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This is a group of experienced, knowledgeable professionals. These colleagues are the official representative core MDT and they are keen to establish the community and maintain it as a thriving learning and development environment.
The purpose of the Expert Core is to provide professional guidance and be the external face of the Community. It has a planning meeting twice a year to discuss ideas for activity and steer the direction of the community and more regular short meetings to consider suggestions coming in from the membership. Their role is to:
- steer the development and maintain vitality of the MND Professionals’ Community of Practice
- provide expert feedback on the development of Association resources
- help sustain and moderate the MND Professionals’ Community of Practice online forum providing specialist responses to community posed questions as necessary.
Your expert core
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Chair: Jan Clarke
Consultant Nurse for MND National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
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Anthony Hanratty
MND Nurse Specialist & Care Centre Coordinator and Independent Nurse Prescriber, Middlesbrough MND Care Centre
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Samantha Parry
MND Coordinator, King's College Hospital, London and Chair of the British Dietetic Association Neurosciences Group
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Rachael Marsden
Nurse Consultant for Motor Neurone Disease, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
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Dr Emily Mayberry
Senior Clinical Psychologist, Sheffield MND Care Centre and Clinical Neuropsychology Services, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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Kathryn Crawford
Respiratory Specialist Physiotherapist, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
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Dr Malabika Ghosh
Principal OT for Cognition & Clinical Academic Fellow, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust
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Phillippa Sharpe
Specialist Occupational Therapist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Charlotte Massey
Specialist physiotherapist, currently completing a PhD at the University of Sheffield on cough and secretion issues in MND
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Rhiannon Evans
Speech and Language Therapist, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
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