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Meet the TiMS working group
The Therapists in MS working group network is made up of allied health professionals with a broad range of MS-related expertise and experience from all across the UK.
Jody Barber
TiMS Co-chair
- Position: Physiotherapist, Clinical Specialist in Neurology
- Location: Hertfordshire
- Areas of interest: Spasticity management, orthotics and FES, postural control facilitation and postural management. Promoting multidisciplinary working, promoting activity and wellbeing. Qualified teacher - British Wheel of Yoga
Michelle Davies
TiMS Co-chair
- Position: MS Service Lead and Specialist Practitioner
- Location: Poole
- Area of interest: Complex neuro disability, spasticity management, postural management, holistic neuro case management, care pathways, service evaluation and development
Pam Bostock
Working Group Member
- Position: Consultant Occupational Therapist - Neurology
- Location: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
- Areas of interest: Self-management, fatigue management, community based services
Suzanne Buckley
Working Group Member
- Position: Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
- Location: Edgware
- Areas of interest: Improving interactions among individuals with complex communication needs, their families and health care provider. Develop and evaluate strategies (e.g. AAC tools and training) to equip health care providers to become effective communication partners with individuals who have complex communication needs.
Tania Burge
Working Group Member
- Position: MS Specialist Physiotherapist / Advanced MS Champion
- Location: Bristol
Heidi Cleary
Working Group Member
- Position: Neuro-Specialist Physiotherapist
- Location: London
- Areas of interest: Spasticity management, postural management, complex physical disability and orthotics
Laura Douglas
Working Group Member
- Position: General Neurological Physiotherapist
- Location: London
- Area of interest: Gait and orthotics
Rachel Fisher
Working Group Member
- Position: Multiple Sclerosis Team Lead / Highly Specialist Physiotherapist
- Location: West Midlands
- Areas of interest: Holistic management of long-term neurological conditions, spasticity management, medicines management, self-management, ataxia, postural management, standing and positioning
Jenny Freeman
Working Group Member
- Position: Reader in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation / MS Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
- Location: Plymouth
- Area of interest: Clinical trials evaluating rehabilitation of people with MS
Hilary Heath
Working Group Member
- Position: Senior Community Neuro Occupational Therapist
- Location: Huntingdon
- Areas of interest: Wellbeing and self-management, fatigue management and triage, ataxia, workplace issues and education/support of family members
Wendy Hendrie
Working Group Member
- Position: Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in MS
- Location: Norwich
- Areas of interest: Posture and positioning; ataxia; promoting the role of the specialist
Susan Hourihan
Working Group Member
- Position: Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Location: London
- Areas of interest: Fatigue management, transition and adjustment to disability, disability management, group work, occupational therapy, vocational rehabilitation
Ewa Johansson-Charles
Working Group Member
- Position: Occupational Therapist
- Location: London
Michelle Koch
Working Group Member
- Position: Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in MS
- Location: London
- Areas of interest: Exercise and activity promotion (making it achievable), posture and normal movement approaches, MDT working and streamlining care
Kay McDowall
Working Group Member
- Position: Team Lead Physiotherapist/MS Specialist
- Location: Orpington
- Areas of interest: MS and spinal cord injuries/surgery
Rhian O'Halloran
Working Group Member
- Position: Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in MS
- Location: Cardiff
- Areas of interest: MS, spasticity, posture and standing, orthopaedic issues, relating toneurology, biomechanics, medication, BTX injecting, prescribing
Ruth O'Regan
Working Group Member
- Position: Advanced MS Champion
- Location: Norwich
- Areas of interest: Care of people with advanced MS, spasticity and postural management, promoting self-management, community based services, service evaluation and development
Apeksha Patel
Working Group Member
- Position: Physiotherapist
- Location: Harrow
- Areas of interest: Spasticity, posture management, yoga therapy and meditation, breath awareness
Trudy Pelton
Working Group Member
- Position: Senior Physiotherapist, Neurological Outpatient Therapy Services
- Location: Birmingham
- Areas of interest: Hand and arm coordination after stroke, gait rehabilitation and use of visual cues after stroke, exercise in neuromuscular disease, outcome measures in rehabilitation
Freya Powell
Working Group Member
- Position: Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
- Location: London
- Areas of Interest: Vocational rehabilitation, self-management, long-term specialist MDT management, community based services
Fiona Roberts
Working Group Member
- Position: MS Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Location: Liverpool
Emma Royal
Working Group Member
- Position: Specialist Neurological Occupational Therapist
- Location: Buckinghamshire
- Areas of interest: Progressive neurological conditions, complex case management/complex neurological presentation, occupational science and application to neurological occupational therapy,acceptance and adjustment. motivation and readiness to change with rehabilitation
Jenny Thain
Working Group Member
- Position: MS Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist / MS Therapy Team Lead
- Location: Liverpool
- Areas of interest: Developing research / innovation practice within physiotherapy and promoting wider research activity by AHP colleagues
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About TiMS
TiMS is an initiative which brings together allied health professionals who share a special interest in multiple sclerosis.
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Find out about our current work, recent TiMS meetings, our latest projects and general MS-related news.
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If you have a question about any aspect of managing MS, contact the TiMS working group and we will do our very best to answer it.
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