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Meet the TiMS working group
Co-chairs
Michelle Davies
- 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
Jody Barber
- 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.
Working group members
Pam Bostock
- Position: Consultant Occupational Therapist - Neurology
- Location: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
- Areas of interest: self-management, fatigue management, community based services
Tania Burge
- Position: MS Specialist Physiotherapist
- Location: Bristol
Heidi Cleary
- Position: Neuro-Specialist Physiotherapist
- Location: London
- Areas of interest: spasticity management, postural management, complex physical disability and orthotics
Wendy Hendrie
- Position: Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in MS
- Location: Norwich
- Areas of interest: posture and positioning; ataxia; promoting the role of the specialist
Laura Douglas
- Position: General Neurological Physiotherapist
- Location: London
- Area of interest: gait and orthotics
Catriona Fearn
- Position: MS Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Location: Caernarfon
- Areas of interest: developing MDT working, complex needs, training
Jenny Freeman
- Position: Reader in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation / MS Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
- Location: Plymouth
- Area of interest: clinical trials evaluating rehabilitation of people with MS
Susan Hourihan
- 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
- Position: Occupational Therapist
- Location: London
Kay McDowall
- Position: Team Lead Physiotherapist/MS Specialist
- Location: Orpington
- Areas of interest: MS and spinal cord injuries/surgery
Rhian O'Halloran
- 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
Trudy Pelton
- 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
Jane Petty
- Position: Private Physio and Research Officer ACPIN
- Areas of interest: exercise and activity for people affected by MS
Fiona Roberts
- Position: MS Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Location: Liverpool
Emma Royal
- 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
- 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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