Health Professions staff
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Gemma Smith
Course Lead and Senior Lecturer Medical Ultrasound
Gemma previously worked as a Radiographer and Sonographer at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust before joining the BCU lecturing team. She took on the role of Course Leader in 2021. Gemma specialises in the teaching of Obstetric, Gynaecological, and Abdominal Ultrasound. She is passionate about supporting and...
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Paula Smith
Senior Lecturer and Joint Programme Leader, Master of Public Health (MPH)
Paula Smith brings a wide range of experience, knowledge and skills to her post including: Practitioner roles - Public Health/Health Promotion practice leading on the implementation of the Dudley Health Inequalities Strategy (for Dudley Community Partnership – job-share); Senior Health Promotion Officer (Community...
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Nichola Smith
Senior Lecturer
Nichola graduated from Cardiff University in 2012 with a BSc (Hons) in Diagnostic Radiography and Imaging, and has been working in this field ever since. In her clinical duties, Nichola gained experience in various areas of Diagnostic Radiography, including plain film, and Interventional Radiology. Following a Postgraduate...
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Jackie Stephen-Haynes
Professor
Jackie Stephen-Haynes completed her RGN in 1984, specialising in orthopaedics and then, more specifically, rheumatology. Working in a rheumatology specialist unit, her interest in tissue viability began with an audit of wounds and a focus on pressure ulcer prevention. The increasing emphasis on primary care led to Jackie...
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Lynda Stobert
Senior Lecturer MSc Public Health
Lynda Stobert is the Programme Director to the MSc Public Health Programme and is also the module lead for the Social Science and Public Health module delivered on the course. She has extensive experience in teaching healthcare and public health students across a range of modules related to the sociology of health and illness,...
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Greg Stretton
Physiotherapy Lecturer
Greg currently works as a lecturer-practitioner Physiotherapist, specializing in Respiratory Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Renal Medicine, Haematology, Oncology & Palliative Care. He has been teaching in HE for over 15 years but has only been at BCU since April 2023. He currently leads the Foundations of Physiotherapy &...
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Anushka Sumra
Focus Course Lead and Senior Lecturer - Ultrasound
Since studying for her post graduate degree in medical ultrasound in 2009 here at BCU, Anushka has spent the majority of her clinical ultrasound career within a dedicated Womens teaching hospital. Anushka's areas of expertise include obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatric ultrasound. Anushka is fortunate to have an...
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Aydan Suphi
Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy
Aydan worked as a Speech and Language Therapist in the NHS for over 20 years, before moving to higher education in 2012. Her clinical experience includes working with children and young people with language disorders, people with complex needs, including down syndrome, and people from diverse cultural and linguistic...
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Claire Westwood
Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy
Claire qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist from the University of Reading. She worked as an intermediary with vulnerable defendants in Crown and Magistrates courts before moving to work in the NHS. In the NHS, Claire set up and ran Speech and Language Therapy services in a Youth Offending Team, Violence Reduction Unit,...
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Nick White
Course Leader
Nick is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Radiography at Birmingham City University and also a clinical tutor within the radiotherapy department at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Nick has worked in radiography education for 19 years, teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He is...