Victoria is an academic geriatrician working at both the University of Plymouth and University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust.  Her research expertise is in cerebral haemodynamics, specifically cerebral autoregulation, vasomotor reactivity, and neurovascular coupling, in healthy ageing and neurodegenerative diseases.  Victoria has broader research interests and expertise in Parkinson’s disease, blood pressure, frailty, and vascular disease.

 

Victoria is the lead for the NIHR Clinical Academic Training Programme in Plymouth.

 

Her current grants include awards from the NIHR HTA programme and Parkinson’s UK.  

 

Victoria was previously a regional lead for the NIHR Ageing National Specialty group, and has extensive experience as a PI.  She co-leads the Parkinson's clinical trials portfolio at University Hospitals Plymouth and sits on several national data monitoring and trial steering committees.  

 

Clinically at UHP, she undertakes specialist clinical activity within the Parkinson's service and on the frailty SDEC unit.

 

I am the lead for the NIHR Clinical Academic Training Programme in Plymouth.