Sarah Vollam

Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Critical Care Research Group in NDCN with a critical care nursing background.

She co-leads the NIHR-funded Enhanced Recovery After Critical Care (ERACC) programme of research, aiming to design and test an enhanced care pathway for critical care survivors. She is also an Oxford BRC sub-theme lead in the Digital Health from Hospital to Home theme. This includes leading the PROSPECT study, using wearable monitoring and machine learning to improve detection of deterioration following critical illness both in hospital and at home.

Other projects include:

Virtual HDU - a programme of research aiming to develop and test ambulatory vital signs monitoring to detect deterioration in surgical patients.

REFLECT - a mixed methods study investigating the course of care in patients following discharge from Intensive Care. This study identified several areas of clinical care where improvements could be made with the aim of reducing mortality and improving the experience of post-ICU patients. This work will inform future research aiming to implement these findings.

Sarah was awarded a PhD from University of Hertfordshire in 2021.

Sarah is an outgoing Associate Editor for Nursing in Critical Care and Deputy Chair of Intensive Care Society's National Rehabilitation Collaborative. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

Sarah sits on the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research funding committee, and the NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowships committee.

Sarah has a keen interested in supporting nurses, midwives and allied health professionals to develop careers in research, and runs a highly successful research secondment programme for nurses and allied health professionals.