Staff Profile
Dr Wezi Sendama
NIHR Newcastle BRC Clinical Research Fellow
- Email: wezi.sendama@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://www.newcastlebrc.nihr.ac.uk/staff/wezi-sendama/
Background
Introduction
I graduated from Newcastle University Medical School in 2011 and completed my Foundation and Core Medical Training in the Northern region. I was appointed as a Specialty Registrar in Respiratory Medicine in 2015 and returned to Newcastle University in 2018 to undertake PhD research.
My PhD project aims to use an experimental human model of inflammation to understand the dysregulation of inflammation with ageing. Age-related chronic inflammation can contribute to diseases of ageing such as sarcopenia and frailty, as well as conferring an increased susceptibility to infectious diseases. We hope that improving our understanding of age-related inflammation will lead to treatments that might mitigate the impacts of these diseases as we grow older.
Qualifications
MBBS, Newcastle University, 2011
MRCP(UK), Royal College of Physicians, 2015
Specialty Certificate Examination in Respiratory Medicine, 2019
Research
My research is kindly funded by the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, the SHIELD Antimicrobial Resistance Research Consortium and the Medical Research Foundation. Please take a look at the BRC page for an overview of the project.
Publications
- Sendama W. The effect of ageing on the resolution of inflammation. Ageing Research Reviews 2020, 57, 101000.
- Sendama W, Musgrave KM. Decision making with D-dimer in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. The American Journal of Medicine 2018, 131(12), 1438-1443.
- Sendama W, Shipley M. Traumatic chylothorax, a case report and review. Respiratory Medicine Case Reports 2015, 14, 47-48.
- Sendama W. Memories of a first patient. Student BMJ 2010, 18.