Staff
Prof David Menon
Head of Division
David Menon is Professor and Head of the Department of Anaesthesia, Principal Investigator in the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, and Co-Chair of the Acute Brain Injury Programme at the University of Cambridge. In 2009 he was appointed NIHR Senior Investigator as one of the NIHR’s pre-eminent researchers.
He trained in Medicine, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Jawaharlal Institute in India, Leeds General Infirmary, The Royal Free Hospital and Addenbrooke's Hospital, and was an MRC Research Fellow at the Hammersmith Hospital prior to coming to Cambridge.
In 2006 he was appointed to the British Oxygen Professorship at the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He is Co-Chair of the Executive Board of the European Brain Injury Consortium, is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a Professorial Fellow in the Medical Sciences at Queens’ College, Cambridge.
He was the first Director of the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit (NCCU) at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, where he established the first recognised training programme for specialist neurocritical care in the UK. Protocols developed in the Addenbrooke’s NCCU have been shown to improve clinical outcome in severe head injury and rationalise the management of acute intracranial haemorrhage.
Professor Menon’s research interests include neurocritical care, secondary brain injury, neuroinflammation, and metabolic imaging of acute brain injury. He has also published on the physiology of coma and the vegetative state, and on mechanisms of anaesthetic action in the brain. In recent years he has represented the UK intensive care community in discussions regarding the impact of evolving legislative changes on research in critical care and emergency medicine. Click here for a list of his publications.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 217889 Email
Mrs Jane Miller
Division Administrator
Jane started working for Professor Menon in February 2005. Her previous background is in the dual areas of HR and Communications at Plc level in a large and local privatised water company. Her role as Administrator to the Division of Anaesthesia is challenging and varied.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 217889 jm540@cam.ac.uk
Ms Alison Craig
Department Secretary
Alison joined as a department secretary in September 2012. Her principal role is day to day support to the Professor of Anaesthesia. She has worked for the University since 2002, firstly at the Faculty of Education, then the Research Operations Office. Her earlier background was in industry, working as a Personal Assistant for a number of BT Directors.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 217889 Email: ac393@cam.ac.uk
Mrs Joanne Outtrim
Research Nurse
Joanne co-ordinates the research projects within the Division of Anaesthesia
Email: Joanne Outtrim
Mrs Dot Chatfield
Lead Clinical Research Nurse
Acute Brain Injury
Dot has worked in the field of research for over ten years, having previously worked in intensive care and renal medicine. She currently co-ordinates the Acute Brain Injury Research Team which is funded by a five year MRC grant. She is particular interested in the long-term neurocognitive deficits of head injury and the effect this has not only on the patients but also their families. Dot is well published and is keen to encourage other nurses to publish work undertaken whilst studying for higher degrees.
Dot is currently working part time.
Dr Jon Coles
University Lecturer
Acute Brain Injury
Jon is a Cambridge University Lecturer. He qualified at Leicester University and trained in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in Leicester, Norwich and Cambridge. As a clinician specialising within Neurointensive care and Neuroanaesthesia his research interests are focused on describing the pathophysiology of various forms of brain injury and optimising patient outcome. Using the combined facilities of the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre and Neurosciences Critical Care Unit at Addenbrooke's Hospital patients undergo structural and functional imaging studies using positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. He has used such imaging tools to define the incidence, temporal evolution and impact on outcome of cerebral ischaemia following head injury. He has quantified the impact of clinical interventions aimed at controlling intracranial pressure such as hyperventilation and elevation of cerebral perfusion pressure. His current studies are aimed at describing the mechanisms and temporal pattern of neuronal loss following head injury. Such knowledge could lead to changes in patient care, and hopefully better functional outcomes for patients.
Dr Emmanuel Stamatakis
Research Fellow
Consciousness and Cognition
Emmanuel completed his Ph.D. at the University of Dundee, Scotland where he developed image processing algorithms for the interpretation of medical images. He started working in the area of neuroimaging at the Department of Psychology, Stirling University, where he investigated the automated detection of perfusion deficits on SPECT scans of head injured and stroke patients. He then moved to the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge in 2001 to work on a variety of neuroimaging projects in the context of establishing the neuronal substrate of language function utilising multimodal neuroimaging techniques (structural fMRI, fMRI, DTI, connectivity fMRI) working with both healthy volunteers and patients.
