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. Following my PhD, I went to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France as a post-doctoral fellow and worked on 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 ...

Recent publications

Denholm, RE, Werf-Kok, ETVd & Hay, AD, 2019, ‘Use of antibiotics and asthma medication for acute lower respiratory tract infections in people with and without asthma: retrospective cohort study’. Respiratory Research.
Denholm, R, Morris, R & Payne, R, 2019, ‘Polypharmacy patterns in the last year of life in patients with dementia’. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

Dr Rachel Denholm