Staff by Role

Director Of Institute

Professor Eileen Kaner
Institute Director

Institute Manager

Gillian Paczynski
Institute Manager

Deputy Institute Manager

Liz Huston
Deputy Institute Manager

Academic Staff

Dr Jean Adams
Lecturer in Public Health

Professor Ashley Adamson
Prof of Public Health Nutrition

Dr Vera Araujo-Soares
Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology

Dr Angela Bate
Senior Research Associate

Dr Ruth Bell
Senior Lecturer/Honorary NHS Consultant

Professor John Bond
Prof of Social Gerontology and Health Services Research

Dr Katie Brittain
Lecturer in Social Gerontology

Dr Heather Brown
Lecturer (Health Economics)

Professor Susan Chilton
Professor of Economics

Professor Julia Critchley
Visiting Professor

Dr Jan Deckers
Lecturer in Bioethics

Dr Mark Deverill
Senior Lecturer

Dr Justin Durham
Senior Lecturer/Hon Consultant Oral Surgeon and NIHR Clinician Scientist

Professor Martin Eccles
The William Leech Professor of Primary Care Research and Professor of Clinical Effectiveness

Dr Janice Ellis
Clinical Senior Lecturer

Dr Catherine Exley
Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology

Dr Tracy Finch
Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Health Care

Dr Katie Haighton
Lecturer in Public Health Research (Evaluation of Complex Interventions)

Dr Nicola Heslehurst
Lecturer/NIHR Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr Susan Hodgson
Visiting Lecturer

Denise Howel
Senior Lecturer

Dr Nick Jepson
Clinical Senior Lecturer/Consultant

Emeritus Professor Michael Jones-Lee
Emeritus Professor

Professor Eileen Kaner
Institute Director

Professor Ann Le Couteur
Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Professor Elaine McColl
Director, Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit

Dr Jill McKay
Lecturer in Molecular Epidemiology

Dr Janice McLaughlin
Executive Director, PEALS

Dr Richard McNally
Reader in Epidemiology

Dr Hugh Metcalf
Senior Lecturer

Professor Nick Miller
Prof of Motor Speech Disorders

Dr Suzanne Moffatt
Senior Lecturer

Professor Paula Moynihan
Prof of Nutrition & Oral Health

Dr Colin Muirhead
Lecturer in Medical Statistics

Dr Mark Pearce
Reader in Lifecourse Epidemiology

Professor Peter Phillimore
Prof of Social Anthropology

Professor Tanja Pless-Mulloli
Prof of Environ Epidemiology

Professor Judith Rankin
Prof Maternal & Perinatal Epidemiology

Professor Louise Robinson
Professor of Primary Care and Ageing

Professor Stephen Rushton
Prof of Biological Modelling

Dr Falko Sniehotta
Reader in Health Psychology

Dr Eugene Sobngwi
Senior Lecturer (Epidemiology)

Dr Sarah Sowden
Academic Clinical Lecturer / Specialty Registrar in Public Health

Professor James Steele CBE
Head of School and Professor of Oral Health Services Research

Professor J Mark Thomason
Professor of Prosthodontics & Oral Rehabilitation

Professor Richard Thomson
Professor of Epidemiology & Public Hlth

Professor Luke Vale
Health Foundation Chair in Health Economics, Deputy Director

Professor Angus Walls
Professor of Restorative Dentistry

Dr Zoe Weir
Hon Lecturer/Speciality Registrar in Public Health

Professor Martin White
Professor of Public Health

Dr John Whitworth
Clinical Consultant/Senior Lecturer

Research Staff

Balsam Ahmad
Research Associate

Dr Grace Antony

Claire Bamford
Senior Research Associate

Kate Best
Research Assistant (Epidemiology/Statistics)

Karen Blakey
Research Assistant

Lindsay Bramwell
Research Associate

Dr Thomas Chadwick
Clinical Trials Statistician

Julie Doughty
Research Associate

Dr Darren Flynn
Senior Research Associate

Dr Emma Giles
Research Associate

Dr Svetlana Glinyanaya
Team Scientist

Dawn Greene
Assistant Trial Manager

Ruth Hart
Research Associate

Dr Louise Hayes
Research Associate

Dr Ben Heaven
Research Associate (Social Science)

Dr Nicola Hobbs
Research Associate (Health Psychology)

Nicola Howe
Research Assistant

Katherine Jackson
NIHR Training Fellow

Caroline Joyce

Dr Joanne Lally
Research Associate

Jan Lecouturier
Research Facilitator

Dr Richard Lee
Research Associate

Joan MacKintosh
Research Associate

Kay Mann
Research Assistant

James Newham
Research Assistant

Claire Oyston
Trial Manager

Linda Penn
Research Associate

Dr Lindsay Pennington
Principal Research Associate

Marie Poole
Junior Research Associate

Dr Justin Presseau
Research Associate

Dr Tim Rapley
Lecturer

Dr Judy Richards
Research Associate

Dr Ella Roelant
Research Associate (Statistician)

Dr Nicolette Rousseau
Research Facilitator

Vicky Ryan
RA (Statistician)

Dr Jing Shen
Research Associate (Health Economics)

Dr Mark Shirley
Research Associate

Chris Speed
Senior Trial Manager

Elaine Stamp
Research Associate (Statistician)

Dr Nick Steen
Principal Research Associate

Lynne Stobbart
Senior Research Associate and Shared Decision Making Facilitator

Peter Tennant
Research Associate (Epidemiology)

Dr Catherine Watson
Trial Manager

Gillian Watson
Trial Manager

Rose Watson
Research Assistant

Dr Sarah Wigham
Research Associate

Professor John Wildman
Professor of Health Economics

Ruth Wood
Research Associate

Dr Shahaduz Zaman
Senior Research Associate

Dr Iryna Ziabreva
Assistant Trial Manager

Technical Staff

Fraser Chalmers
Computer Technician

Juliet Schick
I.T. Support

Mark Warwick
Computer Technician

Clerical Staff

Audrey Atkinson
Secretary

Pat Barker
Project Administrator

Sue Bell
PA to Professor Ashley Adamson

Catherine Brennand
Trial Manager

Margaret Brown
Secretary

Joanne Dryburgh
Administrative Secretary

Beth Edgar
Project Secretary

Alison Etherington
Secretary

Cristina Fernandez-Garcia
Reseach Support Officer

Marion Hancock
Administrative Secretary

Denise Heighton
Secretary

Mary Johnson
Co-ordinator (Daslne)

Katharine Kirton
Clerical Assistant

Janice Legge
Personal Assistant to Health Economics Research Group

Teresa Lisle
Personal Assistant

Angela Mattison
Administrative Secretary

Astrid McIntyre
Secretary

Dr Jennifer Mills-Ball
Project Secretary

Pauline Potts
Database Officer

Laura Ritson
Fuse Administrator

Anita Tibbs
Personal Assistant

Clare Vint
Clerical Assistant

Cheryl Wiscombe
Secretary

Wayne Younger
Finance Assistant