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Staff Profile

Kathryn Bush

Emerging Leader Clinical Fellow, Public Health Registrar, Neurologist.

Background

I currently hold an Epilepsy Research Institute UK Emerging Leader Fellowship Award and lead the RISE project which has the aim of Reducing InequalitieS in Epilepsy. This project is trying to understand the determinants of why people living in our most deprived and disadvantaged communities are more likely to develop epilepsy, and more likely to die early, or have poor outcomes. You can find out more about this project here or watch my YouTube video.


I am studying for a PhD examining socioeconomic health inequalities in people with epilepsy. My main interest is in using epidemiology and big data/ routinely collected data sets to examine and prevent inequalities in health, with a focus upon epilepsy and neurological diseases.


I am a medical doctor by background and am currently a Public Health Registrar training in the Northern Deanery (Health Education England North East). I previously trained as a Neurologist and completed my training in Newcastle in 2017. Between 2017-2018 I worked at the University of Edinburgh with UK Biobank data developing algorithms to identify people with neurological disease in routinely collected health data - my love of data and public health was born and I've never looked back!



Qualifications


Membership of the Faculty of Public Health (MFPH) (2023)


Diplomate Membership of the Faculty of Public Health (2022) 


Public Health MSc Degree with Merit (2021)


Certificate of Completion of Training Neurology (2017)


Speciality Certificate Examination in Neurology (2016)


Member of the Royal College of Physicians MRCP (2011)


Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne – MBBS Graduation with Merit (2006)



Professional Registration


General Medical Council


Faculty of Public Health



Previous Positions


NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (2021-2023)


Speciality Registrar Public Health (2019- present)


Clinical Research Fellow - Edinburgh University (2017-2018)


Speciality Registrar Neurology (2012-2017)


Expedition Medic Raleigh International Borneo (2010)


Foundation and General Medical Training (2006-2012)



Memberships


Faculty of Public Health


Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh


Association of British Neurologists


Society for Social Medicine


International League Against Epilepsy (British)



Publications