SSI - About Us

Oxford OX3 9UP, UK

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Stowood Scientific Instruments Ltd (Stowood), established in 1992, is a group of bioengineering, hardware and software specialists collaborating in developments for the sleep laboratory. The company is privately owned, independent and technically orientated, with a wealth of experience of hospitals and medical equipment.

Lyn Davies is a bioengineering PhD with more than 35 years of experience: in the NHS at Nottingham's University, and Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospitals, and in industry. Whilst working as the Research and Technical Manager at Oxford Medical - then the UK's primary manufacturer of ambulatory and neurophysiological monitoring equipment between 1984 and 1992, he developed an interest in sleep. He founded Stowood in August 1992, initially to develop the Visi-Lab - a more appropriate alternative to full polysomnography for sleep apnoea/ PLMS screening. He remains as technical manager of Stowood driven by developing what is sensible rather than that which is dictated by reimbursement rules.

Paul Gladding is a software specialist with more than a fifteen years' in-depth knowledge of C++, and Windows programming in medicine, with a major focus on developing 'user friendly' software. Our oximetry programme, DownLoad was his solution to making oximetry trend data accessible to the normal user. He has experience and responsibility for interfacing software to many different manufacturers' equipment

Hugh Goodwin is a hardware specialist, with more than 30 years experience in medical instrumentation design at Rigel, Oxford Medical and Stowood. He is responsible for the development of all our hardware products and their production.