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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.
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