Tsz-Yan Milly Lo

Dr Tsz-Yan Milly Lo is a Consultant Paediatric Intensivist at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Research Lead for Paediatric Critical Care Medicine, NRS Career Research Clinician, and an Honorary Reader at the University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute, and Child Life and Health.

This inspiring innovator inhabits both clinical and research roles, and is using big data improvement research to innovate treatments and improve outcomes for children with traumatic brain injuries.

Dr Tsz-Yan Milly Lo’s dedication to patient care is so great that they incorporated a research career into their clinical workload to innovate better treatments for critically ill children. Now, their big data approach to paediatric brain injury research is inspiring fellow medics across Europe, and their ethos of engaging all types of front-line clinical staff in improvement research has established a blueprint for creating dynamic, interdisciplinary teams with a shared commitment to delivering impact for patients.

Undetected and untreated seizures can impact on a child’s recovery from a critical illness. An interdisciplinary industry partnership led by Consultant Paediatric Intensivist and Honorary Reader Dr Tsz-Yan Milly Lo is developing a user-friendly seizure detection tool that will allow paediatric intensive care staff worldwide to accurately detect seizures and act quickly at the bedside.

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