Professor Derek Bell
Programme Director
Derek was appointed as the first Professor of Acute Medicine in the UK, at Imperial College London, and as the inaugural President of the Society for Acute Medicine and was a founder in the development of Acute Medicine as a clinical specialty. He is currently the President of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
His academic research interests relate to quality and organisation of care, particularly acute medical care, and methods of care delivery. As part of this work the team at the Centre for Health Care Improvement and research have been invited to support work in Australia, Ireland and throughout the UK. His clinical interests include illness severity assessment, pulmonary embolism and pneumonia.
Derek has published over 120 peer reviewed papers and leads policy document initiatives, including the development of a successful National Early Warning Score to support standardisation of care across the UK.
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Professor Azeem Majeed
Co-Director, Academic Lead - Public Health and Information Intelligence
Azeem is Professor of Primary Care and Head of the Department of Primary Care & Public Health at Impe rial College London. He is accredited in both General Practice and Public Health and is a part-time general practitioner in the Clapham area of London, where he has worked since 1995, and an Honorary Consultant in Public Health with the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
He plays an important role in postgraduate education and training in both general practice and public health at Imperial College London. He is the Course Director of the Imperial College London Master of Public Health (MPH) programme. He is also a member of the Steering Group of the Imperial GP Specialty Training Programme, the first GP Training Programme in England to be based in a medical school.
Azeem is also Associate Director (Primary Care) for the NIHR Diabetes Research Network; Director of the NIHR London Research Design Service Team based at Imperial College London; and C-Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education & Training.
His clinical interests are in preventive healthcare, cardiovascular medicine and infectious diseases. His research interests are in chronic disease management; health policy and the organisation and delivery of health care; the use of information for policy, planning and research; and the use of new technology to improve health care.
Dr Julie Reed
Deputy Director and Academic Lead
Julie is the Deputy Director and Academic Lead for CLAHRC NWL. She co-authored the original and most recent NIHR CLAHRC NWL funding applications and has strategic oversight of all research and evaluation activities within CLAHRC NWL.
She has been awarded a prestigious Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellowship and led the development of a systematic and scientific approach to delivering improvements in care. As part of her fellowship Julie conducted comparative research in the UK, Australia and America to explore the use of quality improvement methods in different settings. She is particularly interested in how such methods can support collaborative working relationships between academics, practitioners and patients.
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Ganesh Sathyamoorthy
Assistant Director for Partnerships and Business Development
Ganesh is the Assistant Director for Partnership and Business Development at NIHR CLAHRC NWL. He currently leads the development of strategic partnerships between NHS organisations, universities, industry, third sector and other NIHR family organisations. He is responsible for managing CLAHRC NWL's £10 million programme funding and has secured £12 million in matched funding.
Previously, Ganesh was responsible for the strategic development, operational delivery and governance of the programme, leading the core team while maintaining effective partnership working across all key stakeholders. He has a Masters in the Management of Community Care. While at the NHS Confederation, he developed the SDO Network from an outline bid to a fully functioning network. The aim of the network was to enable NHS managers to use research more effectively.
Professor John Warner OBE
Academic Lead - Early Years Theme
John is a Professor in Paediatrics, honorary consultant in paediatric respiratory medicine and allergy at St Mary’s Hospital and the current President of the Academic Paediatric Association (GB and NI). He previously worked as a professor for 16 years in Southampton, and his main area of research is the early life origins of respiratory and allergic diseases. This includes studying the mechanisms that lead to the onset of disease, helping to identify targets for the prevention of these diseases in the future.
John has published over 400 academic papers on allergy and respiratory topics and was Editor in Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology for 12 years until 2010. In 2013 he was awarded an OBE for services to food allergy research.
John has published over 400 academic papers on allergy and respiratory topics and was Editor in Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology for 12 years until 2010. In 2013 he was awarded an OBE for services to food allergy research.
