Dr Tamsin Holland Brown

Tamsin works as a paediatrician in Cambridge, England. She specialises in children who are deaf. This led her focus on 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), she created an affordable medical device to improve hearing and an app to improve childhood developmental skills and self management of glue ear between appointments or when operations are unavailable. This proved a successful solution during the COVID pandemic. The device and the app won innovation and paediatric awards, with NICE ‘highly commending’ the app and the UK app awards awarding ‘Children’s app of the year 2019’. Tamsin’s research and experience of implementing a medical device as well as several app’s into clinical pathways led her to become an educator in Digital Health and Entrepreneurship. She is now clinical lead for the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and member of the WHO World Hearing Forum.