CMFT researcher named Royal College of Emergency Medicine Young Researcher of the Year

Congratulations to Laura Howard from Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT) who has won the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Young Researcher of the Year Award.

She has been rewarded with a £5000 prize for her project on how events in the emergency department affect the wellbeing of medics. Laura has interviewed staff members at Manchester Royal Infirmary to establish how the cases they deal with at work affect them at home.

The awarding panel were moved and impressed by her work, and said the prize would hopefully ensure its dissemination and future research in the area. If used to support future studies on the subject, the award can be used as a basis to apply for recognition on the NIHR portfolio.

Congratulations too to Niall Morris, Research Fellow at CMFT, who was awarded £1000 to support his ongoing PhD project aiming to improve the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. It aims to speed up diagnosis, reduce the number of missed acute coronary occlusions and improve the performance of clinical decision models such as the Manchester Acute Coronary Syndrome rule.

Laura Howard said:

I am delighted to have received this prestigious award from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. It’s an honour to be recognised, and the money will enable future work into identifying the psychological impact on medical staff of working in emergency departments. My research is currently in the data analysis stage, and I am hugely excited to write up my findings.

Niall Morris said: “It’s a great privilege to have received this award from the Clinical Studies Group. The funding will help me advance my project which will hopefully result in patients with acute myocardial infarction receiving more effective treatment in the future.”