Professor Martin Cowie
Academic Lead - Breathlessness Theme
Martin is Professor of Cardiology (Health Services Research) at Imperial College London and an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. He also works with the Department of Health, The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the Quality Care Commission, and the Department of Transport (Medical Advisory Panel).
As well as writing chapters for medical textbooks, including sections on heart failure for the Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, and Essential Cardiology, Martin has published widely in cardiovascular medical journals. He is also interviewed frequently in the national media regarding heart issues, and particularly enjoys talking to the public about this area.
Professor Finbarr Martin
Academic Lead - Frailty Theme
Finbarr is a Consultant Physician at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital, London and Professor of Medical Gerontology, Kings College London. He has worked for 30 odd years across a range of acute and community settings, with clinical and research interests in geriatric syndromes of falls, frailty, delirium etc. He is clinical lead for the HQIP funded National Falls and Fragility Fracture audit programme and a non-executive Director of NICE.
He is past elected President (2010-2012) of the British Geriatrics Society.
Dr Fiona Moss CBE
Academic Lead - Collaborative Learning and Partnerships
Fiona is the Dean at the Royal Society of Medicine and the Academic Lead for the CLAHRC NWL Collaborative Learning and Partnerships Theme. She was a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Central Middlesex Hospital, Director of Clinical Studies for Imperial College London and Consultant in quality improvement for North West Thames Health Authority. Her postgraduate education work included developing "one year in one place" rotations for junior doctors, setting up London's Specialty Schools and devising the first Darzi Fellowship Programme. She was the founder editor of the BMJ Journal Quality and Safety Care and until recently was the Editor in Chief of the Postgraduate Medical Journal. From 2012-2013 Fiona was Director of Medical and Dental Education Commissioning for London. Fiona was awarded a CBE for services to Medicine in 2006.
Dr Jocelyn Cornwell
Academic Lead - Patient and Public Engagement and Involvement
Jocelyn directs the Point of Care Foundation and is a senior fellow at The King’s Fund. The Point of Care Foundation's mission, building on work started at The King's Fund in 2007, is to keep patients' experience of care high on the agenda of policy-makers and boards, and to work with managers and frontline staff to improve the experiences of both staff and patients.
Jocelyn's original training was in medical sociology and ethnography. After a period of research at the Open University, followed by three years managing NHS community health services, she worked in health regulation, first at the Audit Commission, where she directed national value for money studies and audits, and then at the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) where she was director of policy and then acting chief executive.
She is a visiting professor in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London, and a trustee of the Picker Institute Europe.
Dr John Green
Academic Lead - Mental and Physical Wellbeing
John Green is Chief Psychologist at CNWL NHS Foundation Trust and R&D Director as well as being the trust clinical lead for IAPT. He trained at a clinical psychologist and specialised in the interface between mental and physical health. He did research and clinical work in HIV/AIDS in the early years of the epidemic. He ran a national training unit in the UK for DoH and provided training and consultancy for international organisations in the psychological care of those with HIV and other infectious diseases. His research interests are in psychological and behavioural issues in sexual health, treatment outcomes for psychological and behavioural interventions, IAPT, and patient safety. He has a strong interest in using service improvement methodology to make clinical systems more streamlined and safer, and innovative ways of reducing “data fog” in the NHS.
Professor James Barlow
Academic Lead - Improvement Science and Quality Improvement
James is a Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at Imperial College London Business School. He is also Associate Director of Research and Evaluation for Imperial College Health Partners and an executive board member of the Department of Health Policy Innovation Research Unit. He was educated at the London School of Economics and has held positions at the Science Policy Research Unit (University of Sussex), University of Westminster and the Policy Studies Institute. James’ research, teaching and consultancy focuses on the adoption, implementation and sustainability of innovation in healthcare systems. He has held numerous government and industry advisory positions, and has published widely on these topics. In 2014 he was appointed President of the International Academy for Design and Health.
