Professor Jenni Quint, Imperial - Using electronic healthcare record data to study respiratory disease’
Jennifer Quint is a Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London. She is an Honorary Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine at both the Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College London NHS Foundation Trust. Prof Quint leads the Respiratory Electronic Health Record group, a clinical epidemiology research group whose interests centre on using various sources of de-identified, routinely collected electronic healthcare records to study a number of respiratory diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis and most recently COVID-19. Work centres on maximising the quality, linkage and usage of these data for clinical and research purposes. Research topics include understanding the relationship between cardiovascular and respiratory disease, respiratory disease prevention, diagnosis, natural history and management. Many of the outputs are used for informing policy, and in the planning and allocation of resources.
Dr Nick Evans, HLRI, Cambridge - ‘From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Brain: Atheroinflammation and Cerebrovascular Disease’
I am a Stroke Association Senior Clinical Lecturer and an Honorary Consultant in Stroke Medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. My research considers the links between the vulnerable carotid atherosclerotic plaque, the vulnerable brain, and the vulnerable (frail) individual:
Carotid atherosclerosis: Our research uses multimodal imaging to assess atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability and its response to novel treatments.
- Effects on the brain: We are investigating the links between inflammation within atherosclerosis and effects on the brain.
- Frailty in stroke: Our work evaluates the link between vascular disease and clinical frailty, and how this affects outcomes after stroke.
I completed my medical training at Sidney Sussex College (University of Cambridge) before completing post-graduate training in Stroke Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and General Internal Medicine across the East of England. I completed my PhD in neurovascular imaging at Gonville and Caius College (University of Cambridge) and continued my postdoctoral research as a Clinical Lecturer in Cambridge before taking up my consultant post. I have completed further postgraduate training at the University of Dundee and Harvard University. My research has received awards from the British Heart Foundation, Wellcome Trust, British Association of Stroke Physicians, British Atherosclerosis Society, Royal Society of Medicine, and the Royal College of Physicians.
