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Fiona L R Williams

Research Interests

I work in two fields: environmental and perinatal epidemiology. The theme of my environmental research is evaluating the health of people residentially exposed to point sources of pollution. I supervise a PhD student who is investigating possible subtle health changes. I recently co-authored a book on Disease Mapping.

I am also part of a European collaboration, headed by Professor Robert Hume (Dundee), which is investigating thyroid metabolism in neonates. We have extensive data about thyroid ontogeny and have a robust database on these infants. In the next five years, the research will provide answers to fundamental questions about thyroid metabolism.

Recent health-related publications

Williams FLR, Mires GJ, Barnett C, Ogston SA, van Toor H, Visser TJ, Hume R with collaboration from the Scottish Preterm Thyroid Group. Transient hypothyroxinaemia in preterm infants; the role of cord sera thyroid hormone levels adjusted for prenatal and intrapartum factors. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2005;90:4599-4606

Williams FLR, Ogston SA, Toor van H, Visser TJ, Hume R with collaboration from the Scottish Preterm Thyroid Group. Serum thyroid hormones in preterm infants; associations with postnatal illnesses and drug usage. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2005:90:5954-5963.

Chadee D, Williams FLR, Kitron UD. Epidemiology of Dengue fever in Trinidad, West Indies: The outbreak of 1998. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 2005;10:748-754

Current grants

Hume R, Williams FLR. Levels of thyroxine in preterm infants at day 7 postpartum and neurodevelopmental outcome at 5½ years. Tenovus (Scotland). March 2005-8.

Williams FLR, Koh DKM. Metabolic and hormonal responses to hypoglycaemia in infants born by elective Caesarean section. NHS -Programme Support Grant. March 2005-7

Hume R, Williams FLR. A pilot study to inform a randomized controlled trial of iodine supplementation in preterm infants. Cerebra. September 2005-2007

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