Sara Trompeter

Background

About Sara Trompeter

Dr Trompeter is a clinical academic at UCL, and consultant haematologist at University College London NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and NHS Blood and Transplant. She graduated from the University of Bristol in 1997 with degrees in Medicine MBChB and Psychology BSc. She was awarded MRCPCH by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in FRCPath by the Royal College of Pathology in 2007 adn completed a Masters at the University of Oxford in 2017. At UCLH, she is the lead for red cell paediatric haematology and a core member of the adult service. She has supported and developed the growth of the automated exchange service at UCLH to be the largest in Europe. She has a special interest in red cell disorders (including thalassaemia (THAL) and sickle cell disorder (SCD)) and blood transfusion. As PI for the Blood transfusion Genomics Consortium she has been instrumental in bring array-based blood group genotyping for those with SCD and THAL into the NHS. She is co-theme lead for the Haematology BRC theme at UCLH and is leading data and transfusion research programmes including the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Health Informatics Collaborative in transfusion dependent anaemias - and the Haem-Match programme to bring genomically informed algorithmically driven blood matching to the patient bedside. She is Principal Investigator for the NIHR BioResource Improving Black Health Outcomes (IBHO) theme at UCLH and is Clinical Lead for Sickle Cell for Diverse Data Genomics England. She is the PI at UCLH for bloodcounts, a programme of work to leverage data from FBC using AI and ML to identify a range of health conditions. She founded the paediatric red cell research programme at UCLH, and has pioneered a cross-network approach to ensure equity of access to research for those with sickle cell and thalassaemia - the STAR alliance (Sickle cell and Thalassaemia Alliance for Research). Her private practice is based for adults at Harley Street at UCH and for children, at the Portland Hospital.