Hannelore Williams-Reid

University of Strathclyde

PhD Title:

Wound management and early prosthetic rehabilitation, a randomised clinical study utilising conventional and direct manufactured transtibial prosthetic systems in a primary patient cohort.

Research Interests:

• Lower limb prosthetics

• Wound healing biomarkers

• Biomedical engineering

BIOGRAPHY

Wound healing, soft tissue health and its management after amputation (specifically transtibial) are essential to speed up the rehabilitation process and increase the prosthetic user’s outcome potential.

I studied a MEng in Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southampton driven by a need to help others as well as a love for mathematics and the sciences. Experiencing the psychological and physical challenges, a loss or a change in mobility has had on people I care deeply about, along with my desire to independently research meant a PhD in the prosthetics field, where novel technologies are helping improve quality of life, was the right fit.

I love to cook and bake (but not as much as my housemates love free cookies), read and try my hand at anything artistic. I rely on gym classes and any exercises where I can be out in nature to destress and will take any opportunity I can find to travel and experience different cultures.