Senior Clinical Scientist
CurrentI led the establishment and act as the lead scientist for the new clinical biomechanics laboratory at Addenbrookes Hospital. The service provides 3D motion analysis to support the provision of prosthetics, orthotics and measure the characteristics of movement in pathology. The service can help clinicians understand the changes in patients movement as a response to their intervention or to help choose the intervention in the first place.I am also part of the Clinical Engineering Innovation team seeking to build up the the medical devices innovation work in our Trust. My work involves design project management and delivery, including: clinical needs analysis, risk and safety analysis, design, research and innovation.Clinical Engineering Innovation is a small team of engineers and scientists embedded inside Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. Our aim is to translate engineering research into clinical practice. We do this through an inside-out model of innovation: seeking out unmet clinical needs in the NHS and designing solutions through the application of science and engineering.We hope to rapidly benefit our patients, improve patient safety and generate cost savings. Clinical Engineering Innovation has worked with the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge to implement the principles of inclusive design and process modelling within healthcare. We now use the Healthcare Design Toolkit to underpin our creativity in design; to iteratively explore needs, create solutions and evaluate our designs. This forms part of our quality management system to ensure that our design activity meets ISO9001 and ISO13485 standardsClinical Movement AnalysisMedical Device DesignQuality Management
