Elizabeth Orton
Lecturer and Specialty Registrar in Public Health, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Biography
Dr Orton began her career in the field of hearing research at the University of Keele where she completed a PhD in 1996 investigating the cellular mechanisms of sensory hair cell degeneration and repair. After a short-term lectureship in neuroscience at the University of Sheffield she moved to the Loeb Research Institute, Canada, as a postdoctoral fellow to study the genetics of inner ear development and then continued this work at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham.
In 2003 she joined the National Newborn Hearing Screening Programme where she established the quality assurance systems for neonatal hearing screening across England.
In 2008 she began public health specialty training in the East Midlands and in 2010 was appointed a part-time lectureship in public health in the Division of Primary Care at the University of Nottingham, working as part of the Injury Epidemiology and Prevention group.
Her research interests centre around alcohol-related harm and she has been using THIN data, in collaboration with colleagues in the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, to investigate the association between injury in preschool children in households where there is alcohol misuse.
Expertise Summary
Keywords:
Public health, primary care databases, STATA, service evaluation, alcohol related injury
Teaching Summary
Dr Orton gives lectures on Public Health to Foundation Year doctors and fifth year medical students undertaking their Advanced Clinical Experience (ACE) in Primary Care. She also supervises research… read more
Research Summary
Dr Orton's main area of research is injury epidemiology and how the frequency of injury has changed over time and differs between people of different ages in the UK. She uses primary care data to… read more
Selected Publications
LEWIS, M., QUINT, E., GLAZIER, M., FUCHS, H., HRABÉ DE ANGELIS, M., LANGFORD, C., VAN DONGEN, S., ABREU-GOODGER, C., PIIPARI, M., REDSHAW, N., DALMAY, T., ANGEL MORENO PELAYO, M., ENRIGHT, A. and ST, 2009. An ENU-induced mutation of a miRNA associated with progressive hearing loss Nature Genetics. 41(5), 614-8 BOSMAN, ERIKA A, QUINT, ELIZABETH, FUCHS, HELMUT, HRABÉ DE ANGELIS, MARTIN and STEEL, KAREN P, 2009. Catweasel mice: a novel role for Six1 in sensory patch development and a model for branchio-oto-renal syndrome. Developmental biology. 328(2), 285-96 BECK, C.R., MCKENZIE, B.C., HASHIM, A.B., HARRIS, R.C., ZANUZDANA, A., AGBOADO, G., ORTON, E., BÉCHARD-EVANS, L., MORGAN, G., STEVENSON, C., WESTON, R., MUKAIGAWARA, M., ENSTONE, J., AUGUSTINE, G., BUTT, M., KIM, S., PULESTON, R., DABKE, G., HOWARD, R., O'BOYLE, J., O'BRIEN, M., AHYOW, L., DENNESS, H., FARMER, S., FIGUREROA, J., FISHER, P., GREAVES, F., HAROON, M., HAROON, S., HIRD, C., ISBA, R., ISHOLA, D.A., KERAC, M., PARISH, V., ROBERTS, J., ROSSER, J., THEAKER, S., WALLACE, D., WIGGLESWORTH, N., LINGARD, L., VINOGRADOVA, Y., HORIUCHI, H., PEÑALVER, J. and NGUYEN-VAN-TAM, J.S., 2011. Patients: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis from a Public Health Policy Perspective PLoS One. 6(12), e29249 SMITH, A, ZHANG, J, GUAY, D, QUINT, E, JOHNSON, A and AKIMENKO, M A, 2008. Gene expression analysis on sections of zebrafish regenerating fins reveals limitations in the whole-mount in situ hybridization method. Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 237(2), 417-25
Current Research
Dr Orton's main area of research is injury epidemiology and how the frequency of injury has changed over time and differs between people of different ages in the UK. She uses primary care data to investigate the factors that influence injury, including alcohol harm (excessive consumption, violence related to alcohol, parental alcohol misuse), and other social factors.
She is currently involved with researching factors associated with injury in pre-school children, looking at maternal alcohol misuse and its association with injuries such as fractures, burns and poisoning, in children under 5 years old.
She is also a public health registrar for the NHS.
Future Research
She is interested in studying the short and long-term effects of alcohol use in adolescence including accidental injury and chronic long-term ill-health.