Sara Kenyon
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University of Nottingham
Sara Kenyon | |
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| Born | |
| Alma mater | University of Leicester De Montfort University King's College London |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Birmingham University of Nottingham |
| Thesis | Researching pre-term birth : the oracle trial and children study (2009) |
Sara Kenyon is a British midwife who is a professor of evidence-based maternity care at the University of Birmingham. Kenyon has dedicated her career to maternal health and improving the clinical outcomes of new families and babies. She works at the Birmingham Women's Hospital and co-developed the Birmingham Symptom Specific Obstetric Triage System.
Kenyon is from Long Eaton.[1] Kenyon trained as a midwife at King's College London in 1980.[2] She has said that she chose to study there because it was on the 185 bus route. She went to the ultrasound department at Dulwich Community Hospital, where she pioneered midwives doing ultrasound scans. This involved launching an ultrasound course at King's.[2] She started a programme to support women through antenatal testing, "Antenatal Results and Choices", which has been running for over three decades.[3] She moved to Nottingham, where she worked on the ORACLE trials, randomised control trials that proposed broad-spectrum antibiotics for women with PPROM or SPL. Her results showed that erythromycin improved neonatal outcomes.[4] Kenyon completed an MSc in Applied Health Studies at De Montfort University, and was awarded a doctorate from the University of Leicester for her comprehensive research programme. Her doctoral research investigated pre-term births.[5]
