Ms Melanie Almonte

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Research Postgraduate

Contact

Location

Sir Michael Uren HubWhite City Campus

Summary

I am a Clinical Project Manager in Digital Health with the Connected Care Hub established by Professor Nicholas Peters at the National Heart and Lung Institute and a Research Fellow funded by Imperial Health Charity and HEE/ICA NIHR Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF). I am also a Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholar building research collaborations with clinicians, research nurses and midwives in the UK, USA and Uganda.

I completed both an MSc in Epidemiology and a Professional Diploma in Tropical Nursing at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where I continue to teach on the PDTN.

I am interested in developing our understanding of the relationship between socioeconomic deprivation, the environment and their impact on maternal cardiovascular health and identifying ways to mitigate this impact.

With Dr Fréderic B. Piel and Professor Phillip Bennett, I investigated seasonal risk factors for preterm birth are affected by COVID-19 lockdowns and subsequently impact rates of premature birth in the UK and worldwide. I am continuing this work during the PCAF with Professors Paul Aylin and Phillip Bennett, with a focus on utilising digital health to improve maternal health outcomes.

Publications

Journals

Almonte M, Zakir R, Schulenburg E, 2021, Corrigendum: Long-term visual function in patients treated for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in the UK: Descriptive analysis of data from a prospective cohort born 1984–1999, Acta Ophthalmologica, Vol:99, ISSN:1395-3907, Pages:343-343

Denning M, Goh ET, Tan B, et al.Denning M, Goh ET, Tan B, Kanneganti A, Almonte M, Scott A, Martin G, Clarke J, Sounderajah V, Markar S, Przybylowicz J, Chan YH, Sia C-H, Chua YX, Sim K, Lim L, Tan L, Tan M, Sharma V, Ooi S, Beatty JW, Flott K, Mason S, Chidambaram S, Yalamanchili S, Zbikowska G, Fedorowski J, Dykowska G, Wells M, Purkayastha S, Kinross J close, 2021, Determinants of burnout and other aspects of psychological well-being in healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic: A multinational cross-sectional study, Plos One, Vol:16, ISSN:1932-6203, Pages:1-18

Vergis N, Phillips R, Cornelius V, et al.Vergis N, Phillips R, Cornelius V, Katsarou A, Youngstein T, Cook L, Willicombe M, Pilay C, Shturova T, Almonte M, Charania A, Turner R, Kon OM, Cooke G, Thursz M, Cherlin S, Wason J, Milojkovic D, Innes AJ, Cooper N close, 2021, Multi-arm Trial of Inflammatory Signal Inhibitors (MATIS) for hospitalised patients with mild or moderate COVID-19 pneumonia: a structured summary of a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial, Trials, Vol:22, ISSN:1745-6215

Conference

Wickramathilaka A, Kelshiker MA, Griffin J, et al.Wickramathilaka A, Kelshiker MA, Griffin J, Gandhi M, Petri CF, Almonte MT, Bachtiger P, Peters NS close, 2022, Reproducibility of use by physicians and patients of a smart stethoscope for artificial-intelligence enhanced diagnosis of heart failure, Scientific Sessions of the American-Heart-Association / Resuscitation Science Symposium, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Pages:1-3, ISSN:0009-7322

Charania AS, Vergis N, Phillips R, et al.Charania AS, Vergis N, Phillips R, Cornelius V, Katsarou A, Youngstein T, Cook L, Willicombe M, Pilay C, Shturova T, Almonte M, Charania A, Turner R, Kon OM, Cooke G, Thursz M, Cherlin S, Wason J, Milojkovic D, Innes AJ, Cooper N close, 2021, Multi-Arm Trial of Inflammatory Signal Inhibitors (MATIS) for hospitalised patients with mild or moderate Covid-19 pneumonia: a structured summary of a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial, 63rd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition, American Society of Hematology, Pages:4200-4200, ISSN:0006-4971

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