Cushla Cooper

MSc, RN

Clinical Operational Lead

Clinical Operational Lead for the Oxford Clinical Research Facility

I am a registered comprehensive nurse, originally from New Zealand. I have worked in research in NDORMS since 2006, starting off as a Research Nurse and then Trial Manager for the Carr Group. When the Surgical Intervention Trials Unit (SITU) developed in 2013 I moved to become the Operational and Trial Development lead, covering the Orthopaedics and Plastics trial portfolios. At the start of 2020, I moved to work with Professor Duncan Richards to develop the clinical operations in the Oxford Clinical Research Facility.

Recent publications

United Kingdom Frozen Shoulder Trial (UK FROST), multi-centre, randomised, 12 month, parallel group, superiority study to compare the clinical and cost-effectiveness of Early Structured Physiotherapy versus manipulation under anaesthesia versus arthroscopic capsular release for patients referred to secondary care with a primary frozen shoulder: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
Journal article

Brealey S. et al, (2017), Trials, 18
Randomized feasibility trial of replacing or discarding the nail plate after nail-bed repair in children.
Journal article

Greig A. et al, (2017), Br j surg, 104, 1634 - 1639
Nail bed INJury Assessment Pilot (NINJA-P) randomised controlled trial of replacing or discarding the nail plate after nail bed repair in children.
Journal article

Cook J. et al, (2017), British journal of surgery
The treatment of segmental tibial fractures: does patient preference differ from surgeon choice?
Journal article

Little Z. et al, (2017), Injury, 48, 2306 - 2310
Accounting for the placebo effect of surgery in surgical trials?
Conference paper

Beard D. et al, (2017)

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