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EH14 4AS
United Kingdom
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I am an Associate Professor and Chartered Psychologist (Experimental); the Founding Director of SPECTRA Labs and Co-Lead for the Mental Ilness and Neurological Disorders (MIND) Digital Health theme in the Global Research Intitute for Health and Care Technologies. HCT I am also the Founding CEO of Optomize Ltd which implements a data driven approach to capture and analyse performance in medical training with the aim of reducing learning curves.
I am interested in how we can use simulated environments, technology and feedback to reduce anxiety and improve performance.
Anxiety, social performance and mental health: I specialise in social cognition, face processing and attention and am currently developing the MIND Hub as a digital mental health research and data services centre which focuses on providing consultancy, validation and research project services; development of digital content and data curation using machine learning and artificial intelligence. Further to this I am interested in face processing and cognitive biases in social judgments.
Performance training and assessment: I founded the Medical Education Lab (MEL) to work across disciplines bringing together clinicians, academics and SMEs to develop problem based solutions for medical training Technologies include digital tools for Med x (Virtual, augmented and mixed realities); haptics; eye-tracking; 3D object recognition; data capture systems; human-robot interaction; gaming and visualisation technologies; robotics for capturing surgical skills and training.
Recently funded projects
EU Horizon led by FDK (Germany) – Heriot watt -Lim, T., McKendrick, M.(2023). SMart tools and Integrated methodology for cLinical dEcisions. SMILE
EPSRC EMERGENCE Healthcare Technologies Network+: McConnell, A & McKendrick, M (2023) Robobrico, a modular robotic platform co-designed with users. Emergence Robobrico
British Journal of Anaesthesia/ Royal Colleage of Anaesthesia, National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia: Gridewald, I., McLeod, G., Portelli, R., McKendrick, M., Husz, Z. (2023). Design and validation of an augmented reality system for simulated thoracic epidural block training on the soft embalmed Thiel cadaver.
Tayside Healthboard Fund: Sadler, A., McLeod, G., McKendrick, M. (2023) NHS Tayside. Does cadaver simulation training offer best clinical performance behaviour during ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia?
European Crucible: McKendrick, M. Tereshchenko, I., Chollet, M. & Jess-Cooke, C. “MAVKA (2022) Co-creative gamified storytelling for trauma”.
Eye tracking, mixed realities, simulation, digital mental health, medical training, social perception, anxiety.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Optomize Ltd
1 Jan 2015 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Xia, Guobin (Recipient) & McKendrick, Mel (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Other distinction
McKendrick, Mel (Recipient), 12 May 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
McKendrick, Mel (Recipient), 14 May 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Mary-Ellen McKendrick (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Mary-Ellen McKendrick (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Mary-Ellen McKendrick (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Mary-Ellen McKendrick (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Mary-Ellen McKendrick (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
18/03/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
13/11/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Mary-Ellen McKendrick (Manager)
PsychologyFacility/equipment: Equipment