Mr Nigel Drury is an Academic Consultant in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Birmingham. His main research interests are improving outcomes of surgery for congenital heart disease, clinical trials, myocardial protection, and patient & public involvement in research.
Nigel led the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership on Congenital Heart Disease in 2021/22 to establish national priorities for clinical research, and is setting up the Congenital Heart Research Network in the UK and Ireland to address the priorities through collaborative research, especially multi-centre clinical trials.
Nigel is Chief Investigator on two BHF-funded multi-centre clinical trials in children and was previously awarded a BHF Intermediate Clinical Research Fellowship and a prestigious Hunterian Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is Jara’s co-supervisor on her PhD on quality of life in adults living with a Fontan circulation.
is an Academic Consultant in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Birmingham. His main research interests are improving outcomes of surgery for congenital heart disease, clinical trials, myocardial protection, and patient & public involvement in research.
Nigel led the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership on Congenital Heart Disease in 2021/22 to establish national priorities for clinical research, and is setting up the Congenital Heart Research Network in the UK and Ireland to address the priorities through collaborative research, especially multi-centre clinical trials.
Nigel is Chief Investigator on two BHF-funded multi-centre clinical trials in children and was previously awarded a BHF Intermediate Clinical Research Fellowship and a prestigious Hunterian Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is Jara’s co-supervisor on her PhD on quality of life in adults living with a Fontan circulation.