Dr Coulden is an Honorary Specialist Registrar in Endocrinology and Diabetes, currently at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. She is currently taking time out of clinical training to undertake a clinical research fellowship, named the Metchley Park Fellowship at the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science (MSS). The research project is looking at the metabolic profile and subsequent pathophysiology of patients with Acromegaly, a rare endocrinological disorder, using metabolomics and related translation in vitro research.
Her supervisors are Professor Niki Karavitaki, a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Endocrinology at the MSS and Honorary Consultant Endocrinologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, and Dr Gabriella Da Silver Xavier, an Associate Professor in Cellular Metabolism at the MSS.
Dr Coulden was recently awarded the Society for Endocrinology Practical Skills Grant which will allow her to travel to Liverpool to learn the fundamentals of metabolomics study and analysis, which is paramount for the project. She will spend a week at the Centre for Metabolomics Research in Liverpool with Professor Warwick Dunn gaining invaluable experience and expertise in the field.
