Dr Victoria Keevil is a Clinical Academic Consultant in Healthcare for Older People at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, and a Senior Clinical Lecturer and BRC Mid-Career Fellow at the University of Exeter.

She previously worked as a Consultant Geriatrician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, combining clinical care with a focus on improving healthcare for older adults through service evaluation and research. While in Cambridge, she was appointed Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and contributed to the Clinical School, NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, and East of England Applied Research Collaboration.

Dr Keevil completed formal research training at the University of Cambridge, earning an MPhil and PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. For over a decade, she has used de-identified electronic health record (EHR) data to explore the clinical trajectories and experiences of older inpatients—an underserved group in research. EHRs offer a valuable resource to address clinically relevant questions. She has used this data to evaluate measures of clinical frailty, study the effects of air filters in hospital wards, and create research-ready datasets for machine learning applications in healthcare. These complex projects required collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams including clinicians, epidemiologists, statisticians, data scientists, and informatics experts.

Dr Keevil has received research funding from the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, NIHR, and UK Health Security Agency. She is also a co-applicant on CHARMER (CompreHensive geriAtRician led MEdication Review), funded by the NIHR.