Fiona Moultrie
MBChB (Hons) BMedSci MRCPCH DPhil
Postdoctoral Researcher
Biography
Fiona completed her medical degree at the University of Edinburgh with an intercalated BMedSci in Neuroscience. She moved to Oxford to work as a clinical doctor on the Academic Foundation programme, during which she began working with Prof Rebeccah Slater. Fiona was awarded an Academic Clinical Fellowship in Paediatrics to continue studying the development of noxious-evoked brain activity using EEG. Fiona completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford investigating pain processing in the developing brain using EEG and functional MRI, funded by the Wellcome Trust and NIHR BRC Oxford. She was awarded the Trinity College Graduate Scholarship and Trinity College Graduate Prize.
Research
Fiona is a Postdoctoral researcher primarily working on PETAL (the ParEntal Touch TriAL) and validating an EEG-based measure of pain for premature infants.
In the long-term, Fiona aims to translate advances in our mechanistic understanding of pain processing in early life to improve pain management in neonatal care and identify safe, evidence-based analgesics.
Recent publications
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Genotypic, functional, and phenotypic characterization in CTNNB1 neurodevelopmental syndrome.
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Žakelj N. et al, (2025), HGG Adv
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Pushing the boundaries: future directions in the management of spinal muscular atrophy.
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Moultrie F. et al, (2025), Trends Mol Med
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Effect of parental touch on relieving acute procedural pain in neonates and parental anxiety (Petal): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial in the UK.
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Hauck AGV. et al, (2024), Lancet Child Adolesc Health, 8, 259 - 269
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Parental experience of neonatal pain research while participating in the Parental touch trial (Petal)
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van der Vaart M. et al, (2024), Pain
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High-resolution diffusion imaging in the unfixed post-mortem infant brain at 7 T
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Wu W. et al, (2024), Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1 - 20
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Multicentre, randomised controlled trial to investigate the effects of parental touch on relieving acute procedural pain in neonates (Petal).
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Cobo MM. et al, (2022), BMJ Open, 12
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The impact of premature extrauterine exposure on infants’ stimulus-evoked brain activity across multiple sensory systems
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Schmidt Mellado G. et al, (2022), NeuroImage: Clinical, 33, 102914 - 102914
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Functional and diffusion MRI reveal the neurophysiological basis of neonates’ noxious-stimulus evoked brain activity
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Baxter L. et al, (2021), Nature Communications, 12
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Quantifying noxious-evoked baseline sensitivity in neonates to optimise analgesic trials
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Cobo MM. et al, (2021), eLife, 10
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Predicting severity of adverse cardiorespiratory effects of morphine in premature infants: a post hoc analysis of Procedural Pain in Premature Infants trial data
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Hartley C. et al, (2021), British Journal of Anaesthesia, 126, e133 - e135