The Team
Caroline Watkins
Professor Dame Caroline Watkins
Director
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University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Professor Dame Caroline Watkins – Professor of Stroke and Older People’s Care, Director of Research and Innovation for the Faculty of Health & Wellbeing, Lancashire Clinical Trials Unit and the Lancashire Research Institute for global health and Wellbeing at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
She is the only nursing professor of stroke care in the UK and contributes to stroke service development at a local, national and international level. Caroline leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers with a large portfolio of clinically relevant research which spans five areas in stroke and older peoples’ care: prevention and pre-hospital care, education and workforce development, acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care.
Caroline’s commitment to workforce development is reflected in the appointment as Director of Capacity Building and Implementation for NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care North West Coast (NIHR CLAHRC NWC). Caroline’s work was recognised with the award of the DBE for Services to Nursing and Older People’s Care in 2017. Caroline received National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator Award in 2009 and 2016, and acts as NIHR Academic Training Advocate for Nursing clinical academic careers.
Caroline is Lead and Chief Investigator of the NIHR GHRG on Improving Stroke Care in India, is co-applicant on another GHRG for stroke in Sierra Leone, and international advisor on another focussing on improving the identification and management of AF in Asia and South America.
Liz Lightbody
Professor Liz Lightbody
Deputy Director
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University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Liz is Professor in Stroke Care and Improvement in the School of Nursing at the University of Central Lancashire. She is a nurse by professional background and is the chair of the National Stroke Nursing Forum (NSNF). Her research interests include acute stroke care (e.g. telemedicine, neurological monitoring, nurse education, oral care, and positioning) and psychological adjustment post-stroke (e.g. screening tools, training for stroke service staff and interventions that address the needs of stroke survivors adjusting to life after stroke). She is the project coordinator for the Accelerating Delivery of Psychological Therapies after Stroke (ADOPTS) project, which is one of the projects within the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care North West Coast.
All strands of research are driven by a desire to raise standards of care for individuals who experience a stroke.
Liz is a member of both the Operational Management Group and Steering Group, in addition to being the Workstream Lead for Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation, and is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding
- Engagement and Involvement
- Communications, Outputs and Dissemination
- Research Capacity Building
Pallab Maulik
Dr Pallab Maulik
Deputy Director
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The George Institute for Global Health, India
Pallab leads the Research department at The George Institute for Global Health, India and holds the positions of Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UNSW and Senior Research Associate, George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford.
He trained as a psychiatrist at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, received training in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, as well as Johns Hopkins School of Public Health where he pursued his Masters and Doctoral training. He brings a wealth of experience to the Institute, with an expertise in mental health.
Dr. Maulik has worked with the World Health Organisation (WHO), Geneva on Project Atlas and other mental health programs, and clinically as a psychiatrist in India and Australia.
His particular research interests include social determinants of health, especially mental health services, mental disorders, international mental health, and intellectual disability.
He is an Intermediate Career Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Fellow and is leading a program called SMART Mental Health, which is on the provision of mobile-based affordable evidence-based mental health services in rural India.
Pallab is a member of the Operational Management Group and the Steering Group, and is also the Workstream Lead for Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding, and is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation
- Research Capacity Building
Jeyaraj Pandian
Professor Jeyaraj Pandian
Deputy Director
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Christian Medical College, India
Professor and Head, Department of Neurology, Dean, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab. Dr Pandian is the Congress Co-Chair, World Stroke Congress 2016, Hyderabad and Immediate Past Chair, World Stroke Campaign Working Group, World Stroke Organization (WSO). He is Vice President of the WSO.
Dr Pandian is a Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians and European Stroke Organization, an editorial board member of International Journal of Stroke, Journal of Stroke and European Journal of Stroke and Editor-in-Chief, CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research.
Dr Pandian has published widely on stroke thrombolysis, stroke systems of care, epidemiology and rehabilitation in low and middle income countries.
