{"id":1361,"date":"2025-02-10T23:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T23:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/cirg\/?post_type=people&#038;p=1361"},"modified":"2025-02-11T23:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:25:20","slug":"amy-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/cirg\/people\/amy-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-row-layout-id1361_84ac3f-18 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:center;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id1361_84ac3f-18 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:center;}.kb-row-layout-id1361_84ac3f-18 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);max-width:1520px;padding-top:60px;padding-right:60px;padding-bottom:100px;padding-left:60px;min-height:450px;grid-template-columns:repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr));}.kb-row-layout-id1361_84ac3f-18 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and 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class=\"has-text-align-left has-link-color alignwide wp-elements-7f0e93526abd321ff1f7582370c35923 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-standard-white-color\">Amy Shepherd<\/h1>\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-left has-link-color cirg-screen-excerpt people-excerpt wp-elements-673e67c071a659143e2b05686475d045 wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-standard-white-color\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Lead Research Nurse <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<style>.kb-row-layout-id1361_bb089d-3c > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id1361_bb089d-3c > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id1361_bb089d-3c > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);max-width:1280px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 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In 2014 Amy began working to pursue a career as a Research Nurse, firstly within the Wellcome Trust at Edinburgh\u2019s Western General Hospital, gaining experience in early phase clinical trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having developed an interest in Infectious Diseases following working on the OVIVA Study, Amy began working as a Senior Research nurse at the Regional Infectious Diseases Unit in Edinburgh in 2014. During her time there she has worked on a variety of studies both commercial and academic in clinical infection including HIV, Hepatitis, C diff and SARS COVID-19. Since 2016 Amy has been a Committee Member of the South East Scotland Research Ethics Committee, this role involves reviewing research applications and amendments for ethical opinion and approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy most recently obtained a MSc in Clinical Trials from Edinburgh University &amp; has since become the Lead Research Nurse of CIRG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide cirg-key-publications has-light-accent-blue-background-color has-background\" style=\"margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:40px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-26a12442 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide publications-header\">Key Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pb-accordion-item c-accordion__item js-accordion-item no-js\" data-initially-open=\"false\" data-click-to-close=\"true\" data-auto-close=\"true\" data-scroll=\"false\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\"><h2 id=\"at-13611\" class=\"c-accordion__title js-accordion-controller\" role=\"button\">2021<\/h2><div id=\"ac-13611\" class=\"c-accordion__content\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33617777\/\">Single-dose administration and the influence of the timing of the booster dose on immunogenicity and efficacy of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine: a pooled analysis of four randomised trials<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/strong>Voysey M,Costa Clemens, Madhi SA, Weckx LY,\u2026Oxford COVID Vaccine Trial Group\u2026<strong><em>Lancet<\/em><\/strong>. 2021 Mar 6;397(10277):881-891<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33306989\/\">Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the&nbsp;UK.<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;Voysey M, Clemens SAC, Madhi SA, Weckx LY,\u2026Oxford COVID Vaccine Trial Group\u2026<strong><em>Lancet<\/em><\/strong>. 2021 Jan 9;397(10269):99-11<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-1361_957596-49 .kt-block-spacer{height:80px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-1361_957596-49 .kt-divider{border-top-width:3px;height:1px;border-top-color:#F59F68;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-1361_957596-49\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-icon__arrow-left\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/cirg\/people\"><span class=\"wp-block-button__link-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg viewBox='0 0 16 11' xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'><polygon points='16 4.7 2.88198758 4.7 6.55900621 1 5.56521739 0 0 5.5 5.56521739 11 6.55900621 10 2.88198758 6.3 16 6.3'><\/polygon><\/svg><\/span>Back to People<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead Research Nurse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1343,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1361","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/cirg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/cirg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/cirg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/cirg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/cirg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/1361\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/cirg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/cirg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}