Staff directory
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Joanne Thomas
Senior Lecturer
Joanne's main focus is within teaching practice skills to students both pre and post reg. As an operating department practicioner she has many years’ experience within the intraoperative environment across a range of specialities including Hepatic, Renal, ENT and General as well as in anaesthetic and recovery as a team leader...
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Eve Thrupp
Assistant Lecturer
Eve started her journey at BCU in Nursing in 2002. She is a qualified Paediatric Nurse. Upon qualifying, she worked in Neonatal care and then moved to work in trauma and Orthopaedics at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Eve then worked more rurally and completed her specialist practitioner degree in public health. Eve worked as a...
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Professor Alok Tiwari
Visiting Professor of Vascular Surgery / Co-Course Lead in Advancing Diabetes Care
Professor Alok Tiwari has been a consultant vascular surgeon at University Hospitals Birmingham since 2011 and is Visiting Professor of Vascular Surgery at Birmingham City University. He qualified from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical school in 1996, completed basic surgical training in Essex and then embarked on a...
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Samuel Todd
Visiting Lecturer in Midwifery and Professional Midwifery Advocate
Sam completed his degree in Midwifery at Birmingham City University in 2012. He subsequently worked as a Band 5 Midwife during a 12 month preceptorship programme at Birmingham Women’s Hospital which included rotations to the Birth Centre, Delivery Suite, Antenatal Ward and Postnatal Ward. From December 2013 Sam worked as a...
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Samantha Toland
Senior Lecturer in Haematology
Sam has been a cancer / haemato-oncology nurse for 18 years, having worked initially in Haemato-oncology and stem cell transplant, she then went on to become a Chemotherapy nurse trainer, responsible for the chemotherapy training and education of all nursing staff in a large teaching hospital trust. She then took on a...
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Emma Tonks
Lecturer
Emma qualified as a Paediatric Nurse from Birmingham City University’s Dip HE course in 2011, she then began her career at Birmingham Children’s Hospital on the Liver and small bowel unit. In 2012 she moved to Heartlands Hospital on the paediatric inpatient ward. During her 9 years at UHB she progressed to a Sister’s role...
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Nathalie Turville
Senior Lecturer (Children & Young People) / Deputy Director Elizabeth Bryan Multiple Births Centre
Nathalie Turville is Deputy Director of the Elizabeth Bryan Multiple Births Centre. This role includes research involving multiple birth families, development of education resources for health and social care professionals and working with 3 rd sector organisations to raise the profile of the needs of multiple birth families....
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Dr Martin Vreugdenhil
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology
Martin received a Masters in Biomedical Science from the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Because he had developed a strong bias for epilepsy research, he took a Post Doc research post at the University of Amsterdam looking into cellular effects of antiepileptic drugs. ...
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Chantelle Waite
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Chantelle graduated as an Adult nurse from the University of Birmingham in 2005. Chantelle’s first nursing role was in acute renal dialysis at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This role gave her many skills such as HD, HDF, PD, APD dialysis, plasma exchange and ABOi treatment. She then went on renal rotation and practiced in...
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Louise Walden
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Louise attended Coventry University in 2002 and was awarded a BSc in Psychology. However, nursing was her main passion, so Louise decided to follow this path and completed the Graduate Diploma in Adult Nursing from Birmingham City University. Louise worked within Cardiology for a before focusing her career within...