Sam Swan
Trial Support Officer
Profile
Biography
Sam joined the Trials Unit as a Trial Support Officer in September 2022. Prior to this Sam worked in Quality within Pharmaceutical R+D and was a Clinical Trial Coordinator for a company that specialised in Skin Research. She also spent a few years doing ISO 90001 Quality Management, STEM recruitment and worked in secondary school education.
Qualifications
- BSc Hons Applied Chemistry, Sheffield Hallam University
Departmental roles
- API Champion
Research
Projects
- DIDACT - A pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial comparing surgery with sling immoblisation in the management of displaced fracture of the distal clavicle.
Previous Projects
- SWHSI-2 - A pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial of negative pressure wound therapy for open surgical wounds
Research group(s)
Publications
Full publications list
Arundel C, Mandefield L, Fairhurst C et al. Negative pressure wound therapy versus usual care in patients with surgical wound healing by secondary intention in the UK (SWHSI-2): an open-label, multicentre, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial The Lancet, 2025; 405, 1689-1699
Macefield, Rhiannon et al. “Modification and validation of the Bluebelle Wound Healing Questionnaire (WHQ) for assessing surgical site infection in wounds healing by secondary intention.” Journal of tissue viability vol. 34,3 (2025): 100889. doi:10.1016/j.jtv.2025.100889
Pedro Saramago, Athanasios Gkekas, Catherine E Arundel, Ian C Chetter, the SWHSI-2 Trial Investigators , Negative pressure wound therapy for surgical wounds healing by secondary intention is not cost-effective, BJS, Volume 112, Issue 5, May 2025, znaf077, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znaf077
Arundel, C., Zahra, S., Chetter, I. et al. Surgical wounds healing by Secondary Intention-2 Trial: outcomes and learning from the internal pilot phase and main trial. Pilot Feasibility Stud 11, 90 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-025-01658-w
Rose F, Brealey S, McDaid C, et al. A multicentre, randomized, pragmatic, parallel group, non-inferiority trial to compare the clinical and cost-effectiveness of sling immobilization versus surgery in the management of adults with a displaced fracture of the distal clavicle. Bone Jt Open. 2025;6(10):1208-1221. doi:10.1302/2633-1462.610.BJO-2025-0131