Gareth Clegg

Gareth Clegg trained in Emergency Medicine in Edinburgh having completed undergraduate degrees in Medicine and Psychology. He started research work early in the course of EM training - initially looking with Professor Colin Robertson at whether the ventricular fibrillation ECG waveform could be used to guide real time resuscitation of patients in cardiac arrest. He then completed a PhD in cell biology as a Wellcome Clinical Research Fellow and went on to complete a CSO Intermediate Fellowship at the MRC Centre for Inflammation Research in Edinburgh looking at the process of lung epithelial repair after acute lung injury. He now works as a Clinical Senior Lecturer at in the Queen’s Medical Research Institute at Edinburgh University and Honorary Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh.

Gareth is co-founder of the Emergency Medicine Research Group in Edinburgh (EMERGE) and leads the Resuscitation Research Group, a collaborative involving Edinburgh University, the Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS Lothian. He is also a Principal Investigator The Sandpiper WILDCAT project is an action research programme focussed on saving lives after OHCA by optimising the chain of survival in rural Grampian. The driving hypothesis is that training and equipping a cadre of community OHCA responders targeted to areas where SAS response times can be challenging will mean earlier effective resuscitation resulting in improved patient outcomes.