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Imelda Black
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Vascular research PPIE coordinator at University of Leicester. Left to my own devices can be found with piles of paperback novels or a piano. Opinions my own.
Please share the below survey as widely as possible and help us to find out what people really do know about Peripheral Artery Disease 🦵#PADawareness
August 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The #PPI participants who have signed up to the UK Vascular Research PPI Registry have had a busy few months, offering advice and support to vascular studies and wider projects around the nation! See our newsletter below for a taste of their work 🫶 #PADawareness
July 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
💚 📣 We've launched the Vascular Voice Network landing page 📣 💚

vascularvoice.org

Visit our webpage and join us on our journey to connect organisations and individuals across the wider vascular community 🟢.
@acta2alliance.bsky.social @aorticdissectct.bsky.social @ehlersdanlos.bsky.social
Vascular Voice Network
Connecting patients, charities, clinicians, researchers, and system leaders around the shared goal of improving care for people with vascular conditions.
vascularvoice.org
June 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Please share this one page flyer with vascular patients and research participants. Let's keep spreading the word about #PPI in vascular research 🙏
June 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
#PPI in vascular research is incredibly important. Patient and public voices improve research study design and the recruitment of study participants. We're always looking for more PPI members to join the UK Vascular Research PPI Registry, so share this video and spread the word 🫶
April 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reposted by Imelda Black
Five ways to save your legs – by a vascular surgery specialist
theconversation.com/five-ways-to...
Five ways to save your legs – by a vascular surgery specialist
Over 3,500 major leg amputations were performed by vascular surgeons in the UK in 2023 – and many were preventable.
theconversation.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Please see the link below for contact details and the latest news about the UK Vascular Research PPI Registry. Let's spread the word to vascular patients and those who care for them 🗣 cambridgebrc.nihr.ac.uk/public/ppi-o...
PPI opportunities - Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
This page has the latest PPI training and opportunities for involvement for researchers, patients and the public living in and around Cambridge. Please note that these are external events and the Read...
cambridgebrc.nihr.ac.uk
January 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Imelda Black
My first piece for @uk.theconversation.com highlighting the impact of PAD and how we may reduce amputations for those with #CLTI

#medsky #vascsky
January 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Reposted by Imelda Black
NHS could save millions from preventable amputations – new data
www.channel4.com/news/nhs-cou...
NHS could save millions from preventable amputations – new data
Thousands of lower limb amputations a year could be prevented - according to new research into a condition called peripheral artery disease.
www.channel4.com
December 23, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Hello BlueSky people! I've noticed a mass exodus underway from other (somewhat more extreme) social media sites. I thought I'd join the party here 🥂
December 13, 2024 at 10:40 PM