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Sr Kay Mitchell
Laboratory Manager Namche Bazaar, Xtreme Everest Executive Board
Senior Research Manager - Critical Care NIHR RBRU, University Hospital Southampton
Acting Managing Director - UCLH/UCL Centre for Nurse and Midwife led Research
Kay has been responsible for subject and investigator recruitment and management for all Xtreme Everest's expeditions to date. She carries out the day-to-day management of the finances, development administration of the research group. In 2013, Kay will manage the Laboratory at Namche Bazaar.
Kay studied at the Oxford School of Nursing before completing a BSc in Human Sciences at UCL. She then joined Midland Bank on a Graduate Management Programme, and worked as a Customer Services Manager at a large London branch. Since returning to nursing, Kay has worked as an Intensive Care nurse. She completed her MSc in Adult Critical Care at Imperial College London.
Currently, Kay is the Senior Research Manager, Critical Care NIHR RBRU, University Hospital Southampton. She is also Acting Managing Director of the Centre for Nurse and Midwife led Research at UCL. She developed the concept, setting it up in 2010. She is also the Deputy Director, Finance, Development and Administration, for UCL CASE Medicine. She is developing her PhD research plan related to hypoxaemia in critically ill patients. She is also interested in the factors that inhibit patients experiencing extreme difficulty in weaning from mechanical ventilators.
In her spare time Kay enjoys running, and also sails, and skis. She has climbed extensively in the UK as well as the Alps, Greece, the Himalayas, and North America.
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