Connecting our CRPs across the East Midlands
Event Details
The East Midlands Workforce Development Team are excited to announce we will be holding our CRP Connect Event at Trent Vineyard on Tuesday 17th September 2024, 9.30am - 3.00pm.
This informative and interactive event is aimed at current CRPs, CRPs on the directory, Registered CRPs, those currently applying and for potential future CRPs. We would also like to invite individuals who are or will be supporting CRPs.
Our keynote speaker is Deirdre Brooking, the National CRP Strategic Engagement Lead, who will provide an update and further information regarding the future CRP Strategy and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.
You will also hear about our CRP Champions who are based in the many different Trusts and Organisations around the East Midlands, with lots of opportunities for networking with other CRPs. The event is free to attend and a light lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Come and join us on the 17th September to hear more about what it means to be a CRP in the East Midlands, and how the role is evolving to meet the challenges of research delivery.
Agenda
Speakers
Deirdre Brooking
Reading University MSc. Biotechnology, Liverpool University BSc.(Hons) Biochemistry
Deirdre started her research career in The Biochemistry Department of the Royal Free Hospital part of the team trying to answer the popular myth at the time: ‘Cholesterol - Good Guy, Bad Guy?’
Deirdre moved onto a surgical role in the Heart Valve Bank at the Royal Brompton Hospital, and was registered with the AHCS as a tissue banker. Dissecting and cryopreserving the aortic and pulmonary valves from donor hearts for homograft valve surgery. She enjoyed this enormously so stayed for 17 years! It opened up the world of clinical medicine, ethics, data management and patients to her.
She enjoyed the MDT approach, and ultimately improving people’s lives. She never lost sight of research presenting posters at The British Association for Tissue Banking meetings in Prague and Kuala Lumpur.
Deirdre joined the Royal National Orthopaedic hospital, Stanmore in 2011, and began her clinical research journey. Working under Professor Adrienne Flanagan, within a year Deirdre was very well versed in Sarcoma, consenting patients, phlebotomy and data management. Working across multiple sites including the Cancer Institute and MacMillan Cancer Centre
She moved into the Research and Innovation Dept at RNOH in 2014 and over the course of 7 years became the delivery team lead. She coordinated multiple studies, including IMP’s, surgical, device and observational studies. She was passionate about the recognition CRP’s deserve, and sat on the formative committee to bring about the directory and then the registry. She contributed to the mandated requirements needed to join the register. Deirdre joined the register in 2019.
In 2021 Deirdre joined North Thames CRN as the Workforce Development Lead. A fierce supporter of the Clinical research Practitioner registry and alumni of the Advanced Leadership course, Deirdre welcomes the opportunity to support others in their career journey. Appointed as the National Strategic Engagement Lead for CRP by the NIHR Coordinating Centre in JUne 2023.
Joy Agbonmwandolor
I am a healthcare scientist registered with the Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS). I work in research delivery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) as a Senior Research Officer and a Research Associate at the University of Nottingham working on research inclusion project for adults with a learning disability, which ends this September. I am an HEE/NIHR Fellow and a Specialist Assessor/ Verifier for AHCS CRP registration.
I played a key role in the launching of NUH CRP forum in August 2021 and currently work closely with the Research & Innovation workforce development team and CRP forum leads at NUH to identify the developmental and educational needs of the CRP workforce and provide support for AHCS CRP registration. I have a breadth of research experience across a diverse range of specialties, developed through academic and work experiences and have a number of publications in peer-reviewed journals.
I hold a bachelor in Biochemistry, masters in Biomedical Science, diploma in Applied Science and a graduate diploma in Management studies. It is my desire to become a clinical academic practitioner, leading research into health inequalities and promoting innovation in healthcare through research that is ethnically diverse.
Georgia Melia
I started working as a CRP in 2020 and worked across a number of specialties. I am currently responsible for overseeing the portfolio of clinical research studies at the East Midlands Major
Trauma Centre at Nottingham University Hospitals. I joined the CRP register in 2021 and have maintained my registration since.
I have always been interested in academic work and was one of the first CRPs in the country to be accepted onto the ‘HEE/NIHR pre-doctoral bridging fellowship programme’ in 2022. This was made possible as a result of being on the AHCS accredited register.
Since completing the programme I have secured funding to undertake a PhD beginning in October 2024.
Jude Savage
Jude is the Head of Regulation and Deputy Registrar for the Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS) having transferred over from the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP) in 2021, which she joined in 2018, as Deputy Registrar.
Prior to this, Jude worked as a Senior Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist at the University Hospital Birmingham (UHB), with both NHS patients and participants in clinical trials. She also worked as a founding member of the Human Factors Faculty at UHB, driving key initiatives to improve patient safety, and maintains an active interest in this area today.
Additionally, Jude has taught on the Practitioner Training Programme for Healthcare Science for Respiratory Physiologists in the specialist area of supplemental oxygen delivery.
Milly Brittain
Milly Brittain, the Project Administrator at the Academy for Healthcare Science.
She administrators the Clinical Research Practitioner Directory, Gateway and Register amongst other AHCS directories and registers.
Milly has been administrating the Clinical Research Practitioner area for over two years and jointly hosts the drop-in sessions with NIHR.
Rhianne Bostock
My name is Rhianne Bostock.
I have been a Registered CRP for 3.5 years. I am a Research Delivery Officer at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and have been with the team for 4.5 years. I work on many Mental Health studies working with different clinical teams such as: Health Visitors and CAMHS. I work on studies in Mood Disorders, Peri Natal Services, Dementia, and Intellectual Disabilities as well as many other areas.
I am the CRP Champion for Notts HC and have been working to support other CRP’s with their Competency Framework and CRP Registration applications.
Location
Trent Vineyard, Easter Park
Lenton Lane
Nottingham
NG7 2PX.