Staff Profile | Faculty of Medical Sciences

Dr Matthew Thomas

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer

Email: matthew.thomas3@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: 0191 2821720
Address: Great North Children's Hospital,
RVI,
Victoria Road,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 4LP

Publications

Elemraid MA, Rushton SP, Clark JE, Perry JD, Thomas MF, Sails AD, Gennery AR, Spencer DA, North East of England Paediatric Respiratory Infection Study Group. A Case-Control Study to Assess the Urinary Pneumococcal Antigen Test in Childhood Pneumonia. Clinical Pediatrics 2014, 53(3), 286-288.
Perry A, Kenna D, Turton J, Harris K, Carroll T, Robb A, Bourke S, Doe SJ, Thomas M, OBrien C, Perry JD. An effective and economical laboratory protocol for isolation of Mycobacterium abscessus from the sputa of cystic fibrosis patients. In: The 28th Annual North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference. 2014, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia: Wiley-Blackwell.
Elemraid MA, Rushton SP, Thomas MF, Spencer DA, Eastham KM, Gennery AR, Clark JE, North East England Paediatric Respiratory Infection Study Group. Changing clinical practice: management of paediatric community-acquired pneumonia. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2014, 20(1), 94-99.
Blain AP, Thomas MF, Shirley MDF, Simmister C, Elemraid MA, Gorton R, Pearce MS, Clark JE, Rushton SP, Spencer DA. Spatial variation in the risk of hospitalization with childhood pneumonia and empyema in the North of England. Epidemiology and Infection 2014, 142(2), 388-398.
Elemraid MA, Rushton SP, Thomas MF, Spencer DA, Gennery AR, Clark JE. Utility of inflammatory markers in predicting the aetiology of pneumonia in children. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 2014, 79(4), 458-462.
Elemraid MA, Sails AD, Eltringham GJA, Perry JD, Rushton SP, Spencer DA, Thomas MF, Eastham KM, Hampton F, Gennery AR, Clark JE, North East of England Paediatric Respiratory Infection Study Group. Aetiology of paediatric pneumonia after the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. European Respiratory Journal 2013, 42(6), 1595-1603.
Bowker JL, Thomas MF, O'Brien CJ. Antibiotic usage as a risk factor for non-tuberculous mycobacterium infection in children with cystic fibrosis. In: British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2013. 2013, London, UK: BMJ Publishing Group.
Simmister C, Lee RP, Thomas MF, Spencer DA. How was it for them? Experiences of parents of children undergoing surgical treatment for empyema thoracis. In: British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2013. 2013, London, UK: BMJ Publishing Group.
Elemraid MA, Rushton SP, Shirley MDF, Thomas MF, Spencer DA, Eastham KM, Hampton F, Gorton R, Pollard K, Gennery AR, Clark JE, North East of England Paediatric Respiratory Infection Study Group. Impact of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on the incidence of childhood pneumonia. Epidemiology and Infection 2013, 141(8), 1697-1704.
Thomas MF, Spencer DA. Necrotising pneumonia in children. Paediatric Respiratory Reviews 2013. In Press.
Thomas MF, Sheppard C, Guiver M, Simmister C, Elemraid MA, Clark JE, Rushton SP, Paton JY, Spencer DA. Paediatric Pneumococcal Empyema Serotypes Have Not Changed Following Introduction of the 13 Valent Pneumococcal Vaccine. In: British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting. 2013, London, UK: BMJ Publishing Group.
Elemraid MA, Sails AD, Thomas MF, Rushton SP, Perry JD, Eltringham GJA, Spencer DA, Eastham KM, Hampton F, Gennery AR, Clark JE, North East of England Paediatric Respiratory Infection Study Group. Pneumococcal diagnosis and serotypes in childhood community-acquired pneumonia. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 2013, 76(2), 129-132.
Thomas MF, Sheppard CL, Guiver M, Slack MPE, George RC, Gorton R, Paton JY, Simmister C, Cliff D, Elemraid MA, Clark JE, Rushton SP, Spencer DA. Emergence of pneumococcal 19A empyema in UK children. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2012, 97(12), 1070-1072.
Thomas MF, Spencer DA. Necrotising pneumonia, pneumatoceles and the pneumococcus. Thorax 2012, 67(10), 925-925.
Sinha A, Thomas MF, Rushton SP, Cheetham T. The impact of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion on glycaemic control in children and adolescents: a regional review in North East England using a bio-modelling approach. Diabetic Medicine 2012, 29(10), 1342-1343.
Brodlie M, Orchard WA, Reeks GA, Pattman S, McCabe H, O'Brien CJ, Thomas MF, Spencer DA. Vitamin D in children with cystic fibrosis. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2012, 97(11), 982-984.
Thomas MF, Sheppard CL, Guiver M, George RC, Simmister C, Cliff D, Gorton R, Elemraid MA, Clark JE, Rushton SP, Paton JY, Spencer DA. CHANGES IN PNEUMOCOCCAL SEROTYPE DISTRIBUTION OF PAEDIATRIC EMPYEMA IN THE AGE OF PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINES. In: British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2011. 2011, Westminster, London: BMJ Group.
Elemraid MA, Eltringham G, Sails AD, Perry J, Thomas MF, Spencer DA, Eastham KM, Shirley MD, Rushton SP, Hampton F, Gorton R, Gennery AR, Clark JE, North East England Paediatr Resp I. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF INFLAMMATORY MARKERS AND RADIOLOGICAL FEATURES IN PREDICTING THE AETIOLOGY OF COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA IN CHILDREN. In: PEDIATRIC RESEARCH. 2011, 75 VARICK ST, 9TH FLR, NEW YORK, NY 10013-1917 USA: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP.
