CLAHRC Past Fellows
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Allison’s background is in district nursing, community matron and specialist palliative care, where she has spent the past 10 years developing a clinical and academic interest caring for people with end stage long-term conditions and frailty. She was awarded a Florence Nightingale research scholarship and completed an MRes at the International End of Life Observatory, Lancaster University in 2014 and subsequently decided to gain experience within dementia research. Allison is currently a research nurse working for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust on a study (DIAMOND-Lewy) which is looking at improving the diagnosis and management of neurodegenerative dementia of Lewy body…
Amanda is a clinical psychologist, who has worked in the NHS since qualifying in 2000. She has worked in community adult mental health teams within Cambridgeshire, and currently works in Bedfordshire. Amanda’s clinical interests have been in the area of long term and complex mental health, and the role of attachment and early trauma on the development of emotional and interpersonal patterns. Amanda is experienced in the delivery of CBT, CAT and MBT therapies, and in delivering training to staff teams on working with personality disorder type difficulties. She held the position of pathway lead for personality disorder within Cambridgeshire…
Ana Gaspar is a Senior Respiratory & Sleep Clinical Physiologist working at Lister Hospital in Stevenage. Ana has worked with the NIHR CRN on delivering research projects. Her CLAHRC project is looking into the prevalence, cost and barriers diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea in a local inpatient mental health care facility. As part of her work, Ana will be working closely with inpatient mental health services offering a direct access to domiciliary diagnostic screening services.
Andrea Nunney is a senior Mental Health Pharmacist and has worked in Psychiatry since 1998 with Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust. Andrea initially worked in the drug and alcohol service developing an ‘in-house’ methadone maintenance service and now currently works in acute services, which includes the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team. Andrea also has an educational role, primarily for service users but also for carers, nurses, medical staff and more recently as a teacher practitioner for the UEA pharmacy degree. Through her multidisciplinary work, particularly with the home treatment team Andrea works closely with nurse prescribers. Her CLARHC research…
Andy Rose is a registered physiotherapist. Previous roles have included all aspects of acute and chronic rehabilitation. Previously to his current role he worked as a clinical research physiotherapist for the MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Now working for the East of England Neuromuscular Care Advisory Service he supports children and adults diagnosed with rare neuromuscular diseases. This involves supporting patients and their families when a diagnosis is made and subsequently whenever advice is needed regarding health, social care and education/employment. Andy's research during this fellowship will…
Angela Lee qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1994. She has worked in the NHS for 20 years, in various acute and community OT posts. Angela currently specialises in the rehabilitation of acquired brain injured adults with the Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust. In 2014 she completed her MSc in Clinical Research and is an active member of the OT Research Network based in Cambridge. Controversy over the effectiveness of upper limb splinting for neurological conditions and the lack of published qualitative research seeking service users experience of this intervention, has led Angela to her 2015 CLAHRC fellowship…
Annabel trained as a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, qualifying in 2001. After completing house jobs she spent a year in Australia working in A+E and palliative care. On returning to the UK she trained as a psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, combining her higher clinical with academic training as a clinical lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry. During this time she developed her interest in mental health at the end of life. Since August 2013 she has been a consultant liaison psychiatrist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital working in the older people’s service.…
Dr Metastasio qualified from the University of Perugia (Italy) in 2000. His MD Thesis was on the “Cognitive decline in the elderly between normality and dementia: the role of functional neuroimaging”. He than trained as Geriatrician in Italy. Subsequently he moved to the UK and completed his postgraduate training in Adult Psychiatry (with endorsement in Addiction and in Rehabilitation Psychiatry) in Cambridge in 2012. Dr Metastasio also completed his MSc in Addiction Biology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London in 2012. He was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist the same year. He is currently Consultant Psychiatrist in the Suffolk Access…
Ben Bowers is a Research Nurse and Queen's Nurse. After gaining extensive experience in community nursing, Ben specialised in palliative and end of life care. His CLAHRC project investigated and summarised the current knowledge of the use and impact of anticipatory medications in end of life. He also undertook a qualitative study exploring General Practitioners’ decision-making concerning anticipatory prescribing. Ben is building upon this research through his NIHR School for Primary Care Research PhD studentship.
Carly is a Senior Counselling Psychologist and Lead Clinician at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. Carly's substansive post is working in the Mental Health In-Reach Team at HMP Littlehey, a local Category C prison. For the last 2 years she has also been on an extended secondment 2 days a week at the CLASS clinic, an adult Asperger Syndrome diagnostic service in Cambridge. She has a specialist interest in autistic spectrum conditions particulalry within the forensic field.
