Audit

Data collection and analysis in an audit in identifying the risk factors and the management of cellulites of the extremities in Wexham Park and Heatherwood, Aug – Oct 2001. Results presented in Jan 2002 in academic help day for the Trust.

Interface between acute medicine and intensive care, supervised by Dr. Jonathon Salmon and Dr. Maggie Hammersely.

Death Audit, DNR decisions are we doing early or late? Supervised by Dr. Jonathon Salmon.

Ambulance service transfer Audit, starting this audit at the Horton General Hospital to look into the time scale in which emergency transfers are dealt with, a collaborative project with the regional ambulance service in Banbury, supervised by Dr. J. Marshall

Research

Involvement in a large cross section study evaluating the use of Kato-Katz method for determining the prevalence of Schistosoma.mansoni in Eastern Province in Sudan 1996 – 1997.

MSc project: evaluating the use of urine latex agglutination testing in the diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis 1999.

Publications

·The prevalence of Schistosomiasis in New Halfa area in East Sudan, using the kato-katz method as a diagnostic test, Sudanese Medical Journal, Jul 1997.

· The evaluation of the urine latex agglutination test for the diagnosis of visceral Leishmaniasis (in submission).

· A case reports on a patient with Castleman’s disease responding to IL-6 receptor antibody therapy (in submission).

· Syphilis still exists! – A case report (in submission).

· Thyroid storm, acute and subacute presentation, H Abuzeid, D Biswas, M. Hammersley, a poster presentation at the 53rd British Thyroid Association Meeting at the Royal Free Hospital, London, November 2003. (In press)

· Presenting at the RCPL in Feb 2004, at the acute emergencies conference, a case of hypertensive emergency and presenting a review on the recent management of hypertensive urgencies and emergencies.

· Presented at the Annual Sudanese Physicians’ Conference in Khartoum, Sudan, Feb 2004, a lecture on the recent advances in Sepsis management.

· Is there a strong rationale for deferring elective surgery in patients with poorly controlled hypertension? A review article, J Hypertension. 2005 Jan;23(1):19-22

· Prevalence of and Attitudes towards Urinary and Faecal Incontinence among Sudanese women, Presented at the Sudanese National Obstetrics and Gynaecology Conference, March 2007 and IUGA conference, Cancun, June 2007