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Charlotte Summers

@charlottesummers.bsky.social
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Faculty Dean & Prof of Medicine @unisouthampton.bsky.social Critical care doctor. Views shared are mine alone.

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Intensive Care Society @ics-updates.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our top ten Research Priorities for our James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership are now live. In collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Care Research and with our intensive care community, we have now defined the most important questions for intensive care research.
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Kevin Fong @drkevinfong.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Module 3 of the UK Covid Inquiry takes time to read but the lessons are clear: we avoided system collapse but only just & at great cost to our patients & the people who delivered the care. @charlottesummers.bsky.social, Tim Cook, Ganesh Suntharalingam & I wrote this www.bmj.com/content/393/... #BMJ
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University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Professor @charlottesummers.bsky.social as our new Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. A member of our alumni, she joins us from the University of Cambridge where she leads the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute. 👉 tr.ee/wtJGHv
Professor Charlotte Summers with short blond hair is wearing a bright red blazer over a black top, standing in a modern, well-lit interior with blue and beige railings. The background features large windows and blurred foliage, creating an open and airy atmosphere.
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 19/02/2026
A simple, digital intervention involving mentally playing Tetris can help reduce PTSD for frontline healthcare workers, say scientists. @charlottesummers.bsky.social from @vpd-hlri.bsky.social describes the treatment as "an exciting step forward”. Learn more: bit.ly/4rjuNs2 #research 🧪
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Tetris gameplay treatment helps reduce traumatic flashbacks for frontline healthcare workers
A simple, digital intervention that includes mentally playing Tetris can dramatically reduce intrusive memories of trauma in a month, even to the point of
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🧬 International Women & Girls in Science Day 🧪 At VPD-HLRI, we’re proud to support women at every stage of their careers. Meet Jennifer Martin — PhD student, new mum, and haematology data scientist — inspiring the next generation of female scientists. #WomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🎥 Professor @andresfloto.bsky.social on new funding from: @wellcometrust.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @novonordisk.bsky.social and how VPD-HLRI research is helping reshape antibiotic discovery in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Read more: 🔗 bit.ly/4rJy6c2
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Many congratulations to @andresfloto.bsky.social and team for their success in the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social Novo Nordisk Foundation Grand Challenge for Innovations in Gram negative antibiotic discovery: gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant/defini...
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Defining Permissive Chemical Space in Klebsiella pneumoniae
Andres Floto with Vitor Mendes, David Spring, Aaron Weimann, Sebastian Bruchmann, and José Miguel Hernández Lobato of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom will experimentally define the f...
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Please do have a listen to @rouchelles.bsky.social sharing her thoughts about her science, balancing a clinical academic career in cardiology with family life, & the importance of mentors and a supportive environment. @nihr.bsky.social @royalpapworth.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
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Helle Jørgensen @hellefjorgensen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy New Year! We are looking for a postdoc with computational expertise to join our group. Deadline for application is 13th January. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... #newjob #postdoc #vascularbiology #atherosclerosis #cellplasticitycontrol #functionalgenomics #cellheterogeneity
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Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Postdoctoral Research Associate in vascular cell plasticity and translation (single-cell and omics) (Fixed Term) We invite applicants for a postdoc position (Research Associate) for a project in Dr
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I realise this is minor in grand scheme of things, but one of the things I miss about living in the US, even after being home for years, is being able to buy large cartons of buttermilk. Why do UK supermarkets think 300 mL is a useful quantity to sell?!
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Brighter days are on the way! 22 December, 2025. @vpd-hlri.bsky.social
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🚨Wanted…emerging clinical academic leader in cardiology to join @vpd-hlri.bsky.social and @royalpapworth.bsky.social. Get in touch if you’d like to discuss the role. We’d love to hear from you! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Cardiology (Honorary Consultant) (Fixed Term)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a new University of Cambridge - Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Assistant/Associate Professor in Cardiology. We are seeking expressions of interest
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Are you an emerging clinical academic leader in respiratory medicine? Come and join @vpd-hlri.bsky.social and @royalpapworth.bsky.social and build your career! Get in touch if you’d like to discuss. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Respiratory Medicine (Honorary Consultant) (Fixed Term)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a new University of Cambridge-Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Assistant/Associate Professor in Respiratory Medicine. We are seeking applications
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 06/11/2025
Children and young people faced higher and longer-lasting risks of rare heart complications after #COVID19 infection than after vaccination, say @vpd-hlri.bsky.social researchers. Find out more about this study 👇 bit.ly/43BmUof 🧪
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Risk of rare heart complications in children higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination
Children and young people faced long-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
❤️ Today is #restarttheheartday When was the last time you refreshed your CPR?
