Newcastle University

BACKGROUND:

I originally trained as a nurse at Freeman Hospital School of Nursing. My first post was in Ophthalmics in Walkergate Hospital, where I worked for 18 months. I left nursing for a short time but returned to a post in Neuroradiology at Newcastle General Hospital. This was a temporary post, and I later took up a role as a Staff Nurse in the Neuro High Dependency Unit (HDU). I stayed in Neurosciences for almost 18 years working the first part of that time in HDU and the rest as a Research Nurse, involved with clinical trials in head injury and strokes. I then took up post as a UK Study Co-Ordinator for a European Head Injury Data Collection Study, which involved data collection in ICU in 6 sites around the UK. During this time I studied for a BA(Hons) in Nursing Practice and an MSc in Health and Social Care Research Methods. I later worked as a Study Co-ordinator in the Institute of Human Genetics, followed by the Clinical Research Facility in the RVI, before taking up my current post as Trial Manager in the Clinical Trials Unit in the Institute of Health and Society.

QUALIFICATIONS:

MSc Health and Social Care Methods (2007)

BA (Hons) Nursing Practice 2:1 (2004)

Certificate & Advanced Certificate in Exercise & Fitness (2003-2004)

Professionial Studies in Nursing (Diploma Level) (1995)

ENB 998 Teaching and Assessing in Clinical Practice (1993)

ENB 100 Ceriticate in Intensive Care Nursing (1993)

City and Guilds Further Education Teaching Certificate (FETC 730) (1991) 

 PREVIOUS ROLES:

2006-2009 - Study Co-Ordinator, Clinical Research Facility, RVI 

2005-2006 - Study Co-Ordinator, Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life

2003-2005 - UK Co-ordinator Head Injury Data Collection (BrainIT), RMPD, NGH

1998-2003 - Research Sister, Neurosciences, NGH

1988-1998 - Staff Nurse, HDU, Neurosciences, NGH, (including one year as a Research Nurse in Neorsciences and Stroke Medicine)

1985-1987 - Staff Nurse, Ophthalmics, Walkergate Hospital

 ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Trial Manager for both FELINE and ADD studies (both studies funded by the NIHR Efficacy and Mechnaism Evaluation Programme).

Responsible for study set-up, including preparation of applications for REC and MHRA.

Day to day managment of both trials, along with the other members of the Trial Managament Groups.

Preparation and submission of amendments.

Co-ordination of meetings for Trial Steering and Data Monitoring and Ethics Committees.

Uploading of accruals to UKCRN database.

Maintenance of Trial Master File and Investigator Site File set-up for participating sites.

Monitoring of sites (Investigator Site Files and Patient study data). 

 RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Research in Neurosciences (trauma, stroke and spontaneous intracranial bleeds).

Consent in Clinical Trials.

Trauma and ICU based research. 

 CURRENT PROJECTS:

anti-Fibrotic Effects of Losartan in Nash Evaluation study (FELINE study).

Project Leader: Professor Chris Day

Antiglucocorticoid augmentation of anti-Depressants in Depression (ADD Sudy).

Project Leader: Professor Nicol Ferrier 

BSc Clinical Pharmacology - PED3003

PGC in Research Methods 

Other teaching sessions organised in Biomedicine and CLRN 

• Siddique MS, Gregson BA, Fernandes HM, Barnes J, Treadwell L, Wooldridge TD, Mendelow AD. Comparative study of traumatic and spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. Journal of Neurosurgery 2002, 96(1), 86-89.
• Barnes J, Chambers IR, Piper I, Citerio G, Contant C, Enblad P, Fiddes H, Howells T, Keining K, Nilsson P, Yau YH, on behalf of the Brain-IT group. Accurate data collection for head injury monitoring studies: A data collection methodology. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum 2005,Supplement 95 2 39-41.
• Barnes J, Chambers I, Piper I, Citerio G, Contant C, Enblad P, Fiddes H, Howells T, Kiening K, Nilsson P, Yau YH, BrainIT Grp. Accurate data collection for head injury monitoring studies: a data validation methodology. In: Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementa: Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring XII. 2005, Hong Kong, China: Springer.
• Chambers IR, Barnes J, Piper I, Citerio G, Enblad P, Howells T, Kiening K, Mattern J, Nilsson P, Ragauskas A, Sahuquillo J, Yau YH. BrainIT: A trans-national head injury monitoring research network. In: Brain Edema XIII. 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan: SPRINGER-VERLAG WIEN.