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Professor Paul Abrams - Urology

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GMC number: 1449543

Professor Paul Abrams

Year & location of first qualification: 1970 Sheffield University

Specialty: Urology

Clinical interests: These included the assessment and management of Female and Male Lower urinary tract conditions and diseases such as urinary incontinence and prostatic obstruction.

Administrator: Karen Evely Bristol Urological Institute

Secretary phone number: 0117 414 7942

Extensive research record with, over 700 publications and more than 62,000 citations of papers of which I am an author and an “h” number of 104. Currently involved in research and teaching as well as health improvement programmes for NHS England (Chair of Bladder Working Group) and Bladder and Bowel Confidence (Associate Director) the Bristol Health Partners Health Integration Team

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Life or honorary member of the major urological organisations worldwide.

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Dr Daniel Higbee - Respiratory

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GMC number: 7090116

Year & location of first qualification: 2010, UCL Medical School

Specialty: Respiratory

Clinical interests: Airways disease (asthma and COPD), inducible laryngeal obstruction, cough, breathlessness.

Secretary: Lata Luchmun

Dr Higbee graduated from UCL medical school and has been based in the Southwest since then. He completed a PhD at Southmead Hospital and the University of Bristol examining whether having reduced lung function and chronic lung disease causes disease in other organs. He set up the service testing for inducible laryngeal obstruction using continuous laryngoscopy with exercise and provocation. He is a member of the subspecialist airways team that prescribes biologics for those with severe asthma and evaluates endobronchial valve therapy for those with severe emphysema. He is the clinical lead for pulmonary rehabilitation (known locally as the Lung Exercise and Education Programme).
 

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Miss Nicola Blucher - Trauma & Orthopaedics

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GMC number: 7021014

Year & location of first qualification: 2008

Specialty: Trauma & Orthopaedics

Clinical interests: General Trauma and Knee Surgery

Secretary: Julia Hirst and Vicki Morrissey-Stocks (Elective) Nicki Leigh (Trauma)

Secretary phone number: 0117 4141624/0117 4141627

Miss Nicola Blucher completed her pre-clinical Undergraduate Medical training at The University of Oxford and clinical Undergraduate Medical training at The Royal Free and University College London. Her specialist orthopaedic training was complete in the North West Thames Deanery, London.

Miss Blucher has completed fellowship training in Knee surgery in Melbourne, Auckland and Bristol. She also spent 6 months completing a Trauma fellowship at Waikato Hospital in New Zealand.

Her elective practice focuses on Knee surgery including sports injuries of the knee, patella instability and the management of early and advanced osteoarthritis including joint replacements.

Miss Nicola Blucher is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, British Association for Surgery of the Knee, British Patellofemoral Society and British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association.

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Dr Helen McDill - Respiratory Medicine

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GMC number: 7177272

Year & location of first qualification: Imperial College London 2011

Specialty: Respiratory Medicine 

Clinical interests: General Respiratory Medicine, Lung Cancer, Pleural Disease and EBUS

Secretary: Louise Brennan

Secretary phone number: 0117 414 2016

Email: Respiratoryadmin@nbt.nhs.uk
 

Dr Helen McDill has been a Consultant in Thoracic Medicine at Southmead Hospital since 2022, having completed her registrar training in the South West and gained CCT in respiratory and general medicine in 2022.
She has a clinical interest in pleural disease, lung cancer and EBUS having undertaken an intervention fellowship in Plymouth.  She has co-authored a number of publications in these areas. 
Dr McDill is a member of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and currently on the BTS Tobacco dependency guideline group and the British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG) having previously been a respiratory trainee on the Steering Committee.
 

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Dr Helen Burt - Clinical Radiology

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GMC number: 7082736

Year & location of first qualification: 2010 Bristol
Specialty: Clinical Radiology
Clinical interests: Breast

Dr. Helen Burt BSc (Hons) MBChB (Hons) FRCR

Dr. Helen Burt is a Consultant Radiologist with subspecialist interests in training and breast imaging. She graduated from Bristol University in 2010 and completed her specialist clinical radiology training through the Severn Deanery locally in 2018.

