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International
and interdisciplinary
intensive care research summer school
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Speakers |
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Rosaline
(Rose) Barbour |
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Rose Barbour has a particular
interest in rigour in qualitative research and has published
widely on this topic in a range of academic journals. She is
currently Professor of Health & Social Care in the School
of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Dundee in Scotland
(UK). A medical sociologist, her research career has covered
a wide variety of topics located at the intersection of
the clinical and the social - e.g. HIV/AIDS; reproductive health
and
fertility; psychosocial health; and obesity. Her theoretical
interests centre around the links between identity and agency,
and implications for health promotion and clinical practice.
Reflecting her conviction that qualitative research is a craft
skill, Rose has developed an innovative series of ‘hands-on’
qualitative methods workshops. She has been invited to
present these workshops throughout the UK, in Sweden, Finland,
Denmark, Switzerland, the US and Canada. She co-edited Developing Focus
Group Research: Politics, Theory and Practice (Sage, 1999).
Her most recent books - Doing Focus Groups (Sage, 2007)
and Introducing Qualitative Research: A Student Guide
to the Craft of Doing Qualitative Research (Sage, 2008) - bring
together and share the expertise she has developed through
running workshops for a variety of audiences. |
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Lester
Firkins |
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For 35 years I was employed
within the UK Banking sector, but left in 2001 following the
death
of my eldest son, Ellis, to vCJD (the human form of mad cow
disease).
As Chair of the patient group I came into contact with several
outstanding innovators within the
UK health arena – and was encouraged by their vision to
become more directly involved in helping the cause of patient
voice and effective contribution to the research agenda.
For the last 4 years I have been (and continue to be) Chair
of the James Lind Alliance – Strategy
and Development Group www.lindalliance.orgMy previous experience
includes;
Co-Chair of the only UK Clinical trial into CJD
Member of INVOLVE
Member of several NICE committees – including (currently)
their appeals panel
Member of Food Standards Agency committees on safety of beef
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Peter
Gibb |
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Since being a patient in the
ITU at Milton Keynes General Hospital, Peter Gibb has been active
in advocating support for patients and relatives following critical
illness. He has served as a
patient representative on two NICE guidelines, is currently
Secretary of the patient support charity
ICU steps and co-author of an article on 'The development
and setting-up of a patients and
relatives intensive care support group', published in January
2009's edition of 'Nursing in
Critical Care'. Outside of his interest in critical care, Peter
works as a website and web
application developer. |
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Alastair
Hull |
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Dr Alastair Hull is a Consultant
Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy and Clinical Lead for the Tayside
Multidisciplinary Adult Psychotherapy Service (MAPS). He is
an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
at the University of Dundee. Prior to Tayside he worked at the
Traumatic Stress Clinic and trauma liaison service in Aberdeen
and as an aspiring academic at the Aberdeen Centre for Trauma
Research whilst completing his training in General Adult Psychiatry,
Liaison Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and in Psychotraumatology.
His teaching and research interests mirror his clinical work
with a noted preoccupation with post-trauma reactions evidenced
by his publications and as a board member of the UK Psychological
Trauma Society (UKPTS). He has presented at National, European
and World conferences
on aspects of post-traumatic outcome and care and runs workshops
on the treatment of
post-traumatic reactions and chronic depression. |
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Claire
Kydonaki |
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Claire Kydonaki is a registered nurse with
working experience in Greece and Scotland. She has been working
in ICU at the Western General Hospital of Edinburgh since 2005.
Claire finished her first degree in Nursing in 2002 and graduated
from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She
worked as a registered nurse in ICU and in a cardiothoracic
ward in a private hospital in Athens, Greece until 2003, and
came in Scotland to undertake an MSc
in Nursing. She undertook her MSc in Nursing at Napier University
of Edinburgh in 2005 and was awarded a distinction for her dissertation.
Her dissertation looked at ‘Barriers and Facilitators
of using evidence-based in ICU’.
Claire was employed at the Western General Hospital in ICU after
receiving her UK nursing registration. She has been working
there since 2005. She undertook a PhD at the University of Edinburgh
in 2006. The focus of her PhD study is nurses’ input in
clinical decision-making during the weaning from mechanical
ventilation of long-term ventilated patients. It is a comparative
ethnographic study between Scotland and Greece with many interesting
clinical and cultural
aspects of decision-making that have an impact on patient care.
She has participated in a number of conferences, such as the
RCN International research conference, the EfCCNa conference,
the WfCCNa conference and most recently the ESICM conference.
As a member of the ICU group, she is involved in a Knowledge
Transfer project, which looks at raising the awareness of ICU
survivors and rehabilitation after discharge in relation to
policy-making. |
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David
Rier |
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David A. Rier is Senior Lecturer
of Sociology & Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University (Israel),
and former Chair of its Graduate Program in Medical Sociology.
He holds A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. He
is currently assembling an international study of communication,
memory, and experience amongst ICU patients, the first arm of
which has recently begun at Waikato Hospital in New Zealand.
He is particularly interested in disclosure to ICU patients,
paternalism vs. empowerment in the ICU, and the effects on patients
of ICU unit design. Rier is Senior Lecturer (hon.) in the Faculty
of Medicine at the University of Sydney, and Clinical Observer
in the Westmead Hospital ICU in Sydney. He served as Faculty
at the 2009 meetings of the European Society of Intensive Care
Medicine in Vienna. His paper, "The Missing Voice of the
Critically Ill", received the Eliot Freidson Outstanding
Publication Prize of the American Sociological Association's
Medical Sociology Section. |
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Andy Thompson |
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Andy joined the Department
in 1997 from the University of Wales, Cardiff, where he was
Lecturer
in Quantitative Methods at Cardiff Business School (1985-1996).
He previously held research
posts in the Greater London Association of Community Health
Councils (1984-85), the University
of Manchester (1979-1984), UMIST (1979) and Stockport Social
Services Division (1978-79).
Research Interests
His main research interests are in the politics of health care,
public participation in health care, perception and satisfaction
measurement, and quality management. Publications include a
range
of articles on these research topics, as well as book chapters
on patient involvement in health care consultations, the tension
between citizen and consumer metaphors for patients and the
measurement of patient satisfaction. Politics teaching focusses
on the politics of British public services, as well as methods
of research. His post in the subject area is held jointly with
one in the Graduate School in Social and Political Science,
where he is responsible for the teaching of survey and questionnaire
design, descriptive, exploratory and advanced quantitative methods
to postgraduate research students. Since 2000 he has held research
awards for the Department of Health on 'Health in Partnership',
the Chief Scientist’s Office in the Health Department
of the Scottish Executive on 'Shared decision-making in discharge
and post-discharge care of elderly patients'. He has also participated
in a multi-site NHS project on 'Discounting and Health', a project
with the Catalan Government on developing citizen involvement
in health services, and a project with the Basque health services
developing measures of patient satisfaction. Recently he has
been a statistical adviser to an EU research project on cross-border
care (MARQuIS), as well as Research Director of a Catalan study
of public involvement in health service policy and planning.
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