Fellow

Brandon G. Smith

Bye Fellow

Contact: Bgs30@cam.ac.uk⁠
Website: Department website⁠
Social media: X⁠ LinkedIn⁠

Biography

Postdoctoral Research Associate, International Health Systems Group

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NIHR Global Health Research Group on Acquired Brain and Spine Injury

Dr Brandon G. Smith (Bran) is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the International Health Systems Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. He leads a number of work streams centered on health innovation, including the development of computer vision systems for neurotrauma prevention on public highways, retrofitting ‘smart’ adjuncts into legacy medical devices, and decentralised wearable healthcare records, the latter of which he is exploiting as a university spin-out venture, Amulet.

Bran began his academic career path as a medical student, completing pre-clinical training and an intercalated degree in Anatomy at King’s College London, before receiving a scholarship to undertake a PhD in remote patient follow-up technology development for resource-limited settings. Completing his PhD in early 2023, he then received a number of postdoctoral research awards to continue his research, intermitting from medical studies to explore a number of ‘healthcare innovation for impact’ projects.

He now co-leads the Technology theme of the Cambridge Public Health Interdisciplinary Research Centre, and lectures on Innovation Funding on the Cambridge Healthcare Innovation MSt Programme.

Research Interests

Digital Health

Healthcare Innovation

Medical Technology (MedTech)

Entrepreneurship

Degrees

BSc (Hons), Anatomy, King’s College London

PhD, Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

Prizes

Davies Prize for Human Dissection (2018), King’s College London

Honours

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Authored work

B.G. Smith, L. Rambabu, A.G. Kolias, P.J. Hutchinson, T. Bashford & on behalf of the EyeVu Consortium.

The EyeVu Consortium for global neurosurgery.

The Lancet: Neurology.

DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(23)00328-9

B.G. Smith*, C.J. Whiffin*, I.N. Esene, C. Karekezi, T. Bashford, M.M. Khan, D.J.F. Solla, B.I. Devi, W.S. Paiva, F. Servadei, P.J. Hutchinson, A.G. Kolias, A. Figaji, A.M. Rubiano. Neurotrauma clinicians’ perspectives on the contextual challenges associated with traumatic brain injury follow up in low- income and middle-income countries: a reflexive thematic analysis.

PLOS ONE.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274922

B.G. Smith, S. Tumpa, O. Mantle, C.J. Whiffin, H. Mee, D.J.F. Solla, W.S. Paiva, V. Newcombe, A.G. Kolias, P.J. Hutchinson.

Remote follow-up technologies in traumatic brain injury: a scoping review.

Journal of Neurotrauma.

DOI: 10.1089/neu.2022.0138

Link to Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E8Vq7eEAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=3

Subjects: Engineering Medicine