Dr Rachel Denholm

Dr Rachel Denholm
PhD(London), MSc(London), BSc(London)

Senior Research Associate for Centre for Academic Primary Care

Office 1.10
Canynge Hall,
39 Whatley Road, Bristol BS8 2PS
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 928 7336
r.denholm@bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

Biography

I am an epidemiologist at the Centre for Academic Primary Care at the Bristol Medical School, with expertise in using electronic healthcare records. I completed my PhD at UCL, investigating the impact of child maltreatment on physical development using the 1953 British birth cohort. After, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, working on projects international aetiological projects focusing on lung cancer. Before coming to the University of Bristol, I worked for LSHTM, investigating early life factors that influence breast-tissue composition using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children ...

Recent publications

Denholm, R, De Stavola, BL, Hipwell, JH, Doran, SJ, Holly, JM, Folkerd, E, Dowsett, M, Leach, MO, Hawkes, DJ & Dos-Santos-Silva, I, 2018, ‘Circulating growth and sex hormone levels and breast tissue composition in young nulliparous women’. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, vol 27., pp. 1500-1508
Denholm, R, De Stavola, B, Hipwell, JH, Doran, SJ, Busana, MC, Leach, MO, Hawkes, DJ & Dos-Santos-Silva, I, 2018, ‘Growth Trajectories, Breast Size, and Breast-Tissue Composition in a British Pre-Birth Cohort of Young Women’. American Journal of Epidemiology, vol 187., pp. 1259-1268

Dr Rachel Denholm