Enitan Carrol is a British physician and Professor of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology. Carrol studies the mechanisms that underpin bacterial infection. In 2020 she was featured in Nicola Rollock's exhibition Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors.
In 2013 Carrol was made a Professor at the University of Liverpool.[2] Her research considers the biological mechanisms that underpin bacterial infections.[3][4] Carrol has investigated clinic deterioration of children, and looked to understand whether the use of a paediatric early warning score (PEWS) could be used to prevent admission to critical care.[5] In particular, she proposed the use of VitalPAC, an electronic handheld device that healthcare professionals can use to document vital signs and automatically calculate PEWS. Patients with a higher PEWS score require more urgent medical attention, and alert messages are sent to senior nurses and doctors.[5]
She is a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) sepsis development group.[6] As part of this work, Carrol has studied the use of antibiotics in treating sepsis.[7] She is interested in whether Procalcitonin (PCT) could be used to improve the assessment and treatment of sepsis.[7][8] In 2020 Carrol started to work with Imperial College London on the development of rapid diagnostic tests for severe illnesses through the use of gene signatures.[9] Such tests will study the genetic make-up of patient blood samples, and compare them to a comprehensive library of the gene signatures of particular diseases.[9]
Academic service
Carrol is the Knowledge Exchange Lead at the University of Liverpool Institute of Infection and Global Health.[10] As of February 2019, there were only 25 Black women professors in the United Kingdom.[11] She is a member of Iyiola Solanke's Black Female Professor Forum.[11] In 2020 her portrait was included in Nicola Rollock's exhibition, Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors.[12][13]
