Rosie VINCENT
December 2021: publications
- Frequency of guideline-defined cow’s milk allergy symptoms in infants: Secondary analysis of EAT trial data
Rosie Vincent 1 2 , Stephanie J MacNeill 3 , Tom Marrs 4 5 , Joanna Craven 6 , Kirsty Logan 7 , Carsten Flohr 8 , Gideon Lack 9 10 11, Suzana Radulovic 4 5 , Michael R Perkin 12 , Matthew J Ridd 1 13
- Guidance on cow’s milk allergy may be fuelling overdiagnosis in infants, study finds
BMJ 2021; 375 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n3037 (Published 08 December 2021)
Cite this as: BMJ 2021;375:n3037
November 2020: update
I am very grateful for the fantastic opportunity the ISAD Research Fellowship has given me. I have developed my knowledge of clinical research including in statistical methods, and have had the chance to build my leadership and teamworking skills while working with my co-investigators and my supervisor, Dr Matthew Ridd. My project is based in the Centre of Academic Primary Care, Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol. I delayed my start date to complete my Core Medical Training and to help with the NHS response in the first wave of the pandemic. Due to COVID-19 we embraced working from home and all meetings have been virtual. My project title is ‘An Assessment of the Guidance for Cow’s Milk Allergy Diagnosis in Infants’, which is a retrospective review of the data from the 2016 ‘Enquiring About Tolerance’ (EAT) study. I plan to finish this next month. Challenges I have faced during the project include working with very large data set and reaching consensus expert opinion on the best matches for each item of the diagnostic guidance, when compared to the EAT study data. This was needed in order to dichotomise the variables. I plan to utilise and build on my new skills in further research projects and ultimately go on to complete a PhD, as this opportunity has confirmed that I am going to pursue an academic career in Dermatology.
February 2020
While working at the University of Bristol NHS Foundation Trust as a Core Medical Trainee I have been researching the uptake of core outcome measures in treatment trials for Atopic Dermatitis (AD).
I am interested in AD because it is highly prevalent in our population and it can have a considerable impact on patient quality of life. There is uncertainty regarding the symptoms of Cow’s Milk Allergy (CMA) in children with AD.
I want to conduct a diagnostic-accuracy study to improve the diagnosis and treatment of CMA in infants, using large data sets which will be hosted by the University of Bristol, UK. Being accepted for the fantastic ISAD research fellowship has allowed my project to happen, and I am very excited to start it this year.