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Katie Warnaby is a Senior Research Scientist at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging within the Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics at the University of Oxford. Her work focuses on neuroimaging of anaesthesia and altered states of consciousness.
- Key Research Areas: Anaesthesia, pain, sleep, and consciousness.
- Award: 2017 National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) Research Award.
She leads the Oxford Persisting Post-Operative Pain Study (OxPPOPS), a major clinical trial investigating predictive factors for chronic post-surgical pain. Her group develops real-time Bayesian models for anaesthesia titration and explores neural inertia's role in post-anaesthesia delirium, particularly in older adults.
Recent projects include the Luminous initiative, which applies information theory to study electrical brain activity in consciousness states. Publications highlight discoveries such as the saturation of slow wave activity (SWAS) as a neurophysiological marker for perception loss and anterior insula suppression during early anaesthesia stages.
- Scientific Awards:
- 2017 NIAA Research Award