She has always pursued keen interests in diagnosis, oncology and education and started work at the Royal United Hospital in 2018 upon completion of her radiology training.

She moved to work fulltime in the Bristol Breast Care Centre in 2022 to pursue subspecialty interest in Breast Radiology and covers the Bristol and Weston symptomatic breast service as well as working in the Avon breast screening Unit. 
 

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BSLTRU Annual Reports and Newsletters

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Winter 2023/2024 Newsletter issue 10

 

BSLTRU and Underwood Trust Annual Lecture

Title: All Children Should be Seen AND Heard: The Importance of Communication so Children can Thrive

We are happy to announce that this year’s BSLTRU and Underwood Trust Annual Lecture is taking place on Tuesday, 30th of April at 4 pm, in the Lecture Theatre in L&D Building at Southmead Hospital. Our guest speaker this year will be Professor Sharynne McLeod from Charles Sturt University, Australia. Professor McLeod, is a speech-language pathologist and professor of speech and language acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Royal Society of New South Wales. She has received Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Life Membership of Speech Pathology Australia and has been an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.

If you would like to join us for the lecture, please go to https://buytickets.at/northbristolnhstrust/1140990 to express your interest.

 

BSLTRU conference news

Our team attended the last ASHA (The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) conference in November 2023 presenting findings on the MISLToe project, led by the BSLTRU team. Our  presentation generated significant interest and was well received.

 

MISLToe SSD presentation at ASHA 2023

 

From left: Sam Burr, Joanne Cleland, Yvonne Wren

 

Celebrating success

Huge congratulations to our colleague Dr Katherine Broomfield, who was awarded her PhD in January 2024!

Kath Broomfield

Congratulations to our colleagues: Helen Stringer, Sam Burr, Joanne Cleland, Sam Harding and Yvonne Wren for being acknowledged with a certificate for the highest scoring abstract: Maximising the Impact of Speech Therapy for Children with Speech Sound Disorder – The MISLToe SSD Study: What we found out and its application to other clinical areas’ submitted to RCSLT Conference 2023.

certificate

 

Lectures/Events Attended

Prof Courtenay Norbury kick-started the 2024 Guest Lecture Series for Cardiff Met Speech Hearing and Research Group on Wednesday 24th January. Over 70 attendees joined in-person and online to learn about Interventions for Language across Neurodevelopmental conditions.

Courtenay Norbury’s lecture at Cardiff Met University

 

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Summer 2023 Newsletter issue 9

 

BSLTRU Underwood Trust ​

Annual Lecture 2023​

The BSLTRU Underwood Trust Annual Lecture, which took place in June 2023, was a big success and excellent opportunity for people to meet face to face after long break caused by the pandemic. A massive thank you to Prof Janice Murray for being our guest speaker. The audience was thrilled to hear about her team's research and to be engaged in the discussion after.

Atrium before the lecture
From left: Kath Broomfield, Janice Murray, Ralph Hammond, Yvonne Wren.
Janice Murray presenting

BSLTRU conference news

This summer our team is attending and presenting work around the globe, including the American cleft  Palate Craniofacial Association (ACPA) (Raleigh, May 2023), the International Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Association (ICPLA) (Salzburg, July) and the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) (Auckland, August).

From left: Jamie Perry, Taylor Snodgrass and Lucy Southby at ACPA's 80th Annual Meeting, May 2023.

Current studies & project collaborations

Huge congratulations to the MISLToe_SSD team on the extension of the study to February 2024! Some of the international panel for the MISLToe_SSD study met at the International Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Association (ICPLA) 2023 Congress in Salzburg, Austria in July. Joanne Cleland and Sam Burr also presented work from the study, which was well-received by the international audience.

From left: Sharynne McLeod, Karla Washington, Joanne Cleland, Kate Crowe, Yvonne Wren, Marit Claussen, Annette Fox-Boyer, Yolanda Holt, Sam Burr.

