Clinical Advisory Group
A page that details of our Clinical Advisory Group - a group of clinicians who are supporting our project
Clinical Advisory Group members
Dr Shami Maya Jayasooriya
My name is Shami I am an academic general practitioner based at Page Hall Medical Centre, a ‘Deep End’ Clinical Research Cluster practice, in one of the most deprived and ethnically diverse areas of Sheffield. I currently hold a 5-year NIHR advanced fellowship exploring missed opportunities for improving outcomes for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in underserved populations. I have facilitated from inception a COPD public involvement group with diverse representation from underserved groups.
My research interest centres around non-communicable chronic lung disease at both a local and global level. I previously worked as a study clinician on TB sequel, a multi-centre study exploring lung impairment post tuberculosis infection. More recently I explored the understanding of inhaled medicines for asthma management in The Gambia, which is a country story featured on the World Health Organisation Knowledge Action Portal.
I hold advocacy roles both at a national (British Thoracic Society Global Health Group) and international level (Word Health Organisation consultancy work with the Global Alliance for Chronic Respiratory Diseases).I have developed a rich network of peers and focus on approaches to influencing health promotion, reporting and dissemination of research, and best practice in relation to non-communicable chronic lung disease.
Dr Matt Cox
Matt is a Consultant Respiratory Physiotherapist specialising in the respiratory management of neuromuscular disease and long-term ventilation. He has over 20 years of experience with non-invasive ventilation, both in an acute hospital setting, and in initiating and managing people requiring long term home ventilation.
Matt’s current role involves the delivery of home ventilation and cough augmentation to people with neuromuscular disease, such as motor Neurone Disease and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. This includes regular respiratory screening to ensure that people with neuromuscular disease are offered these life prolonging treatments at the right stage in their disease, initiating therapy, and supporting and monitoring people using ventilators at home.
Matt is actively involved in research aimed at improving the management of people needing respiratory support at home, and is currently involved in a study looking at the effects remote mounting of ventilation has on survival and quality of life in people starting on home ventilation.
Professor Ian Sabroe
I am a Professor Emeritus at the University of Sheffield. I’m a retired consultant respiratory physician, having previously worked at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, with particular interests in severe asthma and in pulmonary hypertension. My academic work was for many years based in the sciences of the immune system and how it responded to infections in the lung, and might be targeted to create new treatments for lung disease. Latterly, I became interested in the medical humanities, and I have studied the experiences of doctors and patients in the NHS. I teach ethics and look at medical humanities issues mostly through a lens of justice. I co-lead a podcast that disseminates medical humanities knowledge. I have lived experience of disability.
Dr Lyndsey Stanton
Lyndsey joined the University of Sheffield after teaching at Sheffield Hallam University as a lecturer in Further Education. She holds a BSc in Development, Health, and Disaster Management from Coventry University, a PGCE from Huddersfield University, an MA in Education from Edge Hill University, and an Advanced Diploma in Adult Nursing from Derby University. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and member of the Professional Association of Specific Learning Difference Specialists in Higher Education (PASSHE), Lyndsey's background includes a range of positions in adult nursing. Currently, she teaches health and education modules at foundation, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels. Her research interests include access, reception and barriers to healthcare and accessible education, as well as student-centred learning pedagogies.
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Are you a clinician who has knowledge of respiratory illness and ventilation?
If you'd like to know more about joining our Clinical Advisory Group, and support Cripping Breath, please email our Research Associate Dr Julie Ellis: julie.c.ellis@sheffield.ac.uk