Meet our Principal Investigator: Andrew Prayle

Dr. Andrew Prayle graduated from Nottingham with a BMBS in 2003, completed paediatric respiratory subspecialist training and earned a PhD in child health with a NIHR doctoral research fellowship studying cystic fibrosis biomarkers. After specialist training and a locum consultant position, he became Clinical Associate Professor in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the University of Nottingham. Andrew specializes in innovative respiratory measurement techniques for young children, developing whole-day MRI protocols for cystic fibrosis patients and upright MRI scanning for children as young as three, focusing on improving lung health assessments in rare diseases. He believes in the use of large data to solve practical problems, and is the local Principal Investigator for BaBi-Nottingham – a site for the Born and Bred In national birth cohort study.  He hopes to use this study to better understand, and address the healthcare, educational, and wider community needs and achievements of a generation of children and parents in Nottingham.  He teaches in the Masters of Public Health program, is the lead for the Perinatal and Child Health Community at Nottingham University, is the faculty lead for the INSPIRE medical student project in Nottingham, and serves on ActionforA-T's Research Advisory Committee.