NORTH WEST GENOMIC MEDICINE SERVICE ALLIANCE - Key Persons
Anthony is our Senior Programme Manager. Anthony has worked in the healthcare industry for over 7 years, previously working for the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), leading the training programme in asymptomatic testing for Test and Trace workforce across the UK. In addition to his work for UKHSA, Anthony has previously worked in project management roles with high-profile pharmaceutical companies both at home and abroad.
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- Communications and Engagement Lead
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- Research and Innovation Lead
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- Member of the Clinical & Alliance Directors Team
- Deputy Clinical Director / Professor James Hill / Deputy Clinical Director
Gill is the Lead Nurse for the NHS North West Genomic Medicine Service Alliance. Prior to joining the Alliance in 2021, Gill was the Lead nurse of Genomic medicine at Saint Marys Women's Hospital in Manchester and the Lead Nurse for Rare diseases at the Genomics unit NHSE, also holding the position of Ambassador for the 100.000 Genomes project from 2016- 2018.
Gill ensures the smooth running of the nursing and midwifery team and provides a strategic overview of the nursing and midwifery transformation projects across the North West.
Gill also holds the post of Nurse Director for the NHS North East & Yorkshire GMSA and prior to joining the Alliances, Gill worked within Manchester Children's Hospital, where she started her combined RGN/RSCN training.
From 2000 Gill was the Lead nurse of the Willink Biochemical Genetics department/ paediatric metabolic team that manages all the metabolic patients from the North of England and beyond, becoming the clinical lead between 2014-2018.
Gill is passionate about genomics and its use in modern medicine and is very keen to upskill the current nursing and midwifery workforce. Her specialist interest is in learning disabilities and the use of genomics testing in the underserved community.
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- Workforce Development and HEE Liaison Lead
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- Deputy Clinical Director / Professor James Hill / Deputy Clinical Director
Jessica Keen is the Pharmacy Lead for the NHS North West Genomic Medicine Service Alliance.
Her role is to engage the pharmacy workforce across the region; supporting them to access genomics education and training so that they can embed genomic medicine into routine clinical pathways and ensure equity of access to genomic testing and treatments for patients. She is the pharmacy lead for the PROGRESS programme (Delivering Pharmacogenetics for the NHS).
She has recently completed an MSc in Genomic Medicine at the University of Manchester, with particular interest in the role of pharmacy teams and the wider workforce in the implementation of pharmacogenomics in the NHS. Her background is as an oncology pharmacist prescriber, where she has seen the benefit of genomics to inform treatment from diagnosis through to stratification and medicines optimisation.
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- Nurse
- Regional Lynch Syndrome Clinical Nurse Specialist
Mandy is the Regional Lynch Syndrome Clinical Nurse Specialist and Genomic Educator for the North West. Mandy's role is to provide support, education, and leadership to professionals to help embed Lynch Syndrome genomic testing into everyday clinical practice.
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- Genomic Nurse Lead ( Adults )
Marie is the Genomic Nurse Lead for Adults and has a longstanding focus and commitment to patients and families affected by lung diseases, including fungal lung disease (Aspergillosis), lung cancer, and lung transplantation.
A caring & compassionate nurse she is committed to improving patient experience and outcomes through her passion for safe, effective, high-quality integrated care. She values patient partnership and insights to ensure transformational change is responsive to patient and family needs. She recognises patients as ‘experts through experience' and their stories and voices the bedrock and motivation for quality improvement initiatives.
Marie is also the Genomic Nurse Lead for the NHS North East & Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service Alliance.
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- Technical Project Manager
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- Patient Experience and Equality Lead / Education and Research
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- Chief Information Officer ( Interim )
Waheeda is the Midwifery Lead for the NHS North West Genomic Medicine Service Alliance.
Her role is to provide operational leadership to midwives across the North West, in support of the development of genomics in healthcare and delivery of transformational projects within midwifery practice.
Waheeda has over 20 years of experience in midwifery practice as a midwife, and more recently as a Specialist Cultural Liaison and Specialist Haemoglobinopathy midwife and counsellor.