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IMPACT Team

Professor Tim Nutbeam
MB ChB PhD FRCEM FIMC FRRHH MSc

Director

Tim is a consultant in Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Emergency Medicine based at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and Devon Air Ambulance. Tim has worked on extrication and post-collision research for the last decade and is the lead for the EXIT project and director at IMPACT. Tim welcomes collaboration, research and translation opportunities – if you have an idea or a project we might be able to help with then please get in touch. 

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Dr Lauren Rodgers
MSci (Hons) PhD Cstat

Senior Research Coordinator

Lauren Rodgers is an experienced Medical Statistician working across academia and industry, with extensive expertise in study design and analysis as well as teaching and mentoring medics and junior researchers from a range of disciplines. She oversees the IMPACT Mentorship Programme and the Patient and Public Involvement Group. Lauren is always happy to discuss potential collaborations for pre-hospital care projects and will not resist a good “rabbit-hole” conversation about interesting data science ideas or statistical methods. She welcomes contact from members of the public, people working in pre-hospital care, researchers, and anyone interested in getting involved in our studies or the IMPACT Mentorship Programme.

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Rob Fenwick
MSc BSc (Hons) DipHE DIMC RCSEd

Senior Research Fellow

Rob is a consultant nurse and RCEM credentialed advanced clinical practitioner. He is based in the emergency department at Wrexham Maelor Hospital in North Wales and is also a visiting professor at Wrexham University. Rob has been involved in the EXIT project since its inception and has a keen interest in evidence-based medicine and the ability to improve the outcomes for patients, relatives and staff.

Rob can also be found on The Resus Room Podcast, which is available in all the usual places!

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Kerry Dungay
MBA

Project Coordinator

Kerry has extensive experience across Higher Education and the NHS. She has worked in postgraduate medical education, non-academic research impact, and student success – delivering complex, multi-partner projects at international, national, and regional levels. Kerry holds an MBA and focuses on enabling effective collaboration, strategy delivery, project management and the practical application of research and policy.

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Dr Nicola Lester
MSc BN (Hons) PG Cert PhD

Lead for Safeguarding and Ethical Practice

Nicola is a mental health nurse specialising in psychological trauma and traumatic bereavement. Nicola advises organisations across statutory, non-statutory, and corporate sectors, helping them embed trauma-informed and ethically grounded approaches to victim and family engagement. In 2023 Nicola was awarded a PhD in Politics and International Relations by Cardiff University for her research exploring the experiences of bereaved military families. She brings to the team an expertise in trauma informed qualitative research methodology in addition to her clinical background.

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Rebecca Parker
BSc (Hons)

Research Project Administrator

Rebecca brings experience in research support, having held a range of research assistant roles prior to establishing herself as an independent environmental consultant. She has a strong interest in data science and is actively developing skills in programming, artificial intelligence and geospatial analysis.

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Tania Martin
MSt Cantab MSc BSc (Hons) CMgr FCMI

Devon Air Ambulance: Joint Operations Director

Tania has extensive public sector and leadership experience, having worked for the Metropolitan Police for more than two decades in both regional and national roles. Tania is focussed on supporting the development and success of the IMPACT project and how this translates into Devon and more widely.

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Nigel Lang
MSc

Devon Air Ambulance: Critical Care Paramedic & Research Paramedic

Nigel has responded to road traffic collisions for over two decades and is determined to support innovation in this area. Nigel is an advocate for collaborative working and is keen to draw upon others’ experience and expertise in pursuit of excellent practice.

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Collaborators

Willem Stassen, University of Cape Town 
 
 
Willem Stassen (BTEMC, MPhil EM, PGDip Appl. Ethics, PhD) is a South African emergency care practitioner and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He also serves as the Deputy Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Integrated Clinical Care. With clinical experience in critical care retrieval across ground, helicopter, and fixed-wing transport, Stassen’s research focuses on optimising prehospital emergency care systems, particularly for non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and injury. Given Africa’s disproportionate burden of road traffic injuries, Stassen contributes his expertise in diverse research methodologies to enhance our understanding of road traffic injuries, and the effectiveness of post-collision care, aiming to reduce morbidity and mortality in these high-risk environments.
Emily Foote, Devon Air Ambulance, School of Emergency Medicine, Peninsula Deanery
 
 
Emily is a senior registrar in Emergency Medicine and a critical care doctor with the Devon Air Ambulance. Emily has been working with IMPACT on developing novel bystander led triage scores, assisting with the EXIT Project translation to practice work streams and most recently has developed an interest in the interaction between medical events at the wheel, injuries and outcomes. 

Dr Francois-Xavier Ageron

 

Dr Francois-Xavier Ageron is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland. He first trained in emergency medicine in France and was involved in pre-hospital care and mountain search and rescue helicopter services in the Northern French Alps. He was Medical Director of the Northern French Alps Emergency Network and implemented the TRENAU Trauma System, leading research in trauma triage. After an MSc and PhD in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with the CRASH-2 and CRASH-3 teams, his research moved to bleeding and coagulation in the injured patient. He joined the Emergency Department and Trauma Centre of the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) to lead research projects in emergency medicine and trauma.

Dr Andrew J Murphy 

Andrew is a lecturer and head of the postgraduate division within the School of Medicine at the University of Dundee and an honorary clinical scientist with NHS Tayside. His specialist area is the biomechanics of human movement, and he has taught, conducted research, and held applied posts in this field in both the UK and China for over 15 years. His involvement with IMPACT is primarily in relation to providing biomechanical scrutiny of the safety and effectiveness of methods for extrication and handling casualties.
Ms Jessica Caterson
BMBCh BA (Oxon) MSc MRCS (Eng)

Jess is currently an Academic Clinical Fellow in General Surgery at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust working at a London Major Trauma Centre. She completed a Masters in Health Data Science at LSHTM during which she began collaborating with IMPACT on data-driven projects. Her most recent work explored the impact of spinal cord injury in LMICs compared with HICs using the Lancet Global Burden of Disease dataset.  She has an interest in large-scale data collection and analysis, including applications for artificial intelligence, in improving post-collision care.

Dr Claire Baker
MPhys (Hons), MRes, PhD

Claire is a Research Fellow in Design Engineering at Imperial College London who leads interdisciplinary projects investigating how accessible sensor technology can be used to assist post-collision emergency response, with a focus on traumatic brain injury. She lectures in post-crash analysis as a leading expert in UK collision data. She contributes to UK and International Standards Organisation policy alongside delivering impactful projects such as the HIPER consumer cycle helmet rating programme.
Dr Caroline Leech
MB ChB FRCEM FIMC RCSEd FEWM
 
Caroline is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust. She has over 25 years experience as a prehospital doctor treating patients at the roadside and currently works with The Air Ambulance Service and West Midlands Ambulance Service MERIT.  She brings experience of leading in-hospital major trauma services and regional trauma networks and undertaking prehospital research as an Honorary Associate Clinical Professor with University of Warwick.