Anita Holdcroft

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Anita Holdcroft
FRCA
Education MB, ChB, MD
Scientific career
Fields Pain
Institutions Imperial College London
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Website www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.holdcroft

Anita Holdcroft FRCA is an Emeritus Professor of Anaesthetics at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. She specialised in acute pain in women and was the first to study the changes that occur in the brain during parturition. [1]

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Education

Holdcroft holds Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB, ChB) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees.

Research and career

Holdcroft has held many notable positions, including serving as the President of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) forum on maternity and the newborn, the Committee Member of the Obstetric Aneasthetists Association, British Medical Association (BMA ) medical academic staff Committee and as Chair of the Europain Visceral Pain Group. [2] Her research considered the representation of gender and sex dimensions in medical research. [3] She was supported by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the European Commission (EC). [4]

She was the first secretary and subsequent Chair of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Sex Gender and Pain. [5] The group presented a report documenting sex and gender differences in pain and analgesia. [6]

In the 1990s Holdcroft became interested in the use of cannabis in pain relief, and was one of the first UK doctors to perform clinical trials for the therapeutic use of the drug. [7] She studied the impact of cannabis plant extract during surgery, leading a placebo-controlled study with patients suffering form chronic pain. [8] [9] She demonstrated that it does indeed provide pain relief, leading to a range of drugs that can be used for post-operative pain. [10] [11] She went on to investigate cannabis as a pain management strategy for patients with HIV [12]

Holdcroft was the first researcher to study changes in the brain during and after pregnancy. [13]

Holdcroft is an advocate for women in medicine. [14] She studied the gender pay gap for women in academic medicine. [15]

Publications

Awards

Holdcroft is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA).

References

  1. 1 2 Holdcroft, Anita; Jaggar, Sian (2005). Core Topics in Pain. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511544583. ISBN   978-0-511-54458-3. OCLC   746605854.
  2. ↑ "Honours and Memberships - Emeritus Professor Anita Holdcroft". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  3. ↑ Holdcroft, Anita; Snidvongs, Saowarat; Berkley, Karen J. (2011). "Incorporating Gender and Sex Dimensions in Medical Research". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 36 (2): 180–192. Bibcode:2011ISRv...36..180H. doi:10.1179/030801811X13013181961590. ISSN   0308-0188. S2CID   70495798.
  4. ↑ "Anita Holdcroft - Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine". ebpom.org. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Home - Emeritus Professor Anita Holdcroft". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  6. ↑ Greenspan, Joel D.; Craft, Rebecca M.; LeResche, Linda; Arendt-Nielsen, Lars; Berkley, Karen J.; Fillingim, Roger B.; Gold, Michael S.; Holdcroft, Anita; Lautenbacher, Stefan; Mayer, Emeran A.; Mogil, Jeffrey S.; Murphy, Anne Z.; Traub, Richard J. (2007). "Studying sex and gender differences in pain and analgesia: A consensus report". Pain. 132 (Suppl 1): S26 –S45. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2007.10.014. ISSN   0304-3959. PMC   2823483 . PMID   17964077.
  7. ↑ "Doctors volunteer for cannabis trials". bbc.co.uk. BBC News . Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  8. ↑ "House of Lords - Science and Technology - Ninth Report". publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  9. ↑ "Cannabis tested as post-operative pain relief". Daily Telegraph. 20 August 2003. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  10. ↑ Dore, Caroline; Holdcroft, Anita (2007). "Cannabinoids for Postoperative Pain". Anesthesiology: The Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. 106 (2): 397–398. doi: 10.1097/00000542-200702000-00029 . ISSN   0003-3022. S2CID   208249861.
  11. ↑ "Cannabis 'reduces surgery pain'". 2 June 2006. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  12. ↑ Holdcroft, Anita; Dougherty, Andrew; Osorio, Jess; Samuel, Jonathon; Barton, Simon; Woolridge, Emily (2005). "Cannabis Use in HIV for Pain and Other Medical Symptoms". Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 29 (4): 358–367. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2004.07.011 . ISSN   0885-3924. PMID   15857739.
  13. ↑ Bydder, Graeme M.; Fusi, Luca; Puri, Basant K.; Hajnal, Joseph V.; Saeed, Nadeem; Holdcroft, Anita; Oatridge, Angela (2002). "Change in Brain Size during and after Pregnancy: Study in Healthy Women and Women with Preeclampsia". American Journal of Neuroradiology. 23 (1): 19–26. ISSN   0195-6108. PMC   7975506 . PMID   11827871.
  14. ↑ "Are there too many women in medicine?". medicalxpress.com. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  15. ↑ Connolly, Sara; Holdcroft, Anita (2009). "The pay gap for women in medicine and academic medicine" (PDF). Renal Association. S2CID   58209641. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2014.
  16. ↑ Anita Holdcroft (2000). Principles and practice of obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia. Blackwell Science. ISBN   0-86542-828-X. OCLC   833593399.
  17. ↑ Dob, Daryl; Holdcroft, Anita; Cooper, Griselda (19 April 2018). Crises in Childbirth Why Mothers Survive. doi:10.1201/9781315383392. ISBN   978-1-315-38339-2.
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