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Name: Professor Adrien Michael Peters MA MD MSc FRCPath FRCP FRCR FMedSci

Academic position: Chair in Applied Physiology

Research: Applied human physiology using radionuclide techniques

Contact details:

Southpoint
Room SP205
Royal Sussex County Hospital
Eastern Road
BRIGHTON
BN2 5BE

Tel: +44 (0)1273 696955 Ext 7512 (Barbara Kavanagh - PA)

E-mail:


Biography:

  • Professor of Nuclear Medicine 1999-2004. University of Cambridge
  • Honorary Consultant in Nuclear Medicine 1999-2004. Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
  • Professorial Fellow 1999-2004. New Hall, University of Cambridge
  • Regional adviser in Nuclear Medicine, East Anglia
  • Honorary Consultant in Diagnostic Radiology 1984-1999 and Consultant-in-charge of Nuclear Medicine (from 1991). Dept of Diagnostic Radiology, Hammersmith Hospital
  • Professor of Diagnostic Radiology (Nuclear Medicine) 1997-1999. Imperial College School of Medicine, London
  • Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Radiology 1988-1993. Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London.

Teaching focus:

Clinical nuclear medicine to trainee nuclear physicians and radiologists, PhD, MD, MSc supervision. Medical undergraduate teaching.

 

Key/recent publications:

Review articles and editorials:

Dixon AK, Coulden RA, Peters AM. The non-invasive diagnosis of pulmonary embolus. Br Med J 2001; 323: 412-413.

Evans JW, Peters AM. Gamera camera imaging in malignancy. Eur J Cancer 2002; 38: 2157-2172

Peters AM. The kinetic basis of glomerular filtration rate measurement and new concepts of indexation to body size. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2004; 31: 137-149.

Peters AM. Academic nuclear medicine. Nucl Med Comun 2004; 25: 535-537

Full papers:

Cheow HK, Voutnis DD, Evans JW, Szczepura KR, Swift EA, Bird NJ, Ruparelia
P, Solanki CK, Ballinger JR, Chilvers ER, Middleton SJ, Peters AM. Quantification of disease activity in patients undergoing leucocyte scintigraphy for suspected inflammatory bowel disease. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2005 Mar;32(3):329-337. Epub 2004 Oct 29.

Modi S, Stanton AW, Mellor RH, Peters AM, Levick JR, Mortimer PS. Regional distribution of epifascial swelling and epifascial lymph drainage rate constants in breast cancer-related lymphedema. Lymphat Res Biol. 2005;3(1):3-15.

Bihl GR, Bird NJ, Peters C, Bradley JR, Peters AM. Radionuclide method for evaluating the performance of hemodialysis in vivo. Kidney Int. 2005 Feb;67(2):721-31.

Stanton AW, Mellor RH, Cook GJ, Svensson WE, Peters AM, Levick JR, Mortimer
PS. Impairment of lymph drainage in subfascial compartment of forearm in breast
cancer-related lymphedema. Lymphat Res Biol. 2003;1(2):121-32.

Patel A, Pain SJ, Britton P, Sinnatamby R, Warren R, Bobrow L, Barber RW,
Peters AM, Purushotham AD. Radioguided occult lesion localisation (ROLL) and sentinel node biopsy for impalpable invasive breast cancer. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2004 Nov;30(9):918-23.

Mubashar M, Harrington KJ, Chaudhary KS, Lalani el-N, Stamp GW, Peters AM.
Differential effects of toremifene on doxorubicin, vinblastine and Tc-99m-sestamibi in P-glycoprotein-expressing breast and head and neck cancer cell lines.
Acta Oncol. 2004;43(5):443-52. Erratum in: Acta Oncol. 2004;43(6):606.

Fowler JC, Solanki CK, Barber RW, Swift EA, Guenther I, Ballinger JR, Purushotham AD, Peters AM. Measurement of the extraction fractions of nanocolloid and polyclonal immunoglobulin by axillary lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer.
Nucl Med Commun. 2004 Sep;25(9):935-40.

