Virginia Newcombe

Dr Virginia Newcombe

BSc MB BS(Hons) MPhil PhD MRCP(UK) FRCEM FFICM

  • Position Governing Body Fellow
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Virginia is a Royal College of Emergency Medicine Professor and an academic consultant in Neurosciences, Trauma Critical Care, and Emergency Medicine at Addenbrooke鈥檚 Hospital

Virginia Newcombe

Virginia trained in medicine at the University of Queensland in Australia, where she was awarded the University Medal. She first came to 性视界传媒to complete a Masters in Epidemiology funded by a Commonwealth Scholarship and PhD in Neuroimaging and Traumatic Brain Injury funded by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She liked 性视界传媒so much that she stayed on as a Junior Research Fellow before becoming a Fellow.

Virginia holds an NIHR Advanced Fellowship and keen to ensure the translation of evidence into clinical practice she was a member of the NICE Head injury Guidelines Update and contributed to the UK Concussion Guidelines for Grassroots Sport.

Recognitions & achievements

  • Royal College of Emergency Medicine Associate Professor
  • NIHR Advanced Fellowship
  • Former Academy of Medical Sciences / The Health Foundation Clinician Scientist Fellow

Virginia鈥檚 current research focuses on the use of imaging (both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT)) to improve prognostication after traumatic brain injury (TBI). She also uses MRI as a biomarker to understand why patients may have different outcomes after brain injury and is particularly interested in the trajectories of recovery following patients from the acute phase to many years post-injury. Current projects also include helping to develop automatic lesion detection methods using artificial intelligence, understanding traumatic vascular injury, and relating neurocognitive outcomes to areas of damage seen on imaging. Passionate about improving outcomes after mild TBI she is currently co-designing an app with patients. Her projects encompass the entire spectrum of TBI, from mild to severe.
Much of her recent work has focused on the analysis of neuroimaging and blood biomarker data from CENTER-TBI (Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in Traumatic Brain Injury), which is a large observational TBI study with data collected from sites in 20 countries. The overall aim of CENTER-TBI is to better characterise TBI as a disease and identify the most effective clinical interventions for managing TBI.