Dr Caroline Barry is a registrar in palliative medicine currently working at Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridge. She has a research interest in the application of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 at the end of life; this interest was developed via an LLM based at Cardiff University. Her dissertation examined the role of the Court of Protection in determining the lawfulness of withholding or withdrawing life sustaining treatment from individuals who lack capacity. For her CLAHRC project she is using data held by the Cambridge and Peterborough Continuing Health Care (CHC) Team to examine outcomes and trends in terminally ill…
Catherine qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2000. She led the in-patient medical physiotherapy team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital before joining the Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service in 2009. She teaches breathlessness self management strategies to patients with intractable breathlessness irrespective of diagnosis. Catherine has a keen interest in dysfunctional breathing and its management, including using the Buteyko Method of breathing retraining. She runs Buteyko Teacher Training Courses for healthcare professionals and is the current Chair of the Buteyko Breathing Association. Catherine has co-authored on articles and clinical guides regarding development of a breathlessness service and non-pharmacological management of breathlessness. She continues to…
Cheryl is a Learning Disability Nurse has gained a broad range of experiences working with children and more predominantly, adults with intellectual (learning) disabilities (LD) in the community since joining the Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust (Learning Disability Partnership) in 1995. In 2008, she qualified as an Adult nurse, and she now combines both knowledge and skills as a learning disability liaison nurse at Hinchingbrooke, North West Anglia foundation trust where she has worked since 2013. Cheryl has always been interested in using evidence from research to make change, and works with a wide range of partners, namely colleagues, people…
Chris is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, with a PhD in health promotion education, and Masters’ degrees in clinical psychology and organisational and occupational psychology. He currently works in Colchester for the North Essex Learning Disabilities Service as part of Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT), but has also worked with children and/or adults in a range of NHS settings including: acute hospital and community paediatric services, child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), acquired brain injury services for adults, and child and adult learning disabilities services. His interests include the development and implementation of training and development programmes for…
Clare Foster is a Research Officer in the Improving Outcomes Team at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group. She is responsible for collating and critically appraising the research evidence base for the commissioning of services within the CCG and acts as a point of contact for advice on research, evaluation and evidence for a range of CCG and Local Commissioning Group staff. As an undergraduate, Clare studied for a BSc in Cell Biology at the University of Durham, and then stayed for a further four years to complete a PhD investigating the genomics and proteomics of colorectal cancer cells. After…
Dr Corinna Hackmann is a clinical psychologist. After qualifying she worked in an adult mental health community team. She completed a PhD in 2007 on the impact of trauma in early psychosis. Corinna currently holds the position of research development lead for adult services for Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT). Her research interests presently centre on the use of recovery approaches in the provision of mental health services. NSFT are involved in an initiative called Improving Recovery through Organisational Change (ImROC). Corinna is the co-lead for a working group tasked with the research and evaluation of this project for…
Deborah is a Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist. She has worked clinically for the NHS since qualifying in 1986. She has worked in community and secure/prison services with people with learning disabilities and mentally disordered offenders. At present Deborah works for CPFT as part of the Intensive Support Team Peterborough (Adults with Learning Disabilities) and Adult ADHD Service. She provides consultancy to the Prison In-Reach Team at HMP Peterborough. Deborah’s interests include staff training and development particularly in the areas of clinical risk management and leadership skills. She is an NHS 360 Feedback Facilitator for the Leadership Academy. Her project…
Dite Felekki is a Clinical Psychologist within the Child, Family and Young Peoples service working at Sliver wood Child & Family Centre in Great Yarmouth. Dite’s previous work on a whole school approach to children’s psychological wellbeing was published as a contribution to a House of Commons Education and Health Committee enquiry. Her CLAHRC project; working in the Self-Determination Theory is looking at the implementation and effects on attitudinal shifts in a teacher population.