Dr Pandian is a member of the Operational Management Group and the Steering Group, as well as being the Lead for both the Engagement and Involvement Workstream and Communications, Outputs and Dissemination Workstream. Additionally, he is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation
- Trial Oversight, Adherence and Monitoring; Data Management; Information Systems and Statistical Analysis
Liz Boaden
Dr Liz Boaden
Co-applicant
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University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Liz is a Senior Research Fellow based within the Stroke Research Unit in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Central Lancashire and works part time in the NHS as a Speech and Language Therapist. She has a specialist interest in swallowing disorders (dysphagia) and is currently working on a Cochrane review as well as working on projects in oral care and hydration.
Liz received a doctorate 2011 for her work improving the identification and management of aspiration after stroke and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in 2013 for her contribution to the profession.
At the weekends Liz enjoys climbing mountains to enjoy the views.
Liz is a Contributor to both the Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation, and Research Capacity Building Workstreams.
Dominique Cadilhac
Professor Dominique Cadhilac
Co-applicant
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Monash University, Australia
Professor Cadilhac heads the Translational Public Health Research Division in Stroke and Ageing Research within the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash University, Australia. She is also the Head of Public Health: Stroke Division, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. She is an expert in health service delivery models, economics and program evaluation in stroke and has a clinical background in nursing. Dominique has over 190 journal publications and has contributed to nine clinical guidelines. She co-led establishing the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry and Victorian Stroke Telemedicine program.
Dominique is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding
- Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation
- Trial Oversight, Adherence and Monitoring; Data Management; Information Systems and Statistical Analysis
Andrew Clegg
Professor Andrew Clegg
Co-applicant
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University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Andrew is Professor of Health Services Research at University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), specialising in the methods of evidence synthesis and health technology assessment. He leads the Evidence Synthesis and Health Implementation Science Group at UCLan and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for the Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) North West Coast (NWC) Evidence Synthesis Collaboration.
Andrew’s research has encompassed assessments of the effectiveness of health technologies in a range of clinical areas informing national (e.g. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) and international (e.g. World Health Organisation) policy, including cardiovascular disease (left ventricular assist devices for heart failure, implantable cardiac defibrillators for arrhythmias), mental health (drugs for Alzheimer’s dementia), cancer (interventions for multiple myeloma, lung cancer, breast cancer), nutrition (bariatric surgery, weight management programmes, treatments for severe malnutrition), treatments for age-related macular degeneration and diagnostics (DNA tests for hereditary haemochromatosis). He has expertise in the methods of systematic reviewing (particularly meta-analysis and network meta-analysis), health technology assessment and project management.
Andrew is a member of the Steering Group, in addition to being a Contributor to both the Communications, Outputs and Dissemination Workstream, and Research Capacity Building Workstream.
Denise Forshaw
Denise Forshaw
Co-applicant
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University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
As Principal Clinical Trials Manager for the Lancashire Clinical Trials Unit, Denise has expertise in all areas of clinical trial management but specifically in feasibility trials and trials of complex interventions, and is working to further improve the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical trial management by understanding the barriers and challenges of embedding research into practice.
She has a keen interest and significant expertise in best ethical practices, including the protection of vulnerable research participants. A previous Chair of ethics committees covering all health-related research at UCLan, Denise is now the UCLan signatory as Sponsor for all Health Research Authority and NHS applications.
As a Registered Nurse, experience of working in a clinical setting (both in the UK and in the Middle East) has given her a comprehensive understanding of all stages of the healthcare research system and she is particularly interested in facilitating research into complex interventions of nursing care, that will help to promote adoption of evidence-based practices.