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Fantastic to play our part in this year’s Cambridge Alumni Festival - welcoming visitors for talks and tours of the VPD-HLRI. @charlottesummers.bsky.social @lukeflower.bsky.social
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
@drkevinfong.bsky.social, Tim Cook & I have contributed to the Discussion of ‘Some statistical aspects of the Covid-19 response' by Wood et al url: academic.oup.com/jrsssa/artic...
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Kevin Fong, Tim Cook and Charlotte Summers’ contribution to the Discussion of ‘Some statistical aspects of the Covid-19 response' by Wood et al
Kevin J Fong, Tim Cook, Charlotte Summers; Kevin Fong, Tim Cook and Charlotte Summers’ contribution to the Discussion of ‘Some statistical aspects of the C
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I have been reading some of the important reports published recently and decided to write a few reflections: www.linkedin.com/posts/prof-c...
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Lots of important reports published recently, so these are some personal reflections on some of what has been written… | Charlotte Summers
Lots of important reports published recently, so these are some personal reflections on some of what has been written… In previous Guardian articles, I described health as being inextricable linked t...
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🎉 Congrats to Prof. Ziad Mallat! winner of the 2025 Louis & Artur Lucian Award for his groundbreaking work in cardiovascular immunology — a top international honour in circulatory disease research. @medcambridge.bsky.social Read more ⬇️ 🔗 bit.ly/40XaxkJ
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News | The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute
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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Cambridge @cambridgebrc.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Congratulations! 🎉 @vpd-hlri.bsky.social Today marks 3ys since the Research Institute first opened! A collaboration between @royalpapworth.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk @thebhf.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk & others, it seeks to 'improve cardiovascular and lung health for everyone' @charlottesummers.bsky.social
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Today, @vpd-hlri.bsky.social is three years old! @royalpapworth.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk @cuhpartners.bsky.social @thebhf.bsky.social @cambridgebrc.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk www.cam.ac.uk/stories/hear...
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At the heart of life-changing science
The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute is a thriving community of scientists and clinicians, the largest concentration of its kind in Europe, focused on tackling the world's bigge...
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Gísli @ipfdoc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
NEWSFLASH, any reviewer for BMJOpenRespRes gets a 25% discount on the APC for manuscripts submitted to BMJOpenRespRes within 12 months. There maybe further positive moves in future #SmallSteps. #GettingThere 🙏🙏
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Sad to miss this today due to being in Oxford, but will catch up via YouTube afterwards. Do join this fab seminar in person or online if you can!
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Excited to be in Oxford for the International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2025. #PandemicSciences25
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FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 28/06/2025
Funding cuts could result in one million deaths in the next year, warns Tim Harford. Read his column on the unfolding tragedy of ending US aid: on.ft.com/4k9ECnZ
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Please do have a read of this!
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Today is Declaration Ceremony Day and I am a very proud Director of Studies - six new members of the medical profession! @selwyn1882.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
There are much worse ways to spend a day than at Lords, in the sunshine, with two of my favourite people (Alastair Proudfoot & Rasha Al Lamee).
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
There are much worse ways to spend a day than at Lords, in the sunshine, with two of my favourite people (Alastair Proudfoot & Rasha Al Lamee).
