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Course Director, Sports and Exercise Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
I have recently (March 2011) joined the University of Nottingham as Course Director for the MSc Sports and Exercise Medicine. Previously I worked at University of Leeds as a lecturer. My teaching duties included the delivery of epidemiology, biostatistics and critical appraisal to medical students (MBChB), managing the research project modules on MSc Nutrition, Obesity and Health and MSc Statistical Epidemiology, developing a new MSc Spatial Epidemiology, as well as Exams Officer for the School of Medicine. Thus I have a broad knowledge of University processes, assessment and delivery of teaching, and innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Prior to my MMedSc and PhD training, I worked in Corporate Banking in London for twelve years for various banks, culminating as a vice president for JPMorgan Chase Bank managing multi-billion dollar debt transactions. This gives me a wide and diverse set of skills to draw on for research and teaching.
Modern environments do not necessarily encourage residents to have an active, healthy lifestyle. In fact, the sedentary option is often the easiest choice. Accordingly my research regarding the obesogenic environment has lead me to examine the relationship between obesity and many different aspects of the environment, including access to facilities, urbanisation, social capital, deprivation, and neighbourhood safety, as well as many behavioural aspects, such as physical activity levels, sedentary behaviour, diet in terms of consumption and expenditure. Recent work has been investigating food outlet location and fast food consumption to obesity in children and adults, as well as considering the relationship between physical activity, access to green spaces, and obesity. My cancer research includes operationally defining cancer survivorship for different cancer sites using clinical attendance patterns plus investigating the relationship between diet, and diet cost, and risk of breast cancer. I also have a research interest in spatial analyses techniques and in developing and testing spatial microsimulation models. I have applied these models to successfully estimate various data, including physical activity behaviour and adult obesity prevalence, at the small area level.
D Floor, East BlockQueen's Medical Centre Nottingham, NG7 2UH
telephone: +44 (0) 115 823 0695 fax: +44 (0) 115 823 0704 email: scs-enquiries@nottingham.ac.uk