Newcastle University

Introduction

I am the holder of a Department of Health Researcher Development Award which is enabling me to undertake a PhD to study the methodology, ethics and professional, patient and carer engagement in acute and hyperacute stroke research. I am undertaking this work in the Stroke Unit at Freeman Hospital. My lead supervisor is Dr Madeleine Murtagh. Other members of my supervisory team include Professor Gary Ford, and Dr Stephen Louw, Dr Helen Rodgers and Dr Tim Rapley.

The aim of my PhD is to examine and describe how professionals, patients and their relatives and carers engage in stroke research. The

Background

Publications prior to 2002 in the name of Treadwell

Qualifications

MSc in Health Sciences (Research Methods - distinction)(2002)
Certificate in Exercise and Fitness (2003)
Certificate in Management Development (distinction) (1999)
E.N.B. 998, Teaching and Assessing in Clinical Practice (1991)
E.N.B. 148 for Neuromedical & Neurosurgical Nurses (1989)
Registered General Nursing Certificate (1987)

Previous Positions

2001–2004: Research Associate, Dept. Neurosurgery, Newcastle University.
1994–2001:Clinical Trials Manager, Directorate of Neurosciences, Newcastle General Hospital
1992-1994: Audit Sister, Dir. Neurosciences, N.G.H.
1987-1992: Staff Nurse/Senior Staff Nurse throughout Dir. Neurosciences including Post Registration Studentship on ENB 148.

Memberships

British Sociological Association
Clinical Ethics Advisory Group, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Informal Interests

Running, interior decorating

Research Interests

Decision making and its ethical implications, particularly in relation to incapacitated adults.
The engagement of vulnerable or under-represented groups in health care research.

Other Expertise

Clinical trials management (mostly neurosciences - pharmaceutical and surgical interventions, invasive monitoring). Data management.
Neurotrauma/neurosurgical nursing.

Current Work

I am currently conducting ethnographic research investigating the processes and practices in the enrolment of patients to randomised controlled trials of acute and hyperacute stroke treatment: decision making by patients, carers an healthcare professionals.

Funding

NCC RCD Researcher Development Award
The Stroke Association Project Grant (Co-applicant)

Projects

• Decision Analysis in Routine Treatment II (DARTS II): A randomised controlled trial (efficacy study) of a decision aid to support shared decision making for patients with atrial fibrillation.
  Project Leader(s): Prof Richard Thomson, Prof Martin Eccles, Dr Nick Steen
• Methodology, ethics & patient and professional engagement in stroke research
  Project Leader(s): Lynne Stobbart
• Processes and practices in the enrolment of patients to randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of acute and hyperacute stroke treatment: decision making by patients, carers and healthcare professionals
  Project Leader(s): Dr Madeleine Murtagh, Lynne Stobbart, Dr Helen Rodgers, Prof Gary Ford, Dr Stephen Louw

Undergraduate Teaching

MiC Modules for MBBS Stages 1 & 2

Postgraduate Teaching

MRes Ethical issues in clinical trials
MSc Health Sciences, Project Management Module: The Role of the REC and Research Ethics
MSc Shared Decision Making in Chronic Diseases (Sunderland University)

• Lecouturier J, Ford G, Rodgers H, Stobbart L, Rapley T, Louw S, Murtagh M. Assessing capacity to consent in emergency research: a review. BMC Emergency Medicine 2011. Submitted.
• Flynn D, Stobbart L, Murtagh MJ, Price C, Rodgers H, Ford GA, Thomson RG. Engaging Clinicians, Patients and Family Members in the Development of Decision Support for Hyperacute Stroke. In: International Stroke Conference. 2011, Los Angeles, CA: Stroke: American Heart Association.
• Stobbart L, Murtagh MJ, Louw SJ, Ford GA, Rodgers H. Consent for research in hyperacute stroke. British Medical Journal 2006, 332(7555), 1405-1406.
• Lecouturier J, Stobbart L, Murtagh MJ, Ford GA, Rapley T, Louw S, Rodgers H. The challenges of seeking consent from adults to participate in acute research studies. Clinical Ethics 2010, 5(2), 73-76.
• Lecouturier J, Rapley T, Stobbart L, Ford G, Louw S, Rodgers H, Murtagh MJ. Clinical research without consent in adults in the emergency setting: a review of patient and public views. BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9, 9.
• Stobbart L, Murtagh MJ, Rapley T, Ford G, Louw S, Rodgers H. “We saw human guinea pigs explode”: coverage of adverse events in the TGN 1412 trial in the printed media. British Medical Journal 2007, 334, 566-567.
• Khaw F, Stobbart L, Murtagh M. 'I just keep thinking I haven't got it because I'm not yellow': A qualitative study of the factors that influence the uptake of Hepatitis C testing by prisoners. BMC Public Health 2007, 7(98).
• Thomson RG, Eccles MP, Steen IN, Greenaway J, Stobbart L, Murtagh MJ, May CR. A patient decision aid to support shared decision-making on anti-thrombotic treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation: Randomised controlled trial. Quality and Safety in Health Care 2007, 16(3), 216-223.
• Murtagh MJ, Thomson RG, May CR, Rapley TJ, Heaven BRJ, Graham RH, Kaner EFS, Stobbart L, Eccles PJ. Qualitative methods in a randomised controlled trial: the role of an integrated qualitative process evaluation in providin evidence to discontinue the intervention in one arm of a triapof a decision support tool. Quality and Safety in Health Care 2007, 16(3), 224-229.
• Stobbart L, Murtagh MJ, Louw SJ, Ford GA, Rodgers H. Consent for research in hyperacute stroke. British Medical Journal 2006, 332(7555), 1405-1406.
• Chambers IR, Stobbart L, Jones PA, Kirkham FJ, Marsh M, Mendelow AD, Minns RA, Struthers S, Tasker RC. Age-related differences in intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure in the first 6 hours of monitoring after children's head injury: Association with outcome. Child's Nervous System 2005, 21(3), 195-199.
• Khaw FM, Stobbart L, Murtagh MJ. Understanding the barriers to the uptake by prisoners of opportunities for testing for Hepatitis C viral infection. Newcastle upon Tyne:Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle,2006.
• Ushewokunze S, Nannapaneni R, Gregson BA, Stobbart L, Chambers IR, Mendelow AD. Elderly patients in coma from the outset with severe head injury - has anything changed?. British Journal of Neurosurgery 2004,18 6 604-607.
• Chambers IR, Treadwell L, Mendelow AD. The determination of threshold levels of cerebral perfusion pressure and intracranial pressure in severe head injury using Receiver Operator Characteristic Curves: an observational study on 291 patients.. Journal of Neurosurgery 2001, 94(3), 412-6.
• Kane PJ, Chambers IR, Davidson A, Treadwell L, Todd NV, Jenkins A, Crawford PJ, Mendelow AD. Outcome in children with severe head injury: The importance of cerebral perfusion pressure.(Abstract). Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. 1995, 59(2), 207.
• Treadwell L, Mendelow AD and the Head Injury Audit Team. An Audit of Head Injury Management in the Northern Region.. British Journal of Nursing 1994, 3, 136-140.