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🌈This Pride Month, we sat down with @lukeflower.bsky.social proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, to hear his story. At the VPD-HLRI, we’re proud to celebrate voices like Luke’s and to stand for inclusion, visibility, and equality every day of the year. 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth #Pride2025
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Martin Smith @martinrsmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
R&D spending is in the headlines today on the back of a breathless press release. Enthusiastic coverage is always welcome, but - Pretty much flat in real terms - No info on whether increases are backloaded - Could still be tough for UKRI Need the detail on Weds www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Ministers commit to £86bn for ‘breakthrough’ UK science and tech R&D
Mayors welcome £500m set aside for regional authorities to target investment locally
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 06/06/2025
In the USA, a recent series of Executive Actions pose a substantial threat to the nation's health and health equity. In our latest issue, a new Comment highlights why and how academic medicine must champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Read this & more ▶️ tinyurl.com/6fn6uvr7
Cover of The Lancet's June 7, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads: "If we in academic medicine give in to the campaigns against diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, the consequences will include resegregation and fewer opportunities for marginalised groups."
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Just truly brilliant slide by Chris Seymour of Pitt about evolution of sepsis subtyping #Prato2025
A slide comparing dichotomous Rothko to adjacent Mondrian to overlapping Kandinsky metaphors
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🌍 Today is World Environment Day - a moment to reflect on how we care for our planet and each other. 👉 Watch the video and let me know what sustainable actions you’re most proud of at your workplace. #WorldEnvironmentDay #Sustainability #GreenResearch
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Academy of Medical Sciences @acmedsci.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Watch Immunologist Prof @clarebryant.bsky.social from the University of Cambridge discuss what becoming a new Academy Fellow means to her. Congratulations, Clare! 🎉 #AcademyFellows #VeterinaryMedicine
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Jenny Dickens @jennydickens41.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Absolutely delighted and privileged to have been appointed as a new group leader at @thecimr.bsky.social this week. The Dickens lab will be up and running later this year, continuing to understand mechanisms of disease in genetic forms of pulmonary fibrosis.
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Cambridge Institute for Medical Research @thecimr.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We are delighted too!
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Big news! Prof @clarebryant.bsky.social has just been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences 🎉 @acmedsci.bsky.social
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Once again, I will be leaving #ATS2025 hopeful and inspired. There is something very special about @atscritcare.bsky.social and the broader ATS community - these people can & will change the world.
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ATS Crit Care Assembly @atscritcare.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Standing ovation for @iwashyna.bsky.social extraordinary achievement award!!
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
since it didn't show up great on the slide: by James Baldwin in Spring 1963, source: aas.princeton.edu/news/vow-jam...
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The Vow James Baldwin Made to Young Civil Rights Activists
Eddie Glaude on How Baldwin Confronted America's Most Exceptional Lie
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Very proud of my friend Prof @iwashyna.bsky.social from Johns Hopkins, who received the Extraordinary Achievement Award from @atscritcare.bsky.social this evening. ❤️❤️❤️
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Kicking off the @atscommunity.bsky.social conference with some great news! Congratulations on the award @lukeflower.bsky.social and enjoy representing us in San Francisco! #ATS2025
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
VPD-HLRI hosting Paul Bristow the new Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mayor today, to get to know leaders across the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social @royalpapworth.bsky.social
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Following an article from @thebhf.bsky.social about the £5 blood test that improves risk prediction for heart attacks and strokes, we caught up with the lead analysis behind the idea. @cambridgecardio.bsky.social
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Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Democratic rights exercised ✅ @votingdogs.bsky.social
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🎥 Happening today! Join us at 4pm for the VPD–HLRI Monthly Seminar Series. Talks from David Arnold & Scott Ritchie on pleural infection and cardiovascular disease risk prediction. Can’t make it? Watch live on our new YouTube channel: youtube.com/live/Rf31zSB... @medcambridge.bsky.social
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VPD-HLRI Monthly Seminar
Join our monthly seminar with guest Dr David Arnold (Bristol) – ‘Pleural infection- future directions’ and our own Dr Scott Ritchie (Cambridge) – ‘Enhancing 10-year cardiovascular disease risk predic...
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We are delighted by this further donation to @vpd-hlri.bsky.social, which will help us deliver on our mission to improve cardiovascular and lung health for everyone, no matter where they live! @royalpapworth.bsky.social @cuhpartners.bsky.social @cuhnhs.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
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