Denise is a member of the Steering Group, and is the Workstream Lead for Trial Oversight, Adherence and Monitoring; Data Management; Information Systems and Statistical Analysis. She is also a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding
- Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation
Mark Gabbay
Professor Mark Gabbay
Co-applicant
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University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Mark is Professor of General Practice in Liverpool and works as a GP in Brownlow Health in the City. He runs a very large research infrastructure across the region, the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care North West Coast (http://www.clahrc-nwc.nihr.ac.uk/index.php) which undertakes co-produced (academics, professionals, patients and public) applied and implementation research with the potential to reduce health inequalities. He is a mixed methods researcher, with a focus on communities and Primary Care and within that, a particular interest in mental health, substance misuse, work and health, complex behaviours and environments, and researching the complex interventions associated with them.
Mark teaches undergraduates and postgraduates and supervises a number of PhDs within and out with the CLAHRC.
Mark is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding
- Engagement and Involvement
Rachel Georgiou
Rachel Georgiou
Co-applicant
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University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Rachel is a Senior Research Fellow based within the Stroke Research Group and Senior Development Manager for the Lancashire Research Institute for Global Health and Wellbeing at the University of Central Lancashire. She has a special interest in workforce and organisational development, capacity building, stroke prevention and global challenges research.
Her interest and involvement in stroke research arose from her experience as a registered nurse working in acute medicine, neurology, rehabilitation and palliative care. She holds degrees in Psychology, Health Psychology and Clinical Leadership. She has been involved in clinical research for over 25 years having worked initially in stroke and brain injury research as a research nurse and manager, before taking up more senior strategic research roles within research and innovation management in Higher Education Institutes and NHS organisations. She returned to a stroke research focussed role in 2016 joining Prof Dame Caroline Watkins team.
Rachel is a member of the Steering Group and is the Workstream Lead for both the Communications, Outputs and Dissemination Workstream, and Research Capacity Building Workstream. Additionally, she is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding
- Engagement and Involvement
Jo Gibson
Dr Jo Gibson
Co-applicant
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University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Dr Jo Gibson is a registered nurse and a Reader in health service research. She studied biochemistry at bachelor’s level and nursing at master’s level at the University of Liverpool, and subsequently gained a PhD from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan).
She qualified as a registered nurse in 1990 and worked in the British National Health Service as a staff nurse, practice development nurse, nurse specialist and nurse consultant, undertaking research and staff development activities alongside her clinical roles in medical and surgical nursing, before taking up a full time academic post at UCLan as Senior Lecturer in Stroke Research in 2008.
In her current role she has undertaken programmatic applied health research utilising systematic review, mixed methods and qualitative approaches (including grounded theory, phenomenology, Delphi methodology, documentary analysis, focus groups, interviews) in primary and secondary stroke prevention, TIA and stroke services, prehospital and emergency stroke care, stroke rehabilitation, implementation, health inequalities, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and pedagogical research.
Jo also works with the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care North-West Coast as a Senior Research Fellow, focusing on research to reduce health inequalities.
Jo is a member of the Steering Group, and the Workstream Lead for Communications, Outputs and Dissemination. She is also a Contributor to the Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation Workstream.
Maree Hackett
Professor Maree Hackett
Co-applicant
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University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Maree is the Program Head, Mental Health at The George Institute for Global Health. She leads a program of research focusing on developing simple, cost effective strategies (which can be integrated with other secondary prevention strategies) to prevent depression and significantly improve the outcome for people with cardiovascular disease. Maree has an interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
This is in concordance with her current National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship (Level 2) on Improving the identification and management of depression in people with cardiovascular disease. Maree works one day per week as a Professor of Epidemiology in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at The University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom.
Maree is a member of the Steering Group, and is also the Workstream Lead for Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding. Additionally, she is a Contributor to the Communications, Outputs and Dissemination Workstream.
Steph Jones
Dr Steph Jones
Research Programme Manager
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University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Steph is the Research Programme Manager for the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Improving Stroke Care in India at UCLan.
