Professor Amaka Offiah
BSc, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR, PhD, FRCPCH
Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health
Profeesion of Paediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging
+44 114 271 7557
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Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health
Room 3, The Damer Street Building
91直播 Children's Hospital
Western Bank
91直播
S10 2TH
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For enquiries please contact - SMPH-West-Operational@sheffield.ac.uk
My undergraduate training took place in Nigeria.
I obtained my MRCP while working at Oldchurch Hospital, Essex and then trained as a radiologist in 91直播. I moved back to London, to Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health, where I obtained a PhD for my thesis, 鈥淥ptimisation of the digital radiographic imaging of suspected non-accidental injury鈥.
I returned to 91直播 as a HEFCE-funded Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Academic Unit of Child Health, was promoted to Reader in Paediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging in January 2015 and promoted to Chair in Paediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging in January 2020.
- Research interests
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I am interested in the imaging of suspected child abuse and skeletal dysplasias and in methods of determining which children have fragile bones prone to fracture and which do not.
More specifically, I am concentrating on the optimisation of current techniques and development of novel methods of distinguishing brittle from normal bones, in understanding the mechanisms of accidental injury in children, in developing objective imaging biomarkers and normative data for the paediatric musculoskeletal system including post-mortem imaging and in diagnosing fractures in the Emergency Department.
Current projects
- Validation of Injury Mechanisms using Engineering Simulations (VOICES)
- Applications of artificial intelligence to the paediatric musculoskeletal system
- dynamic Radiological Electronic Atlas of Malformation Syndromes (dREAMS)
- Clever dREAMS
- Vertebral morphology/vertebral fracture assessment
- ELECtronic tool for Clinicians, Teachers and Researchers In Child Abuse (ELECTRICA)
- Assessment of bone health in children
- Optimisation of fracture detection in suspected physical abuse in children
- Developing vibration analysis as a screening tool for
- Fractures following injury to wrist or ankle
- Reduced bone density
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Current Academic Collaborators
- Owen Arthurs
- Nick Bishop
- Nicola Crabtree
- Enrico Dall'Ara
- Paul Dimitri
- Xinshan Li
- Maria Luisa Davila Garcia
- Fabrizio Messina
- Michael Paddock
- Margaret Paggiosi
- Alan Rigby
- Reza Saatchi
- Jonathan Taylor
- Maria-Cruz Villa-Uriol
- Elspeth Whitby
Current Clinical Collaborators
- Utku Alhun
- Paul Arundel
- Penny Broadley
- Moira Cheung
- Marta Cohen
- Dan Connolly
- Kath Halliday
- Christine Hall
- Nathan Jenko
- Gillian Klafkowski
- Isla Lang
- Ann Marie Jeanes
- Nicolas Nicolaou
- Ashok Raghavan
- Maria Sukhanenko
Current Industrial Collaborators
- Certus Tech Ltd
PhD Students
- Arwa Alhulwah
- Nasser Alzahrani
- Mohamed Hafez
- Mohamed Hassan
- Farirayi Nyakoko
- Heba Shalof
- Teaching activities
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I contribute to the teaching of medical students and radiology specialist registrars on rotation at 91直播 Children鈥檚 Hospital.
I offer SSC and BMedSci attachments to medical students and currently supervise/co-supervise 6 PhD students, having successfully supervised/co-supervised 11. I have given a large number of invited national (over 100) and international (over 60) lectures on various radiology, paediatric, genetic, emergency medicine and orthopaedic courses.
I am an instructor on the biannual Instructional Course organised by the Skeletal Dysplasia Group for Teaching and Research and helped to develop and then taught on the inaugural national skeletal dysplasia course held in Bangalore, India in August 2010.
I organise an annual 2-day paediatric radiology course for the general radiologist. I have contributed chapters to 13 well-respected radiology and histopathology textbooks, and am co-author of three books, 鈥淎 Radiological Atlas of Child Abuse鈥, 鈥淔etal and Perinatal Skeletal Dysplasias: An Atlas of Multimodality Imaging鈥 and 鈥淧aediatric Radiology Rapid Reporting for FRCR Part 2B鈥.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
- Professional activities and memberships
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I am Managing Editor of the journal Pediatric Radiology. I chair the Child Abuse Taskforce of the European Society of Paediatric Radiologists. I am Convenor for the Skeletal Dysplasia Group for Teaching and Research. I am a member of the UNESCO Childhood Maltreatment Chair.
Within the University of 91直播, I am Co-Chair of the Executive Coordinating Group for the Race Equality Charter and Faculty (Medicine, Dentistry & Health) Director for Wellbeing, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.