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Centre for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

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Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Laila Khawaja PhD

Research Fellow

Dr Alexandra Kermack

Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics&Gyny

Emeritus Professor Caroline Fall MBChB, DM, FRCP, FRCPCH

Research interests

  • Maternal nutrition in pregnancy
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Long-term effects of fetal nutrition on health and chronic disease, especially type 2 diabetes

Email: chdf@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD (View in Google Maps)

Professor Cyrus Cooper

Prof Rheumatology Clinical Epidemiology

Research interests

  • Key research contributions have been:
  • discovery of the developmental influences which contribute to the risk of osteoporosis and hip fracture in late adulthood
  • demonstration that maternal vitamin D insufficiency is associated with sub-optimal bone mineral accrual in childhood

Email: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD (View in Google Maps)

Dr Danielle Schoenaker BSc, MSc, FHEA, PhD

Research interests

  • Preconception health
  • Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
  • Maternal, paternal and child health

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: d.schoenaker@soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD (View in Google Maps)

Miss Donna Lovelock

Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • Adolescent Health
  • Health Literacy
  • Behaviour Change

Email: d.m.lovelock@soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD (View in Google Maps)

Dr Dr Michelle Fernandes

Clinical Lecturer in Child Health

Research interests

  • Understanding the interplay between factors affecting brain development during the first 1000 days of life
  • Developing tools to better measure neurodevelopmental outcomes in young children
  • Evaluating scalable, family-centred interventions to promote/rescue development in young children

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: m.c.fernandes@soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD (View in Google Maps)

Professor Elaine Dennison

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • The epidemiology of musculoskeletal disease, particularly those conditions common in later life (osteoporosis and osteoarthritis)

Email: emd@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD (View in Google Maps)

Ms Faidra Laskou

NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology

Dr Felino Cagampang PhD

Associate Professor

Email: f.cagampang@soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD (View in Google Maps)

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