Tajumal Malik
Programme Manager
Taj works with the CLAHRC NWL core group providing financial advice and leading a string of IT focused projects. Initially a trained lawyer he has worked as a project/programme manager for 15 years in various organisations and his current role within CLAHRC NWL is his first endeavour within the Health Sector. His main area of expertise is IT.
Rachel Matthews
Patient and Public Engagement and Involvement Theme Lead
Rachel is the Theme Lead for CLAHRC NWL's Patient and Public Engagement and Involvement (PPEI). An experienced registered nurse by background, she has 14 years of clinical experience caring for people with heart and lung conditions and completed an MSc in Health Promotion and Education at King’s College London.
She worked as Lead Patient Care Adviser for the pilot programme on Patient Choice for Heart Surgery at Barts and the London Healthcare Trust. She was Senior Nurse for User Involvement at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust before joining NIHR CLAHRC Northwest London in 2009. As Theme Lead for PPEI she facilitates teams to develop PPEI as part of their improvement activity and works closely with research partners to progress inquiry in this area. She acts as special adviser to the NIHR review, ‘Breaking boundaries – thinking differently about public involvement in research’, reporting their findings and recommendations in December 2014.
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Catherine French
Collaborative Learning and Partnerships Theme Lead
Catherine is the Programme Lead for the
Collaborative Learning and Partnerships cross cutting theme. She is responsible
for the delivery of a wide ranging training and development programme for
researchers, NHS front line staff and patients in how to produce high quality
applied research and how to use this to make improvements in healthcare.
Catherine is also responsible for an action research programme which examines
the most effective ways to learn about how to implement research knowledge in
practice.
Catherine’s research background is in social science and her interests include knowledge mobilisation, academic healthcare organisations and qualitative methodology. Catherine was awarded an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship to undertake her PhD at UCL (researching boundary spanning processes in Academic Health Science Centres) which she completed in November 2016. Catherine has over 10 years’ experience in operational management, programme management and service improvement roles in the NHS across acute care, commissioning and mental health.
Vimal Sriram
Learning and Improvement Fellow
Vimal operates within the Collaborative Learning and Partnerships Theme of NIHR CLAHRC NWL. His work focuses on building capacity and capability of clinical, non-clinical and academic staff in the use of the CLAHRC NWL systematic approach for quality improvement. Vimal also leads on the development of QI4U, an eLearning package of quality improvement methods. Vimal read for his MSc in Evidence Based Healthcare at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, and is also a registered Occupational Therapist with over 13 years of experience working in orthopaedics, trauma and neuro-rehab within acute and community care settings. In his professional career, he has been a clinician, senior manager and commissioner. He is a member of the London clinical senate forum and the strategic clinical network for dementia. Vimal is also a NICE Fellow from April 2015 and a fitness to practice panel member for the Health and Care Professions Council. He is a member of the London Allied Health Professions Advisory Group, a specialist advisor for the Care Quality Commission and Board Member for the Royal Marsden School.
Dr Rowan Myron
Education Lead and Fellowship Co-Director
Having provided a key role in the first five years of CLAHRC NWL, Rowan is an Education Lead supporting the Collaborative Learning and Partnerships theme, working two days a week for CLAHRC NWL and three days as Associate Professor at the University of West London. She is a trained psychologist, completing her PhD in child development at Goldsmiths College, London.
Rowan developed and teaches on the MSc Improvement Science and Professional Doctorate courses, using the CLAHRC systematic approach. She co-directs the CLAHRC improvement Leader Fellowship, a year long programme that builds capacity in improvement science and supports individuals to implement change in their workplace.