Dutton JA, Bird NJ, Skehan SJ, Peters AM. Evaluation of a 3-hour indium-111 leukocyte image as a surrogate for a technetium-99m nanocolloid marrow scan in the diagnosis of orthopedic infection. Clin Nucl Med. 2004 Aug;29(8):469-74.

Peters AM. Research in nuclear medicine. Nucl Med Commun. 2004 Jun;25(6):535-7.

Price CJ, Menon DK, Peters AM, Ballinger JR, Barber RW, Balan KK, Lynch A,
Xuereb JH, Fryer T, Guadagno JV, Warburton EA. Cerebral neutrophil recruitment, histology, and outcome in acute ischemic stroke: an imaging-based study.
Stroke. 2004 Jul;35(7):1659-64. Epub 2004 May 20.

Peters AM, Bomanji J, Costa DC, Ell PJ, Gordon I, Henderson BL, Hilson AJ.
Clinical audit in nuclear medicine. Nucl Med Commun. 2004 Feb;25(2):97-103.

Pain SJ, Purushotham AD, Barber RW, Ballinger JR, Solanki CK, Mortimer PS, Peters AM. Underlying variation in lymphatic function predisposes to development of breast cancer-related lymphoedema. Eur J Surg Oncol 2004; 30: 508-514

Peters AM, Bomanji J, Costa DC, Ell PJ, Gordon I, Henderson BL, Hilson AJ. Clinical audit in nuclear medicine. Nucl Med Commun 2004; 25: 97-103.

O’Mahony S, Rose SL, Chilvers AJ, Ballinger JR, Solanki CK, Barber RW, Mortimer PS, Purushotham AD, Peters AM. Finding an optimal method for imaging lymphatic vessels of the upper limb. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2004; 31: 555-563.

Pain SJ, Barber RW, Ballinger JR, Solanki CK, Mortimer PS, Purushotham AD, Peters AM. Local vascular access of radioprotein injected subcutaneously in normal subjects and patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema. J Nucl Med 2004; 45:789-796.

Hardy G, Worrell S, Hayes P, Barnett CM, Glass D, Pido-Lopez J, Imami N, Aspinall R, Dutton J, Gazzard B, Peters AM, Gotch FM. Evidence of thymic reconstitution after highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1 infection. HIV Med 2004; 5: 67-73.

Pain SJ, Barber RW, Ballinger JR, Solanki CK, Mortimer PS, Purushotham AD, Peters AM. Transport of radiolabelled immunoglobulin injected into the web spaces of the hands of normal subjects and patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema. J Vasc Res 2004; 41:183-192.

Bird NJ, Henderson BL, Lui D, Peters AM. Time to complete mixing for the measurtement of glomerular filtration rate from sinle bolus plasma 51chromium-EDTA clearance. Nucl Med Commun 2004; 25: 393-398

 

Current/recent laboratory funding:

  • 2001 Wellcome Trust £246,735 (allocated to Cambridge University). Mechanisms underlying breast cancer related lymphoedema of the arm (BRCL) (as a co-applicant with Professor Peter S Mortimer, Department of Physiological Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School, London. Start 1.2.2001.
  • 2002 Friends of Addenbrooke's Hospital £8,000 Imaging osteomyelitis in the feet with FDG and PET. Start 1.11.02
  • 2002 National Kidney Research Fund £44,842 Development of postal service for measurement of glomerular filtration rate. Start 1.7.02
  • 2003 AstraZeneca £279,638 Neutrophil trafficking in COPD. Start 1.3.03


Active collaborations:

  • Dr Lorna Williamson, National Blood Service, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
  • P S Mortimer and J R Levick, St George’s Hospital Medical School
  • E R Chilvers, University of Cambridge
  • A D Purushotham, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge

Other information:

  • Member the British Nuclear Medicine Society
  • Member the British Institute of Radiology
  • Member of the Society of Nuclear Medicine