The Committee

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

Gareth Noble
In 2006 Dr Noble joined the School of Health Science at Swansea University as a lecturer in pathophysiology and therapeutics, and he is the course leader on the MSc Chronic Conditions Management course as well as leading the development of a new BSc (Hons) Osteopathy course. Additionally Dr Noble is an associate editor for the Physiotherapy Journal and a member of the international editorial advisory board for Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice. Previously he has held posts at the University of Nottingham, Keele University and the University of Ulster. Currently he co-leads the new Chronic Conditions Research Group within the Institute of Health Research.

Susan Nancarrow
Susan Nancarrow trained as a podiatrist in Australia, and completed her PhD in health services research at the Australian National University before moving to the UK in 2001 where she has been involved in health workforce research, specifically for older people's services. Susan is particularly interested in interdisciplinary workforce issues and community based service delivery. She was principle investigator on a project funded by the Department of Health's NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation Programme (SDO), examining the impact of workforce flexibility on older people's community based services. She is now involved in a second SDO funded project, which builds on the previous research to examine ways of developing good practice in interprofessional working in older people's community based services

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.