Final year medical student Ikenna Ibeanusi has won the prestigious annual British Hyperbaric Association Joseph Priestly Essay prize. Ikenna spent several weeks with DDRC Healthcare last year and gained understanding and knowledge to support his winning essay entitled: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and wound healing: An Omics-based perspective.
The competition was judged by the chair of the British Hyperbaric Association and head of Diving Medicine Royal Navy, Institute of Naval Medicine. The prize was £1000.
DDRC Healthcare would like to congratulate Ikenna and wish him the best of luck as he starts work as an F1 doctor this August.
DDRC Medical Director Dr Doug Watts congratulates Ikenna
(Joseph Priestley (1733 – 1804) was an English chemist, philosopher and theologian. He published over 150 works, and conducted experiments in several areas of science.)