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Delegate Brochure 2016 6
Speaker profiles
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Speaker profiles
Professor Michael Sheppard , Chair , WMAHSN
Michael served most recently as Provost and Vice Principal and Dean of Medicine at the University of Birmingham . He received the degrees of MBChB ( Honours ) and PhD from the University of Cape Town . He was elected Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998 .
Michael had a major clinical service commitment and international reputation in pituitary and thyroid disease , publishing over 250 papers . He has been a member of and chaired a number of UK and international committees ( endocrine societies , Royal College of Physicians , Medical Research Council ( MRC ) and World Health Organisation ( WHO ). He was President of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland and holds Honorary Professorship at University of Birmingham .
Dr Christopher Parker CBE , Managing Director , WMAHSN
Christopher worked in the NHS for four years before being commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1985 .
During 28 years in uniform his duties took him to Europe , Russia , America , the Middle East , Africa and south Asia . He accredited as a consultant in occupational medicine and served on operations in Northern Ireland , the Balkans , Iraq and Afghanistan . Also a graduate of the Army Staff College and the Royal College of Defence Studies , he filled many senior leadership roles . These included Chief of Staff of the Army Medical Directorate , Commandant of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and 12 months in Afghanistan as the medical adviser for the International Security Assistance Force .
Christopher was awarded the OBE in 1998 and made a CBE in 2009 . From 2010 until his retirement from the army , he was a Queen ’ s Honorary Physician .
Professor Ruth Chambers OBE , GP principal and Clinical Lead for Long Term Conditions Priority , WMAHSN
Ruth is an experienced GP , having worked for more than 35 years in different practices , with various clinical interests – all focused on disseminating best practice in the clinical management of long term conditions and patient care . She has recently become Clinical Chair of Stoke-on-Trent CCG . She is Long Term Conditions clinical lead for the WMAHSN with a focus on new modes of delivery of care such as adoption of technology enabled care services along patient pathways in different health care settings . Ruth is Honorary Professor at Keele and Staffordshire Universities .
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Luke Bracegirdle , Head of Digital and Business Analytics , School of Pharmacy , Keele University
Luke is a software developer working in higher education and the NHS . He leads on e-learning development projects , software design for mobile platforms and designing innovative learning spaces for clinical simulation . His work specialises in 3D digital animation to produce educational websites , serious games and virtual reality applications for healthcare . He has developed software to use computer generated characters ( or avatars ) as virtual patients , combined with natural language interfaces to simulate clinical consultations for healthcare training . Luke is a PRINCE2 ® registered practitioner .
Helen Duffy , NHS Partnerships and Engagement Manager , Keele University ’ s Research Institute for Primary Care and Health , Arthiritis Research UK Primary Care Centre
Working across the NHS / research interface , Helen ’ s role is to ensure clinical engagement in the research agenda and to support the dissemination and implementation of research outputs into practice .
Working closely with clinicians , patients and the research unit at Keele , Helen developed the business cases for a range of musculoskeletal services in Stoke-on-Trent ( including the STaBs back pain , musculoskeletal interface , and IMPACT pain services ) and developed a number of innovative posts for joint clinical academics .
Having a strong background in musculoskeletal management , Helen moved to the ARUK Primary Care Centre at Keele in 2011 with a remit to ensure that the commissioning and delivery of musculoskeletal services are based upon the best available evidence , a role which involves close working with researchers and NHS partners across the region .
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Marc Schmid , Digital Advisor , Lancashire Digital Health Board
Marc Schmid runs a social enterprise providing social media and digital health tech support to not-for profit organisations . As part of this work , he coaches young unemployed people to help them develop their existing digital skills to enhance their employment opportunities . He is also co-author of the book Digital Healthcare - The Essential Guide .
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Lisa Sharrock , Team Leader , North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Lisa has been the Mobilisation Fellow for Stoke Digital Health and WMAHSN ’ s TECS exemplar of person-centred care programme since 2014 , and also works on the memory support for patients with MCI dementia evaluation project . She has worked at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust since 1987 , fulfilling several roles including CBT Therapist and Registered Mental Health Nurse . Following her Mental Health Nursing qualification at Keele University , Lisa gained a Master ’ s degree in CBT Psychotherapy from the University of Derby in 2012 .
Dr Paddie Murphy , EIT Health KIC Co-ordinator
Paddie leads involvement with the EIT Health Knowledge and Innovation Community ( KIC ), a large international consortium of industry , academic and public sector organisations across Europe which works together to develop innovative products and services to promote and enable healthy living and active ageing for the European citizen . Paddie has worked closely with these partners since 2013 and supported the development the proposal for funding , which was awarded through a competitive process in December 2014 , as well as the setup phase in 2015 .
Paddie is the owner and director of PLMCS Limited , a small consultancy business established in 2004 and based in Warwickshire . She is a zoologist by training and has a background in research management and technology transfer , gained at the universities of Warwick and Birmingham .
Karen Morrey , EIT Health KIC Programme Manager
Karen is taking a lead on GoGlobal , Business Plan Aggregator , Bootcamp and Local Training initiatives within the EIT Health KIC programme .
Prior to joining WMAHSN , Karen had a long history of working in the NHS in the West Midlands in a variety of operational , performance management , business development and planning functions .
Charlotte Hitchcock , Genomics Ambassador ( West Midlands Central )
After varied careers in recruitment and in marketing , Charlotte entered nursing as a mature student , qualifying in 1995 . She worked in theatres as a scrub nurse at Birmingham Children ’ s Hospital and was involved in the establishment of the Liver Transplant team . Charlotte then moved to Norfolk , spending six years working as a senior theatre practitioner in the emergency theatres and during which she qualified as an operating department practitioner to achieve dual qualification .
Charlotte then moved to North Wales for two years as Assistant Lead Nurse , followed by a final move back to the midlands to become Theatre Manager at The Alexandra Hospital in Redditch . Charlotte started work at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton in 2012 , working in Clinical Informatics , and prior to starting the exciting role as Genomics Ambassador covering Wolverhampton , Walsall , Dudley and Worcestershire .
Sean James , Genomics Ambassador ( West Midlands South )
Sean is the West Midlands Genomics Medicine Centre Ambassador for the south of the West Midlands region , covering Herefordshire , Warwickshire and Coventry . He shares information across all of the NHS trusts taking part in the programme , facilitating the recruitment of patients and enabling the networking between recruiting staff .
He is a state registered Biomedical Scientist , with thirty years ’ experience in cellular pathology within the NHS . In 2009 , he set up the biorepository at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and is currently responsible for the operational management of the now ethically approved biobank at the trust . The biobank now holds some 300,000 human tissue samples , and is the host and co-ordination centre for a major study into Barrett ’ s oesophagus and its treatment . Sean has co-authored 20 peer-reviewed publications , stemming from his cellular pathology technical support of a diverse range of research groups at the University of Warwick .
Delegate Brochure 2016 7
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