Academic departments

The Trust's academic departments have outstanding performance in leading research that answers key questions for patient care regionally, nationally and globally and will work to ensure researchers across the breadth of professions are supported. The academic departments have established excellence in many ways including the quality of their publications, the amount of research funding raised and the number of staff involved in research. Joint work between the Trust and the University of Exeter continues as a key factor in the work of the academic departments with many of the departments being co-led by University and NHS employed staff. 

The academic departments and their leads are:

• Abdominal Wall Surgery – Professor David Sanders and Mr John Findlay
• Ageing Well and Brain Health – Professor Jane Masoli
• Blood Sciences – Professor Tim McDonald and deputy leads Dr Rachel Nice and Dr George Allen
• Diabetes and Endocrinology – Professor Angus Jones and deputy lead Professor Bijay Vaidya
• Gastroenterology and Hepatology – Professor Tariq Ahmad and Dr Nick Kennedy
• Genomic Medicine – Dr Helen Hanson and Kevin Colclough and deputy leads Professor Emma Baple and Dr Andrew Parrish
• Renal – Professor Coralie Bingham and Professor Richard Oram
• Respiratory Medicine – Professor Michael Gibbons and Professor Chris Scotton
• Trauma and Orthopaedics – Mr Jonathan P Evans and Mr Jonathan T Evans and deputy lead Professor Andy Toms

Adrian Harris, Royal Devon Chief Medical Officer - Digital and Research, and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health, said:

“Research continues to be a key component of the Trust's strategy underpinning excellence in clinical care delivery and supporting the recruitment and retention of high calibre staff of all professions. Research provides early access to cutting edge treatments and technology helping to sustain our position as a leading Teaching Hospital and making our services across the breadth of our organisation more sustainable’’.