Thomas MF, Simmister C, Cliff D, Elemraid MA, Clark JE, Rushton SP, Gorton R, Paton JY, Spencer DA. Comparison of primary pleural drainage strategies in paediatric empyema. In: Thorax: Winter Meeting of the British Thoracic Society. 2011, Westminster: BMJ Group.
Spencer DA, Thomas MF, Sheppard CL, Guiver M, George RC, Gorton R, Paton JY, Simmister C, Cliff D, Elemraid MA, Clark JE, Rushton SP. Emergence of pneumococcal serotype 19A as a cause of severe complicated pneumonia with empyema in children in England. In: Thorax: Winter Meeting of the British Thoracic Society. 2011, Westminster: BMJ Group.
Thomas MF, Blain AP, Shirley MDF, Simmister C, Elemraid MA, Gorton R, Pearce MS, Clark JE, Rushton SP, Spencer DA. Geographical variation in the risk of childhood pneumonia and relationships to socio-economic and health deprivation. In: European Respiratory Society Annual Congress. 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Elemraid MA, Eastham KM, Rushton SP, Shirley MDF, Spencer DA, Thomas MF, Hampton F, Gorton R, Pollard K, Gennery AR, Clark JE. Impact of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on the incidence of childhood pneumonia seen in hospital in the North East of England. In: Thorax: Winter Meeting of the British Thoracic Society. 2011, Westminster: BMJ Group.
Elemraid MA, Pollard K, Thomas MF, Gennery AR, Eastham KM, Rushton SP, Hampton F, Singleton P, Gorton R, Spencer DA, Clark JE, NE England Paediatric Resp Infect. Validity of using Hospital Episode Statistics data on monitoring disease trends. Thorax 2011, 66(9), 827.
Thomas MF, Simmister C, Rushton SP, Spencer DA. The changing incidence of pardiatric empyema in NE England 2006-2010. In: Thorax: British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting. 2010, Westminster, UK: BMJ Group.
Thomas MF. Life-threatening allergic bronchopulomnary aspergillosis treated with methylprednisolone and anti-IgE monoclonal antibody. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE 2009, 102, S49-S53.
Nath S, Thomas M, Spencer D, Turner S. Has the incidence of empyema in Scottish children continued to increase beyond 2005?. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2015, 100(3), 255-258.
Elemraid M, Pollard K, Thomas M, Simmister C, Spencer D, Rushton S, Gennery A, Clark J. Parental decisions on children participating in research: Mohamed Elemraid and colleagues consider what influences parents in allowing their child to be enrolled in clinical research. Nursing Children and Young People 2014, 25(8), 16-21.
Calella P, Valerio G, Thomas M, McCabe H, Taylor J, Brodlie M, Siervo M. Association between body composition and pulmonary function in children and young people with cystic fibrosis. Nutrition 2018, 48, 73-76.
Altmann T, Slack J, Slatter MA, O'Brien C, Cant A, Thomas M, Brodlie M, Annavarapu S, Gennery AR. Endothelial cell damage in idiopathic pneumonia syndrome. Bone Marrow Transplantation 2018, 53(4), 515-518.
Thomas M, Wyatt M. Endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Surgery 2018, 36(6), 300-305.
Tissot A, Thomas MF, Corris PA, Brodlie M. NonTuberculous Mycobacteria infection and lung transplantation in cystic fibrosis: A worldwide survey of clinical practice. BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2018, 18, 86.
Thomas M, Robertson N, Miller N, Rankin J, McKean M, Brodlie M. Congenital lung agenesis: incidence and outcome in the North of England. Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical & Molecular Teratology 2017, 109(11), 857-859.
Duncan CJA, Dinnigan E, Theobald R, Grainger A, Skelton AJ, Hussain R, Willet JDP, Swan DJ, Coxhead J, Thomas MF, Thomas J, Zamvar V, Slatter MA, Cant AJ, Engelhardt KR, Hambleton S. Early-onset autoimmune disease due to a heterozygous loss-of-function mutation in TNFAIP3 (A20). Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2018, 77(5), 783-786.
Liew Z, Mallikarjuna S, Hasan A, Gould FK, Bunn S, Thomas MF, Lordan JL, O'Brien C, Brodlie M. Successful outcome following pneumonectomy in a teenage boy with cystic fibrosis: a case report. BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017, 17, 17.
Preece CL, Perry A, Gray B, Kenna DT, Jones AL, Cummings SP, Robb A, Thomas MF, Brodlie M, O'Brien CJ, Bourke SJ, Perry JD. A novel culture medium for isolation of rapidly-growing mycobacteria from the sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 2016, 15(2), 186-191.
Thomas M, Khan SK, Phipps N, Shirley MDF, Aldridge S, Fearon PV, Deehan DJ. GP contact with patients after treatment for hip fracture: frequency and determinants. Postgraduate Medical Journal 2016, 92(1092), 587-591.
Robertson N, Miller N, Rankin J, McKean M, Brodlie M, Thomas M. Incidence and outcome of congenital lung agenesis in the north of England. In: British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2016. 2016, London: BMJ Group.
Ward-Booth ES, Spencer DA, Paton JY, Rushton SP, Brodlie M, Thomas MF. Predictors of primary treatment failure in children with empyema. In: British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2016. 2016, London: BMJ Group.
Wort AS, Gale M, Devine K, Simpson AJ, Sails AD, Spencer DA, Thomas MF, Brodlie M. Viruses associated with community-acquired pneumonia in children – a large prospective study in the post-prevenar 13 era. In: British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2016. 2016, London: BMJ Group.
Elemraid M, Pollard K, Thomas M, Simmister C, Spencer D, Rushton S, Gennery A, Clark J. Parental decisions on children participating in research. Nursing Children and Young People 2013, 25(8), 16-21.