The DREaMED Study Team

Chief Investigators

Professor Peter Watkinson

Peter is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine and NHS consultant in intensive care at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He leads the Critical Care Research Group based at the Kadoorie Centre for Critical Care Research & Education at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. His research interests focus on the identification of the deteriorating patient in hospital and he has designed and run a number of studies in the field of wearable monitoring devices. Using data collected from thousands of patients' vital signs in Oxford and elsewhere his multi-disciplinary team investigates ways to locate patterns which precede and predict clinical deterioration in hospitalised patients.

Professor Marian Knight

Marian is Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health. She trained initially in obstetrics and neonatology, completing a DPhil investigating the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia, before becoming interested in epidemiology and population health. She therefore undertook specialty training in public health, becoming a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 2006. She is an Honorary Consultant in Public Health with Public Health England. Her work focuses on using national observational studies to address clinical questions concerning rare and severe complications of pregnancy and early life. She also leads the MBRRACE-UK national confidential enquiries into maternal morbidity and mortality. In February 2012, Marian was awarded one of the first NIHR Research Professorships to develop further her work relating to maternal morbidity and care of infants requiring early surgery. Her publication profile is available on ResearcherID.