Dr Paul Sullivan
Hon Senior Lecturer in Improvement Science and Fellowship Co-Director
Paul has an academic role researching and teaching healthcare quality improvement at CLAHRC NWL. His interests include facilitating improvement with clinical microsystem teams and enhancing patient experience, particularly during the acute hospital admission process. He co-directs the CLAHRC NWL Leadership and Improvement Fellowship programme which coaches a diverse group in improvement and research methods. He was awarded the prestigious Health Foundation Quality Improvement fellowship enabling him to spend a year in the USA based at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and Qulturum, Jonkoping, Sweden, when he focused on Clinical Microsystems improvement methods. Paul was the first acute physician in the NW region, and has been director of an Acute Medicinal Unit and clinical director of Quality Improvement for an acute NHS Trust. He continues clinical practice in acute and critical care at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Liz Evans
Mental and Physical Wellbeing Theme Lead and Delivery Programme Manager
Liz was a CLAHRC NWL Fellow in 2013 before becoming the Mental and Physical Wellbeing Theme Lead. She now works across all the CLAHRC NWL themes and projects supporting people to recognise the interconnectedness of mental and physical wellbeing, and to take a more holistic approach to service improvement. She has extensive experience in the NHS and Local Authority Adult Social Care working in integrated settings in commissioning and provider services.
Liz’s interests are in improving the quality of services and patient outcomes through improved communication and understanding. She believes that bringing groups together, who rarely meet to share stories and experiences of delivering and receiving services, is key to achieving quality improvements for people with complex needs and multiple conditions.
Dr Tom Woodcock
Public Health and Information Intelligence Co-Lead
Tom has a PhD in mathematics and is currently joint Public Health and Information Intelligence Theme Lead at CLAHRC NWL. He has gained intensive first-hand experience working on around 50 multidisciplinary research and improvement implementation projects, and brings statistical and methodological expertise to improvement work.
He has been awarded one of the prestigious Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellowships, which he is using to explore alternative statistical approaches that can increase the usefulness of routine data in the NHS to inform quality improvement.
Professor Christopher Millett
Public Health and Information Intelligence Co-Lead
Christopher is a Reader in Public Health at Imperial College London and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, New Delhi. He completed his PhD at Imperial College London in 2008 and was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2010. He is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health. Chris was appointed as an NIHR Research Professor in 2014.
He has published studies on several topics, including: tobacco control; active travel and obesity; cardiovascular risk assessment; health system performance and health inequalities. His main research interest is public health policy evaluation, including a growing focus on evaluating strategies to prevent and manage chronic (non-communicable) disease in low and middle income country settings, particularly India.
He is Deputy Director of the Masters of Public Health programme at Imperial College London and has taught on postgraduate programmes at the University of Mauritius and the Public Health Foundation of India.
Wendy Carnegie
Improvement Science Manager - Early Years
Wendy joined the CLAHRC NWL team following extensive experience as a perioperative nurse in both the NHS and Private sector, during which time she worked clinically in the area of plastic, craniofacial and burns surgery. She has been a Theatre Matron, responsible for the perioperative team and surgical activity including involvement in 'The Productive Operating Theatre' programme, developed by the NHS Institute of Innovation and Improvement. This project focussed on collaborative change and team working including identification and management of 'Human Factors' and formalised her interest in improvement leading to her enrolment onto the CLAHRC NWL's Improvement Science MSc programme. Wendy is trained in Lean Management techniques and is keen to critically analyse this methodology in comparison to the CLAHRC NWL approach.
Meerat Kaur
Associate Lead for Patient and Public Engagement and Involvement
Meerat is passionate about working collaboratively, encompassing patients, carers and the public to make responsive and long-lasting improvements in healthcare. Her PhD research will deliver part of the objectives of the CLAHRC NWL Patient and Public Engagement and Involvement theme. It investigates how healthcare professionals and patients/public collaborate to improve healthcare systems, assessing if this way of working adds ‘value’.
She has over 10 years’ experience in health, human rights and disaster relief settings, working in the UK, East and West Africa and India. This has given her practical experience in how to create or communicate new systems and processes to improve situations in a variety of environments, across various cultures. Meerat has a strong expertise in facilitation, community engagement and development, project management and action research. She has a MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights from the University of London.
