Meet the team
Co-leads:
Dr Grace Turner (University of Birmingham)
Mixed-methods, applied health researcher with 10 years’ experience in stroke research.
Professor Jonathan Mant (University of Cambridge)
Professor of Primary Care Research and Head of the Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge.
Co-applicants:
University of Birmingham
Professor Colin Greaves
Expertise in behavioural medicine, including digital interventions, implementation research and rehabilitation.
Professor Sheila Greenfield
Medical sociologist, expert in qualitative methodology, research interest in methods people use to self-manage health.
Mrs Sarah Tearne
Trials Management Team Leader (Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit) with >14-years’ experience leading randomised controlled trials across different healthcare areas.
Dr Kelly Handley
Senior Medical Statistician at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit with extensive experience of trials.
Professor Sue Jowett
Professor of Health Economics, extensive experience of health economic evaluations.
University of Bournemouth
Dr Sarah Thomas
Psychologist, expertise in fatigue, behaviour change and development and evaluation of complex interventions and pragmatic trials.
Dr Huseyin Dogan
Associate Professor of Computing, expertise in Digital Health and Assistive Technology.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead
Dr Mohammed Shaikh
Equality, diversity and inclusion lead for the West Midlands Clinical Research Network (CRN).
Patient, Carer and Public Involvement and Engagement Leads
Dr Steven Blackburn
Applied health researcher, with specific expertise in Patient, Carer and Public Involvement and Engagement.
Mr Brin Helliwell
Public co-applicant with experience of post-stroke fatigue.
Clinicians
Dr Phil Ferdinand
Consultant Stroke Physician, University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust.
Mrs Rachel Jones
Senior Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Stroke, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.
Dr Katy Kyprianou
General Practitioner, Lion Health.
Cognitant
Daisy Allington
Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Cognitant – a health-technology start-up that aims to improve patient education.
More about COMbAT Fatigue
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COMbAT Fatigue is a £2.1 million programme grant funded by the NIHR and Stroke Association.
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Our goal is to develop and test a self-management programme which will empower stroke survivors to manage their fatigue.
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