The Committee

Carole Griffith
Carole is employed by Liverpool PCT as a Physiotherapy Case Manager working with people with a LTC (mainly neurological). She qualified in 1983 and has been working with people with a physical disability for the last 15years.
Carole has a MSc in health practice and was a finalist in the DOH Allied Heath Professional of the year (Northern region) 2005 for work developing a Yoga class, swimming club and accessible bike for peoiple with a physical disability to pursue exercise in an enjoyable way.
She was seconded to the University 2003 to 2005 employed as a facilitator of undergraduate health care students of Physio, OT, Nursing and Medicine along with post grad Social workers faciliating with users of services to teach students the value of patient/clienbt led service sand working ain a collaborative way.
She is now a Case Manager based in a health centre delivering Physiotherapy as well as coordinating peoples health and social care in a timely fashion in a client led way adopting the social model of disabilty whenever possible.

Elizabeth Mc Tiernan
Elizabeth is a Rehabilitation Assistant (Technical Instructor III) with a Community Older People's Team and has been in her current position for four and half years.  Although she provides support to all the disciplines within the Team, her main disciplines she works with are Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Dietetics.  As a Rehab Assistant she builds up a strong rapport with clients/service users, which helps to offer social interaction.  Elizabeth first started working in rehabilitation with a small elderly Rehabilitation Team in Glasgow, which was the first team to be set up in Glasgow dealing with older people at home with a rehabilitation remit.  There were only 3 team members (all part-time, covering 5 days) – Elizabeth, a Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist. Her interest in rehabilitation stemmed from caring for her late mother. On joining her first Rehab Team she immediately knew that it was a role she was going to enjoy.

Sarah Turner

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Rhona Smyth

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Patron

Professor Pam Enderby
Pam Enderby is a speech and language therapist and Professor of Community Rehabilitation in the Institute of General Practice & Primary Care, University of Sheffield.  She has been involved in promoting interprofessional learning and working and was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sheffield up to August 2003.  She has led research programmes into various aspects of therapy, particularly related to models of delivery, effectiveness and outcomes, and has published broadly.