Dr Alan Poots
Principal Information Analyst
Alan is a translational research scientist providing support for project and research management particularly focussing data collection and analysis. Alan supports clinical teams with the application of Quality Improvement techniques. He has interests in Geo-spatial and temporal analyses of variation; emergency flow data analyses; and systems thinking. Alan has previously worked as a quantitative and qualitative researcher in the tourism sector, and provided consultancy support as a statistical advisor.
Alan read Biological Sciences followed by MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management at Hertford College, University of Oxford, and a PhD Ecology and Environmental Economics at the University of Reading. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Alan has advanced applied statistical knowledge (including GLM, MNL, and CART) and GIS experience. His academic interests include ensuring public engagement with science, Improvement Science, systems thinking, application of statistics to real world problems, and effective data visualisation.
Derryn Lovett
Geographical Information Systems Analyst
Derryn is a GIS (Geographical Information Systems) Analyst within CLAHRC NWL. Having completed his BSc in GIS at Kingston University London in 2012, he now applies the techniques, methods and knowledge from this field to support the CLAHRC NWL's delivery and cross-cutting themes. His particular interests are within the communication of geographical public health variation in disease incidence and healthcare service provision.
Laura Lennox
Improvement Science and Quality Improvement Theme Associate Lead
Prior to joining CLAHRC NWL in 2011, she worked as a registered nurse in Ontario, Canada. Her interest in health promotion and health teaching prompted her to obtain a Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2010. She is working currently with project teams to study the use of quality improvement methods in practice, evaluating how effectively these methods are applied and exploring how their use can be improved.
Laura is pursuing her PhD in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London. Her work will explore the process of achieving sustainability in healthcare improvement initiatives and investigate how sustainability can be influenced with the use of specific strategies and interventions.
Laura is pursuing her PhD in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London. Her work will explore the process of achieving sustainability in healthcare improvement initiatives and investigate how sustainability can be influenced with the use of specific strategies and interventions.
Lucy Ryan
Education Events Officer
Lucy works with the Collaborative Learning and Partnerships Theme providing and coordinating logistical support. She is involved in organising conferences and events, including the quarterly Collaborative Learning Events. She also supports the CLAHRC NWL Improvement Leader Fellowship. Prior to joining CLAHRC NWL, Lucy graduated from the University of Leicester with a BA Hons in History and Archaeology. The then worked as a Clinic Administrator in the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Outpatients Department, gaining knowledge of the experiences of patients and front-line clinical and administrative staff.
Izaba Younis
Health Foundation PhD student
Izaba is the first Health Foundation funded PhD student based at CLARHC. She will be working across all of the themes, exploring the wider benefits of being involved in Quality Improvement (QI ) initiatives and exploring how QI is evaluated.
She graduated from Kings College London with a degree in biomedical science specialising in pathology before moving to Imperial College London to study for a master’s in public health. Since then she has gained a wealth of experience working in the public sector for a range of regulatory organisations including: The Royal College of Psychiatrists; The National Institute of Clinical Excellence; and The Care Quality Commission. Izaba has a keen interest in health service research and improving patient carer experience.
Izaba is the first Health Foundation funded PhD student based at CLARHC. She will be working across all of the themes, exploring the wider benefits of being involved in Quality Improvement (QI ) initiatives and exploring how QI is evaluated.
She graduated from Kings College London with a degree in biomedical science specialising in pathology before moving to Imperial College London to study for a master’s in public health. Since then she has gained a wealth of experience working in the public sector for a range of regulatory organisations including: The Royal College of Psychiatrists; The National Institute of Clinical Excellence; and The Care Quality Commission. Izaba has a keen interest in health service research and improving patient carer experience.
