Dr Marie Bambrick
Sallyanne Broughton
I joined the Cambridgeshire Learning Disability Partnership (LDP) in 1995, and currently work as a Senior Community Learning Disabilities Nurse (RNLD) within the Fenland Integrated Team. While in this post, I have completed the Specialist Practitioner Award, demonstrating my interests in the areas of challenging behaviour, mental health, and women’s health. In 2000, I was awarded a Department of Health Primary Care Enterprise Award, which I used to facilitate a randomised controlled study to improve understanding of the cervical smear test among women with intellectual disabilities and reduce their anxieties relating to this procedure. Based, in part, on this work, I was awarded an MSc in Research from the Faculty of Health and Social Care at Hatfield University. I am seconded on a part-time basis from my clinical post to work as a Practitioner Researcher with the Adult Theme of the NIHR CLAHRC. With colleagues, I am primarily responsible for collecting data from service users, their carers, and staff, and for developing and maintaining the engagement of health and social care members of the community LD teams.
Fran Davies
I am the lead clinical psychologist for Autism Anglia, providing specialist services to children, young people and adults with autism spectrum conditions. I am committed to integrating theoretical models creatively into practical interventions. I am particularly interested in understanding sensory perceptual issues in relation to managing challenging behaviour.
Alison Lillywhite
Since qualifying as an Occupational Therapist, in 1994, I have worked predominantly with people with intellectual disabilities, most recently as a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist within the Peterborough Learning Disability service. I am particularly interested in working with those whose behaviour challenges services or who are parents, and in the roles of different practitioners within specialist teams for people with intellectual disabilities. My research has been closely related to these interests. I gained an M.Sc. in Occupational Therapy, and, with David Haines, recently completed a national study, commissioned by the College of Occupational Therapists, of the role of the discipline with people with intellectual disabilities. I now work part-time, as part of the NIHR CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, supporting the intellectual disabilities part of the Adult Theme.
Dr Anna-Maria Dezsery
Dr Anna-Maria Dezsery is a Consultant Child Psychiatrist specialising in intellectual disabilities and working with the Children's Disability Team in Cambridge
Dr Fergus Gracey
After completing my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of East Anglia in 2000. I took up a clinical psychology post at the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, which provides assessment and rehabilitation for individuals and families affected by acquired brain injury (ABI). I now lead the clinical neuropsychology service at the Centre and the affiliated Evelyn community brain injury team. My research interests are in rehabilitation of executive functioning, adaptation of cognitive behavioural psychotherapy (CBT), identity change and post-injury adjustment and social-emotional processing following brain injury. This research is currently supported by successful grant applications to the National Institute for Health Research and MicroSoft Research, on which I was the lead applicant. Most recently, I was a guest co-editor of a special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation on the self and identity in rehabilitation. I completed a postgraduate diploma in CBT and have a particular interest in this approach following brain injury, recently establishing a neurological conditions Special Interest Group of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). I am a member of the Board of Associate Editors of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, and a Clinical Associate of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. With Donna Malley, I lead the ‘ABI’ stream of the Adult theme of the NIHR’s CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
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Mark Hall
My academic background is in political sciences (B.A., Newcastle University) and management and leadership in health and social care (M.A., Leeds University). I also hold a Diploma from the Institute of Health Service Management. I am now the Senior Manager for Specialist Learning Disability Services, in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. Before moving to my current post, I managed the delivery of mental health, forensic and learning disabilities services in a number of healthcare settings in Northumberland, East Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, East London, and Leicestershire. I have a keen interest in health care systems, leadership and organisational culture. I am seconded on a part-time basis to the NIHR’s CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, where I work closely with Isabel Clare and others to support the development and implementation of the learning disabilities ‘stream’ of the Adult Theme.
Liz Jones
I am seconded full-time from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust to the Adult Theme of the NIHR CLAHRC, where I am one of the Practitioner Researchers. I have a background in nursing: I trained as a Registered General Nurse at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and later as a Registered Nurse in Learning Disabilities at the Ida Darwin, which was then a long-stay hospital for children and adults with severe intellectual disabilities. I have worked in local community-based services for many years, mostly as a member of South Cambs. Community LD Team, focussing particularly on working with men and women with behaviour that ‘challenges’ services, the management of epilepsy (with Dr Howard Ring and others), and, more recently, the use of a ‘family therapy’ approach. With colleagues, I am primarily responsible for collecting data from service users, their carers, and staff, and for developing and maintaining the engagement of health and social care members of the community LD teams.
Donna Malley
I joined the Oliver Zangwill Centre in 1998 and, in 2005, gained a M.St. in Primary & Community Care. I have clinical and research interests in the role of OT in neuropsychological rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, and fatigue following acquired brain injury (ABI). In 2008, with a colleague, I produced a booklet on ‘Managing fatigue after brain injury’ for Headway and have contributed to several of the chapters in the recent book Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Theory, Models, Therapy and Outcome (Eds. B.A. Wilson, F. Gracey, A. Bateman and J.J. Evans), published by Cambridge University Press. I am a member of the Brain Injury Forum national committee, which is currently writing clinical guidelines for OTs working with adults with ABI. I am also the East Anglian regional representative for the College of Occupational Therapy Specialist Section in Neurological Practice. I have been seconded to the NIHR’s CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, (Adult Theme) on a part-time basis, and will be exploring good practice in health care provision for men and women with acquired brain injury.
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Anna Piasecka
I completed an MA in Psychology from A. Mickiewicz University of Poznan (Poland), followed by an MSc in Functional Neuroimaging at Brunel University. I have worked in a variety of clinical settings, but my main interest is in Clinical Neuropsychology. I joined the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group (CIDDRG) in November 2009, as an Assistant Psychologist/Practitioner Researcher. My clinical work as an Assistant Psychologist is based in the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, but I am also working with the new Evelyn Neurorehabilitation Service. I am also a Practitioner Researcher with the CLAHRC Adult Theme, working primarily with Dr Fergus Gracey and Donna Malley to investigate good practice in health care provision for men and women with acquired brain injury.
