BIOGRAPHIES
Professor John Fletcher
Professor John Fletcher was appointed as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation in February 2014.He was previously responsible for setting up the BU Graduate School in 2002 and was Head of the Graduate School until 2011.
A member of the Bournemouth University Executive Team, John is responsible for the University’s research strategy and performance as well as its regional economic engagement. John is an internationally recognised economist, highly regarded for his pioneering work in economic impact modelling and considered to be one of the ‘fathers of tourism economics’. He has undertaken research for more than 70 national governments around the world, USAID, UN, UNDP, UNEP, WWF, EU as well as many international development banks and sub-national authorities. He has researched into areas as diverse as the economic impact of wind farms, to the implications of economic diversification for the economy of Qatar. He has been undertaking research for the Government of Gibraltar from 1978 to the current time and, more recently, has been researching into issues relating to terrorism and risk perceptions.
Andy Anderson
Andy is Chief Executive Officer for the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH)based at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and also owns and manages a medical education and business management consultancy company.
Andy manages the business of the Association including membership, financial and development activities. He is supported by a part-time administration team and the Executive committee.
Andy’s company became the leading distributor of medical simulation systems for the UK and Ireland from 2000 to 2006. The company distributed many of the early VR and mannequin systems. After selling the business in 2006 he was engaged by Portsmouth HS Trust as the Business Manager for their simulation centre. He has also spent a year as UK managing Director for CAECrawford Medical Limited, based in Aynho, Oxfordshire and brings this wealth of experience in the simulation business to ASPiH.
Andy is also a keen golfer and aviation enthusiast having completed 18 hours of a private pilot licence. He is also Vice-Chair of Governors at a local state school.
Paul Davis MBE
Paul has a background in aviation and flew helicopters in the military for 35 years as well as enjoying a short spell as an airline pilot. As a flying instructor he operated flight simulators in the commercial and military arenas and was fortunate to do exchanges with the German and United States Navies. He helped establish the Military Air Accident Investigation Branch in 2011 and, during the following 6 years, led investigations into military air accidents. Having spent 5 months in 2014 as the air safety officer during the closure of Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, Paul is familiar with having to deliver safety when operational output has to be sustained despite limited resource and unpredictable surges in demand! Paul is a keen advocate of human factors and sat as a lay member on the ATAIN asphyxia working group for 2 years, offering a different perspective on safety culture and risk mitigation. He continues to engage on the subject of effective briefings and safety huddles.
Dr Tracey Herlihey
Tracey Herlihey holds a PhD in Psychology, specializing in human perception and performance, and a BSc. in Applied Psychology from Cardiff University. Before joining the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch as a National Investigator, Tracey was a Senior Human Factors Specialist at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, Canada. At UHN Tracey specialised in the development and evaluation of human-centered technology to enhance safety and efficiency within the healthcare setting.
Dr Suzanne Kellett
Suzanne is an ex-military Consultant Major Trauma Anaesthetist and Trust Lead for Team Performance at University Hospital Southampton.
She is fascinated by psychology and how we can train behaviour to optimise both safety and performance to deliver the highest quality care for our patients. Her work with research psychologists has enabled her to develop training to support team working and decision-making in high-stakes situations. Addressing and training our behaviours is possible and can help us deliver better care and enjoy better working lives.
Dr Karen Kirkham
Karen has been a GP for 25 years and combines this with a senior leadership role within the CCG and across the Dorset System.
A strong clinical leader with in depth knowledge and experience of both commissioning and working clinically at primary, secondary, and tertiary level, Karen is a change leader for the Dorset health system.
She is currently working on redesign and transformation of the Integrated Community Services and Primary Care component of Dorset’s STP and with partners shaping the emerging Accountable Care System. She is part of the senior leadership team and the Primary care clinical lead for the Dorset ACS.
Professor Robert Middleton
Professor Robert Middleton is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at The Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Director of Trauma at Poole Hospital. He specialises clinically in hip replacement, hip arthroscopy and revision hip surgery. He combines his clinical work with heading the Orthopaedic Research Institute at Bournemouth University (ORI-BU).
He is the former National Clinical Lead for Hip and Knee Replacement at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. More recently he has been on the NICE guidelines committee for the conservative treatment of Osteoarthritis. He teaches and lectures internationally orthopaedics and has extensive experience of leading the development and implementation of enhanced recovery after surgery pathways, both in his own organisation and with other units.
Dr Emer Forde
Dr Emer Forde is a GP in Poole and a Programme Director on the Dorset GP training scheme. She also works 1 day a week for Public HealthDorset.
Prior to training as a doctor, Emer read Natural Sciences at the University ofCambridge and has a PhD in Neuropsychology from the University of Birmingham.She haspublished widely,including a book 'Category Specificity in Brain and Mind'which was peer reviewed as "a timely illustration of neuroscience at its best". Sheenjoys combining her clinical work with teaching, research and quality improvement. Herresearch focus currentlyis on medical education, including the use of 'real-life' simulation based training and exploring how the arts can enhance professional development.
