Fiona Moultrie
MBChB (Hons) BMedSci MRCPCH
Academic Clinical Research Fellow
- Clinical Doctoral Fellow
- Paediatric Specialist Trainee
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. In 2015, she was awarded funding from the Wellcome Trust and NIHR BRC Oxford to undertake a DPhil in Biomedical and Clinical Sciences investigating pain processing in the developing brain using EEG and functional MRI.
Research
The aim of her research is to understand how maturational changes in structural and functional connectivity shape the development of noxious-evoked brain activity underlying pain perception in early life.
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.
Colleges
Recent publications
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Functional and diffusion MRI reveal the neurophysiological basis of neonates’ noxious-stimulus evoked brain activity
Journal article
Baxter L. et al, (2021), Nature Communications, 12
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A universal right to pain relief: balancing the risks in a vulnerable patient population
Journal article
Moultrie F. et al, (2019), The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 3, 62 - 64
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The influence of the descending pain modulatory system on infant pain-related brain activity
Journal article
Goksan S. et al, (2018), eLife, 7
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Improving the treatment of infant pain
Journal article
Moultrie F. et al, (2017), Current Opinion in Supportive & Palliative Care, 11, 112 - 117
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A blinded randomised placebo-controlled trial investigating the efficacy of morphine analgesia for procedural pain in infants: Trial protocol
Journal article
Slater R. et al, (2016), Wellcome Open Research, 1, 7 - 7