He started his current post (Stephen Erskine Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge) in March 2008. Emmanuel's current research interests are in functional and structural connectivity analyses (both for task and resting state fMRI) as means to investigating organisation and reorganisation/plasticity in the human brain.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 217890
Dr Ari Ercole
Clinical Lecturer
Acute Brain Injury; Physiology in Critical Illness
Ari became an anaesthetist after completing a PhD in physics at the University of Cambridge. He divides his time between clinical anaesthesia, teaching and research. His clinical interest is in resuscitation and trauma. He has a particular research focus on applications of systems biology in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia. He is particularly interested in measurement and modelling cerebral perfusion, oxygenation and metabolism after traumatic brain injury.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 586742
Dr Ram Adapa
Consultant Anaesthestist
Consciousness and Cognition
An anaesthetist, Ram is interested in the neurobiology of consciousness and sedation.
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Mrs Anne Manktelow
Research Assistant
Acute Brain Injury
Anne is a Research Assistant working with patients recovering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The studies that she is working on include outcome research which follows up patients using MRI scanning and neurocognitive testing as well as investigating the effects of cognitive enhancers on patients with cognitive deficits post head injury.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 274446
Dr Virginia Newcombe
Academic Clinical Fellow
Acute Brain Injury
Virginia completed her PhD in MR neuroimaging in 2009.
Dr Tonny Veenith
NIAA Clinical Research Fellow
Acute Brain Injury
Tonny is an anaesthetist with a research interest in neuroimaging after traumatic brain injury currently doing a PhD.
Dr. Eleanor Carter
Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia
Tel: +44 (0)1223 217892
Dr. Pete Hodkinson
Specialty Registrar in Aviation and Space Medicine.
He is undertaking a PhD investigating the ventilatory, cerebrovascular and cognitive effects of hypoxia associated with high altitude helicopter flight.
Email: pdh39@cam.ac.uk
Ms Charlie Dorer
Physiotherapist
Charlie is a senior physiotherapist with an interest in rehabilitation after TBI working in the community. She has specialised in neuro physiotherapy for over 13 years and is currently working for Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust and completing an MPhil.
Email: cd451@cam.ac.uk
Dr. Charlotte Summers
Clinical Lecturer in Critical Care Medicine
Charlotte graduated from the University of Southampton and trained in respiratory (Cambridge) and Intensive Care Medicine (London). Since completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, she divides her time between clinical ICU and research. Her research interest is the role of neutrophils in critical illness, in particular, acute lung injury.
Email: cs493@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 1223 586742
Surgeon Commander Jane Risdall
Is a consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care in the Royal Navy and one of the foundation Senior Lecturers in 
Military Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham. Her sub-specialist interest is neuro-anaesthesia and critical care. She is currently undertaking an MD at Cambridge studying blast brain injury. (Joint project with Dstl Porton Down).
Telephone: +44 1223 586742
Dr Stein SILVA
Honorary Clinical Fellow
Stein is an anaesthetist and intensivist and has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience. His primary reserach interest is in the dynamic approach of the neuronal correlates of consciousness, combining clinical (brain injury), pharmacological (regional and general anaesthesia) and physiological models (sleep).
Tel: +44 (0)1223 586742
Deniz Vatansever
PhD student
Deniz completed his neuroscience training at Trinity College, CT, USA (BSc) and Imperial College London (MSc). After a year as a visiting researcher at the Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre (MRC CSC), Imperial College London where he focused on fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), he recently started his PhD at the University of Cambridge, Department of Clinical Neurosciences. His project involves investigating the resting state brain networks in healthy controls and traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients through functional MRI.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 217892
Gill Ison
Assistant Practitioner (PAIN)
TBA
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Juliane Lauer
MPhil Student
TBA
Tel: +44 (0)1223 274446