Meet the Delivery Teams

Our research team includes Research Services, a dedicated NRP Biorepository team, clinical team (including Radiology, Clinical Trials Pharmacy) and senior managers supported by Clinical Research Network (CRN), commercial income, grants and NNUH.

The team is experienced in delivering high intensity, higher risk, translational experimental medicine studies, including early phase clinical trials, device trials and complex mechanistic physiological and pathophysiological studies, covering a wide range of clinical specialities.

We have more than 200 research-active clinicians. There is extensive knowledge of regulatory requirements and electronic research databases, with administrators and data managers specialising in timely entry of large data volumes and able to tailor electronic templates in accordance with study protocols. Delivery staff are members of NNUH governance boards, trial-specific management groups and external networks such as CRN Eastern, UKCRF Network, HCDA Programme Board.

The Clinical team includes the Service Delivery team, Radiology and Clinical Trials Pharmacy, led by Louise Coke, Rebekah Girling and Gail Healey respectively, and the importance of this integration is demonstrated by the immediate response to the pandemic when, to avoid unnecessary hospital visits, IMP was delivered to participants’ homes or to the local private hospital (Spire) to allow continuity of life saving chemotherapy.

The Clinical team works alongside Principal Investigators and close links with hospital clinical and multidisciplinary teams facilitate participant recruitment and high quality of care. The existing core CRF-QI clinical team (the Director of Research Operations, Clinical Lead, Research Matron, Senior Research Nurse, Clinical Trials Practitioner, Senior Healthcare Assistant, Healthcare Assistant supported by the CRF-QI Manager and Senior Administrator) work across specialties including commercial, healthy volunteer and experimental medicine studies designed by ourselves and our academic partners (QIB, UEA). They are supported by the wider CRF-Central team, some of whom specialise in paediatric and neonatal research eg the Paediatric Senior Research Nurse, Research Nurses and Midwives. Using a staff pool allows cross cover. eg for clinical trials requiring blinded and unblinded teams. The clinical team acts as patient advocate and provide support throughout the study which ensures good participant experience (measured by the Participant in Research Experience Survey, PRES).

Our research staff have a high level of skill and experience of running complex research projects. Training includes Good Clinical Practice accreditation, tailored induction plans for new members and support from senior colleagues during the probationary period.

Commercial and Strategic Team

Louise Coke, Lead Research Nurse

Louise Jones, Senior Clinical Research Nurse

Diabetes/Metabolic/Endocrine Research Delivery Team

Many of the Diabetes and Endocrine studies are focused on insulin trials but we also cover weight loss, registries of particular disorders, thyroid studies and many more.

Tracey Gray, Clinical Research Nurse

Georgia Sinclair, Clinical Research Nurse

Kirsty Robinson, Research Administrator

Orthopaedics Research Delivery Team

The Orthopaedics Research team is based at the Quadram Institute. Our research is tailored to supporting people suffering from poor bone, joint and muscle health, aiming to improve patient outcomes by developing and expanding orthopaedic knowledge through novel laboratory-based investigation, surgery, treatment and rehabilitation within clinical trials.

We work in collaboration with the various partners, including the UEA, QI, Norwich Medical School, Norwich Biomedical centre and external sponsors, both national and international, with whom we have published multiple international academic papers. We have current research interests in trauma and elective orthopaedic surgery, preventative treatments, rehabilitation, gait analysis, musculoskeletal biomarkers, prosthetic joint infection and whole gene sequencing biofilms. 

Adele Cooper, Clinical Research Nurse

Tracey Potter, Clinical Research Practitioner

Oncology Team

Ross Cameron, Performance and Delivery Manager

Adela Dann, Clinical Trials Practioner

Mark Harmer, Clinical Trials Practioner

Cheryl Websdale, Research Nurse

Oluwafeyikemi Popoola

Michael Cornwell, Data Manager

Ed Malone, Data Manager

Sarah Turner, Research Administrator

Melanie Elliott, Clinical Research Administrator

Early Phase Research Delivery Team

The Early Phase Delivery Team was established in 2023 to specialise in the set up and delivery of early phase clinical trials at the NIHR Norfolk CRF. Early phase trials come with additional safety measures and governance to mitigate risk which the team deal with effectively. Vaccine trials are a growing area of research and the Early Phase Team plan to support these trials across multiple research specialities, most notable within Cancer and Public Health.