Stuart Green
Public Health Research Fellow
Stuart has been a member of the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) Northwest London since its inception in October 2008. He has been involved in a range of service improvement and research projects in Northwest London, providing expertise in quality improvement, especially related to the development of indicators to assess implementation. His research interests include the evaluation of quality improvement studies, inequities in access to health services and translation of health policy into practice. Stuart is also doctoral researcher (Doctorate in Public Health) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr Lotte Dinesen
Clinical Research Fellow in Frailty
Lotte is a consultant in General Internal Medicine, and a Clinical Research Fellow, and is pursuing her PhD in Frailty for CLAHRC NWL at Imperial College London. She graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 2001, and completed a 6 year SpR rotation in North West London in 2013. She has undertaken comprehensive training in gastroenterology and general internal medicine and furthered her experience with 2 fellowships: one at The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia (Oct 2010- Oct 2011); the other at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford (Aug 2006- Sept 2007).
Her academic research includes writing 17 original articles published in national and international peer reviewed journals as well as being the author of 3 book chapters and she has presented her work at many national and international meetings. During her training she was involved in many major research projects in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine (GIM) with the aim of assessing current standards of practise that can lead to improvements in quality of care.
Dr Faiza Chowdhury
Clinical Research Fellow for PhD in Breathlessness
Faiza graduated from Sheffield Medical School in 2005 having gained the Lord Tom Pendry University Academic Scholarship prior to commencing her degree. She is currently in her penultimate year of Respiratory and General Internal Medicine Training.
She was previously awarded a Health Education Yorkshire and Humber fellowship becoming part of the leadership network focusing on Healthcare Leadership, Education and Simulation. During her fellowship, she was involved in the quality improvement of education delivery in line with simulation advancements.
She has presented publications on multiple occasions both nationally and internationally during her fellowship. In 2013, she won a highly commended British Thoracic Society award for Education Innovation and the Yorkshire Medical Society Prize for the standardisation of bronchoscopy training across Yorkshire and Humber. She has previously carried out research in the area of Bronchoscopy simulation and trainees’ retention of skills. She joined CLAHRC NWL to embark on a PhD at Imperial College London based on the Quality Improvement of the care of Breathless patients and exploring the overlap between COPD and Heart Failure.
David Sunkersing
PhD student for Frailty theme
David is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London. Based at CLAHRC NWL, his work focuses on the Frailty theme.
Prior to joining CLAHRC NWL, he worked in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London, where his core work centered on a clinical trial endeavouring to better understand and prevent neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia (CHARIOT). He also has experience working on various consultancy-based assignments, having engaged in projects established in developed, emerging and frontier markets.
David holds a BSc (Hons) in Medical Genetics from the University of London. During his undergraduate course, he additionally studied at Harvard University, taking classes in neurobiology - before obtaining an MSc in Biomedical Sciences from University College London.
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Sophie Spitters
PhD student for Early Years
Sophie has joined the CLAHRC NWL team as a PhD student at the Department of Medicine of Imperial College London. Her research is part of the Early Years theme and focuses on optimising the use of specialist knowledge in the provision of high-quality, evidence-based care.
She finished her MSc in Psychology cum laude at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Her graduation project, which was part of the European Research project VictoryaHome, focused on improving elderly technology acceptance by means of human centred implementation design. During her studies, Sophie learned to appreciate the power of interdisciplinary work, and she views science as a valuable tool for solving complex real world problems.
Susan Barber
Improvement Science Manager - Frailty
Susan is Improvement Science Manager for CLAHRC NWL’s Frailty Theme. She supports multi-disciplinary teams to use Improvement Science methods to help them to plan, implement and evaluate service improvements. An experienced social scientist with experience in service improvement and policy development; her most recent role was to support and influence the capacity to embed and spread support for people who live with long-term health conditions in North London. She has worked in roles for the NHS; Department of Health and the Third Sector in which cross-sector and multi-disciplinary collaboration was key to success, including CLAHRC NWL’s early work on Improving Prescribing and Information for Elderly patients.
Susan’s interests are in improvement science, health literacy, improving services for and with input from people who are affected by them, evaluation. She holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MSc in Politics and Sociology from Birkbeck College, London University, and holds an M.Phil in Public Policy from Middlesex University.
