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4 October 2022
Amitava Banerjee celebrated his promotion to professor at his inaugural lecture on 4th October 2022, watch below to discover the many strings to his bow.
20 April 2022
HDR UK impact award: Heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, but efforts to reduce cases have been hampered by its complex risk factors. Prof. Ami Banerjee pprovides the first systematic review of opportunities to prevent heart failure. Read the case study here and the link to the paper.
19 July 2021
Professor Ami Banerjee is leading the largest clinical trial on long COVID to date in a two year NIHR-funded consortium project, STIMULATE-ICP (Symptoms, trajectory, inequalities and management: understanding long COVID to address and transform existing integrated care pathways). Led by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) along side UCL, the study will recruit more than 4,500 people with the condition and test the effectiveness of existing drugs to treat long Covid by measuring the effects of three months’ treatment, including on people’s symptoms, mental health and outcomes such as returning to work. For more information see the Study website.
1 July 2021
Amitava Banerjee has been promoted to Professor of Clinical Data Science at UCL. Congratulations Ami!
1 April 2021
8 March 2021
This month we are delighted to welcome 3 new members to the team: Dr Anish Bhuva, NIHR Clinical Lecturer, and Dr Lydia Poole and Dr Mel Ramasawmy who join us as mixed-method research fellows.
15th January 2021
New paper (not peer-reviewed) on post-COVID syndrome (PCS), suggests that nearly 29.4% of people who were discharged from hospitals in England after being treated for Covid-19 were readmitted within five months, and 12.3% died.
Read: Guardian, SkyNews, Watch: BBC NEWS
8th January 2021
Ami Banerjee reflects that the strain on hospitals caused by Covid-19 affects all patients, and vaccine rollouts must be accompanied by effective testing and tracing to ensure that the virus can be suppressed in the longer term.
Read: i News, Listen: BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today Programme’ (from 2 hours 37 mins 5 secs)
November 2020
Ami Banerjee et al.'s new long COVID research (Preprint) is covered in the Guardian. Ami also appears in RTUK:
July 2020
Work has now begun on the new NIHR PRP Grant: Digital interventions for cardiometabolic disease in South Asians- a case study for opportunities, risks and inequalities in digital health.
June 2020
Health Data Research UK has announced Ami Banerjee and team as the 2020 winners of both 'Team of the Year', Covid-19 theme, and the 'Impact of the Year' with the research output, 'Model that estimates excess deaths from COVID-19', published in the Lancet.
May 2020
New paper published in the Lancet, Estimating excess 1-year mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic according to underlying conditions and age: a population-based cohort study
February 2020
Ami Banerjee discusses Bablyon Health on BBC Newsnight (~2min and 6min in): Digital Healthcare: Is it clinically effective?
