Profiles

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David

David is the co-director of a surgical trials unit. When he first started doing research he was sceptical about involvement and felt reluctant to speak to patients. However, since he was asked to join the James Lind Alliance he developed a different way of thinking and now sees involvement positively.

  • Background

    David is the co-director of a surgical trials unit. Ethnic background: White British.

  • Age at interview 49
  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Bernadette

    Bernadette has been involving patients and members of the public in research for about 6 months, although as a doctor, she feels she's always been involving them to some extent. Bernadette is now leading a James Lind Alliance priority setting partnership in rare inherited anaemias.

  • Background

    Bernadette is a clinical and academic haemotologist. Ethnic background: White Other.

  • Age at interview 39
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • John

    John's primary research interest is in heart failure. He has involved patients by getting them to review information sheets and endorsing his research ideas.

  • Background

    John is a professor of clinical cardiology. Ethnic background: White Scottish.

  • Age at interview 59
  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Carl

    Carl says he has been involving patients since he went to medical school and that you can't do research to improve patient care without involving them.

  • Background

    Carl is a professor of evidence-based medicine and is also a GP. Ethnic background: White British.

  • Age at interview 46
  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Stuart

    Stuart is a practicing paediatrician, but the majority of his job is in conducting research. He also teaches. He has been involving patients and members of the public for about 26 years.

  • Background

    Stuart is a Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology and the Director of one of the regional CLAHRCs (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care). Ethnic background: White Other.

  • Age at interview 59
  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Tom

    Tom is a clinician who does some research in which he's been involving patients for about 10 years.

  • Background

    Tom is a Consultant Psychiatrist and the Associate Medical Director for research for an NHS Trust. Ethnic background: White British.

  • Age at interview 54
  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Gail

    Gail's role involves clinical practice and research. She has been involving young people in her work, which currently focuses on the transition from children's to adult services, for about 12 years.

  • Background

    Gail is a consultant clinical psychologist. Ethnic background: White British.

  • Age at interview 42
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Adam

    Adam is a clinician and researcher, who has been involving patients in his research for about 24 years, but only recently began to do it on a more formal basis.

  • Background

    Adam is a professor of cognitive and behavioural neurology. Ethnic background: White British.

  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Narinder

    Narinder has mostly involved patients with neurological conditions in writing up single case studies about unusual conditions or interventions. He has been doing this for over forty years.

  • Background

    Narinder is a consultant clinical neuropsychologist. Ethnic background: British Asian.

  • Age at interview 64
  • Sex/Gender Male