Chidi Njoku
Project Officer
Chidi is a project officer whose main role is to support the development and management of CHIR (Centre for Healthcare and Improvement Research). Chidi alongside Ganesh will be working on the business strategy in striking partnerships between CLAHRC and private industries as well as working on the growth agenda. He provides support to the Public Health & Information Intelligence theme, Improvement Science & Quality Improvement theme and the Breathlessness theme.
Prior to joining CLAHRC NWL Chidi attended and graduated from the University of Essex with a (BA) International Relations & Politics. During his tenure at Essex he was awarded the prestigious Frontrunner scheme as an Equality & Diversity officer which was a yearlong internship.
Dionne Matthew
Improvement Science Manager - Breathlessness
Dionne is the Improvement Science Manager for CLAHRC NWL’s Breathlessness Theme. Her research interests include improvement science, exercise and health promotion, and the use of technology to enhance patient care. Her most recent roles were as a Senior Lecturer and Health Scientist at Bucks New University and Research Fellow in Cardiology at Ealing hospital. Dionne was a CLAHRC NWL Improvement Leader Fellow in 2014 before joining the CLAHRC NWL team.
Dionne obtained her PhD in Cardiovascular health in November 2013. Her PhD research assessed the benefits of using a mobile application for heart rate variability in patients with heart failure. She also holds an MSc in Sport and Exercise Science, along with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Kinesiology. Dionne has worked with several populations including athletes, patients and children; assessing both the benefits of various exercise programmes and the value of patient experience in influencing those programmes.
Tomasz Szymański
PhD student for Frailty
Tomasz Szymanski is pursuing a PhD in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London. His research focuses on medicines optimization, looking at health economic analysis of medicines review.
Tomasz worked as a consultant at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Copenhagen, Denmark. His work has focused on evaluation of the noncommunicable diseases (NCD) related tools. He has conducted a study that harvested bibliographic details, abstracted the tools, and developed a questionnaire which he has used as the basis for a series of global key informant interviews. Prior to this, he worked on a project with UN Global Pulse and Microsoft on searching of Big Data from social media to retrieve possible new evidence for policy making in the area of NCDs.
He has extensive experience in medicines evaluations gained during his work as a leader of three person team at the Government Agency for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in Poland. He coordinated more than 25 HTA projects, in which he conducted clinical and cost-effectiveness analysis of medicines. Tomasz gained experience in knowledge translation and evidence informed policy-making by presenting the results of the analyses to the decision makers (Ministry of Health, National Health Fund etc.)
Yewande Adeleke
Information Officer for Public Health and Information Intelligence Theme
Yewande is currently working on a Health Foundation funded project to develop an online, interactive Measurement Plan Assessment Tool. This tool will support teams to design measures that are scientifically valid and practically feasible and promote successful improvement in quality of care.
Prior to joining CLAHRC, she worked as a Clinical Research Facilitator in Imperial College London Neuroepidemiology and Ageing Research Unit on clinical studies aimed at better understanding risk and protective factors for age-related neurodegenerative diseases.
She holds a BSc in Pathology and Microbiology from the University of Bristol and a Master of Public Health from Imperial College London. Yewande has a keen interest in health promotion, health information analysis, and immunisation.
Dr Mable Nakubulwa
Research Associate/Statistician
Mable is a Research Associate working in the capacity of a data analyst. She read for her M.A in Psychology at the University of Glasgow (2010) followed by an M.Sc. in Foundations of Clinical Psychology at Bangor University. Mable is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy having read the ‘Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education’ (PGCert) at Aston University (2015). Prior to joining CLAHRC in 2016, she worked as a teaching fellow on the ‘Studying Psychology in Higher Education’ module at Aston University and lab lead for 1st and 2nd year undergraduate ‘Research Methods and Advanced Statistics’ module.
Mable holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive & Affective Neurosciences, where concepts from graph theory were adapted to support the characterisation of functional brain networks in atypical and delayed neurodevelopment, specifically Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Dyslexia. Her interests are in applying advanced statistical tools to improve our understanding of healthcare translational science.