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Person Whitley, GregoryGregory Whitley is a paramedic research fellow with the East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) and a lecturer in paramedic science at the University of Lincoln. He joined the ambulance service in 2010 and has been a registered paramedic since 2012. During 2015-2017 he worked on the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded AIRWAYS-2 clinical trial as a research paramedic for EMAS. In 2020 he completed his PhD, funded by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration – East Midlands (ARC-EM) on the topic of pre-hospital pain management in children. He joined the British Paramedic Journal in May 2021 as an associate editor and he is currently undertaking a post-doctoral bridging fellowship funded by Health Education England.Person Miller, JoshuaI qualified as a paramedic in 2012 and worked for West Midlands Ambulance Service across ambulance, solo rapid response and first-line supervisor roles, serving a community with one of the highest levels of deprivation in the country. During this time I completed two service evaluations within my Trust. The first looked at staff views of teamwork in resuscitation attempts, while the second was a set of interviews with first-line managers about how they identify ambulance clinicians who may have been traumatised by their work. In 2016 I joined the Trust's research team and have supported the delivery of a variety of studies since then, from randomised controlled studies in cardiac arrest, stroke and acute respiratory failure, through to observational studies in decision-making around electrocardiograms, and a project to develop a new major trauma triage tool. My work varies similarly from supporting the safety of clinical trials, through training staff in novel treatments, and consenting and following up research participants.Person Miles, JamieSince qualifying as a paramedic I have enjoyed a diverse range of clinical settings, including frontline ambulance work, minor injury units, medical repatriation and specialist cardiac arrest response cars. I joined the University of Sheffield in 2017 and have been mainly investigating ambulance conveyances to the Emergency Department - this has been part of the CLAHRC Y+H Avoiding Attendance and Admission in Long Term Conditions theme. I am the co-module director of Prehospital Emergency Care alongside Dr. Justin Squires. This is part of the MSc Advanced Emergency Care provided by ScHARR. I am currently undertaking an NIHR/HEE Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship into risk prediction modelling of ambulance service conveyances to the Emergency Department.Person McClelland, GrahamI joined the ambulance service in 2003 and moved into the research team in 2010. I have worked on large studies including HITS-NS, PARAMEDIC and PASTA. I completed my Masters in Clinical Research thanks to support from the NIHR ICA scheme and completed my PhD looking at prehospital identification of stroke mimics at Newcastle University thanks to s Stroke Association post-graduate fellowship.Person Barrett, JackJack is a Paramedic Research Fellow with South East Coast ambulance Service NHS FT (SECAmb), where he is currently undertaking a National Institute of Health Research Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (NIHR CDRF) developing a clinical decision rule to support paramedics in the triage of older adults with traumatic brain injury. Prior to starting the NIHR CDRF Jack was a Research Paramedic with SECAmb, supporting the design and delivery of both clinical research network portfolio studies and non-portfolio studies. In addition to this, he has been the lead applicant and co-applicant on successful research grants and progressing through the NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) Programme with the support of SECAmb and the University of Surrey. Jack is also an honorary Research Paramedic with Air Ambulance Kent Surrey and Sussex, supporting the charity in it's use of technology in detecting TBI in the critically injured patients. Jack's research expertise is in prehospital TBI both in the severe and mild presentations; in adults and older adults and in the triage and clinical decision making associated with this patient group. He has experience in predominately quantitative research methodologies.Person Pennington, BettyAfter qualifying as a paramedic in 2008, I first started pursuing my interest in research by completing an MSc Professional Practice (Research & Development) alongside working as a paramedic in NWAS. I took up my first research paramedic secondment in 2012, working on the Head Injury Transportation Straight to Neurosurgery (HITS-NS) study, and have since supported other studies in a research paramedic role including: the Paramedic Acute Stroke Treatment Assessment (PASTA) trial; the Pre-hospital Evaluation of Sensitive Troponin (PRESTO) study; and the Platform Randomised trial of INterventions against COVID-19 In older peoPLE (PRINCIPLE). I am currently in post as an NIHR CRN Greater Manchester Research Paramedic supporting NIHR research, and this has included taking on the principal investigator role for the Impact of Restart a Heart Day 2019 in the UK study. I am particularly keen to support and encourage others in the ambulance service to get involved with research.Person Wilson, CaitlinI am a frontline paramedic with North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust and a PhD student at the University of Leeds funded by the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre. I have previously been involved in the PASTA Trial as a research paramedic and completed the NIHR Advanced Leadership Programme in 2015/16. During my MSc, I conducted a primary research project on Hyperventilation Syndrome and subsequently led on the JRCALC 2019 Update of the Hyperventilation Syndrome guidelines. My current PhD is a mixed methods multiple sub-study project with the overall aim to explore how enhancing prehospital feedback improves patient safety and staff wellbeing.Person Siriwardena, NiroProf Niro Siriwardena is Professor of Primary and Prehospital Health Care and Director of the Community and Health Research Unit (CaHRU) at the University of Lincoln where he leads a team of 15 researchers, 8 doctoral students and a number of visiting scientists. He is also honorary professor at the University of Cardiff and Research Director for the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands. He gained his PhD in in 2003 and developed his research expertise in quality improvement and implementation science, with experience in a range of methods including systematic reviews, observational, qualitative and mixed methods studies, experimental methods and clinical trials. He is an experienced clinical academic having worked as a general practitioner for over 25 years. His current and recent research is supported by the UK National Institute for Health Research, Medical Research Council, European Commission, Health Foundation, and British Lung Foundation with overall grant funding exceeding £30 million since he was appointed to the University of Lincoln in 2005, and £5 million as chief or co-chief investigator. He has over 120 peer reviewed research publications, and over 100 other scientific outputs including editorials, papers, books, and book chapters. His research in primary care has informed national and international guidance on flu vaccinations and insomnia. His Emergency Medical Services research led to the first clinical indicators for ambulance services, new quality measures adopted by the Care Quality Commission and clinical pathways for ambulance services, together with improvements in prehospital care in England, the United States and Middle East. His recent work has included studies of a rare disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome. He is co-editor of Quality Improvement in Primary Care: The essential guide. Radcliffe Publishing Ltd., Milton Keynes, 2014 and The Quality and Outcomes Framework: QOF - Transforming General Practice. Radcliffe Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 2010.Person Holland, MattI have worked in higher education for 20 years moving to work in the NHS in the North of England in 2009. Before launching LKS ASE in 2018 I worked for NWAS NHS Trust for 9 years. My areas of expertise are in virtual library services, repositories and supporting the information needs of ambulance services. I am also the amber administrator.
