Robert Stephenson
University of Central Lancashire, UK
Biography
Dr Stephenson’s research interests lie in the field of functional cardiac anatomy. Exploiting national and international collaborative relationships he uses multi-scale imaging techniques, including micro-CT and synchrotron-CT, to investigate the micro-anatomical structure and function of the working myocardium and cardiac conduction system in healthy and failing hearts. Dr Stephenson graduated with a first class honours degree in Anatomy and Human Biology from the University of Liverpool (UK) in 2009. Later that year he received the Cardiac Surgery Research Award from Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, funding his PhD and subsequent post-doctoral position. In 2016 Dr Stephenson was appointed Lecturer in Medical Sciences-Anatomy at the University of Central Lancashire, and currently holds honorary positions at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. This year he was awarded an EU funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, the project aims to investigate the potential diagnostic link between regional micro-structural and metabolic remodelling in heart disease.
Abstract
Abstract : The structural heterogeneity of the cardiac mesh revealed by high-resolution micro-CT