PROFESSOR Matt Reed 

 MA MB BChir MRCS FCEM MD 

Matt is Professor of Emergency Medicine at Edinburgh University, UK and Consultant and NRS Fellow at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He is Chair of the UK RCEM Research Committee and Research Director of EMERGE.

Matt’s research work currently focuses broadly on challenging areas of acute care such as syncope, palpitations, and aortic dissection as well as the innovative use of novel technology.

Previously, Matt has led research on the prediction of clinical deterioration in the ED, point of care ultrasound, cardiac arrest, organ donation, recreational drug overdose, biomarkers, head injury, trauma and emergency blood transfusion.

Matt has published over 130 papers and has personally been awarded over £8.5 million in research grants. When not a work, Matt is a below average runner, a passable golfer, and an undistinguished cellist in The Really Terrible Orchestra.

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS (140; total citations 11/24: 7052; H index 33; i10-index 66)

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=tX-_vxAAAAAJ&hl=en)

CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS

1.     Diagnostic Algorithms for VTE in Emergency Care (DAVE); RCEM £8,974; Co-App (CI Ben Clarke; TERN)

2.     AORTA-AI: Rapid Acute Aortic Syndrome Diagnosis using Artificial Intelligence (Sep 2023); £16,101; Co-Applicant (CI Jim Zhong)

3.     Repurposing flumazenil for pre-hospital intramuscular treatment of coma due to recreational drug overdose; 01 October 2023 (54 months). DPFS MRC Biomedical Catalyst Reference: MR/X030237/1; £2,853,402. Co-Applicant (CI Professor Michael Eddleston)ASES (Aortic Syndrome Evidence Synthesis): HTA 21/555 Health Technology Assessment Programme Researcher-led (evidence synthesis): Diagnostic strategies for suspected acute aortic syndrome (AAS): Evidence synthesis and value of information analysis; £209,020 01/11/2022 to: 31/10/2023 (12 months) Co-Applicant (CI S Goodacre); https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR151853

4.     BHF Project Grant PG/21/10805. Qualitative study to explore the acceptability of an accelerated syncope strategy to patients and staff involved in the ASPIRED trial. Chief Investigator £22,004.11

5.     BHF Clinical Study; £1,303,649.37. A multi-centre open label randomised controlled trial of a 14-day ambulatory ECG patch monitor versus standard care in emergency department unexplained syncope patients: The ASPIRED study. Chief Investigator, January 2021

6.     NIHR HTA: DENS Study: NIHR131118 DENS RCT: Duration of External Neck Stabilisation following odontoid fracture in older or frail adults: a randomised controlled trial of collar versus no collar. Call: 19/82 Conservative management of odontoid fracture in the elderly: to immobilise or not? £2,014,760, Co-applicant (CI P Brennon), December 2020

7.     Wellcome Trust ISSF3. Multimorbidity and Emergency Healthcare Provision: Improving Care through Data Driven Innovation (£39,056), Co-applicant (CI Nazir Lone), January 2020

8.     DTP Precision Medicine. Delirium as an acute brain injury in hospital inpatients: can clinical features and biomarkers predict outcomes? (£45,027). Co-applicant (CI MacLullich AMJ), January 2020