Whiteley Clinic Research Fellows
Each year the Whiteley Clinic supports one or several research fellows who wish to get involved in our cutting edge research. In selecting our research fellows we are less interested in age or stage of training and much more interested in enthusiasm and hard work.
As such we have had research fellows ranging from College students who want to apply for medicine, medical students and junior doctors.
For those who apply to do some research with us, and who we deem suitable, we try to fit a project or series of projects to what time commitment they are able to give us.
Recently we have started the "Whiteley Clinic Summer Research Fellowship" where we give projects to applicants who want to do research with us full time for 6 weeks or more in summer.
To find out more about research opportunities at The Whiteley Clinic please contact us on info@thewhiteleyclinic.co.uk
Whiteley Clinic / University of Surrey PhD Research Fellow
Briony Hudson
After completing an undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Southampton, Briony lived and worked in Beijing before returning to the UK in 2008. She has since worked in trauma rehabilitation whilst completing an MSc in Health Psychology.
Briony is now working towards a PhD Supervised by Professor Jane Ogden at the University of Surrey, working in tandem with the Whiteley Clinic and investigating recovery from ambulatory surgery. This research will complement the extensive literature that has been generated by the clinic and will look at anxiety management, pain reduction and rehabilitation.
Briony is also currently learning French and training for a triathlon.
Whiteley Clinic Summer Research Fellows 2011
Charlotte Thomas
Charlotte is a second-year medical student at Southampton medical school who spent her summer 2011 working at The Whiteley Clinic on an audit of our treatment of leg ulcers.
As a specialist vein unit, The Whiteley Clinic has many patients seeking help for leg ulcers that have been deemed incurable by their local health services. Charlotte performed a retrospective review of all of the leg ulcers treated at The Whiteley Clinic and the outcomes of those treatments.
Her research will be presented and published nationally in the next year.
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Madi Benson
Madi is a first-year medical student at Leicester Medical School who spent the summer of 2011 working at the Whiteley Clinic on an audit of the 2 year results of the RFITT radiofrequency ablation of incompetent perforating veins and on a paper looking into the best radiofrequency and laser equipment for the ablation of incompetent perforating veins.
Her research will be published and presented nationally in the next year.
Whiteley Clinic Summer Research Fellows 2010
George Badham
George Badham was appointed to be one of two summer research fellows in 2010 - he was a 2nd year medical student at Cardiff and about to go into his third year at that time.
George's main project was to set up a bench model to optimise the treatment of RFiTT Radiofrequency Ablation of varicose veins.
Before his work the RFiTT procedure had problems with veins re-opening and the device getting stuck due to charcoal formation during treatment.
Under the supervision of Mark Whiteley, George showed why this was occurring and showed that by using the Whiteley Clinic method of performing RFiTT treatment, both of these problem could be overcome.
George presented his work at an international meeting in Milan where he was the only non-qualified doctor presenting. His talk was received very well, winning 3rd prize.
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Sophie Strong
Sophie Strong was appointed to be one of two Whiteley Clinic Summer Research Fellows in 2010. Sophie was a first year medical student in London, about to go into her second.
Her project was to investigate the early results and effects of the new Laser Sweat Ablation (LSA) procedure that Mark Whiteley had introduced into the UK in 2009.
Sophie not only went through the cases done so far to help modify the procedure to make it more effective, she also set up a bench model to help us understand how the LSA procedure works.
Sophie presented her research in an International meeting in Paris in January 2011.
Whiteley Clinic Summer Research Fellow 2008
Maria Z Boland
Maria is a fourth year medical student at UCL. She was just about to start medical school in summer 2008 when she spent some time doing an audit into whether people who had had one leg treated for varices returned to have a second leg treated and also spent time in theatre looking at the different recoveries of patients treated with different lasers.
In 2010/2011 she returned to investigate the progression of the clinc over the previous five years looking specifically at whether people now came into the clinic for fewer operations/appointments but for the same number of procedures.