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Dr Daniel Whitehouse

Dr Daniel Whitehouse

MBChB PhD

  • Position Governing Body Fellow Junior Research Fellow
  • School Clinical Medicine Department of Medicine - sections: PACE, CaRM, IMID, SMaRT
  • Email dw555@cam.ac.uk
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Dan is an emergency medicine doctor with an interest in traumatic brain injury (TBI) and data science. His research focuses on diagnostics and outcomes following TBI, with a particular emphasis on the use of proteomic blood-based biomarkers to improve care following brain injury.

Dr Daniel Whitehouse

Dan was brought up in Cumbria and educated in Lancaster. Dan studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen (2011–2016), taking part in the remote and rural medicine program during his final years of medical school. It was during this time that he developed an interest in emergency medicine and trauma care. Following graduation, he completed his foundation medical training in Plymouth before commencing combined clinical and academic emergency medicine specialist training in Cambridge.

He completed an Academic Clinical Fellowship in Emergency Medicine in 2021 with the University of Cambridge, with his work during this period recognised through the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) Young Investigator of the Year award. He subsequently completed an RCEM-funded PhD in Clinical Medicine (2025) at Fitzwilliam College (University of Cambridge). He is currently a Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine within the Division of Perioperative, Acute, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (PACE) in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge and undertakes his clinical work in the Emergency Department at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Dan’s research focuses on diagnostics and outcomes following traumatic brain injury (TBI). He is interested in combining population-level observational data with smaller experimental studies to improve patient outcomes after their care in the emergency department. His work has particularly centred on brain injury and the use of proteomic biomarkers, sampled from blood, to aid in the diagnosis of TBI and to identify those at greater risk of poor recovery. Much of this research has focused on “mild” traumatic brain injury, a term that is something of a misnomer given the significant long-term morbidity and the impact on social and occupational functioning that can follow even a so-called mild injury.

He is currently working on projects assessing the use of brain injury biomarkers both in the emergency department and in the prehospital phase of injury, alongside large-scale epidemiological research and other collaborative projects with partners across different areas of healthcare. His predoctoral and doctoral work concerning brain injury biomarkers has been published in multiple journals and presented at national and international conferences, with several novel findings currently being explored in further prospective studies.

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