Dr Damian Roland

Consultant and Honorary Associate Professor in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

BMedSci (Hons) 1999, University of Nottingham
MB BS, 2001, University of Nottingham
MRCPCH 2004 PhD 2014

Email: dr98@le.ac.uk Twitter: @damian_roland Blog: rolobotrambles.com

Address: Paediatric Emergency Medicine Leicester Academic (PEMLA) group, University of Leicester, Level G, Jarvis Building RMO, Infirmary Square, Leicester, LE1 5WW

For general enquiries, please email the secretary, Elizabeth Cadman,
or telephone 0116 258 5965

Research Interests

Identification of Sick Children in Acute Care Settings
Scoring Systems
Evaluation of methods to assess training and educational interventions (REMIT)
Co-Founder of PEMLA and QuackApps

Awards

East Midlands Leadership Academy - Development Leader of the Year 2015
UK Health Business Awards - Winner in Patient Data Category (POPS)
Electronic Health Insider Awards 2014 - Highly Commended in Clinical Care Category (POPS)
Health Service Journal - Top 50 Health Innovator 2013 and Rising Star 2014
Graduate Dean's Prize for Best Poster at Leicester University Festival of Postgraduate Research 2013
Shortlisted for Patient Safety Award 2013 in Paediatric Category
International Forum of Quality and Safety in Health Care 2013: Winner of Million Pound Challenge

Publications - 2018

Waterfield T, Lyttle MD, Fairley D, McKenna J, Woolfall K, Lynn F, Maney J-A, Roland D, Wier A, Shields M on behalf of Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI) The “Petechiae in children” (PiC) study: evaluating potential clinical decision rules for the management of feverish children with non-blanching rashes, including the role of point of care testing for Procalcitonin & Neisseria meningitidis DNA – a study protocol BMC Pediatrics. 2018; 18: 246.

Thomas-Jones E, Lloyd A, Roland D et al. A prospective, mixed-methods, before and after study to identify the evidence base for the core components of an effective Paediatric Early Warning System and the development of an implementation package containing those core recommendations for use in the UK: Paediatric early warning system – utilisation and mortality avoidance– the PUMA study protocol BMC Pediatrics 2018 18:244

Roland D, Spurr, J., & Cabrera, D. Initial Standardized Framework for Reporting Social Media Analytics in Emergency Care Research. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health 2018 https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2018.3.36489

Roland D What are you looking at? Archives of Disease in Childhood Published Online First: 28 June 2018. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-315152

Martin G, Wright B, Ahmed A, Banerjee J, Mason S, Roland S Use or Abuse? How the Availability of Observation Status Affects Emergency Physician Decision making, Annals of Emergency Medicine

doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2018.04.023

Neill S, Roland D, Thompson M, et al. Why are acute admissions to hospital of children under 5 years of age increasing in the UK? Archives of Disease in Childhood Published Online First: 23 February 2018. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2017-313958

Roland D, Snelson E ‘So why didn’t you think this baby was ill?’ Decision-making in acute paediatrics

Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice Published Online First: 01 March 2018. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2017-313199

Langton L, Bonfield A, Roland D. Inter-rater reliability in the Paediatric Observation Priority Score (POPS) Archives of Disease in Childhood 2018;103:458-462.

All Publications (by research theme)

National and International Presentations