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Dr Helen Maddock has a proactive research track record in developing novel medical technologies, recently completing a Medici fellowship and potentially enabling further commercial exploitation. The need to reduce healthcare costs and requirement for more accurate and effective treatment is resulting in high demand for cost-effective medical devices for monitoring and diagnosis.

Dr Maddock has an excellent history of applied research and consultancy related to the improvement of health and well-being.  Synergies with existing expertise in the University are being developed relating to biosensors, chemical nanotechnology, engineering product design, in order to aid Dr Maddock’s development of potential medical devices and assistive technology, based on physiological measurement and diagnostic methods.

Her achievements include:

• Developing the University’s laboratory infrastructure
• Leading the refurbishment of the physiology / pharmacology laboratories, funded by a HEFCE project capital round 3 grant of £1.33M
• Securing a capital award of £185K through HEFCE’s SRIF3 funding.

Professor Tom Quinn is the UK’s only Professor of Cardiac Nursing. His areas of research interest centre on improving systems for delivery of rapid emergency cardiac care, both in and out of hospital, and national policy in the cardiovascular arena.

Achievements

• A major multicentre study across the West Midlands has led to significant improvement in treatment times for heart attack patients.
• Collaborations with Southampton, Warwick and Birmingham Universities on modelling the clinical and economic impact of faster ambulance and thrombolysis treatment times for heart attack patients - and with the University of the West of England - has resulted in improved understanding of how paramedics view the major changes to their professional role in heart attack care and assessment skills of emergency staff in chest pain patients.
• Work funded by the British Heart Foundation has assessed the impact on patients and other health professionals of the introduction of specialist acute coronary syndrome nurses into acute hospitals.
• A project with the Royal College of Physicians analysing data from the national heart attack registry (MINAP) has provided important insight into changes in the role of the cardiac care unit and into reinfarction following thrombolytic treatment for heart attack.
• A collaborative bid for a programme grant on emergency stroke care with the University of Central Lancashire has recently been awarded £1m.

Professor Quinn represents the ambulance service on the Acute Clinical Studies Group of the UK Stroke Research Network.

Professor Quinn also leads the NHS Cardiovascular Diseases Specialist Library and is establishing the new National Libraries for Stroke and Vascular disease and chairs the Royal College of Nursing’s Cardiovascular Network.

He has established European links in cardiovascular nursing and pre-hospital cardiac research, and is regional lead for cardiovascular disease, stroke and research with West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

Professor Malcolm Woollard is the UK’s only paramedic to achieve Professorial status, holding the sole Chair in pre-hospital care in the UK. He has an international reputation and recently became the first paramedic to be awarded a full Adjunct Professorship in Australia.

He has been lead or co-applicant for research grants totalling over £1.1 million, managing most of the associated projects. These have included:

• Pre-hospital randomised controlled trials evaluating continuous ECG telemetry
• Comparing two dosing regimens of an opiod analgesic
• Two formulations of intravenous dextrose during the management of hypoglycaemia.

He has also conducted the following research:

• Investigating telephone pre-arrival instructions for cardiac arrest
• A comparison of simplified and standard CPR training
• Changes in skill acquisition using a voice assisted CPR training manikin
• Stress and post-traumatic stress disorder in emergency ambulance staff
• Identification of emergency ambulance calls suitable for referral to appropriate alternative agencies
• An evaluation of the training outcomes of the Department of Health (England) National Defibrillation Programme.

Professor Woollard established the UK's first clinical effectiveness programme to develop evidence-based guidelines for paramedics, and was subsequently a founder-member of the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee Guidelines group.

He has held grants from the Wales Office of Research and Development for Health and Social Care; the National Assembly for Wales Clinical Effectiveness Support Unit; the Department of Health (England); the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation national research programme; and the British Heart Foundation among others.

He is the founding and current Chair of the British Paramedic Association Research and Audit Committee and is a member of the 999 EMS Research Forum and the Trauma Care Council.