Emma Hedley
Senior Trial Manager
I have been a member of ORTU for over 20 years. My role as a Senior Trial Manager involves managing and overseeing the conduct of studies/trials within our portfolio. This includes, CTIMPs, randomised controlled trials, device and single centre studies.
As part of my role, I oversee and mentor other members of the team, including two Assistant Trial Managers and a Clinical Trials Assistant. I am also involved in costing new grant applications for ORTU.
Recent publications
Optimising antibiotic ‘review and revise’ in acute/general medical inpatients: the Antibiotic Review Kit in Hospitals (ARK-Hospital) research programme including a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial
Journal article
Llewelyn MJ. et al, (2026), Programme Grants for Applied Research, 1 - 82
Vibrotactile positional therapy for the treatment of positional obstructive sleep apnoea: a multicentre, randomised controlled trial
Journal article
Kelly JL. et al, (2026), Thorax, 81, 370 - 379
Time to next procedure in patients with malignant pleural effusion undergoing aspiration: derivation and initial validation of the RED score
Journal article
Mishra EK. et al, (2026), Thorax
Electron counting detectors in scanning transmission electron microscopy via hardware signal processing
Journal article
Peters JJP. et al, (2023), Nature Communications, 14
The randomised thoracoscopic talc poudrage+indwelling pleural catheters versus thoracoscopic talc poudrage only in malignant pleural effusion trial (TACTIC): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Journal article
Dipper A. et al, (2023), BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 10, e001682 - e001682
