental health

Professor Steven Marwaha

Email: s.marwaha@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 3665

Professor Matthew Broome

Email: m.r.broome@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 7197

N

Neurology

Professor Alexandra Sinclair

Email: a.b.sinclair@bham.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 8857

Neurosurgery

Professor Antonio Belli

Email: a.belli@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 4497

Professor Colin Watts

Email: c.watts.2@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 7154

Nephrology

Dimitrios Chanouzas

NephrologyNephrology Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Research Fellow

Email: d.chanouzas@bham.ac.uk

NIHR RfPB Grant

Rima Smith

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

ACL

Email: r.k.smith@bham.ac.uk

Neutrophils

Shaun Thein

Respiratory Medicine
Doctoral Fellow/PhD Student
Email: o.s.thein@bham.ac.uk

Daisy Wilson

Geriatrics
ACL
Email: d.v.wilson@bham.ac.uk

Kay Por Yip

Respiratory Medicine/Acute Care
ACL
Email: k.p.yip@bham.ac.uk

O

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Catherine Dunlop

Obstetrics and Gynaecology
ACF
Email: catherinedunlop@nhs.net

Rima Smith

Obstetrics and Gynaecology
ACL
Email: r.k.smith@bham.ac.uk

Vicky Hodgetts Morton

Obstetrics and Gynaecology
ACL
Email: v.a.h.morton@bham.ac.uk

Oncology

Professor Gary Middleton

Email: g.middleton@bham.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 415 8237

Opthalmology

Professor Philip Murray

Email: p.i.murray@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 554 3801 Ext 6996

Professor Saaeha Rauz

Email: s.rauz@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 554 3801 Ext 6996

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Professor Hisham Mehanna

Email: h.mehanna@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 8753

Mr Paul Nankivell

Email: p.c.nankivell@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 415 8905

Mr Christopher Coulson

Email: christopher.coulson@uhb.nhs.uk

Organoid/3D Culture

Oliver Pickles

Medical Oncology

ACL

Email: opickles@nhs.net

P

Pathlake Grant

Islam Abdelaziz

Histopathology

ACF

Email: islam.abdelaziz@nhs.net

Pathology

Paediatrics

Professor Timothy Barrett

Email: t.g.barrett@bham.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 333 9272

Psychiatry

David Salam

General Adult Psychiatry

ACF

Email: david.salam@nhs.net

Public Health

Zehra Yonel

Dentistry - PeriodontologyDoctoral Fellow/PhD Student

Email: z.yonel@bham.ac.uk

Dmitri Nepogodiev

Public Health

ACL

Email: d.nepogodiev@bham.ac.uk

Public Health Medicine

Pregnancy

Rima Smith

Obstetrics and Gynaecology
ACL
Email: r.k.smith@bham.ac.uk

Vicky Hodgetts Morton

Obstetrics and Gynaecology
ACL
Email: v.a.h.morton@bham.ac.uk

Platelets

Pip Nicolson

Haematology

ACL

Email: p.nicolson@bham.ac.uk

Psoriasis

Maryam Salimi

Dermatology

ACF

Email: m.salimi@bham.ac.uk

Primary Care

Dr Brian Willis

Email: b.h.willis@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 7949

Dr Shamil Haroon

Email: s.haroon@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 5042

Q

QEHB Charity Grant

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

ACL

Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

R

Radiology

Vinay Chavda

Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology

ACF

Email: v_chavda@hotmail.co.uk 

RCS England Fellowship

Karl Payne

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
ACL
Email: k.payne.1@bham.ac.uk

Paul Nankivell

ENT/Head and Neck surgery
Senior Lecturer
Email: p.c.nankivell@bham.ac.uk

Hannah Nieto

ENT
ACL
Email: h.dixon@bham.ac.uk

Neil Sharma

ENT/Thyroid
Associate Professor
Email: n.sharma@bham.ac.uk

Rheumatology

Professor Adam Croft

Email: a.p.croft@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)121 3713266

Professor Andrew Filer

Email: a.filer@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 371 3221

Renal

Professor Lorraine Harper

Email: l.harper@bham.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 371 3238

Renal Medicine

Catherine Dunlop

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

ACF

Email: catherinedunlop@nhs.net

Respiratory

Professor David Thickett

Email: d.thickett@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 371 3231

Dr Dhruv Parekh

Email: d.parekh@bham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 371 3249

Respiratory Medicine

Shaun Thein

Respiratory MedicineDoctoral Fellow/PhD Student

Email: o.s.thein@bham.ac.uk

Kay Por Yip

Respiratory Medicine/Acute Care

ACL

Email: k.p.yip@bham.ac.uk

S

Systematic Reviews

Zehra Yonel

Dentistry - Periodontology
Doctoral Fellow/PhD Student
Email: z.yonel@bham.ac.uk

Sheikh Muktadir Bin Momin

Neurosurgery
ACF
Email: s.m.b.momin@bham.ac.uk

Beth Peterknecht

Dermatology
ACF
Email: beth.peterknecht@outlook.com

Statistics

Mantegh Sethi

ENT

ACF

Email: sethim@doctors.org.uk

Skin Cancer

Beth Peterknecht

Dermatology

ACF

Email: beth.peterknecht@outlook.com

Surgery

T

Thyroid Disease

Neil Sharma

ENT/Thyroid
Associate Professor
Email: n.sharma@bham.ac.uk

Hannah Nieto

ENT
ACL
Email: h.dixon@bham.ac.uk

Trauma and Orthopaedics

Professor Adrian Gardner

Email: adrian.gardner@nhs.net

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 685 4083

U

Ultrasound

Ilfita Sahbudin

Rheumatology
ACL
Email: i.sahbudin@bham.ac.uk

Daisy Wilson

Geriatrics
ACL
Email: d.v.wilson@bham.ac.uk

 

Urology

Professor Richard (Rik) Bryan

Email: r.t.bryan@bham.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 7870

V

Vascular Surgery

Mr Maciej Juszczak

Email: m.juszczak@bham.ac.uk

W

Wellcome Trust ISSF

Ilfita Sahbudin

Rheumatology
ACL
Email: i.sahbudin@bham.ac.uk

Nankivell

ENT/Head and Neck surgery
Senior Lecturer
Email: p.c.nankivell@bham.ac.uk