Steph has extensive project management experience and has co-ordinated large programmes of research including: ESCORTT (Emergency Stroke Calls: Obtaining Rapid Telephone Triage) funded by the National Institute for Health Research and a Policy Research Programme Improving Cardiac Arrest Response and Outcomes (ICARE) funded by Department of Health. She is passionate about increasing research capacity and capability and has developed and continues to deliver a Clinical Academic Research Training Programme, which has been completed by over 40 health professionals, many of whom have gone on to obtain NIHR funding. She is the module leader for 2 postgraduate stroke courses and supervises a range of PhD students.
Steph is the Chair of the Operational Management Group and a member of the Steering Group. She is a Contributor to all six Workstreams:
- Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding
- Engagement and Involvement
- Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation
- Trial Oversight, Adherence and Monitoring; Data Management; Information Systems and Statistical Analysis
- Communications, Outputs and Dissemination
- Research Capacity Building
Yogesh Kalkonde
Dr Yogeshwar Kalkonde
Co-applicant
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Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health, India
Yogesh Kalkonde is a public health researcher and a neurologist. He is trained in India and in the United States in medicine, neurology and clinical research. After a brief stint as a faculty member in the Department of Neurology at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, he returned back to India to work with rural and tribal communities that have limited access to healthcare. Currently, he leads the rural chronic non-communicable diseases research programme at SEARCH, Gadchiroli. He is also a practicing physician at the rural hospital of SEARCH. He works on stroke and its risk factors in rural and tribal regions of Gadchiroli in central India. He is a recipient of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance’s intermediate fellowship in public health and the Bruce Shoenberg International Award in Neuroepidemiology given by the American Academy of Neurology.
Yogesh is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding
- Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation
Richard Lindley
Professor Richard Lindley
Co-applicant
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Sydney Medical School – Westmead Hospital, Australia
Richard Lindley is Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Sydney and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. He qualified from Newcastle upon Tyne medical school in 1986, and trained in general internal medicine, stroke and geriatrics in England, Scotland and Australia (Geriatric Medicine Fellow at Westmead Hospital in 1994).
He was the research fellow for the first “mega-trial” in stroke (The International Stroke Trial) and has since collaborated in about 40 randomised controlled trials.
He has written two books on stroke – (the latest being Stroke: The Facts, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition 2017), and has 266 publications (226 peer reviewed research). He is a past President of the Stroke Society of Australasia, previous Board member of the Stroke Foundation (including chairing the Clinical Council, and co-chairing the Australian Stroke Coalition), and co-chaired the national stroke guidelines in Scotland and Australia. He is an Associate Editor for the Australasian Journal of Ageing.
He was made an honorary foreign member of the Association of British Neurologists for his contribution to neurology in 2008. He provides 2 days a week clinical service in acute geriatric medicine, acute stroke and rehabilitation at Blacktown and Mt Druitt Hospitals, Sydney.
Richard is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding
- Research Capacity Building
Sandy Middleton
Professor Sandy Middleton
Co-applicant
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Australian Catholic University & St Vincent’s Health, Australia
Sandy Middleton is Professor of Nursing and Director of the Nursing Research Institute, a joint collaboration of St Vincent’s Health Australia (Sydney), St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and Australian Catholic University. Professor Middleton has obtained 81 grants totalling over $39M. Professor Middleton also led the landmark Quality in Acute Stroke Care (QASC) cluster trial demonstrating decreased death and dependency following implementation of nurse-led protocols to manage fever, hyperglycaemia and swallowing (FeSS protocols) following stroke. She subsequently led the translation of this intervention into all 36 stroke units in the state of new South Wales, Australia. She is also leading the evaluation of translation of the FeSS protocols in 14 countries in Europe (QASC Europe Project) working with the Angels Initiative. Many of these hospitals are in Eastern Europe with limited stroke resources available.
