Dr Rowan Burnstein

College positions: Fellow, Director of Studies in Clinical Medicine, Assistant Postgraduate Tutor

Subject: Medical Sciences

Group membership: Governing Body, Academic Committee, Magdalene Medical Society

Dr Rowan Burnstein is Director of Studies in Medical Sciences at Magdalene.

Dr Rowan Burnstein is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care with a specialist interest in Intensive Care Management of Neurosciences and Major Trauma patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

She is Head of School of Anaesthesia, Health Education England, East of England and Clinical Lead for Organ Donation, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

Research Interests

Dr Burnstein has an interest in global health and medical education, and particularly in the application of systems approaches to the development of clinical services and medical education in both these spheres.

In recent years she has been working in collaboration with THET, the University of Medicine 1, Yangon and Cambridge Global Health Partnerships as the Intensive Care Lead for the Cambridge/Yangon Trauma Intervention Group focussing on systems improvements for trauma Care in Yangon, Myanmar. She is a member of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma.

Qualifications

  • MBBS
  • FRCA
  • PhD
  • FFICM

Professional Affiliations

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
  • Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
  • Member of the Intensive Care Society
     

KEY PUBLICATIONS

The Need for Basic Sciences in the Understanding and Practice of Anaesthesia, R.M. Burnstein, D. Jeeva, J.G. Jones, 1997, Anaesthesia, 52, pp. 935-944.

Ethical Issues in Consenting Vulnerable Patients for Neuroscience Research, J.N. Labuzetta, R. Burnstein, J. Pickard, 2010, Journal of Psychopharmacology, January.

Neuro-Critical Care: A Valuable Placement During Foundation and Early Neurosurgical Training, E.W. Dyson, A.G. Kolias, R.M. Burnstein, P.J. Hutchinson, M.R. Garnett, D.K. Menon, R.A. Trivedi, 2014, British Journal of Neurosurgery, 28(5), pp. 675-679.

Email
rmb46@cam.ac.uk