Dr Tamsin Holland Brown

Delivery lead, Paediatric Lead
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NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, ORCHA
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United Kingdom

Tamsin works as a paediatrician in Cambridge. Specialising in children with hearing loss, she focused on improving care for children with temporary hearing loss due to glue ear (a common condition, where fluid builds up behind the ear drum, causing temporary deafness in young children), by creating an affordable medical device to improve hearing as well as an app called Hear Glue Ear, to improve childhood developmental skills and to empower children/ families to self manage glue ear between appointments or when operations (known as grommet- insertion operations or  tympanostomy tube operations) are unavailable. The device and the app won several awards, including  ‘Children’s app of the year’at UK app awards and NICE ‘highly commended’ the app. Collaboration with Raspberry Pi and the National Deaf Childrens Society strengthened the product and kept it affordable for families. Tamsin’s research and experience of medical devices and health apps later led her to become an educator in Digital Health and Clinical entrepreneurship. She became a NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur herself before joining the leadership team to help run the programme for others. She is also part of the NHS innovation accelerator programme and paediatric clinical lead for Organisation for Care and Health Applications. Outside work Tamsin has fun with her family and dogs.