FRACTURE Study
Team
This study is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is the lead centre for this study, and the day to day running of the study is being completed by a research group of the Department of Clinical Radiology and the GOSH Digital Research, Informatics and Virtual Environments (DRIVE) Unit.
FRACTURE Study – Core Research & Advisory Team
The research team is qualified to do this study because they have a great mixture of the specialist skills and experiences required. Our team has a lot of experience in patient engagement, imaging research, data/computer science and caring for children and young people with injuries
Dr Susan Shelmerdine
FRACTURE Study Chief Investigator/ Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, GOSH
Dr Shelmerdine has a passion for finding the best ways to image and diagnose children and young people in the most accurate and fastest ways possible.
She is funded through an NIHR Advanced Fellowship Award and holds an honorary Associate Professor position at the Institute for Child Health.
She is the current chair of the ESPR AI Taskforce and Advisory Editor for Clinical Radiology journal.
Professor Neil Sebire
GOSH Chief Research Information Officer/ DRIVE Managing Director/ Professor of Paediatric Pathology
Prof Sebire is a founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and an experienced clinical academic, having authored over 750 clinical research papers and supervised numerous student projects.
He is currently the head of the new Great Ormond Street Hospital Digital Research, Informatics and Virtual Environment (DRIVE) unit.
Dr Owen Arthurs
Consultant Academic Paediatric Radiologist/ Lead for Research & Innovation in Radiology, GOSH
Dr Arthurs trained in both paediatrics and academic radiology in Cambridge, London and Paris. He is currently Chair of ISRRI Paediatric Working Group, ESPR Research Committee and Post Mortem Imaging Taskforce.
He is Associate Editor of the journal of Forensic Radiology & Imaging, and on the Editorial Board of Pediatric Radiology.
Dr Baris Kanber
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UCL
Dr Kanber is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL’s Centre for Medical Image Computing, and the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at UCL and UCLH.
He is a medical physicist by training and is passionate about applying computational imaging and machine learning methods to achieve patient benefit.
Dr Alex Novak
Consultant Emergency Medicine & Ambulatory Care, Oxford University Hospitals
Dr Novak works as an emergency physician, having previously also trained and worked as a GP. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in Emergency Medicine with a wide portfolio of projects, including a focus on imaging in the emergency department and in particular how artificial intelligence can be used to enhance patient care.
Dr Celine Lewis
Senior Behavioural Scientist, UCL
Dr Lewis is an experienced behavioural scientist with an interest in lived experience of patients/parents with rare diseases and the clinical, psychological, social and behavioural outcomes of radiological, genetic and/or genomic testing. She has been the lead applicant on five successful funding bids (total amount £1,306,877) and co-applicant on a further two (total amount £605,968).
Prof Pearse Keane
Professor of Artificial Medical Intelligence, UCL/ Consultant Opthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital
Prof Keane was the first ophthalmologist in UK to receive the NIHR Clinician Scientist Award. In 2016, he initiated a formal collaboration between Moorfields Eye Hospital and Google DeepMind, developing AI algorithms for the earlier detection and treatment of retinal disease.
In 2020, he was listed on the “The Power List” by Ophthalmologist magazine; a ranking of the Top 100 most influential people in the world of ophthalmology.
Dr Juan Eugenio Iglesias
Radiology Lecturer, Harvard Medical School/ Senior Research Fellow, UCL/ Research Affiliate, MIT
Dr Iglesias holds M.Sc. degrees in Telecom and Electrical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at UCLA sponsored by a Fulbright grant. He now holds part-time appointments at the Martinos Center and University College London (sponsored by an ERC Starting Grant), as well as an affiliate appointment at MIT.
FRACTURE Study – PPIE Steering Group
Parents and children have been involved in the development of this study, and continue to play a key role in steering the direction of this project to parents and young children. Please check out our PPIE Blog for updates
Deirdre
GOSH Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead for Research
Involving patients and members of the public is essential to the research carried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). The PPIE Steering Group work so well together, offering their insight and lived experience to help guide the FRACTURE project. They are an excellent example of meaningful involvement in research.
Lauren
GOSH Young Persons Advisory Group
As a current medical student and member of YPAG for almost 5 years, it’s super exciting to be able to see how AI can be integrated into healthcare to provide better care for patients!
Laila
GOSH Young Persons Advisory Group
I’m a recent psychology graduate and it’s such a privilege to be part of a project where researchers are truly and actively involving young people in shaping healthcare. With AI becoming increasingly the norm, it is so exciting to be a part of this project and to see where this takes us!
Maryam
GOSH Young Persons Advisory Group
Maryam is part of our FRACTURE Study steering committee and has been a vocal member in our group discussions on how to improve study design for children
Oceiah
GOSH Young Persons Advisory Group
Oceiah is part of our FRACTURE Study steering committee. She has a very keen interest in ensuring that children and young adults are not excluded or disadvantaged from important research work.
Paul
GOSH Parent & Carers Advisory Group
Having seen the wonderful care my daughter received at GOSH, I will take all the opportunities to help improve patient centred care and advances in clinical practice. The FRACTURE study is one of those pieces of innovation that excites me, and I hope to see it showing exciting results!
Becky
GOSH Parent & Carers Advisory Group
I am an autistic disabled adult living with multiple long-term health conditions. I have worked as a scientist and for the last ten years have been a patient representative volunteering in health research projects across the UK.
I am also the parent and carer of a child with autism and special educational needs. I am therefore really interested in the FRACTURE study because I understand the difficulties of diagnosing fractures in children with disabilities
Viki
GOSH Parent & Carers Advisory Group
I am very excited to be a part of this study. With so much pressure on our health services, anything that might support diagnostic accuracy and efficiency is certainly worth exploring. I’m sure AI will increasingly be a part of our healthcare pathways and it’s essential that we bring former, current and future patients along with us while it develops to ensure confidence and clarity for everyone. It’s an honour to be involved