Dr Sushmita Mohapatra

Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:

Award: Personal Award Accelerator

Biography

Sushmita received her PhD in ‘rehabilitation of severe stroke survivors’ in 2019, from the University of Nottingham, she has been working as a consultant therapist in stroke since 2022. Her research area of interest is upper limb rehabilitation after stroke. 

She is passionate about co-creating with service users and facilitating a research active environment amongst clinicians working within the NHS to directly influence the quality and delivery of care. 

After her PhD she has led on small research projects with some internal funding from universities in London and is currently working on more funded research in the area of stroke rehabilitation. She currently holds a Researcher Development Award from Health and Care Research Wales and is working to develop her career as a researcher.

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