Linda Fiaschi

Contact

• workRoom B118 Clinical Sciences Building
  Nottingham City Hospital
  Hucknall Road
  Nottingham
  NG5 1PB
  UK
• work0115 823 1352
• fax0115 823 1337
• linda.fiaschi@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Linda Fiaschi took her B.Sc., M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering with Biomedical Specialization at the University of Pisa, Italy, before going onto do her PhD in Computer Science (Bioinformatics) at the University of Nottingham.

Expertise Summary

Keywords:

Medical data mining, genetic data analysis, programming, bioinformatics, diseases association studies, medical signal processing, pregnancy statistics

Research Summary

Linda Fiaschi's current research project involves looking at the computerisation of general practices in the United Kingdom. This Wellcome Trust funded project is known as Assessment of drug safety… read more

Current Research

Linda Fiaschi's current research project involves looking at the computerisation of general practices in the United Kingdom. This Wellcome Trust funded project is known as Assessment of drug safety and the impact of illness in pregnancy using routinely collected primary care data:

• The project proposes to build a large nationally-representative database of pregnancy information using a unique household identifier, linking the records of mothers to their children.
• Databases are used to assess the impact of chronic and infectious illnesses and associated drug treatments on pregnancy, and as an early warning system for new drugs.
• Resource will be used to find out the impacts, in terms of obstetric complications, adverse pregnancy outcomes and adverse childhood outcomes, of gestational exposures to commonly used medications.

Read more about Assessment of drug safety and the impact of illness in pregnancy using routinely collected primary care data