Fiona Moultrie
MBChB (Hons) BMedSci MRCPCH
DPhil Student
- Clinical Doctoral Fellow
- Paediatric Specialist Trainee
Biography
Fiona completed her medical degree at the University of Edinburgh with an intercalated BMedSci in Neuroscience. She moved to Oxford to work as a clinical doctor on the Academic Foundation programme, during which she began working with Prof Rebeccah Slater. Fiona was awarded an Academic Clinical Fellowship in Paediatrics to continue studying the development of noxious-evoked brain activity using EEG. In 2015, she was awarded funding from the Wellcome Trust and NIHR BRC Oxford to undertake a DPhil in Biomedical and Clinical Sciences investigating pain processing in the developing brain using EEG and functional MRI.
Research
The aim of her research is to understand how maturational changes in structural and functional connectivity shape the development of noxious-evoked brain activity underlying pain perception in early life.
In the long-term, Fiona aims to translate advances in our mechanistic understanding of pain processing in early life to improve pain management in neonatal care and identify safe, evidence-based analgesics.
Colleges
Research groups
Recent publications
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A universal right to pain relief: balancing the risks in a vulnerable patient population.
Journal article
Moultrie F. et al, (2018), Lancet child adolesc health
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The influence of the descending pain modulatory system on infant pain-related brain activity.
Journal article
Goksan S. et al, (2018), Elife, 7
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Improving the treatment of infant pain.
Journal article
Moultrie F. et al, (2017), Curr opin support palliat care, 11, 112 - 117
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A blinded randomised placebo-controlled trial investigating the efficacy of morphine analgesia for procedural pain in infants: Trial protocol.
Journal article
Slater R. et al, (2016), Wellcome open res, 1
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Changing Balance of Spinal Cord Excitability and Nociceptive Brain Activity in Early Human Development.
Journal article
Hartley C. et al, (2016), Curr biol, 26, 1998 - 2002