Dr Sara Trompeter details
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Location:
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
GMC/GDC number:
4405616
Professional background
Dr Trompeter is a clinical academic at UCL, and consultant haematologist at University College London NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and NHS Blood and Transplant.
She has a special interest in red cell disorders (including thalassaemia (THAL) and sickle cell disorder (SCD)) and blood transfusion. She is clinical and research lead for the Paediatric Red Cell Service at UCLH and is the transfusion lead of the NHSE National Haemoglobinopathy Panel and is a clinical representative on the NHSE Clinical Reference Group for Haemoglobinopathies.
She is supporting NHSE in the delivery of the recommendations of the Infected Blood Inquiry.
Research interests
As PI for the Blood Transfusion Genomics Consortium (www.bgc.io), Dr Trompeter has been instrumental in bring array-based blood group genotyping for those with SCD and THAL into the NHS. She is co-theme lead for the Haematology BRC theme at UCLH and is leading data and transfusion research programmes including the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Health Informatics Collaborative in transfusion dependent anaemias - and the Haem-Match programme (www.haemmatch.org) - to bring genomically informed algorithmically driven blood matching to the patient bedside.
She is the principal investigator for the NIHR BioResource Improving Black Health Outcomes (IBHO) theme at UCLH and is clinical lead for Sickle Cell for Diverse Data Genomics England. She is the PI at UCLH for bloodcounts!, a programme of work to leverage data from FBC using AI and ML to identify a range of health conditions.
She founded the paediatric red cell research programme at UCLH and has pioneered a cross-network approach to ensure equity of access to research for those with sickle cell and thalassaemia - the STAR alliance (Sickle cell and Thalassaemia Alliance for Research).
Languages spoken
French (conversational)