Ryckie Wade
- Position: NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
- Areas of expertise: Plastic and hand surgery, advanced MRI techniques for surgical nerve disorders and quantitative evidence synthesis
- Email: R.G.Wade@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: Academic Plastic Surgery Office Gilbert Scott Wing A Floor, Leeds General Infirmary
- Website: My Personal Website | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
Responsibilities
- Co-Director of the EXSEL Scholarship Program
- Associate Specialty Lead for Plastic Surgery RCS(Eng)
- Associate Editor for Scientific Reports (Nature)
Research interests
The areas of active research for me and my group include:
- Improving the care of surgical nerve disorders (e.g., major nerve injury and nerve compression):
- Quantitative MRI for diagnosing neuropathy and monitoring recovery
- The cost-effectiveness and prognostic utility of different tests (ultrasound, electrodiagnostic and MRI) for planning surgery
- Real-time postoperative monitoring in patients’ own environment
- The safest and most effective operations to restore function
- Optimisation of advanced methods for diffusion-weighted MRI:
- Reducing SMS-induced bias
- Investigation denoising-induced bias
- Creation of AI-based joint segmentation and registration networks
- Preprocessing to mitigate EPI-induced distortions
I also supervise, support and collborate on numerous other research projects with colleagues and students on the following topics:
- Topical skin antiseptics for the prevention of infection after clean surgery
- Common elective and emergency operations for common hand conditions
- Melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer
Qualifications
- MBBS (distinction) 2011
- MSc 2019 & MClinEd (distinction) 2011
- FHEA 2013 & FRCS(Plast) 2024
- GradStat 2021
- PhD 2022
Professional memberships
- GMC 7135532
Student education
I am the Co-Director of the EXSEL Scholarship Program at the Univeristy of Leeds
Research groups and institutes
- Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's