Dr James Bromilow
Dr Bromilow qualified from Southampton University in 1996 and subsequently undertook specialist training in medicine, anaesthesiaand critical care throughout the Wessex region. His penultimate year of training comprised a year of research anaesthesia and Critical Care in Perth, Western Australia. He accepted a consultant post at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2008, where he is now the Lead Consultant for Intensive Care Medicine. Dr Bromilow is an expert reviewer for NCEPOD (National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths).
Mark Ainsworth-Smith
Mark Ainsworth-Smith has been employed as the Consultant Pre-hospital Care Practitioner for South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) since 2007. He has worked in the NHS since 1987.
Mark recognizes the huge challenge of working in unpredictable emergency situations. The use of simulation can help reduce risk, increase confidence, and provide assurance to organisations that their staffs are fully competent. This lecture will cover some of the innovative technologies used in SCAS to ensure that our patients get the best possible care
John Tarrant
Educated in Medical Sciences, John undertook Operating Department Training (ODP) in 1998 at Royal Bournemouth Hospital.
For a number of years John worked as a Lecturer Practitioner both as a Senior ODP in clinical practice (perioperative practice) and as Programme Leader at Bournemouth University. Working with the local clinical network, John introduced ODP into Bournemouth University in 2003. The programme enjoys an innovative approach to learning and assessment that is well rated by students and clinical staff.
John is also involved in a novel piece of research looking at Professional Identity within Student ODPs, a much unexplored profession.
David Halliwell
David Halliwell is a fellow at Bournemouth university, having previously been programme lead for paramedicine. David was headhunted to go to the Middle East - where he developed some of the regions military/disaster relief programmes. David speaks at conferences worldwide - with talks so far this year in Australia, USA, and mainland Europe. In 2014 David began developing his own simulation strategies and began testing his belief in concepts such as "reality" "fidelity" and "buy in."
David will use this session to share his approach to affordable immersive simulation in healthcare. He will showcase how innovators around the world are transforming simulation using 3d printing, 360 degree video - and working with the latest rubbers! The mind boggles!
Professor Tamas Hickish
Professor Hickish is a consultant in Medical Oncology at Poole and Bournemouth Hospitals. He is a Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University and is Co-Director (Research) of the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Research and Education (CoPMRE) and Co-Director (Clinical) of the Bournemouth University Clinical Research Unit (BUCRU). A major interest for Professor Hickish is the development of technology to support potential care and innovate patient care pathways. Professor Hickish is co-director of iQHealth Tech.
Dr Tim Battcock
Tim Battcock qualified in Liverpool 1981 and trained in the Northwest and then specialized in geriatric medicine in Leicester. He moved to Poole in 1991 and has developed an interest in medical education over the last 22 years. He has been undergraduate tutor for Southampton medical school, college tutor for the RCP London, Clinical tutor for the Wessex Deanery for 11 years, locum head of school and more recently Censor of the RCP London. He is an examiner for Southampton Medical School and a PACES examiner both in the UK and internationally for the RCP London. Tim is Co-Director of the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Research and Education (CoPMRE).
Lt Col Tania Cubison
Miss Tania Cubison is one of a very small number of female plastic surgeons in the South East of England. She is a fully accredited Consultant Plastic surgeon with a specialist interest in burn care, scar revision and lower limb reconstruction. She is a Military plastic surgeon and an Honorary Consultant for the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS trust.
Miss Cubison trained in general plastic surgery at East Grinstead, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Stoke Mandeville and the Royal Hospital Haslar. She underwent fellowships in Aesthetic Surgery, Burns, and Microsurgery, and visited overseas units including USA and Japan. She has undertaken a significant amount of clinical research, has published a number of papers and book chapters on burns and scarring, and has presented her work at many National and International clinical conferences.
As a fully trained Burns Consultant, Miss Cubison works within a multidisciplinary team to manage the complex issues associated with burn injury, caring for patients from the time of their initial injury, through the healing phase, to rehabilitation and reconstruction. She specialises in children’s burns and uses the most up to date techniques of hydrosurgery, biological dressings and cell culture to supplement more conventional burn management to achieve the best care possible. Miss Cubison regularly works with orthopaedic colleagues to provide combined care for difficult lower limb fractures and other leg injuries.
As a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Miss Cubison is one of a few Regular Army plastic surgeons. She has an operational role in the military so will occasionally be deployed overseas. She has considerable experience and expertise in the management of amputations, both primary amputation and also secondary problems associated with amputation stumps.
Miss Cubison is married with two children and can sometimes be spotted face painting at a school fete or playing the Euphonium in the scratch orchestra!
Dr Christropher Richardson
Dr Christopher John Richardson BEng EngD CEng QTS M.Inst.ISP joined Bournemouth University (BU) in February 2011 after working for 25 years in the Military and Civil Telecommunication Industries.
Dr Richardson is an Information Assurance Architect who heads the Bournemouth University's Cyber Security Unit (BUCSU) and is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security and Information Assurance in the SciTech Department of Computing and Informatics. In 1980, he joined the Royal Air Force and left as a RAF Communications and Electronics Engineer Officer becoming a Chartered Engineer in 1991 working on Satellite and global Fibre Optic Telecommunication Systems and their service interconnections. He became a qualified teacher (QTS) in 2003 and as a Civil Servant he received his Engineering Doctorate from the University of Southampton.
