Dr Rachel Chappell

Southampton Emerging Therapies and Technology (SETT) Center Manager

Improving care

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Following a PhD in chemistry Rachel worked in the IT industry for 10 years before joining the NHS where she has now spent 20 years working across many areas.

From 2015 Rachel spent 6 years with the NHS England Clinical Network promoting quality improvement in the dementia care pathway across the South East of England. Rachel is now working with the SETT Centre which aims to catalyse research in emerging therapies, Medical technology and Data & AI. These areas have been identified as areas with vanguard potential for clinical service development and substantial growth opportunity.

Alongside this Rachel has worked with research teams across the University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton bringing programme management support to link research and innovation through to implementation and quality improvement. Her recent work has focussed on the development of digital platforms for people with long term neurological conditions and health economic analysis of neurological pathways.

research projects:

Impact Inventory development for neurological pathways

Implementing My Medical Record for neurology

the neuroLTC team

Dr Patricia Fuller

Research Fellow

Patricia is a Research Fellow within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton.

She is currently working on the Optimising Outpatients project.

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Dr Rachel Chappell

Southampton Emerging Therapies and Technology (SETT) Center Manager

Following a PhD in chemistry Rachel worked in the IT industry for 10 years before joining the NHS where she has now spent 20 years working across many areas. From […]

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Dr Dave Evenden

Visiting Research Fellow

Dave is a visiting research fellow at the University of Southampton. Previously Dave was a Chartered Engineer in contract R&D, working with high-tech communications systems and medical electronics for over 30 years. Embarking on a […]

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Dr Sofia Michopoulou

Medical Physics Expert

Sofia is a medical physics expert (MPE) for nuclear medicine and an NIHR clinical lecturer. She supports the nuclear medicine, SPECT/CT and PET/CT services at UHS and leads the introduction […]

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Dr Angus Prosser

Senior Research Fellow

Angus is a Senior Research Fellow within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton and Innovation Project Manager for the Southampton Emerging Therapies and Technologies (SETT) Centre. Angus’s […]

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Dr Sarah Fearn

Senior Research Fellow

Sarah joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton as a Senior Research Fellow in 2016 and has extensive experience carrying out research into care for people with […]

Dr John Spreadbury

Senior Research Fellow

John is a senior research fellow within the NIHR ARC Wessex, Ageing and Dementia Theme, based in the Faculty of Medicine at University Hospital Southampton. John’s research interests include digital health […]

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Professor Chris Kipps

Consultant Neurologist

Chris is a Consultant Neurologist with subspecialty interest in behavioural neurology and cognitive disorders, and Professor of Clinical Neurology and Dementia at University Hospital Southampton and the University of Southampton. […]