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Cappell Award

Photo of Daniel Fowler Cappell Founded in 1967 by Daniel Fowler Cappell, Professor of Pathology 1945-67. The award was established for the best dissertation giving evidence of independent study or research submitted by a student reading for the degree of MB ChB. From 2013, to be awarded to the Year 5 MB ChB student who has published the best peer-reviewed research paper, as determined by the MB5 Viva Panel.

2018 - 2019 Winners

Nadia Capaldi	Feasibility of Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry Based Images for Measurement of Height, Sitting Height, and Leg Length in Children
Guy Chadwick	Could the named person scheme have a role in addressing mental health problems in vulnerable children?
Ming Yao Chong	The Prevalence of Cerebrovascular Abnormalities Detected in Various Diagnostic Subgroups of Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in the Modern Era
Reveka Nagyova	The clinical utility of ambulatory EEG in childhood
Luke Yi Hao Tan	Hemiepiphysiodesis is a potentially effective surgical management for skeletally immature patients with patellofemoral instability associated with isolated genu valgum
Elliot Tilling	Do clinicians overestimate the severity of intracerebral hemorrhage?

2017 - 2018 Winners

Rachael Nixon	Prevalence of endocrine and genetic abnormalities in boys evaluated systematically for a disorder of sex development
Anton Queen	Multimorbidity, disadvantage, and patient engagement within a specialist homeless health service in the UK: an in-depth study of general practice data
Sarjit Singh	Validating and comparing stroke prognosis scales
Shu Yew	Coronary Thermodilution Waveforms After Acute Reperfused ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Relation to Microvascular Obstruction and Prognosis

2016 - 2017 Winners

Peter Moffitt	Thromboprophylaxis in atrial fibrillation and association with cognitive decline: systematic review Cognitive Impairment and Heart Failure: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Kelvin Cheng Kah Wai	The relationship between oestrogen receptor-alpha phosphorylation and the tumour microenvironment in patients with primary operable ductal breast cancer Multicentre prospective cohort study of body mass index and postoperative complications following gastrointestinal surgery
Jaclyn Carberry	Remote zone extracellular volume and left ventricular remodelling in survivors of ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Risk assessment in patients with an acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction Diagnostic Accuracy of 3.0-T Magnetic Resonance T1 and T2 Mapping and T2-Weighted Dark-Blood Imaging for the Infarct-Related Coronary Artery in Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Comparative Prognostic Utility of Indexes of Microvascular Function Alone or in Combination in Patients With an Acute ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Temporal evolution of myocardial haemorrhage and oedema in patients after acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: pathophysiological insights and clinical implications
Andrew Connelly	Measurement of troponin in cardiomyopathies Health impact of catch-up growth in low-birth weight infants: systematic review, evidence appraisal, and meta-analysis. Impact of adherence to WHO infant feeding recommendations on later risk of obesity and non-communicable diseases: systematic review.
Angela Boal	Monotherapy With Major Antihypertensive Drug Classes and Risk of Hospital Admissions for Mood Disorders
Prasanna Partha Sarathy	Factors associated with spontaneous clearance of chronic hepatitis C virus infection
Christina Mackaill	Evaluation of the Performance of External Chest Compressions During Hypogravity Simulation

2015 - 2016 Winners

Euan Allan	Aneusomy detected by fluorescence in-situ hybridization has high positive predictive value for Barrett’s dysplasia
Catherine Beattie	Allopurinol Initiation and Change in Blood Pressure in Older Adults With Hypertension
Kieran Heil	The epidemiology, morbidity and outcome of fractures in rugby union from a standard population Freezing and Non-Freezing Cold-Weather Injuries: A systematic review A Review on the Management of Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis Press Fit Condylar Cobalt Chrome Sigma Total Knee Arthroplasty: Performs as well as PFC sigma at five years British Military Freezing Cold Injuries: A Thirteen Year Review Athletic altitude training protocols and their application in preparation for mountainous operations Femoral Acetabular Impingement: the sex and age linked distribution of alpha angles in 146 patient of service age without pre-existing osteoarthritic or other hip pathology Firearms, ballistics and gun-shot wounds
Kerrick Hesse	Expanded criteria donor and donation after circulatory death renal allografts in the west of Scotland: Their place in the kidney allocation process Characteristic Adverse Events and Their Incidence Among Patients Participating in Acute Ischemic Stroke Trials Online Tool to Improve Stratification of Adverse Events in Stroke Clinical Trials
John McMaster	Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the intensive care unit: its effect on outcome and risk factors for acquisition
Jason Woodier	Intracellular Zinc Modulates Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor-mediated Calcium Release.

2014 - 2015 Winners

Donald McVinnie	Obesity and pain
Philip Emerson	The utility of scoring systems in critically ill cirrhotic patients admitted to a general intensive care unit
Venla Kantola	Endonasal, transmaxillary, transpterygoid approach to the foramen ovale: radio-anatomical study of surgical feasibility
Jessie Ruijun Wang	Nanotopology potentiates growth hormone signalling and osteogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells
Jessie Ruijun Wang	An update on diabetes related skeletal fragility
Jennifer Dunn (nee Herd)	Intraoperative cell salvage in revision hip surgery

2013 - 2014 Winners

Fraser Goldie	Intracluster correlation coefficients and reliability of randomized multicenter stroke trials within VISTA Interdependence of stroke outcome scales Exploration of time-course combinations of outcome scales for use in a global test of stroke recovery
Roya Hassanzadeh	Subcutaneous methotrexate to cut costs? Targeted Screening for Latent TB Infection prior to Biologic Therapy to Improve Patient Safety and reduce costs Neuromodulation for Intractable Headaches
Robert Scott	Displacement of mandibular fractures: is there a correlation with sensory loss and recovery?
Jamel Tahar Aissa	Healing of laser-induced tympanic membrane perforations in rats Acute Tympanic Membrane perforations and the early immunological response in rats
Catherine Williamson	Family history of premature cardiovascular disease Serum Chloride is an independent predictor of mortality in hypertensive patients Chocolate consumption and risk of stroke: A prospective cohort of men and meta-analysis Dietary recommendations and iodine awareness among mothers in the UK Dietary iodine: awareness, knowledge and current practice among midwives

2012 - 2013 Winners

Nadeem Ahmed	Heart, Lung and Circulation: The role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI)
Roslyn Burns	Hypoxaemia in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension during simulated air travel
Chris Cadman	Radiological Imaging and Intervention in Venous Thrombosis Rep provides a second motor at the Replisome to Promote Duplication of Protein-Bound DNA
Daniel Kerr	Response of Blood Pressure and Blood Glucose to Treatment with Recombinant Tissue-Plasminogen Activator in Acute Ischaemic Stroke: Evidence From the Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive Seven-Day NIHSS is a Sensitive Outcome Measure for Exploratory Clinical Trials in Acute Stroke: Evidence from the Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive
Hannah Lavelle	Systematic review and meta-analysis of school-based interventions to reduce body mass index

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