Rabeea Maqsood is a first year PhD student within the department of Medical Sciences and Public Health. She is exploring the role of serious battlefield traumatic injury and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in military veterans and personnel in a collaborative project between BU and the ADVANCE study, UK (For more: https://www.advancestudydmrc.org.uk/)
Recently, as a part of her PhD thesis, Rabeea’s study protocol on traumatic injuries and HRV has been published in PloS One with open access. The article has been downloaded and viewed hundreds of times since its publication. Here’s the link: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0273688
Watch this space for the full systematic review which will address the evidence gap in the field of HRV and combat trauma research.
New Nepal-based paper published last week
Congratulation to HEMS colleagues on their new book!
Book edited by BU academics published
BU Prof. Hundley in The Conversation
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