Donna qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1987. She has worked with people with acquired brain injury within NHS services for the majority of that time, from the acute stages post-injury, through inpatient rehabilitation and community rehabilitation provision. She gained a BSc (Hons) in Health Studies during this time. Donna joined the Oliver Zangwill Centre in 1998, became an Occupational Therapy Clinical Specialist and subsequently gained an MSt in Primary & Community Care in 2005. Donna was seconded to the NIHR’s CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough (Adult Theme) between 2008 and 2013 as a Practitioner Researcher. Studies explored current practice…
Frances completed her PhD in psychology at University College, Cardiff in 1989 and worked in information technology before practising as a business psychologist, mentor and coach. After gaining an MSc in Health Psychology in 2009 she began her current role working with the Centre for Self Management Support at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. She led the Trust’s evaluation of Co-creating Health, a programme funded by The Health Foundation to implement self-management support for people living with COPD and went on to evaluate other projects to support self-management including a web-based approach and co-production to inform clinical commissioning. In 2015 she became affiliated…
Frances Marshall is a Clinical Psychologist working on the Hollies outpatient learning disability team in Peterborough. After building up extensive knowledge in adult mental health, Frances has now specialised solely in learning disabilities. Her CLAHRC project is to conduct a review of the legislation, policy and practice that relates to mainstream in-patient and community services for people with learning disabilities and additional mental health needs.
Gabriel currently works as the Men’s Wellbeing Nursing Lead at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). Gabriel has worked for NSFT since completing his Bachelor of Nursing Degree at the University of Dundee in 2005. During this time, he has gained a broad range of experience, working primarily with people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness. He completed an MSc in Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia in 2011, during which this he developed his knowledge of evidence based practice and research methodologies in health research. This qualification led to his current job as a…
Gillian qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist in 2006. Since then she has worked with children and adults with both acquired and developmental complex needs. She also completed additional training from NHS England on Change Management in the NHS. She went on to specialise in working with children with acquired brain injury and has worked at the Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation since 2012.
Helen Hall has recently been appointed as a Research Grants Advisor working for the James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and has built up an extensive knowledge base after 13 years as a Paramedic working for the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust. During her time with the ambulance service she has worked on different research and evaluation projects. Helen’s CLAHRC project is looking at exploring the experiences individuals have when receiving care from the ambulance service for a mental health related problem or crisis.
Iliana Rokkou is the User and Carer R&D manager in Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. Iliana currently leads a programme that aims to foster meaningful service-user and carer involvement in mental health research throughout CPFT. Iliana’s CLAHRC project is exploring ways that people with lived experience of mental health issues have been involved in identifying and prioritising research topics, and the advantages and disadvantages of these methods.
Ingrid trained as a Physiotherapist and has a background in Rehabilitation of Stroke and the Older Adult. She currently holds the post of Lead Physiotherapist on the In-patient Stroke Rehabilitation Unit in Norwich. At the same time she has a secondment to the Eastern Clinical Research Network, one day a week, to work on hosting NIHR Portfolio studies in the Stroke Service – these include FAST-Indicate (a trial of Functional Strength Training in Upper Limb Therapy) and EXTRAS (Extended Trial of Rehabilitation after Stroke). Her interest clinically is in lower limb function but she also has an interest in supporting…
Izzy is a Clinical Psychologist working in the Learning Disability Partnership. Since starting work with the LDP in 2010, her role has included service development work around people with learning disabilities who are parents. Her project examines the barriers that can prevent parents with a learning disability from receiving appropriately adapted support from specialist and mainstream services.
