Clinical Director
The Clinical Director for the West Anglia CLRN is Professor Hill Gaston. Professor Gaston read medicine at Lincoln College, Oxford and undertook general medical training in London and Bristol. Research training began in Bristol as a CRC Fellow, and postdoctoral training at Stanford with an MRC travelling fellowship. He returned to the UK to the Department of Rheumatology in Birmingham where he was Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow and honorary consultant, before moving to Cambridge as the foundation professor of rheumatology. His research interests are in immunological mechanisms in rheumatic disease, and interactions between infection and the immune system. Professor Gaston has an active group of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students, working in cellular immunology, particularly T cell cloning (see www.med.cam.ac.uk). Professor Gaston is married to a local G.P. and has two grown-up children; interests outside work include science and faith issues (member of the Advisory Board of the Faraday Institute, see http://graphite.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/), music (listening, not making), reading and travel.
Co-Director (Primary Care)
The Co-Director for the West Anglia CLRN is Jonathan Graffy. Jonathan Graffy is Senior Clinical Research Associate in the Dept of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. He is also Clinical Lead (Medical) for the East of England Primary Care Research Network (PCRN-EoE) and honorary consultant in primary care at Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust. He is Networking Editor of the journal Primary Health Care Research and Development. Much of his research has focussed on the contribution that patients and the public can make to the prevention and management of health problems. His MD thesis (2002) was entitled “Evaluating Breastfeeding Support: a randomised controlled trial from breastfeeding counsellors”. In more recent work (The DIALOGUE Study) he has investigated patients’ experiences of health care for type 2 diabetes and whether feeding these experiences back to practice teams leads to improvements in services. An active clinician, he also works as a salaried general practitioner in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire.
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Co-Director (Mental Health)
The Co-Director for mental for West Anglia CLRN is Belinda Lennox. Dr Lennox trained in medicine at Nottingham University, before training as a psychiatrist in Oxford, Nottingham and Cambridge. She is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry, where her research interests are in understanding the biological basis of mental illness (http://www-bmu.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/). She is also consultant psychiatrist for Cameo – the award winning service for first episode psychosis in Cambridgeshire (www.cameo.nhs.uk), and head of Research and Development for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. She is Deputy Director for CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, an NIHR funded centre for applied health research. She is married to a consultant Neurologist, and has 4 young children.
Senior Manager
The core team is led by Dr Marijcke Veltman, CLRN Senior Manager. Marijcke is a chartered psychologist, and past Manager of the East Anglia Hub of the Mental Health Research Network and holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Birmingham. She started her career as a Psychology Lecturer at the De Montfort University before moving into research at the Thomas Coram Research Unit and the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her next move was to the Health Education Authority as Senior Research Manager before going back to academic research at the University of Cambridge, firstly at the General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit followed by the Section of Developmental Psychiatry.
Marijcke was also an external assessor and occasional Social and Medical Advisory Board member for research grant applications to the Community Fund (now known as the Big Lottery Fund). Her research interests lie in child psychopathology, developmental assessment, autism spectrum disorders, as well as the consequences of child maltreatment.
Core Team Members
Lead RM&G Manager
The Lead RM&G Manager, is Lena Petterson. Lena came to West Anglia CLRN from Bart’s and the London NHS Trust where she managed the Clinical Research Centre during a period of renewal and expansion. Before that she gained extensive experience managing and coordinating both clinical trials and multi-centre medical device trials. Within her managerial roles she has travelled both nationally and internationally and presented her work at conferences and lectures. She also worked as a consultant translating patient information for devices trials run at EU level.
Before moving to England, Lena worked as a Sister in one of the major hospitals within the Stockholms Läns Landsting, Sweden. She was involved in successfully coordinating the set up of a new care initiative in care of the elderly, requiring multi-agency participation and co-operation, as well as a change in hospital admission policies.
Lena’s previous roles include Lead Nurse and Clinical Research Centre Manager, Research Fellow and Manager of MHRA Disability Equipment Assessment Centre (University College London), Consultant, and Senior Research Nurse and Ward Sister.
Information Manager
An Information Manager will be appointed shortly.
Administrator
The Administrator is Sarah Gurry.
Executive Group
The day to day operation of the CLRN is supported by an Executive Group, led by the CLRN Clinical Director, which has representation from primary, secondary and tertiary care and mental health. The Executive is:
Last updated: 12 November 2008
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