UHCW

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire National Health Service Trust

The University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust is one of the largest acute teaching hospitals in the UK, comprising University Hospital in Coventry and the Hospital of St Cross in Rugby. They offer major advances in patient care, clinical teaching and innovation. The purpose is to deliver the best possible care for the local communitie, through five interconnected purposes which are: local integrated care, centres of excellence, valuing and enabling our people, sustainability, research, innovation, and teaching

Key Persons

Dr. Michael Kuehl

Cardiology Consultant

Dr Kuehl is a Cardiology Consultant specialising in Heart Failure and Cardiac Devices. He has graduated from Medical School in Jena, Germany in 2002. At UHCW, he is leading the heart failure services for Rugby and is the Cardiac Network lead for Heart Failure for the West Midlands. In addition to the current project, he is involved in an investigator-initiated research project funded by the BHF and serves as the local PI for three national clinical device studies.

Mrs. Rebecca (Becky) Evans

Clinical Exercise Physiologist

Becky is a clinical exercise physiologist in cardiac rehabilitation based at UHCW. She specialises in exercise prescription for management of cardiovascular disease and heart failure. Becky has participated in leading interventions on other research trials within cardiac rehabilitation.

Dr, Andrew White

Senior Project Manager

Dr. White is a senior project manager based at UHCW that specialises in the delivery of large-scale digital research projects, particularly those relating to AI and cloud-based infrastructures. Recently their contributions to the PathLAKE Plus project enabled the upscaling of digital pathology capabilities of NHS labs across the UK, giving patients access to AI assisted cancer diagnostics across 1/3 of England, which has also led to them taking an active role in the development of regional digital infrastructures for the West Midlands (such as the West Midlands Secure Data Environment and the West Midlands Imagining Network).