Welcome to Plymouth Interventional Radiology Research

Our research unit conducts high quality research studies in the field of interventional radiology/image-guided surgery. We work with local and national stakeholders, and have received numbers grants to support our work.

Team Members

Dr Paul Jenkins

Consultant Interventional Radiologist and South West Imaging Training Academy Research Lead

Dr Deevia Kotecha

Honorary Research Fellow at the South West Imaging Training Academy, RCR Kodak Fellow and IR Registrar at Royal Preston Hospital. MAGIC Embo project lead

Dr Frederick Philbrook

IR PPI Group Chair

Dr Blair Graham

Radiology Registrar, South West Imaging Training Academy, Delphi prioritisation project lead.

Mr Archie Morozow

PERT Team Co-ordinator

Our Active Projects

TI-PE: Thrombectomy in Pulmonary Embolism

Registry of patients referred to PE Response teams with intermediate risk PE or greater and evidence of cardiac dysfunction. Sub group analysis of Patients with Computer Aided Vacuum Thrombectomy

Prioritisation of Vascular IR Research

Delphi consensus study to prioritise research within the field of vascular Interventional radiology

Recruiting studies

At Plymouth, as well as running a number of our own studies we recruit to a wide variety of other studies.

Interventional Radiology PPI Collaborative

We run a Patient Participation Initiative (PPI) Collaborative through which we can offer lay insights into proposed service provision and research projects, including high budget NIHR grant proposals. We meet periodically and consider applications nationally in addition to our work locally.

MAGIC - Embo

This study aims to analyse the current practice of emergency embolisation for lower tract GI bleeding

Plymouth IR Research