Speaker Biographies
Professor Eloise Carr
A nurse by background, Eloise is strongly committed to improving pain management through collaborative practice where professionals can work and learn together to improve patient care. She has a particular interest in the barriers and solutions to effective pain management and has worked extensively with clinical teams to improve care using improvement methods. Eloise's work has been published widely, used to create undergraduate and postgraduate courses, textbooks and visual materials. Current pain research interests include postoperative pain management, back pain and interprofessional education. She supervises several doctoral students.
Joanna Powell - Personal Awards Team - Senior Management
Joanna trained as a physiotherapist at Queen's College Glasgow, qualifying in 1985. She has worked in a wide variety of clinical and academic roles in Scotland and Leeds, latterly developing a 'portfolio' career working in commissioning, service improvement and project management as well as undertaking a variety of AHP leadership roles. Joanna is passionate about the potential benefits of clinical academic careers as an enabler to the delivery of evidenced care. Joanna joined the NIHR TCC to lead on the Clinical Academic Training pathway for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in April 2009. She is also the senior manager supporting the NIHR Fellowship schemes.
Professor Peter Thomas
Peter has a background in statistics and epidemiology and has been with the University for 15 years. Peter and his team provide statistical and methodological support to researchers at BU and the local NHS. They also have a programme of research on psychosocial aspects of chronic disease, particularly multiple sclerosis. Previously he has been a researcher and statistician in perinatal epidemiology at the University of Bristol and sickle cell disease in Jamaica.
Professor Jackie Campbell
Jackie is the (part-time) Research Adviser for the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists. She is also Professor of Neurophysiology at the University of Northampton (part-time) and a freelance health research consultant and chartered statistician. She is an academic hybrid, initially qualifying as a physicist. She initially worked in the field of medicine and healthcare as a researcher into the processes of pain and pain relief at the Walton Hospital in Liverpool, which also confirmed her belief in multi-disciplinary working. She has worked in the healthcare sector of higher education since 1987. She has wide-ranging research interests and experience but is particularly involved in research in the professions allied to medicine, especially podiatry. She has been on the NIHR expert panels which recommend the successful CATP awards since the start of the programme and she represents the expert panel on the CATP Implementation Group.
Fiona Mellor
Fiona has been working as a diagnostic research radiographer at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic (AECC) in Bournemouth since 2001. She was initially employed to help develop quantitative fluoroscopy (QF) of the spine (automated measurement of video-x-ray sequences). This method was later used to compare inter-vertebral motion in two different spinal fusion techniques where it was found that pre-surgical patients had different motion compared to unmatched healthy volunteers. Fiona developed this idea into a PhD which she is now undertaking 3 days a week. In 2009 she was awarded one of fifteen clinical academic training doctoral research fellowships by the National Institute of Health Research which funds her salary, training costs and overheads.
