Top Researchers
Top Medicine Researchers at Durham University for 2026
At Durham University, recent work in Medicine spans community health, clinical research, mental health, and biomedical imaging. Looking across the last year, the publication record shows a broad mix of patient-facing studies, methods papers, and translational projects that connect laboratory insight with everyday care.
Below, you’ll find a snapshot of researchers whose recent output reflects that range, along with the topics and approaches shaping the university’s medical scholarship right now.
Featured Researchers
Salome A. Bukachi
Salome A. Bukachi’s recent work at Durham University connects public health, agronomy, and infectious diseases through studies on malaria perceptions, One Health, and mpox prevention.
Activity over the last year: 8 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Carolyn Summerbell
Carolyn Summerbell has focused on childhood obesity prevention, drawing on public health, pharmacy, and developmental psychology in studies of early-life interventions and food environments.
Activity over the last year: 9 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years old (Jun 2025)
- Factors associated with the effectiveness of interventions to prevent obesity in children: a synthesis of evidence from 204 randomised trials (Jan 2025)
- The impact of deprivation and neighbourhood food environments on home food environments, parental feeding practices, child eating behaviours, food preferences and BMI: The Family Food Experience Study-London (Jul 2025)
Janelle Wagnild
Janelle Wagnild’s recent publications span physiology, obstetrics and gynecology, and surgery, with attention to equitable health education, safety planning, and perioperative measurement.
Activity over the last year: 7 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Can public education campaigns equitably counter the use of substandard and falsified medical products in African countries? (Jan 2025)
- Health economic evaluation of Autism Adapted Safety Plans: findings on feasibility of tools from a pilot randomised controlled trial (Mar 2025)
- Use of accelerometry to measure the impact of remifentanil on sleep after mitral valve repair surgery (Jun 2025)
Charles Fernyhough
Charles Fernyhough’s work brings together psychiatry, philosophy, and developmental psychology through research on unusual sensory experiences, hallucinations, and altered perception.
Activity over the last year: 6 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Managing unusual sensory experiences in at-risk mental state for psychosis in England: A parallel group, single-blind, randomised controlled feasibility trial (May 2025)
- Cognitive-Developmental Mechanisms in Hallucinations (Oct 2025)
- Hearing voices and other altered perceptual experiences across psychotic, mood, and anxiety disorders: from phenomenology and mechanisms to future directions (Sep 2025)
Mark Stoutenberg
Mark Stoutenberg has been examining physical activity integration, community health worker training, and web-based health support for people managing hypertension.
Activity over the last year: 6 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Implementing and evaluating the comprehensive integration of physical activity into a major health system: study design and protocol (Jan 2025)
- Assessing the physical activity training needs and preferences of community health workers in South Africa (Jan 2025)
- Exploring the Acceptability of Web-Based Health Modalities in Individuals With Hypertension: Qualitative Study (Aug 2025)
Steven O’Reilly
Steven O’Reilly’s recent studies combine pathology, respiratory medicine, and molecular biology to probe systemic sclerosis, immune signaling, and tuberculosis-related complications.
Activity over the last year: 5 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Rahele Kafieh
Rahele Kafieh’s recent output links radiology, biomedical engineering, and ophthalmology, with studies on neuro-ophthalmic disease, glaucoma, and AI in dementia-related eye tracking.
Activity over the last year: 6 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Comorbidities Are Associated With Unfavorable Outcome in Aquaporin‐4 Antibody Positive Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders and Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody‐Associated Disease: Exploratory Study From the CROCTINO Cohort (Jun 2025)
- Association of myopia and parapapillary choroidal microvascular density in primary open-angle glaucoma (Feb 2025)
- Insights from the eyes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the intersection between eye-tracking and artificial intelligence in dementia (Feb 2025)
Prakash Kannan Loganathan
Prakash Kannan Loganathan’s work centers on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, and anesthesiology, including neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, lung ultrasound, and clinician experience in preterm care.
Activity over the last year: 4 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Direct antiglobulin test for the prediction of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia needing an intervention: a systematic review and diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis (Jan 2025)
- Serial lung ultrasound in predicting the need for surfactant and respiratory course in preterm infants—multicentre observational study (SLURP) (May 2025)
- From training to clinical practice: insights from a survey looking at clinician experiences during the ‘Serial Lung Ultrasound in predicting the need for surfactant and Respiratory course in Preterm infants’ (SLURP) study (Mar 2025)
What Durham University's Medicine Community Is Working On
The most common subfields point to a strong concentration in public health, alongside developmental and educational psychology, physiology, surgery, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine. That combination suggests an active research community working across prevention, behaviour change, clinical pathways, and patient outcomes, while also using diagnostic and implementation-focused methods to move findings closer to practice. Across these areas, Durham University researchers appear especially engaged with questions that connect population health to day-to-day care.- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Developmental and Educational Psychology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Physiology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Surgery - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
Taken together, these researchers show how Medicine at Durham University is being shaped by questions of prevention, diagnosis, care delivery, and lived experience. If you want to keep track of this kind of activity across your own field, Resub can help streamline citation discovery, manuscript formatting, and submission preparation so more time goes into the research itself.
Top researchers use tools to scale their productivity and impact. Try Livewrite for free today.