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Staff Profile

Dr Carlos Echevarria

Associate Clinical Researcher

Background

I have a major interest in COPD and Cystic Fibrosis.

My recent research has focussed on the prediction of important clinical outcome in patients hospitalised with exacerbation of COPD.

I am a member of DECODE-NET, an international group who aim to better understand COPD exacerbation.

Research

My main research work is in the area of COPD exacerbation, and include the validation and implementation of the DECAF score (Published on Thorax in 2016 and 2018 respectively), and the development and validation of the PEARL score (Thorax 2017). I have also published in the areas of the harms of excess oxygen (Emergency Medicine Journal, 2020) and the use of the NEWS2 score in COPD exacerbation (Thorax 2019).


Collaborators

Prof. Stephen Bourke, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Newcastle University

Prof. John SImpson, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Newcastle University

Prof. G. John Gibson, Emeritus Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Newcastle University

Dr Richard Harrison, Consultant physician, University Hospital of North Tees.

Dr Meme Wijesinghe, Consultant physician, Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust.

Dr Chris Stenton, Consultant physician, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust

Karen Heslop-Marshall, Nurse Consultant, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust


Teaching
I am involved in the organisation and delivery of teaching to 5th year undergraduate medical students from Newcastle University.
Publications