Zarah Abdullahi

Zarah's main research interest is in Health Care Design – a new area of research and discipline, that beings’ innovative methodologies into trouble shooting and revamping existing processes or new processes, and pathways to improve and enhance healthcare delivery and experiences. 

Zarah is currently working on undertaking a retrospective study of critical care records for patients that died with COVID-19 pneumonitis during the pandemics, with a view to use the findings to inform improving End of life care processes and experiences– in acute care settings, particularly, critical care. This work feeds into developing end of life care in acute care setting, with special interest in critical care units as part of her PhD project. 

From an educationist point of view, Zarah is currently leading on evaluating the effectiveness of using story telling modalities (including narratives and videos) as alternatives to traditional lectures supported by PowerPoint presentations, in teaching the Biosciences subjects at the University of Suffolk.  

In collaboration with her colleagues within the university of Suffolk, Zarah is developing a Research Interest group in global majority research, with the aim of setting up research projects that will make a good difference to the life and course of staff and students from the global majority background in the University and the Suffolk region.  

Zarah is also contributing to the development of the Suffolk Integrated Care Academy by contributing expertise in many areas of their needs.  

Publications
 

Garcia E, Hayden A, Birts C et al.  ………. Abdullahi Z….  (2016) Authentication and characterisation of a new oesophageal Adenocarcinoma Cell line: MFD-1 (Scientific Reports, (2016), 6, 1, (32417), 10.1038/srep32417)  Scientific Reports, vol. 9, issue 1 (2019) Published by Nature Publishing Group

Secrier M, Li X, De Silva N, Eldridge M, Contino G, Bornschein J, Macrae S, Grehan N, O'Donovan M, Miremadi A, ……………….Abdullahi Z ...see all (2016) Mutational signatures in Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma define etiologically distinct subgroups with therapeutic relevance Nature Genetics, vol. 48, issue 10 (2016) pp. 1131-1141 

Shariff M, Varghese S, O'Donovan M, Abdullahi Z, Liu X, Fitzgerald R, Di Pietro M Pilot randomized crossover study comparing the efficacy of Trans-Nasal disposable Endo-sheath with standard Endoscopy to detect Barrett's Oesophagus Endoscopy, vol. 48, issue 2 (2016) pp. 110-116

Ross-Innes C, Becq J, Warren A  et al. ………..Abdullahi Z…… (2015) Whole-genome sequencing provides new insights into the clonal architecture of Barrett's Oesophagus and Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma Nature Genetics (2015) 47(9) 1038-1046 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3357

Weaver J, Ross-Innes C, Shannon N, Lynch A, Forshew T, Barbera M, Murtaza M, Ong C, Lao-Sirieix P, Dunning M,…………..Abdullahi, Z ...see all (2014) Ordering of Mutations in preinvasive disease stages of Oesophageal Carcinogenesis Nature Genetics, vol. 46, issue 8 (2014) pp. 837-843

Banerjee S, Shen B, Baron T et al. ……. Abdullahi Z…… (2013) Signatures of Mutational Processes in Human Cancer Nature, vol. 500, issue 7463 (2013) pp. 415-421

Shariff M, Bird-Lieberman E, O'Donovan M, Abdullahi Z, Liu X, Blazeby J, Fitzgerald R (2012) Randomized crossover study comparing efficacy of Trans-Nasal endoscopy with that of standard Endoscopy to detect Barrett's Oesophagus Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, vol. 75, issue 5 (2012) pp. 954-961

Shariff K, Bird-Lieberman E, Vowler S, Abdullahi Z, O'Donovan M,Blazeby J, Fitzgerald R (2010) Nasal or Standard Endoscopy (NOSE) for Diagnosis of Barrett's Oesophagus - Efficacy and Patient Tolerance Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, vol. 71, issue 5 (2010) p. AB121 Published by Elsevier BV

Conferences

Zarah Abdullahi and Catherine Playfair (University of Suffolk, UK) (2021) Recruiting champions for repurposing unconscious bias in the higher education setting; Advance HE’s NET2021 virtual conference – 1 – 3 September 2021 https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2021-08/NET2021-programme-2-Sep-2021.pdf

Zarah Abdullahi (University of Bedfordshire, UK) (2018) Start of the Art: Theoretical Models Influencing the Multidisciplinary Clinical Setting;  2nd International Conference on Nursing Science & Practice August 6-8, 2018; London, United Kingdom https://unitedscientificgroup.com/conferences/nursing-science/2018/assets/pdfs/Nursing-2018_Program.pdf

Zarah is collaborating with colleagues from two Universities in Nigeria (University of Maiduguri and University of Abuja) to create a knowledge exchange and transfer of best practices in Oncology, Critical & Respiratory care, and End of life inter-disciplinary trainings, with focus on nurse trainings.