This is a group of experienced, knowledgeable professionals. These colleagues are the official representative core MDT and they are keen to establish the community and maintain it as a thriving learning and development environment.
The purpose of the Expert Core is to provide professional guidance and be the external face of the Community. It has a planning meeting twice a year to discuss ideas for activity and steer the direction of the community and more regular short meetings to consider suggestions coming in from the membership. Their role is to:
- steer the development and maintain vitality of the MND Professionals’ Community of Practice
- provide expert feedback on the development of Association resources
- help sustain and moderate the MND Professionals’ Community of Practice online forum providing specialist responses to community posed questions as necessary.
Your expert core
Chair: Jan Clarke
Consultant Nurse for MND National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
Anthony Hanratty
MND Nurse Specialist & Care Centre Coordinator and Independent Nurse Prescriber, Middlesbrough MND Care Centre
Samantha Parry
MND Coordinator, King's College Hospital, London and Chair of the British Dietetic Association Neurosciences Group
Rachael Marsden
Nurse Consultant for Motor Neurone Disease, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Dr Emily Mayberry
Senior Clinical Psychologist, Sheffield MND Care Centre and Clinical Neuropsychology Services, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Kathryn Crawford
Respiratory Specialist Physiotherapist, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Dr Malabika Ghosh
Principal OT for Cognition & Clinical Academic Fellow, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust
Phillippa Sharpe
Specialist Occupational Therapist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Charlotte Massey
Specialist physiotherapist, currently completing a PhD at the University of Sheffield on cough and secretion issues in MND
Rhiannon Evans
Speech and Language Therapist, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust