Enitan Carrol
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Liverpool

Enitan Carrol FRCPCH is a British physician and Professor of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology. Carrol studies the mechanisms that underpin bacterial infection. In 2020 she was featured in Nicola Rollock's exhibition Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors.

Early life and education

Carrol studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen.[1]

Research and career

In 2013 Carrol was made a Professor at the University of Liverpool.[2] Her research considers the biological mechanisms that underpin bacterial infections.[3][4] Carrol has investigated clinic deterioration of children, and looked to understand whether the use of a paediatric early warning score (PEWS) could be used to prevent admission to critical care.[5] In particular, she proposed the use of VitalPAC, an electronic handheld device that healthcare professionals can use to document vital signs and automatically calculate PEWS. Patients with a higher PEWS score require more urgent medical attention, and alert messages are sent to senior nurses and doctors.[5]

She is a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) sepsis development group.[6] As part of this work, Carrol has studied the use of antibiotics in treating sepsis.[7] She is interested in whether Procalcitonin (PCT) could be used to improve the assessment and treatment of sepsis.[7][8] In 2020 Carrol started to work with Imperial College London on the development of rapid diagnostic tests for severe illnesses through the use of gene signatures.[9] Such tests will study the genetic make-up of patient blood samples, and compare them to a comprehensive library of the gene signatures of particular diseases.[9]

Academic service

Carrol is the Knowledge Exchange Lead at the University of Liverpool Institute of Infection and Global Health.[10] As of February 2019, there were only 25 Black women professors in the United Kingdom.[11] She is a member of Iyiola Solanke's Black Female Professor Forum.[11] In 2020 her portrait was included in Nicola Rollock's exhibition, Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors.[12][13]

Publications

  • Davila, Sonia; Wright, Victoria J; Khor, Chiea Chuen; Sim, Kar Seng; Binder, Alexander; Breunis, Willemijn B; Inwald, David; Nadel, Simon; Betts, Helen; Carrol, Enitan D; de Groot, Ronald (2010). "Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the CFH region associated with host susceptibility to meningococcal disease". Nature Genetics. 42 (9): 772–776. doi:10.1038/ng.640. ISSN 1546-1718. PMID 20694013. S2CID 5946597.>
  • Weiss, Scott L.; Peters, Mark J.; Alhazzani, Waleed; Agus, Michael S. D.; Flori, Heidi R.; Inwald, David P.; Nadel, Simon; Schlapbach, Luregn J.; Tasker, Robert C.; Argent, Andrew C.; Brierley, Joe (2020-02-01). "Surviving sepsis campaign international guidelines for the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children". Intensive Care Medicine. 46 (1): 10–67. doi:10.1007/s00134-019-05878-6. ISSN 1432-1238. PMC 7095013. PMID 32030529.
  • Carrol, Enitan D.; Guiver, Malcolm; Nkhoma, Standwell; Mankhambo, Limangeni A.; Marsh, John; Balmer, Paul; Banda, Daniel L.; Jeffers, Graham; White, Sarah A.; Molyneux, Elizabeth M.; Molyneux, Malcolm E. (May 2007). "High Pneumococcal DNA Loads Are Associated With Mortality in Malawian Children With Invasive Pneumococcal Disease". The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 26 (5): 416–422. doi:10.1097/01.inf.0000260253.22994.61. ISSN 0891-3668. PMC 2810843. PMID 17468652.

References

  1. ↑ "Aberdeen graduation". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  2. ↑ "Enitan Carrol - University of Liverpool". www.liverpool.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  3. ↑ "Enitan D. Carrol". European Society for the Translational Medicine (EUSTM). Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  4. ↑ "Enitan Carrol - University of Liverpool". www.liverpool.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  5. 1 2 "DETECT study". Health Research Authority. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  6. ↑ Weiss, Scott L.; Peters, Mark J.; Alhazzani, Waleed; Agus, Michael S. D.; Flori, Heidi R.; Inwald, David P.; Nadel, Simon; Schlapbach, Luregn J.; Tasker, Robert C.; Argent, Andrew C.; Brierley, Joe (2020-02-01). "Executive summary: surviving sepsis campaign international guidelines for the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children". Intensive Care Medicine. 46 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1007/s00134-019-05877-7. ISSN 1432-1238. PMID 32030528. S2CID 211048766.
  7. 1 2 "£2m trial seeks to inform better use of antibiotics in sepsis". Liverpool Health Partners. 2019-11-11. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  8. ↑ "PRONTO". Cardiff University. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  9. 1 2 "Rapid test could diagnose serious conditions within two hours - University of Liverpool News". News. 2020-01-20. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  10. ↑ "Stories - Institute of Infection and Global Health - University of Liverpool". www.liverpool.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  11. 1 2 "We Urgently Need More Black Female Professors In UK Universities". British Vogue. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  12. ↑ "Britain's black female professors celebrated in new exhibition". University Business. 2020-03-09. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  13. ↑ "Portraits of Black Female Professors". BBC News. 2020-03-09. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
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