Dr Alastair Pickering MD, MRCS (Glasgow)
Clinical Lecturer
Address:
Health Services Research
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street
Sheffield S1 4DA
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 2966
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 0749
Email: a.pickering@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 3032
Biography
I joined the University of Sheffield in August 2008 as a Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine after completing my MD. Having completed my medical training in Birmingham, I moved around Shropshire and Oxfordshire before arriving in Yorkshire to take up my Emergency Medicine Training.
I started research in 2004 when I joined the Emergency Department at Hull Royal Infirmary and have worked in Leeds and Wakefield before moving to Sheffield.
I am currently near the end of my specialist training in Emergency Medicine and expect to complete my CCT in July 2012.
Research Interests
My research interests are focused on minor head injury patients presenting to the emergency department with my thesis focused on outcomes amongst adolescents in full-time education following such injury. More recently I been focused on the role of biomarkers in head injury.
I have also been expanding in to Health Services Research with work on ambulance service best practice and reviewing the evidence for local hospital bypass in trauma, head injury and stroke.
Teaching Interests
My teaching interests are mostly focused on clinical teaching with contributions to medical student and junior doctor teaching programmes in emergency medicine. I also regularly teach on ATLS courses.
Professional Activities
I am currently the trainees representative on the Yorkshire & Humber Regional Board for the College of Emergency Medicine and have recently been elected as the trainees representative for the Research & Publications Committee at the same college.
Current Projects
- Hospital Bypass – A systematic review of clinical outcome and cost-effectiveness comparing a policy of triage and direct transfer to specialist care centres with delivery to the nearest local hospital. NIHR SDO £135,928 (PI)
- BRAHMS - Randomised-controlled trial of rehabilitation clinic follow-up following minor head injury, testing S100B as a prognostic tool for succesful intervention. CEM £7091 (PI)
Key Publications
- Emergency Services Review: An international comparison of ambulance service best practice. OSHA September 2009
- HTA Report: Diagnostic management strategies for adults and children with minor head injury: a systematic review and economic evaluation (In Press)
- Emergency department measurement of urinary S100B in children following head injury: can extracranial injury confound findings? A Pickering, J Carter, I Hanning, W Townend. Emerg Med J, Feb 2008;2:88-89
Section
Alastair Pickering is based in the section of Health Services Research