Dan is an emergency medicine doctor and a Medical Research Council UK Clinical Research Training Fellow.

Training

I graduated in Medicine from Newcastle University in the UK and received an Masters in Public Health from Manchester University. In 2014 I moved to Sierra Leone as part of the response to the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak. I have lived and worked there since, contributing to establishing postgraduate medical education, development of pre-hospital and hospital emergency care and stroke service development. In 2020, I began a PhD on the Impact of Stroke in Sierra Leone: stroke register methodology in a low-income country setting, with King’s College London and submitted in June 2024.

Research Areas

I am interested in:

• Stroke and health-related quality of life outcome measurement translation and validation.
• Development of population based stroke register methods in Africa.
• Access to neuroimaging and stroke of unknown type
• Economic evaluations of stroke services
• Development of equitable stroke services in Africa.
• Causal inference methods

Professional

I am a stroke research fellow at King’s College London and hold an honorary position with the University of Cape Town Neuroscience Institute. I am a member of the African Stroke Organization and delighted to be joining the WSO Future Stroke Leaders Programme. Outside of stroke, I am also interested in outbreak response and deploy with the World Health Organization to viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks.

Private

I have two brilliant daughters, Senaya and Naledi, who do their best to interrupt my zoom calls- so my apologies in advance. In my free time I enjoy open water swimming, surfing and reading fiction.