Joanna Ashby
NHS Academic Medical Doctor
I am an NHS Academic Medical Doctor and University Clinical Research Fellow in Scotland, UK. Research interests are focused on responsible innovation and strengthening access to safe, timely and equitable surgical care. I have enjoyed working with startups and companies on healthcare delivery.
2026. NHS Scotland, Academic Foundation Programme.
2024. University of Glasgow, Medical Degree, MBChB.
2019. Harvard Medical School/ MIT. Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship, joint partnership with MIT D-Lab.
2015. St George’s University of London, Biomedical Sciences Honours degree.
Connect with me on Twitter, Google Scholar, Research Gate, and LinkedIn, or at joanna.ashby@nhs.scot. NHS Scotland Glasgow University Profile.
November, 2023
Optometrist to Operation: Patients’ Perspective on the Innovation Use of Quick Response (QR) code-linked patient information video on cataract surgery.
Dundee, UK
September, 2023
Advancing Global Neurotrauma Surveillance Through National Registries: a response to recent commentaries.
Boston, USA
June, 2023
Improving theatre efficiency for bilateral cataract operations in a high-flow hub.
Dundee, UK
March, 2022
The low utility of routine cranial imaging after pediatric shunt revision.
Boston, USA
February, 2022
International practice variation in perioperative laboratory testing in glioblastoma patients – a retrospective cohort study.
Boston, USA
December, 2021
Neurotrauma Surveillance in National Registries of Low- and Middle-Income countries: a scoping review and comparative analysis of data dictionaries.
Boston, USA
November, 2021
Leveraging data science for global surgery.
Boston, USA
January, 2021
Digital medical school: new paradigms for tomorrow’s surgical education.
Boston, USA & Kigali, Rwanda
September, 2020
Automating clinical chart review: an open-source national language processing pipeline developed on free-text radiology reports from patients with glioblastoma.
Boston, USA
May, 2020
How much is enough? Exploring the dose-response relationship between cash transfers and surgical utilization in a resource-poor setting.
Boston, USA & Conakry, West Africa
February, 2020
Surgathon: a new model for creating a surgical innovation ecosystem in low-resource settings.
Boston, USA & Kigali, Rwanda
December, 2019
Globalization of national surgical, obstetric and anaesthesia plans: the critical link between health policy and action in global surgery.
Boston, USA
November, 2019
Comprehensive policy recommendations for head and spine injury care in low- and middle-income countries.
Boston, USA
August, 2019
Quality of life in people with intraventricular haemorrhage: analysis of the CLEAR-III trial.
Glasgow, UK
July, 2019
Application of machine learning to prediction of surgical site infection.
Boston, USA
January, 2019
Glioma Surgery.
Cambridge, UK
December, 2018
Essential neurosurgical workforce needed to address neurotrauma in low- ad middle-income countries.
Boston, USA
November, 2018
Affordability of emergency head computed tomography for traumatic brain injury: policy review of patterns in provision of global neurotrauma care.
Boston, USA
November, 2018
Spindle cell oncocytoma of the adenohypophysis: a rare non-functional pituitary tumour masquerading as a macroadenoma.
Glasgow, UK
August, 2017
Awake craniotomies in intraoperative MRI: a prospective study of feasibility, safety, and surgical outcomes.
London, UK
August, 2017
Surgical excision of tumours affecting the left supplementary motor area: a prospective series of SMA syndrome incidence, features, and surgical outcomes.
London, UK
August, 2017
Operating on the inoperable: pushing the limits of tumour resection with awake, cortical and subcortical mapping.
London, UK
August, 2017
A new model of awake-awake-awake craniotomies for eloquent tumours: technique and outcomes of a prospective, consecutive series of 50 cases of patient perception data.
London, UK
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