Dr Jo Jefferis
NIHR Research Fellow
- Email: joanna.jefferis@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1297
I am an ophthalmology trainee in Newcastle currently spending 3 years doing a PhD fellowship funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). My research interest is the impact of dementia on the visual system.
I did my medical school training in Cambridge (2000-2003) and Oxford (2003-2006) and I have worked as an academic foundation trainee in the Oxford deanery (2006-2008) and an academic clinical fellow in the Northern Deanery (2008-2011).
My career aim is to become an academic ophthalmologist with an interest in old-age and neuro-ophthalmology
I am the principal investigator on the comprehensive local research network portfolio study “Cataract and Cognitive impairment” which is using quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the impact of cognitive impairment on cataract surgery outcomes for older people. My duties include oversight of the design, governance and running of the study; recruitment of participants; data collection; data analysis and data interpretation.
I lecture on the MRES in ageing and health and the MSc MEDSci degree programmes at Newcastle University
- Jefferis JM, Mosimann UP, Taylor JP, Clarke MP. "Do your eyes play tricks on you?" Asking older people about visual hallucinations in a general eye clinic. International Psychogeriatrics 2011, 23(6), 1014-1015.
- Jefferis JM, Perera R, Everitt HA, van Weert H, Rietveld RP, Glasziou P, Rose PW. Acute infective conjunctivitis in primary care: who needs antibiotics? An individual patient data meta-analysis. British Journal of General Practice 2011, 61(590), e542-548.
- Jefferis JM, Mosimann UP, Clarke MP. Cataract and cognitive impairment: a review of the literature. British Journal of Ophthalmology 2011, 95(1), 17-23.
- Douglas DD, Jefferis J, Sharma R, Parker R, Handa A, Chantler J. Evaluation of point-of-care activated partial thromboplastin time testing by comparison to laboratory-based assay for control of intravenous heparin. Angiology 2009, 60(3), 358-361.
- Jefferis JM, Bowman RJC, Hassan HG, Hall AB, Lewallen S. Use of cataract services in Eastern Africa - A study from Tanzania. Ophthalmic Epidemiology 2008, 15(1), 62-65.
