Find an expert in Health Professions

Eight out of the eleven subject areas we submitted to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise contained world leading research.

Find out more about our research staff and their specific expertise in health professions below.

Nursing

Mary Addo

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Areas of Expertise:

  • Forensic / mental health nursing
  • Mentoring students in clinical practice

T: 01224 262659

E: m.a.addo@rgu.ac.uk

 
Josephine Mackenzie

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Areas of Expertise:

  • Mental health nursing
  • Caring for people with Alzheimer's disease

T: 01224 262911

E: j.m.mackenzie@rgu.ac.uk

Midwifery

Dr Susan Gibb

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Areas of Expertise:

  • Midwifery
  • Maternity services
  • Postnatal care

T: 01224 262615

E: s.gibb@rgu.ac.uk

Physiotherapy

Elizabeth Hancock

Head of the School of Health Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

  • Clinical gait analysis
  • Biomechanics
  • Physiotherapy education

T: 01224 263252

E: l.hancock@rgu.ac.uk

Radiography

Morag Howard

School of Health Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

  • Radiographic reporting
  • Lower gastrointestinal imaging

T: 01224 263266

E: m.l.howard@rgu.ac.uk

Mental Health

Mary Addo

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Areas of Expertise:

  • Forensic / mental health nursing
  • Mentoring students in clinical practice

T: 01224 262659

E: m.a.addo@rgu.ac.uk

 
Dr Susanne Boyle

School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

  • Oxidative stress & putative diagnostic biomarkers
  • Mental health - schizophrenia & first episode psychosis
  • Biomarker determination (ex vivo & in vitro)
  • Herbal medicines & compound authentication
  • Analytical chemistry

T: 01224 262529

E: s.boyle@rgu.ac.uk

 
Andrew McKie

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Areas of Expertise:

  • Suicide acts
  • Humanities in health care
  • Mental health nursing

T: 01224 262689

E: a.mckie@rgu.ac.uk


Josephine Mackenzie

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Areas of Expertise:

  • Mental health nursing
  • Caring for people with Alzheimer's disease

T: 01224 262911

E: j.m.mackenzie@rgu.ac.uk

Healthcare

Dr Bernice J M West

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Areas of Expertise:

  • Evaluation of health care services
  •  Role development in the health care sector
  • Practice development in the health care sector
  • The education of health care professionals
  • Doctoral level education & support of students across higher education
  • International students
  • Health care in Thailand
  • Health care in India

T: 01224 262647

E: b.west@rgu.ac.uk

Health Professions

Lesley Forsyth

School of Health Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

  • Skill mix in allied health professions
  • Consultant practice in allied health professions

T: 01224 263261

E: l.forsyth@rgu.ac.uk


Professor Valerie Maehle

Dean of the Faculty of Health & Social Care

Areas of Expertise:

  • NHS Policy
  • Allied health professions education
  • Interprofessional education
  • Role development
  • Service redesign

T: 01224 263059

E: v.maehle@rgu.ac.uk

Medicines & Drugs

Professor Donald Cairns

School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

  • Rational design of drugs
  • Actions and uses of drugs & medicines
  • Interesting poisons
  • Commission on human medicines

T: 01224 262501

E: d.cairns@rgu.ac.uk


Dr Denise Hansford

School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

  • Medicines management
  • Reclassified medicines
  • Pharmaceutical formulation especially paediatric medicines

T: 01224 262509

E: d.hansford@rgu.ac.uk


Professor Derek Stewart

School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

  • Non-medical prescribing
  • Pharmacovigilance
  • Reclassified medicines & self care
  • Public health

T: 01224 262432

E: d.stewart@rgu.ac.uk

Anatomy

Valerie Cooper

School of Health Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

  • Anatomy
  • Vascular
  • Pathology
  • Women's health
  • Computer assisted learning
  • Hydrotherapy
  • Movement

T: 01224 263280

E: v.cooper@rgu.ac.uk

Education & Learning

Dr Lesley Diack

School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

  • E-learning
  • Educational innovation
  • Interprofessional education

T: 01224 262511

E: h.l.diack@rgu.ac.uk

 

Caroline Wood

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Areas of expertise:

  • Clinical skills
  • Simulation including medium fidelity equipment
  • Perioperative nursing
  • Simulated patient programme

T: 01224 262976

E: c.macdonald@rgu.ac.uk

 

Professor Valerie Maehle

Dean of the Faculty of Health & Social Care

Areas of Expertise:

  • NHS Policy
  • Allied health professions education
  • Interprofessional education
  • Role development
  • Service redesign

T: 01224 263059

E: v.maehle@rgu.ac.uk

 

Dr Bernice J M West

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Areas of Expertise:

  • Evaluation of health care services
  • Role development in the health care sector
  • Practice development in the health care sector
  • The education of health care professionals
  • Doctoral level education & support of students across higher education
  • International students
  • Health care in Thailand
  • Health care in India

T: 01224 262647

E: b.west@rgu.ac.uk

Cancer

Dr Morag CE McFadyen

School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

  • Cancer
  • Cytochrome P450 enzymes
  • Novel cancer therapeutics
  • Protein detection methods
  • Tissue culture

T: 01224 262532

E: m.mcfadyen@rgu.ac.uk

 
Martyn Main

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Area of Expertise:

  • e-Learning
  • Innovative learning
  • Cancer
  • Chemotherapy
  • Cancer clinical trials

T: 01224 262928

E: m.main@rgu.ac.uk

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