Sandy is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding
- Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation
Vasantha Padma
Professor Vasantha Padma
Co-applicant
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All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Padma is Head of Department of Neurology, and also the Chief of Neurosciences Center, at AIIMS New Delhi. Padma has a special interest in Stroke, and Multiple Sclerosis. Padma was conferred Padmashree by Govt. of India for the year 2016. She is the National Co-ordinator for SITS-NEW, SITS-SEARS registries and had initiated and is in-charge of the thrombolysis program in AIIMS. She has over 200 publications and several projects on Stroke including acute treatment strategies, restorative therapies such as stem cells in stroke and cerebral palsy, post-stroke epilepsy, stroke-in-young and Functional Imaging in Stroke. She is on the board for the National Stroke Surveillance Program, Nodal officer for Stroke program for Govt. of India, the HP, Rajasthan, UP, Telangana, AP, stroke mentor, The National Stroke Preventative Program and is the Past President of the Indian Stroke Association.
Padma is a member of the Steering Group, and the Workstream Lead for Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation. She is also a Contributor to the Research Capacity Building Workstream.
Kate Radford
Dr Kate Radford
Co-applicant
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University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Associate Professor in Rehabilitation Research (Long Term Conditions).
Kate Radford qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1990, working predominantly in neurological rehabilitation. Her PhD involved developing and validating tests to predict fitness-to-drive in people with long-term neurological conditions including stroke, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and dementia. Clinical-community neurological rehabilitation work prompted interest in vocational rehabilitation, which is the primary focus of her research. Her expertise is in using mixed methods designs to evaluate complex intervention and implementation fidelity.
Currently funded studies include RETAKE (HTA 15/130/11), a trial to determine the clinical and cost-effectiveness of early intervention to prevent job loss after stroke, studies to improve health, wellbeing and participation in people with stroke, other acquired brain injuries and dementia and to evaluate interventions to promote self-management using assistive technologies.
Kate is deputy head of the Division of Rehabilitation and Ageing and leads the Long Term Conditions research group. She is deputy director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Rehabilitation and Healthcare Research and lead for the NIHR ICA/ Health Education East Midlands Silver Scholar Awards, supporting aspiring non-medical clinical academics to develop research careers.
Kate is a Contributor to both the Engagement and Involvement, and Research Capacity Building Workstreams.
Caroline Sanders
Dr Caroline Sanders
Co-applicant
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The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Caroline Sanders is Professor in Medical Sociology based in the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research at the University of Manchester and Director for Public Involvement and Engagement at Health Innovation Manchester. Her main expertise is in patient and carer experiences of managing long-term conditions, including experiences of health services and perspectives on safety. She has methodological expertise in qualitative and participatory research methods and additional interests in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE). Her recent and current work has included a major focus on the use of patient experience data for service improvement and the co-design and evaluation of mobile health interventions for supporting management (and self-management) of both physical and mental health long-term conditions. She is also theme lead for research focused on marginalised groups of patients and carers for the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre.
Caroline is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding
- Engagement and Involvement
Doris Schroeder
Professor Doris Schroeder
Co-applicant
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University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Doris is Director of Centre for Professional Ethics, Faculty of Health & Wellbeing, University of Central Lancashire, UK. Doris, whose background is in philosophy, politics and economics, is also Professor of Moral Philosophy at the School of Law, UCLan Cyprus. She has published widely, and has led large international research projects on benefit sharing, responsible research and innovation and global research ethics. Her conceptual work in ethics focuses mostly on the human right to access to health care, and dignity.
Doris is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Project Governance, Evaluation and Process Monitoring, and Future Funding
- Engagement and Involvement
Anil Sharma
Dr Anil Sharma
Co-applicant
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University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Dr Sharma was a Consultant Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Aintree University Hospital and University of Liverpool from 1980 to 2016. From 1989 to 2007, Anil was the Clinical Director for the Department of Medicine for the Elderly, and from 2002 to 2009 was the Divisional Medical Director of Medicine at Aintree University Hospital.
In 1993, Anil set up the acute stroke unit at Aintree University Hospital, and has contributed to stroke research at UCLan since that time.
