People
Research team
Ellie Edlmann
Dr Ellie Edlmann, FRCS Neurosurgery, PhD is a consultant neurosurgeon and associate professor of neurosurgery at UoP. She has extensive experience in designing and running clinical trials across a range of neurosurgical conditions, including trauma, chronic subdural haematoma and infection. An essential part of her research has involved developing public and patient engagement strategies and groups. She also has a passion for neuro-oncology and supporting patient rehabilitation following brain tumour treatment.
Gideon Adegboyega
Dr Gideon Adegboyega is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and Specialty Trainee in Neurosurgery at University of Plymouth and Southwest Neurosurgical Centre. His interests lie in traumatic brain injury, in particular assessing brain atropy and neuro-conginition following TBI and using AI to guide clinical decision-making.
Megan Courtman
Megan Courtman is a data scientist interested in using explainable AI to solve problems in healthcare. Much of her work focuses on building computer vision models for medical imaging classification. She has won the Association of British Neurologists prize for best poster and the UoP Three Minute Thesis competition. She is a member of the Involvement Steering Group at Parkinson's UK, which provides support for the organisation's patient and public involvement (PPI) programme.
Hongrui Wang
Dr Hongrui Wang PhD is a data scientist with background of mathematics and statistics. He is a skilled software engineer. He is particularly interested in data management, visulization, analysis and modelling for healthcare and development of relevent tools. He has been instrumental in developing the data pipeline software for anonymising DICOM image data.
Yasmin Biston
Yasmin Biston is a final-year medical student at UoP. She is particularly interested in the application of machine learning and deep learning algorithms in diagnosing and treating head and neck cancer. Her medical elective in Kuala Lumpur played a crucial role in shaping this interest, as she observed how AI is utilised within healthcare systems to  enhance patient outcomes.
Stephen Mullin
Dr Stephen Mullin is Associate Professor of Neurology at UoP and Consultant Neurologist at UHPNT. Much of his research career has been spent predicting and stratifying risk of Parkinson’s disease using clinical and genomic biomarkers. His work now focuses on risk stratification and early diagnosis neurological diseases based on routinely collected data, including an UKRI MRC supported project which aims to stratify future risk of stroke. He is a member of the Health Research Authority Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) and the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Advisory Group. He is the UoP Faculty of Health lead for the group.
