NIHR Advanced Fellow/ Senior Clinical Lecturer
University of Manchester
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Meghna is an NIHR Clinician Scientist/ Advanced Fellow at the Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, University of Manchester and Consultant Rheumatologist at Salford Royal Hospital. She is an epidemiologist leading a programme of work on using digital data to assess opioid safety and utilisation to improve personalisation of care. Her research interests include addressing clinically important questions through pharmacoepidemiology, by utilising digital data via EHRs from both primary/ secondary care and other digital sources. Prior to her NIHR fellowship she was awarded a Presidential Fellowship for 2 years and held an NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship. Her PhD, funded by an MRC Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics fellowship, evaluated the effectiveness and safety of biologic drugs in rheumatic diseases using national observational datasets and registry data. She is the 2018 UK recipient of the Farr Institute (HDR UK)/ Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences Canadian Fellowship and the 2019 recipient of the British Society for Rheumatology Young Investigator Award.