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Mr Thomas Dobbs

Clinical Lecturer, Medicine

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About

Tom is an academic clinical lecturer in plastic and reconstructive surgery. He is funded by the Welsh Clinical Academic Training (WCAT) Fellowship and is currently completing his registrar training at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastics. Tom completed his PhD in patients reported outcome measures (PROMs) for facial skin cancer, supervised by Professors Hayley Hutchings and Iain Whitaker. He has a passion for improving the clinical care that patients receive through the use of PROMs and big data to understand the patient voice and provide care and services that matter most to patients.

Areas Of Expertise

Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs)
Big data
Clinical trials
Skin Cancer
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Tom has had an active clinical teaching interest since medical school. He was Associate Clinical Tutor at the Queen’s College, Oxford and University Surgical Tutor at Oxford University Medical School. He is currently in the process of setting up a tutorial based clinical teaching programme for Swansea University medical students.

Research

His research interests span PROMs, big data and clinical trials and how these can be used to improve patient care. Tom is currently working on further validation of the FACE-Q skin cancer PROM which he studied during his PhD.

Award Highlights

Tom has received over 25 awards since beginning medical school, including a Distinction in his BM BCh from Oxford University. More recently he has been awarded the Margaret Witt Scholarship for Clinical Excellence by the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Jill and Herbert Hunt Travelling Fellowship which allowed him to visit collaborators at Harvard medical school and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA.

Collaborations

Tom is a member of the ReconRegen research group at Swansea University and collaborates with both local and national/international researchers. Most of his research is done in collaboration with Professor Hayley Hutchings at the Swansea University trials unit, Professor Iain Whitaker and Professor Ronan Lyons of the SAIL databank. Nationally Tom has collaborated with Jeremy Rodrigues from Oxford University and researchers at both Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and MD Anderson in Texas.

Publications

Research Highlights

Gibson, J., Dobbs, T., Griffith, R., Song, J., Akbari, A., Whitaker, S., Watkins, A., Langan, S., Hutchings, H., Lyons, R., & Whitaker, I. (2020). The association of smoking and socioeconomic status on cutaneous melanoma: a population‐based, data‐linkage, case–control study. British Journal of Dermatology, 182(5), 1136-1147.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.18526, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52311
Jovic, T., Dobbs, T., Jessop, Z., & Whitaker, I. (2019). Keystone island flaps for reconstruction following lower leg skin cancer resection: A comparison with split-thickness skin grafts. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, 72(11), 1856-1871.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2019.05.059, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52776
Marsh, J., Dobbs, T., & Hutchings, H. (2020). The readability of online health resources for phenylketonuria. Journal of Community Genetics, 11(4), 451-459.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-020-00461-9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53803
Gibson, J., Dobbs, T., Kouzaris, L., Lacey, A., Ellwood-Thompson, S., Akbari, A., Hutchings, H., Lineaweaver, W., Lyons, R., & Whitaker, I. (n.d.) Making the Most of Big Data in Plastic Surgery. Annals of Plastic Surgery, Publish Ahead of Print
https://doi.org/10.1097/sap.0000000000002434, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53972
Jessop, Z., Dobbs, T., Ali, S., Combellack, E., Clancy, R., Ibrahim, N., Jovic, T., Kaur, A., Nijran, A., & O'Neill, T. (2020). Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Surgeons during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review of Availability, Usage, and Rationing. British Journal of Surgery, 107(10)
https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.11750, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54406
Jovic, T., Ali, S., Ibrahim, N., Jessop, Z., Tarassoli, S., Dobbs, T., Holford, P., Thornton, C., & Whitaker, I. (2020). Could Vitamins Help in the Fight Against COVID-19?. Nutrients, 12(9), 2550
https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12092550, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55098
Dobbs, T., Ottenhof, M., Gibson, J., Whitaker, I., Hutchings, H., Dobbs, T., Gibson, J., Whitaker, I., & Hutchings, H. (2020). The Patient-Reported Outcome Measures In Skin Cancer Reconstruction (PROMISCR) study: Anglicisation and initial validation of the FACE-Q Skin Cancer Module in a UK cohort. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2020.09.005, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55364

All Research

Journal Articles

Dobbs, T., Ottenhof, M., Gibson, J., Whitaker, I., Hutchings, H., Dobbs, T., Gibson, J., Whitaker, I., & Hutchings, H. (2020). The Patient-Reported Outcome Measures In Skin Cancer Reconstruction (PROMISCR) study: Anglicisation and initial validation of the FACE-Q Skin Cancer Module in a UK cohort. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2020.09.005, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55364
Marsh, J., Dobbs, T., & Hutchings, H. (2020). The readability of online health resources for phenylketonuria. Journal of Community Genetics, 11(4), 451-459.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-020-00461-9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53803
Jessop, Z., Dobbs, T., Ali, S., Combellack, E., Clancy, R., Ibrahim, N., Jovic, T., Kaur, A., Nijran, A., & O'Neill, T. (2020). Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Surgeons during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review of Availability, Usage, and Rationing. British Journal of Surgery, 107(10)
https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.11750, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54406
Jovic, T., Ali, S., Ibrahim, N., Jessop, Z., Tarassoli, S., Dobbs, T., Holford, P., Thornton, C., & Whitaker, I. (2020). Could Vitamins Help in the Fight Against COVID-19?. Nutrients, 12(9), 2550
https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12092550, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55098
Gibson, J., Dobbs, T., Griffith, R., Song, J., Akbari, A., Whitaker, S., Watkins, A., Langan, S., Hutchings, H., Lyons, R., & Whitaker, I. (2020). The association of smoking and socioeconomic status on cutaneous melanoma: a population‐based, data‐linkage, case–control study. British Journal of Dermatology, 182(5), 1136-1147.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.18526, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52311
Jovic, T., Dobbs, T., Jessop, Z., & Whitaker, I. (2019). Keystone island flaps for reconstruction following lower leg skin cancer resection: A comparison with split-thickness skin grafts. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, 72(11), 1856-1871.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2019.05.059, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52776
Gibson, J., Dobbs, T., Kouzaris, L., Lacey, A., Ellwood-Thompson, S., Akbari, A., Hutchings, H., Lineaweaver, W., Lyons, R., & Whitaker, I. (n.d.) Making the Most of Big Data in Plastic Surgery. Annals of Plastic Surgery, Publish Ahead of Print
https://doi.org/10.1097/sap.0000000000002434, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53972

Taught Modules

PM-344 Capstone Project

The aim of this module is to provide a capstone experience to students¿ learning, through participating in their own enquiry-based research project. The project may be laboratory or non-laboratory based, but it will always involve a research question that is drawn from the literature, and focused on a topic relevant to medical science. It will ask a novel research question and involve the critical analysis of research findings. Students will refine their oral and written communication skills to a graduate level through creating an introductory presentation on the project background, and a written dissertation and oral presentation on their research conclusions.

Public Engagements

Tom has been involved in a number of public engagement events. Furthermore he was part of a team that led one of the first James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships in Cleft Lip and Palate.

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