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Ania Holdcroft | |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pain management Women's pain |
| Institutions | Imperial College London Chelsea and Westminster Hospital |
Anita Holdcroft is an Emeritus Professor of Anaesthetics at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. She specialised in acute pain in women and was the first to study the changes that occur in the brain during parturition.
Research and career
Holdcroft has held many notable positions, including serving as the President of the Royal Society of Medicine Forum on Maternity and the Newborn, the Committee Member of the Obstetric Aneasthetists Association, British Medical Association Medical Academic Staff Committee and as Chair of the Europain Visceral Pain Group.[1] Her research considered the representation of gender and sex dimensions in medical research.[2] She was supported by the Medical Research Council and European Commission.[3]
She was the first secretary and subsequent Chair of the International Association for the Study of Pain Special Interest Group on Sex Gender and Pain.[4] The group presented a report documenting sex and gender differences in pain and analgesia.[5]
In the 1990s Holdcroft became interested in the use of cannabis in pain relief, and was one of the first UK doctors to perform clinical trials for the therapeutic use of the drug.[6] She studied the impact of cannabis plant extract during surgery, leading a placebo-controlled trial with patients suffering form chronic pain.[7][8] She demonstrated that it does indeed provide pain relief, leading to a range of drugs that can be used for Post-operative pain.[9][10] She went on to investigate cannabis as a a pain management strategy for patients with HIV [11]
Holdcroft was the first rsearcher to study changes in the brain during and after pregnancy.[12]
Holdcroft is an advocate for women in medicine.[13] She studied the gender pay gap for women in academic medicine.[14]
Book and book chapters
2000 Principles and Practice of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Analgesia[15]
2005 Core Topics in Pain[16]
2005 Sex and Gender Differences in Pain
2007 Crises in Childbirth - Why Mothers Survive[17]
References
- ^ "Honours and Memberships - Emeritus Professor Anita Holdcroft". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ Holdcroft, Anita; Snidvongs, Saowarat; Berkley, Karen J. (2011-06-01). "Incorporating Gender and Sex Dimensions in Medical Research". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 36 (2): 180–192. doi:10.1179/030801811X13013181961590. ISSN 0308-0188.
- ^ "Anita Holdcroft - Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine". www.ebpom.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ "Home - Emeritus Professor Anita Holdcroft". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ "ScienceDirect". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ "BBC News | Health | Doctors volunteer for cannabis trials". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ "House of Lords - Science and Technology - Ninth Report". publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ "Cannabis tested as post-operative pain relief". 2003-08-20. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ Dore, Caroline; Holdcroft, Anita (2007-02-01). "Cannabinoids for Postoperative Pain". Anesthesiology: The Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. 106 (2): 397–398. ISSN 0003-3022.
- ^ "Cannabis 'reduces surgery pain'". 2006-06-02. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ Holdcroft, Anita; Dougherty, Andrew; Osorio, Jess; Samuel, Jonathon; Barton, Simon; Woolridge, Emily (2005-04-01). "Cannabis Use in HIV for Pain and Other Medical Symptoms". Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 29 (4): 358–367. doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2004.07.011. ISSN 0885-3924. PMID 15857739.
- ^ Bydder, Graeme M.; Fusi, Luca; Puri, Basant K.; Hajnal, Joseph V.; Saeed, Nadeem; Holdcroft, Anita; Oatridge, Angela (2002-01-01). "Change in Brain Size during and after Pregnancy: Study in Healthy Women and Women with Preeclampsia". American Journal of Neuroradiology. 23 (1): 19–26. ISSN 0195-6108. PMID 11827871.
- ^ "Are there too many women in medicine?". medicalxpress.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ Holdcroft, Anita; Connolly, Sara (2009). "The pay gap for women in medicine and academic medicine". www.semanticscholar.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ^ Anita, Holdcroft, (2000). Principles and practice of obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia. Blackwell Science. ISBN 086542828X. OCLC 833593399.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Core Topics in Pain edited by Anita Holdcroft". Cambridge Core. 2005/08. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Dob, Daryl (2018-04-19). "Crises in Childbirth Why Mothers Survive". doi:10.1201/9781315383392.
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