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Overview

Michael C. Sheppard is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with particular attention to cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Additionally, their work involves subfields such as endocrine and autonomic systems, health, and oncology.

The scientist has contributed to topics that include:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Healthcare Policy and Management

Recent publications by Michael C. Sheppard include:

  • Actigraphic and nursing sleep log measures in moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury: Identifying discrepancies in total sleep time, 2022, PM&R
  • Impact of the COVID-19 Vaccination Program on Case Incidence, Emergency Department Visits, And Hospital Admissions Among Children Aged 5-17 Years During the Delta and Omicron Periods - An Ecological Analysis of National Surveillance Data, United States, December 2020 to April 2022, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Justin Weppner
  • Emily Hillaker
  • Jacob Boomgaardt
  • Stephen Tan
  • Parker Holum

Their work has been published mainly in venues such as:

  • PM&R
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Association between premature mortality and hypopituitarism

    J. W. Tomlinson;N. Holden;Robert Kerrin Hills;K. Wheatley

  • Treatment of acromegaly with the growth hormone-receptor antagonist pegvisomant.

    Trainer Pj;Drake Wm;Katznelson L;Freda Pu

  • Prediction of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in elderly people from one low serum thyrotropin result: a 10-year cohort study

    James V Parle;Patrick Maisonneuve;Michael C Sheppard;Peter Boyle

  • Prevalence and follow-up of abnormal thyrotrophin (TSH) concentrations in the elderly in the United Kingdom

    Parle Jv;Franklyn Ja;Cross Kw;Jones Sc

  • Serum Thyrotropin Concentration as a Novel Predictor of Malignancy in Thyroid Nodules Investigated by Fine-Needle Aspiration

    Boelaert K;Horacek J;Holder Rl;Watkinson Jc

  • Growth Hormone and Pituitary Radiotherapy, But Not Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Concentrations, Predict Excess Mortality in Patients with Acromegaly

    J. Ayuk;R. N. Clayton;G. Holder;M. C. Sheppard

  • Mortality in Patients with Pituitary Disease

    Mark Sherlock;John Ayuk;Jeremy W. Tomlinson;Andrew A. Toogood

  • Pasireotide Versus Octreotide in Acromegaly: A Head-to-Head Superiority Study

    A. Colao;M. D. Bronstein;P. Freda;F. Gu

  • Mortality after the treatment of hyperthyroidism with radioactive iodine.

    J A Franklyn;P Maisonneuve;M C Sheppard;J Betteridge

  • Modulation of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase isozymes by proinflammatory cytokines in osteoblasts: an autocrine switch from glucocorticoid inactivation to activation.

    Mark S. Cooper;Iwona Bujalska;Elizabeth Rabbitt;Elizabeth A. Walker

  • Consensus statement: medical management of acromegaly

    S Melmed;F Casanueva;F Cavagnini;P Chanson

  • Radioiodine Treatment of Hyperthyroidism—Prognostic Factors for Outcome

    Amit Allahabadia;Jacquie Daykin;Michael C. Sheppard;Stephen C. L. Gough

  • Age and gender predict the outcome of treatment for Graves' hyperthyroidism.

    Amit Allahabadia;Jacquie Daykin;Roger L. Holder;Michael C. Sheppard

  • Cancer incidence and mortality after radioiodine treatment for hyperthyroidism: a population-based cohort study.

    Jayne A Franklyn;Patrick Maisonneuve;Michael Sheppard;Joan Betteridge

  • Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor, Its Receptor KDR/Flk-1, and Pituitary Tumor Transforming Gene in Pituitary Tumors

    C. J. McCabe;K. Boelaert;L. A. Tannahill;A. P. Heaney

  • Association between serum free thyroxine concentration and atrial fibrillation.

    M. D. Gammage;J. V. Parle;R. L. Holder;L. M. Roberts

  • Hypertension in the syndrome of apparent mineralocorticoid excess due to mutation of the 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 gene

    P.M Stewart;A Gupta;M.C Sheppard;C.B Whorwood

  • Long-term thyroxine treatment and bone mineral density

    J.A. Franklyn;J. Betteridge;J. Daykin;G.D. Oates

  • Radiotherapy for non-functioning pituitary tumours

    N. J. L. Gittoes;A. S. Bates;W. Tse;B. Bullivant

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effect of Thyroxine Replacement on Cognitive Function in Community-Living Elderly Subjects with Subclinical Hypothyroidism: The Birmingham Elderly Thyroid Study

    J. Parle;L. Roberts;S. Wilson;Helen M. Pattison

Frequent Co-Authors

Jayne A. Franklyn
Jayne A. Franklyn University of Birmingham
Paul M. Stewart
Paul M. Stewart University of Leeds
Annamaria Colao
Annamaria Colao University of Naples Federico II
Patrick Maisonneuve
Patrick Maisonneuve European Institute of Oncology
Elizabeth M. Wilson
Elizabeth M. Wilson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle University of Edinburgh
Anthony H. Barnett
Anthony H. Barnett University of Birmingham
Shlomo Melmed
Shlomo Melmed Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Martin Hewison
Martin Hewison University of Birmingham
Scott G. Wilson
Scott G. Wilson University of Western Australia

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