PHAST - Key Persons
Cecilia is a medical doctor and a member of the Faculty of Public Health. She has over 25 years experience working as a GP, Academic Researcher in the Department of Public Health and as a University Tutor in the University of Oxford; she also a psychodynamic psychotherapist. Cecilia Pyper has previously worked as a consultant to: the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University, Washington DC; She has led evaluations internationally that addressed community engagement and participation in rural and urban settings. Follow-up evaluation focussed on community engagement sustainability issues. The learning from this evaluation was disseminated as a training manual and cascade international training of trainers. She lectures internationally on topics related to primary care, reproductive health and electronic health records. She has also work with DEMOS & IPPR on issues addressing patient empowerment and human resource allocation in the NHS. She worked on an 18month contract for NpfIT as National Clinical Lead to the Connected Patient Programme.
Graham trained in General Practice and Public Health and has had a wide range of senior public health leadership roles.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive
- Member of the Board
Catherine is Chief Executive of PHAST. She has honorary position at University College, London. She was a director of public health in London for over ten years and faculty advisor for London from 2001-2006. She was in general practice in Oxford. Catherine's research includes patient assessed outcomes using cataract surgery as an example, out of hours health and social care services cost and activity, and tools to decide thresholds for intervention. She led the Informing Healthier Choices Programme for the department of health. Catherine is involved in several charities that improve health in UK and internationally. She was a flying doctor and director of Mother and Child Health Services in the Sultanate of Oman for 9 years.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Non - Executive Director
Jan is a non executive director of PHAST. He is a visiting lecturer at Imperial College, London. He was chief executive of Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust from March 2006 until September 2009 and previously CEO of Queen Victoria Hospital for six and a half years. He was the first chief executive in the country to take two hospitals to Foundation Trust status. He has significant experience in healthcare with roles including the former director of NHS International and has served on a number of public and private sector boards.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Strategic Director
Peter is a PHAST Director, leading on new services development. He works with a wide range of health and social care organisations. Peter specialises in working with groups and organisations to resolve conflict and to promote effective collaboration to achieve the best outcome for service users, communities and populations. He has served on boards of NHS organisations for 21 years and has worked with the Department of Health, the NHS, and charitable associations. Peter has led the development of various models of GP commissioning from fund holding, through total purchasing to primary care led commissioning. Recently he has worked with two London based GP consortia to assist their progress to pathfinder status. He was director of commissioning across acute services, mental health, children's and older people's services. Recently Peter chaired the board that created the only integrated acute hospital, community health and adult social care service in England working throughout with GPs in developing new patient pathways to underpin the new organisation's service model. Peter also has extensive experience of working with patient's organisations, charitable bodies, voluntary associations and Black and ethnic minority organisations. Prior to the NHS, Peter worked for 12 years with local government in social care and housing and has extensive experience of working with the Third Sector.
Job Titles:
- Strategic Director
- Director of West London Primary Care Research Network
Ricky is a director of West London Primary Care Research Network (WeLReN). He is a research fellow at Imperial College and a senior fellow at Thames Valley University and adjunct professor at University of Mauritius. He is involved in a number of international projects involving the Department for International Development (DFID), EU, OAU programmes. He has expertise in clinical audit , clinical coding and research management. He has worked for many years in clinical, educational, management and research environments.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Retired Accountant
Ron is a retired accountant who has worked at Coopers & Lybrand, in the NHS, Local Government and in manufacturing as European Director of Finance and Administration and as a Finance Director in central government. He has a proven track record in achieving significant improvement in productivity and improving financial performance in both public and private sectors in the UK and overseas. He has substantial experience in strategy development and implementation of business plans to improve the effectiveness and profitability of organisations.
Sarah has built her career over the last 25+ years within healthcare analytics and biostatistics