Coming soon from BSLTRU and CMU

The RCSLT are hosting their biannual conference online again this year on the 1-2 November. The conference promises "two days of opportunities for learning, professional development and networking". Colleagues at BSLTRU and Cardiff Metropolitan University (CMU) will be presenting their research at this event. 

 

The conference is exceptionally good value (£40 early bird rate for RCSLT members) making it very accessible. We are planning on extending this inclusive event by hosting opportunities to gather 'in-person' at Southmead (Weds 1st Nov) and Cardiff Llandaff campus (Thurs 2nd Nov). BSLTRU/CMU will make several rooms available over the 2 days so that colleagues registered for the conference can gather to watch and discuss parallel sessions. We hope this will provide an enhanced networking opportunity and give colleagues the chance to critically engage with the conference content. 

 

If you are interested in joining us for the conference, please email  dominika.kruszynska@nbt.nhs.uk to express your interest

 

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Winter 2022/2023 Issue 8

Grant successes!

Projects for the Welsh Government

 

Dr Yvonne Wren, and Dr Sam Harding, together with Cardiff Metropolitan University and the University of Portsmouth are co-authors of a number of winning bids for the for the Welsh Government, including a £1.5 million project as part of the All Wales Speech, Language and Communication (SLC) Identification, Intervention and Evaluation Package.

Dr Yvonne Wren, and Dr Sam Harding together with Cardiff Metropolitan University are also authors of a winning bid with the Welsh Government to undertake a scoping review of technology used in the surveillance of children’s early speech, language and communication development.

Dr Yvonne Wren, and Kath Broomfield, together with colleagues from Cardiff Metropolitan University, are successful authors of a £29,625 bid to the Stroke Association to explore access to speech and language therapy for Welsh-speaking survivors of stroke

Dr Lucy Southby was successful in her application for funding to the charity CLEFT-Bridging the gap!

Congratulations!

 

Invited to present!

NIHR-funded MISLToe_SSD Study featured at the HEE AHP Research Strategy Celebration Event

We are delighted to have been invited to present our work on the MISLToe_SSD study, led by Dr Yvonne Wren, at the HEE CAHPR AHP Research Strategy celebration event on 25th January.

The team's poster will be showcased among other invited presentations from inspiring, research-active AHPs across the UK.

 

Current studies & project collaborations

Dr Lydia Morgan, PI and Research Associate for Chin Tuck Against Resistance with Feedback: Swallowing Rehabilitation in Frail Older People (CTAR-SwiFt) - A feasibility study a Research for Patient Benefit.

This is a feasibility randomized, controlled study of two types of rehabilitation exercises using Chin Tuck against resistance to improve swallowing, eating and drinking, funded by the NIHR. BSLTRU are working with the main study site (Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust) to recruit patients with pneumonia to this study

 

 Katherine Broomfield is supporting the project Softly non-spoken: soft robotics as non-verbal communication aids by providing expertise in AAC and co-design with people who have communication difficulties.

This project is concerned with exploring whether soft robotics can be used as augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to support non-verbal communication. It has been carried out as a collaboration between partners at University of Bristol, the Bristol Robotics Lab, BSLTRU and Air Giants (an industry partner).

 

Celebrating success

 

  Huge congratulations for our colleague Dr Sam Burr, who was awarded her PhD in November 2022!

Dr Sam Burr

Coming soon from BSLTRU

 

BSLTRU Summer Guest Lecture by Professor Janice Murray, Manchester Metropolitan University:

Janice Murray

 

“Clinical decision processes in augmentative and alternative communication: unpicking the elements that influence recommendations”

Follow us on Twitter to hear details about this when it becomes available.

 

If you would like to be added/removed from our newsletter list, please contact:

Domnika.Kruszynska@nbt.nhs.uk

Tel: 0117 41 43951

Web: http://www.speech-therapy.org.uk

Email: info@speech-therapy.org.uk

 

 

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