Category: Team-Research

This category is used to when creating a ‘Post’ that acts as as a profile page for a new member of the CLAHRC for the theme: Research partnership team

David Law

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David Law is the Chief Executive of Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. He has also worked in primary care and community services in London prior to working in Hertfordshire. He worked in a number of planning roles in health organisations in the County during the 1990s before joining West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust in 2001 as Director of Strategy. In 2004 he was appointed Chief Executive of the Trust, a post he held till 2007.

After leaving West Hertfordshire Hospitals, David worked at Healthcare for London, initially focusing on the organisation of acute services in the capital and then on end of life care.  He worked extensively for the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. Before moving to Hertfordshire Community Trust he worked on the Transforming Community Services programme in Lambeth and Southwark and in Tower Hamlets.

Professor David Osborn

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Professor Osborne’s research focuses on the interface between physical and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology and the provision of effective services for people with severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. He also works on improving acute care. He has been a clinical academic consultant at UCL since 2003. David also works as a NHS consultant psychiatrist in Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust.

Andrew Hutchings

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Andrew studied management science (operational research) at Lancaster University. He has worked in industry and spent five years at the Audit Commission. He joined the Department of Health Services Research and Policy at LSHTM after completing a MSc in Medical Statistics. His main research interests are in the area of health care quality improvement, service delivery and organisational research. Recent research has included work examing the routine use of patient reported outcomes measures (PROMs) in elective surgery and TABUL, a NIHR HTA-funded study comparing the performance of ultrasonography and temporal artery biopsy for diagnosing giant cell arteritis.

Professor Gene Feder

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Professor Feder’s expertise includes Cardiovascular health – in particular the diagnosis and management of angina and using cardiovascular risk as a basis of treatment decisions. He was was a co-applicant on our successful bid to secure funding for the Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS): Improving the response to domestic violence and abuse project and is working with us from his base at the University of Bristol.

Dr Janet Anderson

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Dr Anderson is a human factors psychologist specialising in the quality and safety of healthcare. She was a co-applicant on our bid to reseach implementation of the QUASER guide across hospitals – the project entitled Implementation and evaluation of a guide for NHS boards to develop their quality improvement (QI) strategies (iQUASER)

Dr Susan Burnett

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Dr Burnett has a research interests  patient safety, comparing the approaches taken in different European countries; organisational strategies to improve patient safety; and the role of the Board, senior leaders and managers in patient safety including the impact of management systems on the reliability of healthcare. She is a co-applicant on our project assessing Implementation and evaluation of a research-based guide for NHS boards to develop their quality improvement (QI) strategies (iQUASER)

Professor Glenn Robert

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Professor Robert has research interests around  frameworks and methods to address  organisational design and development challenges facing the NHS; evaluating quality and knowledge management initiatives. He is a co-applicant on our project working with NHS Boards on Quality Improvement –  Implementation and evaluation of a research-based guide for NHS boards to develop their quality improvement (QI) strategies (iQUASER)

Anna Dowrick

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Anna is an NIHR funded PhD student evaluating the implementation of a primary care domestic violence training programme. Anna’s work relates to our Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS): Improving the response to domestic violence and abuse project.

She has an interest  in translational research, qualitative methods, gender, health inequalities and participatory approaches to research.

 

Professor Robert Horne

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Prof Rob Horne founded the Centre for Behavioural Medicine at the UCL School of Pharmacy in 2006 and has developed a range of valid and reliable tools to assess patient perspectives of illness and treatments. Over the past decade, his research has generated over 140 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, and research grants over £10M (as PI and co-applicant). Rob was designated a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 2010 and was appointed a NIHR Senior Investigator in 2011. In 2012 he was appointed as UCL’s academic lead for the Centre for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation (CASMI), a joint undertaking with the University of Oxford. In 2005/6 he led a scoping exercise commissioned by the NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) Programme to produce a conceptual map of compliance, adherence and concordance and to identify priorities for future research. This work formed the basis for the NICE Medicine Adherence Guidelines which he co-authored in 2009. He has also advised the European Parliament, MRC, DoH, NHS and the WHO.