Category: project-07

Dr Elena Pizzo

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Elena is a Senior Health Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics and Management from Padua University, a Master degree in Economics and Management of Health Care Services from Ferrara University and a first degree in Economics from Padua University.

Prior to coming to UCL she was a Research Associate at the Imperial College Business School, working on the economic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Northwest London.

She previously held a research post at the Department of Economics, Ferrara University, where she collaborated to a multi-year research project and undertook an economic evaluation of a Regional Colorectal Cancer Screening Program.

Liz Simes

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Liz is the Trial Coordinator for the i-THRIVE evaluation and is responsible for the coordination of the research project.

Liz has experience of quantitative and qualitative research, as well as research management and ethical governance in the NHS and criminal justice system.  She has coordinated research trials funded by the NIHR evaluating services for young people with conduct disorder and adults with antisocial personality disorder.  Liz has previously worked as a researcher working with hard to reach groups and is interested in developing evidence based practice for mental heath services for young people and adults.  Liz has an MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice from King’s College London, and is currently undertaking a PhD at UCL exploring the concept of service users as researchers, and the potential impact of this approach on randomised control trials.

Bethan Morris

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Bethan is a research assistant working on the i-THRIVE Evaluation and is involved in the development of research tools and data collection. She has experience of conducting research across mental health services where the aim was to discover mental health professionals’ assessment of patient activation in clinical practice and their receptiveness to a formal measure of patient activation. Her career has also involved working in inpatient settings. Bethan has a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Mental Health Studies.

Meghan Davis

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Meghan is a research assistant working on the i-THRIVE Evaluation.  She has experience of conducting research on mental health in the Global South and has a strong interest in qualitative research as a tool for understanding how people access health services.

Meghan has a BSc in Behavioural Neuroscience as well as a Masters of Public Health.

Nkasi Stoll

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Nkasi is the Research Assistant for the i-Thrive Evaluation and is working with sites to collect and analyse qualitative and quantitative data.

Nkasi worked as an Assistant Research Psychologist for the ‘OCD Multi-Cultural Youth Project’ in South London where she designed, delivered, and evaluated community interventions for children and young people with OCD.  She also worked as an Honorary Research Assistant for the ‘Coping with Unusual ExperiencesS’ associated with distress (CUES+) randomised controlled trial for 12-18 year olds.  Prior to this she worked as a Young People’s Worker for ‘Axis @ The Hive’ youth hub in Camden, offering health and wellbeing support to 16-24 year olds.  Nkasi has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience and a MSc in Mental Health Studies.

Dr Anna Moore

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Anna Moore is a trainee psychiatrist working in child and adolescent mental health services in Cambridge.  She is Senior Research Fellow in Child Psychiatry at the AFNCCF, and is currently leading the CLAHRC i-THRIVE Evaluation, which is evaluating the national implementation of i-THRIVE.  Anna has been awarded a national NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellowship to lead on scaling up i-THRIVE.

She is currently completing a health services research PhD focusing on mental health crisis care pathways at UCL, and is a research fellow at Cambridge.  Prior to this, Anna was Director of Mental Health at UCL Partners and the NHS Medical Director’s National Clinical Fellow to Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, working as part of the NHS Outcomes Framework team at Department of Health.  Before taking up medicine, Anna was an accountant.