Dr Richardson is an established entrepreneurial UK Cyber Security expert with a wide-ranging Research and Knowledge Exchange (KE) academic profile. Working with the United Nations, the UK Government, Law Enforcement agencies and the local communities he manages a portfolio of BUCSU research and industry partnerships, capitalising on the ever-increasing cyber security marketplace, particularly with his innovative CSIAR contracts. He has created new BU Security Degrees and exploited KE collaborative programmes across all four BU faculties, LEP, Dorset Growth, Dorset Councils, Dorset Police, Regional Law Enforcement, NCA, DSTL, DCMS, BEIS, MOD and the Intelligence Communities. He has recently worked with Dorset’s PCC CyberSAFE campaign and lately with the Dorset Cyber Alliance.
Passionate about School Outreach and Wider Participation and the UK’s need to develop students for professional security careers, he is instrumental in the national development of Cyber Degree Apprenticeships and the Professionalism of BU Students. He works with a wide range of collaborators in the multidisciplinary, multi-sectoral development of assuring our hyperconnected world.
Professor Tahseen Qureshi
Professor Qureshi is a Consultant Surgeon at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where he is the lead surgeon for Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery. He is also a Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University. In 2010 he was appointed by the Department of Health as a National Trainer on the LAPCO programme in which he was asked to teach other UK Surgeons how to perform safe Laparoscopic Surgery. He now runs International Laparoscopic Masterclasses and is regularly invited to lecture and teach laparoscopic surgery to surgeons abroad.
As a visiting Professor at Bournemouth University he has continued his interest in teaching and training and plans to develop this relationship on an international level.
As a result of him being one of the first surgeons in the UK trained in Robotic Colorectal Surgery, Poole hospital has been appointed as a European Centre of Excellence, and Professor Qureshi now helps run International Robotic Masterclasses.
Professor Qureshi also organised what is thought to be the first ‘interactive’ International Rectal Cancer Symposium with Robotic Surgery streamed live on the internet, allowing questions to be asked in real time and providing viewers an immersive 360-degree
perspective of the operating theatre, as well as a ‘robots-eye-view’ of the inside of the patient. Professor Qureshi has also set up a successful Enhanced Recovery Programme and was shortlisted for the prestigious National Patient Safety Awards for his achievements.
Nathan Barrett
I am currently a final year PhD student at BournemouthUniversity, based at Odstock Medical Limited -a technology-based rehabilitation company at Salisbury District Hospital focused on treating neurological conditions. Myresearch is focused on enhancing upper limbrehabilitationfor people suffering from chronic stroke by the combined use of Functional Electrical Stimulation and Interactive Games.Research in this area indicates that a combination of these methods of rehabilitation may be particularly beneficial in engaging neuroplastic mechanisms in the brain and helping to repair function.
I have a particularlykeen interest in the role of games in rehabilitation. Bothbespoke and commercial applications can be used to promote interest and motivationto perform movements that may otherwise be tedious. My additional interests liein the areas ofinteractive technologies, naturalistic interaction and, particularly,game design/development, the principles of which, I believe, should be closely adhered to when designing games for rehabilitation. I gained aBSc Games Technology degree from Bournemouth University in 2012, before completing anMSc inGames Development a year later and beginning my PhD in 2015.
MoradMargoum
Morad is an accredited Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapist; he has worked as a clinician within the fields of forensic and primary care Psychology. He currently works as the Clinical Lead for the Bournemouth & Christchurch Steps to Wellbeing Service.
Morad is interested in the integration of technology with Psychological interventions; having previously co-founded a company which aimed to bring CBT applications to mobile technology. He is currently exploring ways of introducing Virtual Reality based interventions within a primary care setting.
Helen Cross
I am a Practice Educator and Clinical Midwife at University Hospital Southampton. I have worked in a variety of settings throughout my Midwifery career starting in the Midlands then moving to the IOW and latterly in Southampton and the New Forest. I enjoy maintaining my clinical skill set alongside my Practice Education role as this informs my practices in both arenas.
Clinically I carry a caseload of women in the New Forest area and lead at our Stand Alone and Co-Located Birth Centres. I also work on Labour Ward, run NIPE clinics and work on our ‘Labour Line’ telephone triage service. The diversity of my clinical role allows me to maintain visibility and congruency of practice within my Practice Education Role.
As a Practice Educator I have particularly worked on developing the roles and education of our Maternity Support Workers and have recently assisted our Head of Midwifery to write two Maternity Specific units for the Foundation Degree, which we will be delivering from January 2018. A regular feature of my role is to deliver PROMPT training to the Multi-Disciplinary Team at Southampton, encourage and maintain faculty and to develop this training to meet local needs and to reflect national standards. I also deliver the Preceptorship programmes, annual training for Midwives, Nursery Nurses and Maternity Support Workers, Conferences, induction of new staff, Student Midwife training, participate in Doctors’ teaching and the teaching of Gynae Nurses and Gynae Theatre Staff alongside my colleagues in the Practice Education Team.