Dr Janine Robinson is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist having trained at the Institute of Psychiatry. She has since specialised in the assessment and diagnosis of autistic spectrum conditions (ASC) in adults, commencing her work with Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in 1999 when the national adult diagnostic clinic (CLASS) was first established. In addition Janine has been actively engaged in collaboration with clinical psychologists and psychiatrists in Lyon, France. This work includes translation and validation of psychometric screening measures developed at the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge to be employed in French studies and ultimately in clinical practice. Janine has particular interest…
Dr Jennifer Harris has worked in psychiatry since 1994 in various fields until becoming a Consultant in Early Intervention in Norwich in 2014. She has tended to work part time to balance work life alongside raising a family. Jennifer has always been interested in research and has studied for an Open University degree in Maths and Physics as well as a diploma in statistics. She spent the last few years writing questions for the critical appraisal part of the Royal College exams and hopes to be able to put some of her critical appraisal knowledge into good use in focusing…
Jo is a clinical psychologist and CAT practitioner, currently working in a community adult mental health service in Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). She has also worked for a specialist neurorehabilitation service for adults with acquired brain injury. She has a particular interest in compassion focused therapy and is working towards becoming an accredited EMDR practitioner, having completed initial training. Jo has co-authored publications on experiences of stress and coping in mental health staff and in therapy process research in the context of computerised CBT for depression. NSFT is a pilot site for the national Implementing Recovery through…
Joanna is currently completing a professional doctorate in Child, Community and Educational Psychology at the Tavistock Institute, London, and has been working as a Trainee Educational Psychologist on placement with local authorities in London and Cambridgeshire. Before beginning her training, she worked for 10 years as a part-time Teaching Assistant at a primary school in Cambridge, supporting the learning and development of children with a range of special educational needs. She completed an MEd in Psychology and Education at the University of Cambridge in 2013 and then worked as a volunteer with CLAHRC for six months, helping to develop a…
Jocelyn is the Senior Renal Research Nurse at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. She arrived in the UK from the Philippines 15 years ago and worked as a staff nurse in the renal department caring for patients with acute, chronic and end stage renal disease requiring renal replacement therapy. She since completed her MSc Advancing Practice (Renal Care and Treatment) at the University of Hertfordshire. She moved to research in 2012 helping set up and run trials in the department. Her 18 years experience as a renal nurse fuelled her interest in cognitive dysfunction in renal disease. Cognitive impairment and…
Kate Head is a Consultant Community Paediatrician working within the Cambridgeshire Community Services in Luton. As clinical lead for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Kate has been heavily involved in the development of the ASD pathway in her Luton services. Kate’s CLAHRC project is to co-produce some information leaflets for parents and carers about different developmental issues seen in children within a Community Paediatric setting.
Kate studied psychology at Exeter University before training as a physiotherapist at the University of East Anglia, qualifying in 1999. Since then she has worked predominantly in the neurosciences, gaining experience across settings in the NHS. She works currently as a clinical specialist physiotherapist at the Colman Centre for Specialist Rehabilitation Services (CCSRS) in Norwich – a level 1 service within Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust. Over the last 10 years in this role, Kate has developed clinical expertise and a research interest in the management of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC). She completed a Master’s degree…
Konstantinos Ioannidis is a Higher Trainee ST6 General Adult Psychiatry working on the Inpatient psychiatric wards at Fulbourn hospital. Konstantinos has a strong and active interest in Eating Disorders and carried out a full-audit cycle on the early-warning-signs system used on the eating disorder ward. Konstantinos’ CLAHRC project is looking at optimising and validating the MARSI MEWS scoring system in an inpatient eating disorder setting.
Larissa Prothero is a Research Paramedic for the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Over the last 7 years she has established herself as an experienced pre-hospital emergency research clinician. She has a longstanding interest in sepsis and has been involved in various pre-hospital care improvement initiatives, including a sepsis recognition and management programme, hyperglycaemia and sepsis care and pre-hospital neutropenic sepsis education. During the CLAHRC fellowship Larissa will be exploring the contributions of pre-hospital emergency care systems, and their inter-relationships in ambulance sepsis recognition, in order to develop a sepsis risk assessment tool for ambulance services.
Liz qualified an advance nurse practitioner from South Bank Univerisity in 2013 and currently works in general practice. She won an NHS Innovation acorn award in 201/16 for her work using C Reactive Protein point of care testing in the management of lower respiratory tract infections in primary care. With that seed fund she has been able to extend the study out to 8 sites this winter within Hertfordshire. This summer she has focused on communication and promoting antimicrobial stewardship. To date she has written news articles, presented at RCGP and QNI conferences, reviewed a NICE MIB for the Alere…
Maria initially qualified as a nurse in 1993. She has experience of many different clinical areas and roles in both primary and secondary care. The last 10 years have been in primary care in Cambridgeshire where she currently works as a community matron providing nursing care, support and advice to patients with long term conditions and complex needs. As a Queens Nurse, Maria’s has been recognised as striving to deliver quality care though evidence based clinical practice which led her to undertake an MSc in Clinical Research in 2016. An academic and clinical interest in frailty has led to her…
Martha Deiros-Collado is a Clinical Psychologist working with the Paediatric clinical psychology team based at Addenbrookes Hospital. Martha is the lead psychologist for the Cystic fibrosis service. She has been involved in research throughout her career, and was awarded the ‘innovation in research’ award in 2016 at a divisional psychology conference. Martha’s CLAHRC project is looking at the acceptability and feasibility of a virtual peer support group for young people with Cystic Fibrosis
Michelle Dewar is working as a Research Dietitian within the Nutrition & Wellbeing team at Hertfordshire Independent Living Service (HILS). Whilst working at HILS, she was involved in developing this evidence based service. Michelle’s work in nutrition and education has led her to develop a CLAHRC project investigating characteristics and the nutritional status of older people living independently, receiving input from the nutrition and wellbeing team within a Meals On Wheels (MOW) service.
