J Hothersall

Biography

Dr Ellie Hothersall graduated from University College London in 2000 with an Intercalated BSc in Medical Anthropology (1st Class Honours), and with MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 2001. Since then, her career has taken her through a postgraduate certificate in Health Economics at University of Aberdeen and an MD from the University of Glasgow in 2008. She completed Higher Specialist Training in Public Health in the West Midlands, and was an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Birmingham. She has completed the NIHR Clinical Academic Leadership programme at Ashridge as part of that Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and of the Faculty of Public Health. Ellie moved to Dundee in 2011, initially in a combined research and teaching role. From 2011 to 2017 she was Theme Lead for Public Health and latterly Evidence Based Medicine. She became Deputy Convener of Systems in Practice in 2012, and Convener in 2013. She is a member of the Medical Schools Council Assessment Alliance Board (2017-2020).

Research Interest

Dr Hothersall has a research interest in teaching and assessment of Public Health and related subjects.   She has just completed a Masters thesis exploring use of multiple choice questions to assess public health, sociology, psychology and evidence based medicine, and is in the process of a BEME systematic review of assessment of the same topics.