Profile
I am a part-time PhD student in HEPRU. Outside of this, I work nationally as the Senior Clinical Lead for the Genomics Unit at NHS England, overseeing the multidisciplinary healthcare professional team and their associated workstreams. I also support the development of clinical informatics within genomics and am the Digital Clinical Safety Officer for the Genomics Unit, chairing the NHS Genomic Medicine Service’s (GMS) Clinical Safety Group.
As well as supporting other clinical professions, I work in collaboration with the NHS GMS Alliances’ Pharmacy Leads and other key stakeholders to embed genomic medicine into mainstream care and enable patients to realise the benefits of medicines optimisation driven by genomic and diagnostic characterisation. I am part of the national Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Senior Leadership Team and Pharmacy Advisory Group ensuring the work is coordinated across pharmacy and medicines developments across the NHS and government. I co-led the development of the NHSE Pharmacy Genomics Workforce, Education and Training Strategic Framework with National Genomics Education and continues to direct the implementation of this for the whole pharmacy workforce.
I am closely involved with our broader test evaluation process and other supporting workstreams across genomics. I also work closely with other national organisations, including NICE and MHRA.
During my career, I have worked across various sectors of pharmacy in the NHS, including primary care, secondary care and community pharmacy as well as in regional and national roles supporting medicines optimisation and the use of medical devices, including digital therapeutics. My health economics MSc developed a framework for the economic evaluation of patient facing health apps and I was later the national clinical lead for the NHS Apps Library. I am a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, a previous national Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Clinical Fellow and have also worked as a Medical Advisor in the pharmaceutical industry, with a significant part of my role focusing on the intersection of medicines, medical devices and diagnostics, and digital tools. My specialist clinical area is diabetes, and I am qualified as an independent prescriber, as well as having a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy, an MSc in health economics and an MSc in genomic medicine.
Research
Research Interests:
My research focus is on health economic informed decision making for genomic testing and developing a framework to support value-based healthcare.