Nic studied Psychology and Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths College before travelling for as long as he could afford to after Uni. He returned hoping for a career in medicine and began working in local authority children's homes in West Sussex. It was during these years of working with looked after children that Nic discovered that he actually wanted to be a Psychologist. Nic moved to Norfolk in 2002 to complete his clinical training and now can't think of a good reason to live anywhere else. Since completing his Doctorate Nic has worked in Community CAMHS in Great Yarmouth and since…
Dr Peter Simmons was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist for Older People in Hertfordshire in 2001, having trained in general practice, general adult psychiatry and old age psychiatry. His CLAHRC Fellowship project is on up to date evidence of mortality rates and mortality predictors in acute adult aged over 65 years psychiatric wards in-patients in Hertfordshire, to help inform admission decisions. He works for Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, and is also Honorary Lecturer (Clinical), School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire.
“What does a paramedic need to provide urgent care for an older person?” The Urgent and Emergency Care review (2013) stated “by supporting and developing paramedics, and providing direct access to the expertise of general practitioners and specialists, around half of all 999 calls which require an ambulance to be dispatched could be managed at the scene, avoiding an unnecessary trip to hospital.” Traditionally paramedics practice emergency medicine, however, now this only accounts for a small proportion of their workload. The majority of ambulance calls are to people requiring urgent but not emergency care. At present the evidence to support…
Dr Rhian Simpson qualified from University College Hospital in 1990, and did an M. Phil. in Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge in 1995. She completed her MD “Determinants of Osteoporosis: A longitudinal Study” in 1999. Rhian completed her postgraduate training in Peterborough and Cambridge and was appointed a Consultant Community Geriatrician in 2003. Her areas of interest are Rehabilitation, Care Home Medicine and Frailty, particularly at the end of Life. Rhian's project for her CLAHRC Fellowship is titled: "Older peoples priorities for End of Life Care (EoLC).". She hopes to interview a group of older people to determine what…
Roland is a clinical psychologist working with children and young people with learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorders in Cambridgeshire. He has previously worked with adults with learning disabilities in various NHS contexts. His project is focussed on understanding how local service provision might better support the needs of young people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour who are at risk of exclusion and placement in out of county residential schools. There are significant challenges associated with out of area placements - in terms of monitoring placements, financial costs of those placements, maintaining links with family and community, and managing…
Ruth qualified as a clinical psychologist in 2007. Since then she has been working primarily in a service providing early intervention to people with psychosis whilst also developing a special interest in mental health difficulties in people with neurodevelopmental disorders. She has also contributed to a range of clinical research projects based in the team in which she works, including studies that evaluate psychological intervention and recovery from psychosis. Ruth is particularly interested in developing further, and strengthening, the relationship between research and clinical work. She is looking forward to using the opportunities provided by a CLAHRC Fellowship to support…
Sarah is a Clinical Psychologist employed by Virgin Care Ltd (recently transferred from Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust). Since completion of a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Hull in 2009, she has worked in NHS child mental health teams and over the last four years has developed a clinical psychology role as part of a multi-disciplinary autism assessment team based in a Community Paediatrics service in West Essex. Her CLAHRC project will aim to describe the emotional and behavioural needs of children accessing support from the child development centre, to inform multi-agency care pathways and service development.
Sarah Farrell is the Head of Optometry and Low Vision Services working at Addenbrookes Hospital. Sarah’s extensive career in Optometry has seen many changes in the NHS and believes strongly in the use of reflective practice and audit as a catalyst for change. She is passionate about patient choice and has developed a CLAHRC project looking at designing and implementing a digital diabetic clinic allowing low risk diabetic patients to be safely managed within the hospital system, albeit outside the traditional doctor-led model
Dr Sarah Hopkins is a Specialty Registrar training in Geriatric Medicine. She is particularly interested in issues around end of life care in the frail and elderly and is using her CLAHRC Fellowship to explore advance care planning with this group of patients. Sarah is also involved in teaching for the University of Cambridge: she is a supervisor in clinical medicine and a facilitator for the Clinical School Ethics and Law programme. Sarah is currently Chief Resident at Hinchingbrooke Hospital.
