Staff Profile
I am an NIHR academic clinical lecturer and specialty registrar in cardiology. I am interested in population epidemiology, healthcare quality and reducing inequalities. In particular, I have recently been looking at improving outcomes for older people with frailty and cardiovascular disease.
My MD was in cardiovascular epidemiology (University of Leeds). I was also a clinical lecturer and specialty doctor in cardiology at York Hospital and Hull-York Medical School. I have completed a research fellowship at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, where I was in receipt of an Ionescu Visiting Fellowship.
I currently lead the healthcare quality module on the MPH programme at Newcastle alongside my research. I am a member of Q (Health Foundation) and the British Cardiovascular Society Emerging Leaders programme.
Qualifications
MD, MPH, MBBS, MRCP, FHEA
Post-graduate certificate in clinical education
European Examination in General Cardiology
Other roles
I am a visiting research fellow in the Department for Health Sciences at York University, and at the Leeds Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, and am an honorary clinical lecturer at Hull-York Medical School.
I provide peer review for journals including Circulation, European Heart Journal, Age and Ageing, EHJ Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, Quality of Life Research, and Nature Scientific Reports.
Module leader:
- Healthcare Quality (HSC8048) - Master of Public Health/Health Services Research
Lecturer:
- Fudamentals of Research (HSC8001) - Master of Public Health/Health Services Research
- Health and Illness: Professional and Societal Perspectives (BMS3015) - BSc in Biomedical Sciences
I hold a post-graduate certificate in clinical education (Newcastle University), and am completing an MSc in Health Professions Education (University of York).
I have experience in supervision at Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral level.
My research focuses on using large datasets to identify how cardiovascular care may be improved. Currently, I am investigating how frailty modifies outcomes for older people with cardiovascular disease.
- Wilkinson C, Clegg A, Todd O, Rockwood K, Yadegarfar ME, Gale CP, Hall M. Atrial fibrillation and oral anticoagulation in older people with frailty: a nationwide primary care electronic health records cohort study. Age and Ageing 2021, ePub ahead of print.
- Dondo TB, Hall M, Munyombwe T, Wilkinson C, Yadegarfar ME, Timmis A, Batin PD, Jernberg T, Fox KAA, Gale CP. A nationwide causal mediation analysis of survival following ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Heart 2020, 106(10), 765-771.
- Yadegarfar ME, Gale CP, Dondo TB, Wilkinson CG, Cowie MR, Hall M. Association of treatments for acute myocardial infarction and survival for seven common comorbidity states: a nationwide cohort study. BMC Medicine 2020, 18, 231.
- Wilkinson C, Wu J, Searle S, Todd O, Hall M, Kunadian V, Clegg A, Rockwood K, Gale CP. Clinical outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation and frailty: insights from the ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 trial. BMC Medicine 2020, 18(1), 401.
- Wilkinson C, Weston C, Timmis A, Quinn T, Keys A, Gale CP. Cohort profile: The Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP). European Heart Journal: Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes 2020, 6, 19-22.
- Wilkinson C, Todd O, Yadegarfar ME, Clegg A, Gale CP, Hall M. Prescription of oral anticoagulation for stroke prophylaxis in atrial fibrillation according to frailty status: a national study of 536,995 primary care records. In: European Heart Journal. 2020, Oxford University Press.
- Wilkinson C, Ripley DP. Travelling with heart disease: restricted choice and restrictive cost. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 2020, 50(5), 222-223.
- Wilkinson C, Thomas H, McMeekin P, Price C. A cohort study to evaluate the impact of service centralisation for emergency admissions with acute heart failure. Future Healthcare Journal 2019, 6(1), 41-46.
- Wu J, Hall M, Dondo TB, Wilkinson C, Ludman P, DeBelder M, Fox KAA, Timmis A, Gale CP. Association between time of hospitalization with acute myocardial infarction and in-hospital mortality. European Heart Journal 2019, 40(15), 1214-1221.
- Wilkinson C, Todd O, Yadegarfar Y, Clegg A, Gale CP, Hall M. Extent and outcomes of frailty in older people with atrial fibrillation: a nationwide study using primary care data. In: ESC Congress 2019. 2019, Paris, France: Oxford University Press.
- Todd OM, Wilkinson C, Hale M, Wong NL, Hall M, Sheppard JP, McManus RJ, Rockwood K, Young J, Gale CP, Clegg A. Is the association between blood pressure and mortality in older adults different with frailty? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Age and Ageing 2019, 48(5), 627-635.
- Wilkinson C, Todd O, Clegg A, Gale CP, Hall M. Management of atrial fibrillation for older people with frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Age and Ageing 2019, 48(2), 196-203.
- Todd OM, Burton JK, Dodds RM, Hollinghurst J, Lyons RA, Quinn TJ, Schneider A, Walesby KE, Wilkinson C, Conroy S, Gale CP, Hall M, Walters K, Clegg AP. New Horizons in the use of routine data for ageing research. Age and Ageing 2019, ePub ahead of print.
- Wilkinson C, Bebb O, Dondo TB, Munyombwe T, Casadei B, Clarke S, Schiele F, Timmis A, Hall M, Gale CP. Sex differences in quality indicator attainment for myocardial infarction: a nationwide cohort study. Heart 2019, 105, 516-523.
- Wilkinson C, Todd O, Clegg A, Gale CP, Hall M. Should we consider frailty when treating atrial fibrillation?. In: Age and Ageing. 2019, Oxford University Press.
- Walker DM, Gale CP, Lip G, Martin-Sanchez FJ, McIntyre HF, Mueller C, Price S, Sanchis J, Vidan MT, Wilkinson C, Zeymer U, Bueno H. Frailty and the management of patients with acute cardiovascular disease: A position paper from the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association. European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care 2018.
- Wilkinson C, Cowan JC. Regional variation in anticoagulation and clinical outcomes: scope for improvement. European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes 2018, 4(3), 152-154.
- Wilkinson C, Stewart J, Chapman M, Thomas H. Training challenges are associated with reconfiguration of acute service. Future Healthcare Journal 2017, 4(suppl. 2), s27-s27.
- Wilkinson C, Adams P. Pneumomediastinum in a trumpeter diagnosed by the presence of Hamman's crunch. BMJ case reports 2012.