Dr Gillian Lowe MA MB BChir MRCP FRCPath PhD

• November 2015 - PhD, University of Birmingham
• April 2013 -  Associate of the Higher Education Academy (following completion of Foundation of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education), Higher Education Academy
• May 2010 - FRCPath (Haematology), Royal College of Pathologists
• July 2006 - Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK)
• December 2002  - MB BChir - Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
• June 2000 - BA (Hons) in Physiology - Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

Dr Gill Lowe trained in Cambridge and then worked in Newcastle and Manchester as a junior doctor before taking up a haematology specialist training post in Birmingham in 2006. During her training she completed a Wellcome Trust Funded PhD under the supervision of Professor Steve Watson and Dr Will Lester. Her PhD looked at patients with inherited platelet disorders and aimed to examine ways of better diagnosing these rare conditions.

Her current post is Consultant in Haemostasis and Thrombosis at University Hospital Birmingham.  She is a full time NHS clinician with a keen interest in integrating clinical research in to everyday NHS practice. She is the co-lead for haematology research for the West Midlands Clinical Research Network, and was a recipient of the BSH-NIHR researcher of the year award in 2018.

She enjoys teaching and has been part of the organising committee for numerous national and international training events. She was part of the formulation of HaemSTAR, the haematology trainee research network, and continues to support this group.

She works closely with the Birmingham Platelet Group in their ongoing research studies and has co-supervised medical and biomedical science students within the group.

• Lead for 3^rd year medical student haematology programme
• Lectures to various year groups on MBChB programme
• Provides SCE and PIP placements to medical students
• Examiner for poster presentations and 3^rd year exams
• At postgraduate level coordinates regional haemostasis teaching for FRCPath and is a FRCPath examiner.

PhD title

Phenotyping and genotyping of platelet defects in patient populations enriched in bleeding.

• Chair of the Haematology NIHR specialty group
• Deputy Clinical Director of Research for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
• Trustee, Platelet Society
• Executive Committee Member, ITP forum
• Member, NIHR Health Technology Appraisal Committee
• Member of the British Society for Haematology and British Society for Haemostasis and Thrombosis