Sarah Lewis has worked as a Community Matron based in St. Ives for the last 8 years where she provides advanced clinical nursing care at home, to people with highly complex long-term conditions, provides proactive case management, co-ordinates and empowers them to self-care to prevent unnecessary hospitalisation. She has previously been a District Nursing Sister and pioneered the Community Matron role as part of the national pilot in 2005. She has gained an MSc in Advanced Practice, is an Independent Nurse Prescriber and has recently completed a PG Cert in Healthcare Leadership. During her Nursing career she has worked for…
Shimrit Ziv is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Paediatrician at the Croft Child and family unit at Fulbourn. Shimrit has a strong and active interest in improving clinician diagnostic techniques. Shimrit has worked on different research projects, and in 2015, established a multi-centred study into early detection of ASD. Shimrit’s CLAHRC project is looking at the Identification of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) professionals.
Dr Sripat Pai is a portfolio GP working in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). His roles include sessional clinical work, GP commissioning and teaching undergraduate medicine. In his role as a GP commissioner, he holds a position on the CCG Governing Body and is also clinical lead for planned care and demand management. He has a keen interest in the use of IT in medicine to improve efficiencies whilst maintaining quality in patient pathways. His work on the development of student health screencasts with social media platform integration won the 2010 Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Enterprise…
Stephen qualified from St Bartholomew’s Medical College in London in 1994, and after general surgical training, undertook training in neurosurgery in Romford and Cambridge. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2007 for work developing imaging methods to study the invasive margin of brain tumours. In 2008 he was appointed consultant neurosurgeon with a special interest in neuro-oncology. Between 2010-2015 he was an NIHR-funded Clinician Scientist and developed his imaging methods; he is now working to take these imaging methods into the operating theatre. Stephen is a member of the NCRI Brain Tumour Clinical Studies Group…
Suzanna Watson is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Lead for Paediatric Neuropsychology Services working at Brookside clinic in Cambridge. Suzanna works at the Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (CCPNR), which is a pioneering, interdisciplinary community neurorehabilitation service for children with acquired brain injuries (cABI) and is the only one of its kind in the UK. Suzanna’s CLAHRC project is to carry out a national scoping project to map the current provision for cABI in order to support the commissioning and development of regional paediatric neurorehabilitation in the East of England.
Suzanne has been the Resuscitation Services Manager at Hinchingbrooke NHS Trust since 1998. She recently completed an NIHR route MSc in Clinical Research at the University of East Anglia in 2014, during which she developed her knowledge of research methodologies in Health Services Research. Her work has led to a particular interest in improving patient and family involvement in end-of-life treatment decisions. It was through this mutual interest she started to collaborate with Dr Zoe Fritz, Consultant in Acute Medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, who has developed the Universal Form for Treatment Options (UFTO) as an alternative approach to a standard…
Dr Tabitha Thomas is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Arthur Rank Hospice. Having trained in the Eastern region and subsequently worked as a Consultant in North Wales, she returned to Cambridge to take up her current post in 2012. She joins the hospice at a time of transition and expansion and is keen to ensure the organisation continues to foster a culture of research. Her CLAHRC project is a qualitative study exploring staff experiences around moving patients out of hospices to nursing homes and how such transfer decisions are made.
Tim Elwell-Sutton is a Consultant in Public Health working at Thurrock Borough Council where he leads on health improvement services. His academic background includes an MPhil in Medical Anthropology and PhD in Public Health. He has worked in public health and related areas in the UK, Hong Kong, and Nepal. His research interests include health inequalities, access to health care and health services research. During the CLAHRC Fellowship he will be carrying out an economic evaluation of a school-based intervention to prevent the initiation of smoking.
Tim has worked clinically in the field of Early Intervention and Youth Mental Health since 2007 in Norfolk, UK. He has worked on various youth mental health research projects and was trial manager for the first phase of the NIHR funded PRODIGY (Prevention of long term social disability in young people with emerging psychological difficulties) trial. As a Research Clinical Psychologist, Tim is local Co-Investigator for the PRODIGY trial and research development lead for Child, Family and Young People Services at the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT). He has an interest in transforming youth mental health services in line…
Wendy currently works for Norfolk County Council as an Integrated Commissioning Manager for health and social care based with South Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group. She has a professional background in social work and housing and has worked mostly with adults with a learning disability. Wendy lives in Norwich with her partner and son, and enjoys reading, cycling and camping.