James Kennedy, Interim Performance and Delivery Manager

Gemma O’Gallagher, Clinical Research Nurse

Anneli Yeates, Clinical Research Nurse

Corinne Haynes, Senior Research Administrator

Michelle Moore, Research Administrator

Gideon Essien, Clinical Research Senior Laboratory and Data Support Officer

Respiratory Delivery Team

The Respiratory Research team draws on a diverse group of academic and clinical staff, covering all the main domains of Respiratory Medicine including Airways Disease, Pleural Disease, Pulmonary Vascular Disease and Interstitial Lung Disease. With an international reputation for designing and delivering high-quality multicentred clinical trials, current research focuses on anti-reflux therapy in pulmonary fibrosis and fish oil supplements in asthma.

Ongoing research projects include assessment of biomarkers and predictors of re-accumulation of pleural fluid, prognosis in pulmonary hypertension and outcomes in sarcoidosis and pulmonary fibrosis, development of exercise interventions in asthma, and evaluation of vascular dysfunction in asthma.

Lisa Hudig, Clinical Research Nurse

Bethany Bridgwood, Research Administrator

Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research Team

The Gastroenterology and Hepatology team is currently based in Quadram Institute. Their role is to support the delivery of high-quality clinical research. They have a large clinical service that covers all aspects of gastroenterology, hepatology and gastrointestinal endoscopy. Our current studies for Hepatology are Primary Sclerosing Cholongitis (PSC), Primary Biliary Cholongitis (PBC), Non-Alcohol Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) studies. Gastroenterology includes Crohn’s Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC).

Vanessa Martin, Clinical Research Nurse

Eirini Kolokouri, Clinical Research Nurse

Jiezel De Guzman, Clinical Research Nurse

Kirsty Robinson, Research Administrator

The Adult Research Team

Bridie Willan Senior Clinical Research Midwife

Anaesthetics and Pain, General Surgery and Renal Research Delivery Team

Deirdre Fottrell-Gould: Clinical Research Nurse

Jane Platt: Clinical Research Practitioner

Rheumatology and MSK Research Delivery Team

Georgina Glister: Clinical Research Nurse

Clare Self: Clinical Research Practitioner

Sue Cheeseman: Clinical Research Nurse

Dermatology, Ear, Nose & Throat & Urology Research Delivery Team

Catherine Rennie: Clinical Research Nurse

Claire Hayes: Clinical Research Assistant

Neurosciences Research Delivery Team

Susan McDonald: Clinical Research Nurse

Marta Perez: Clinical Research Nurse

Sophie Sayers: Clinical Research Nurse

Cardiology Research Delivery Team

Laura Staff: Clinical Research Nurse

Donna Moore: Clinical Research Nurse

Anna Ilgunas: Clinical Research Nurse

ED Research Delivery Team

Laura Lee: Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Julie Doughty: Clinical Research Nurse

Mandy Wilson: Clinical Research Assistant

Women’s and Children Research Team (Paediatric, Neonatal, Obstetric and Gynaecology)

Amy Nichols, Senior Clinical Research Nurse

Holly Kerrison, Clinical Research Senior Laboratory and Data Support Officer

Max Beevor, Data Support Officer

Davina Mellon, Research Administrator

Vanja Briggs, Clinical Paediatric Research Nurse

Emily Tropman, Clinical Paediatric Research Nurse

Sam Scott, Clinical Neonatal, Research Nurse

Jasmine Myhill, Clinical Neonatal Research Nurse

Lucy Pocock, Clinical Neonatal Research Nurse

Victoria Gibson, Clinical Neonatal Research Nurse

Laura Harris, Clinical Research Midwife

Luisa Lyons, Clinical Research Midwife

Matilda Matthews, Clinical Research Midwife

Karen Convery, Clinical Research Nurse