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Professor Manu Vatish appointed LCRN Clinical Director

Professor Manu Vatish has been appointed Clinical Director of the NIHR Clinical Research Network Thames Valley and South Midlands.

Professor Vatish will take over on 1 October from Prof Belinda Lennox, who has been appointed Head of Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford.

He is a professor of obstetrics at the University of Oxford and clinical consultant in obstetrics at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Prof Vatish is also the network’s reproductive health speciality lead and research group leader at the university’s Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health.

He said: “I’m delighted to have been offered the opportunity to lead the Thames Valley and South Midlands LCRN. I look forward to working with the clinical teams in all specialties and driving patient focussed research forwards.”

Network host trust executive Professor Meghana Pandit said: “Professor Vatish is an accomplished clinical researcher with both a national and CRN profile and has significant frontline clinical leadership and management skills. This combination will undoubtedly serve him well as he takes on his new role.”