In 2008, he was made an Honorary Fellow of UCLan, and retired in December 2016. He now likes to spend his time playing golf, spending time with his grandchildren and gardening.
Anil has published over 70 papers on stroke related matters, and has lectured widely at local, regional and national conferences.
Anil is a Contributor to the Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation Workstream.
Chris Sutton
Chris Sutton
Co-applicant
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The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Chris is Deputy Director (Methodology) and Lead Statistician for Manchester CTU. He has an interest in improving health through improving trials and collaborates widely on complex trials in various disciplines, with specific interest in the topics of stroke, musculoskeletal and mental health.
Chris completed an MSc in Medical Statistics and IT at Leicester University in 1987 prior to starting his first lecturing post at Leicester Polytechnic the same year. In 1988 he moved to Lancashire Polytechnic (later University of Central Lancashire) where he held Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Principal Lecturer and Reader posts in the Faculty of Science (1988-2002) and the Faculty of Health, later Health and Wellbeing (2002-2018).
He moved to The University of Manchester in March 2018 to take on a new role as Senior Lecturer in Clinical Trial Statistics to lead the development of the statistical functions of the Clinical Trials Unit as it moved into Manchester University over the summer of 2018. Chris continues to collaborate widely with clinicians on trials of complex interventions and with statisticians and methodologists interested in improving how trials are designed and implemented.
Chris is a Contributor to the following Workstreams:
- Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation
- Trial Oversight, Adherence and Monitoring; Data Management; Information Systems and Statistical Analysis
P N Sylaja
Professor P N Sylaja
Co-applicant
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Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, India
Dr Sylaja is Professor of Neurology and in charge of the comprehensive stroke care Program at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Dr Sylaja is the past President of the Indian Stroke Association and a member of the Educational Committee of the World Stroke Organization representing India. She is also fellow of the European Stroke Organization.
She is the expert member of the Academic Council of Kerala University of Health Sciences 2017-2019. She is the technical consultant for stroke for the Kerala state appointed by the Ministry of Health and Family welfare, Government of Kerala. She was awarded a National Lifetime Achievement award in teaching from the Indian Medical Association, 2015, along with the Eappen Samuel memorial award for best research paper in 2015 from the Indian Medical Association.
Dr Sylaja has more than 110 publications to her credit. She has ongoing projects on thrombolysis, intracranial atherosclerotic disease, stroke imaging and biomarkers and is PI of many national and international projects.
Dr Sylaja is a member of the Steering Group and is the Workstream Lead for Research Capacity Building and is a Contributor to the Research Governance, Study Design and Implementation Workstream.
Marion Walker
Professor Marion Walker
Co-applicant
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University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Marion Walker is Professor of Stroke Rehabilitation and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Nottingham. She is an occupational therapist by professional background and has played a leading role in developing a research culture within her own profession. She has served as Chair (UK Stroke Forum, Stroke Association Strategic Research Board), President of learned societies (UK Society for Rehabilitation Research) and Associate Director for Rehabilitation and Portfolio Development of the UK Stroke Research Network (2005-2015).
Marion has a strong research portfolio covering a wide area of local, national and international research projects. Marion is a strong advocate of patient partnership and has co-chaired the Nottingham Stroke Research Partnership Group for 10 years. Marion is also passionate about equality for women in STEM subjects and leads the Women in Nottingham (WIN) agenda (previously WinSET Women in Science Engineering and Technology) at the University of Nottingham. Marion is a Trustee of the Stroke Association. Marion was elected to Senate in October 2016 with responsibility for overseeing education, teaching and research, and for the academic quality and standards of the University.
She is an NIHR Senior Investigator and was awarded an MBE in the Queens New Year Honours list 2012 for her service to stroke rehabilitation and stroke survivors. Marion is an international advisor for stroke and stroke rehabilitation research in Sweden, Norway and Australia and holds honorary professorial positions at the University of Sydney, University of Gothenburg and the University of Queensland.
Marion is a Contributor to the Research Capacity Building Workstream.
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