Dr Leigh Sanyaolu

Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:

Award: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Fellowship Programme (2021 - 2025)

Project title: IMproving Prophylactic Antibiotic use for Recurrent urinary Tract infection (IMPART): mixed-methods study to address evidence gaps and develop a decision aid)

Biography

Dr Leigh Sanyaolu is a General Practitioner and a Health and Care Research Wales/NIHR Doctoral Fellow at Cardiff University. His current research focuses on the management of recurrent Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) in women and improving long-term antibiotic use through the development of an evidence-based decision-aid. The evidence informing the decision-aid will come from existing research trials and studies, anonymised routine data available from the SAIL Databank and qualitative interviews with patients and primary care healthcare professionals.

He is collaborating with the Primary Care and Interventions unit at the UK Health and Security Agency and the Health Data Research (HDR) UK team at Population Data Science Swansea University on this research, with support from Bladder Health UK. The decision-aid will give patients evidence-based options to support the shared decision-making process regarding their recurrent UTIs. This could lead to significant impact through reduced acute infections, long-term antibiotic use, antibiotic resistance patterns and NHS costs.

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