Rate My Professor Angharad Hurley

Dr Angharad Hurley (formerly Vernon-Roberts) is a Research Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Otago Christchurch, within the Faculty of Medicine. She earned her MSc with Distinction from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and was awarded her PhD in 2020 from the Department of Paediatrics, University of Otago Christchurch. Her doctoral research focused on self-management outcome measures for children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Since completing her PhD, she has expanded her research portfolio within paediatric IBD and other specialties, demonstrating expertise in research methodologies such as meta-analysis, prospective and retrospective studies, and large dataset population research.

Dr Hurley's research interests include paediatric IBD, encompassing self-management outcome measures, socio-geographic risk factors for emergency department presentations, validation of symptom assessment tools against laboratory markers of inflammation, and the epidemiology and outcomes of cystic fibrosis-related diabetes. She has received significant recognition for her work, including the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation Emerging Researcher Fellowship in 2024 valued at $220,000 for investigating socio-economic deprivation, geographic location, and ethnicity in relation to paediatric emergency department admissions at Christchurch Hospital. Additional grants include the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology Small Research Grant for validating a paediatric IBD symptom assessment tool and funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Canterbury Trust. Key publications include Vernon-Roberts et al. (2025) 'Assessment of direct costs attributed to the clinical management of children with inflammatory bowel disease in New Zealand' in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition; Hall et al. (2026) 'Development and validation of a tool to assess disease-related knowledge in children with coeliac disease' in the Journal of Clinical Medicine; Vernon-Roberts et al. (2022) 'Meta-analysis of the efficacy of taurolidine in reducing catheter-related bloodstream infections' in JPEN Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition; and Vernon-Roberts et al. (2024) 'Patterns of vitamin D testing and supplementation for children with inflammatory bowel disease' in JGH Open. Her contributions advance understanding of paediatric chronic disease management and health equity in New Zealand.