The Board steers us into an exciting future of innovation, while ensuring we deliver against the objectives licensed by NHS England. Our approach of close partnership working with our members - and the other elements of the NHS system - is underpinned by mutual Board representation. We are committed to joint decision making on 'who does what,' aligning resources, and undertaking joint work.
Download PDFOur senior leadership team brings a broad range of experience and skills to provide direction and oversight across our work. The executive team is accountable to our Board.
Fiona Discoll
Chair
Fiona specialises in designing transformation strategies and operational plans to deliver success...
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Bill Gillespie
Chief Executive
Bill is an experienced health manager who had worked at board level in health organisations in th...
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Dave Meehan
Director for Partnerships and Deputy Chief Executive
Dave has been employed by the AHSN since its establishment in 2013 and is currently directly resp...
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David Kryl
Director of Insight
David’s career has revolved around strategy, performance and project management in complex enviro...
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Sarah Turl
Corporate Business Manager
Sarah has over 30 years’ experience in a variety of management roles, operating across the public...
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Tracy Broom
Associate Director – Patient Safety Collaborative
Tracy has over 30 years’ experience in the NHS as a nurse and a senior manager; she has a Master’...
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Rachel Dominey
Associate Director - Strategic Themes (Primary Care and Mental Health)
Rachel joined Wessex AHSN in 2014 leading the Respiratory Quality Improvement Programme to nation...
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Michael Goodeve
Associate Director - Communications
Michael has worked in public sector communications for fourteen years, in a variety of local, reg...
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Frank Ratcliff
Associate Director, Industry & Innovation
After a PhD in the genetics at the Sainsbury laboratory, Frank quickly moved into commercial rese...
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Joe Sladen
Associate Director - National Programmes
Joe leads the AHSN’s programme which aims to accelerate and spread the use of proven innovations ...
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Kathy Wallis
Associate Director - Strategic Themes (Healthy Ageing and Medicines Optimisation)
Kathy Wallis is Associate Director for Strategic Programmes (Healthy Ageing and Medicines Optimis...
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Our staff come from a diverse range of backgrounds, including academia, frontline health and social care, research, analytics and NHS support services.
Dr Anastasios Argyropoulos
Research Fellow CIS
Anastasios (BSc, MSc- Distinction, PhD) joined Wessex AHSN in 2017 and is a Research Fellow withi...
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Heather Bowles
Programme Manager Innovation & Adoption
Heather Bowles is one of our Programme Managers currently working within the Atrial Fibrillation ...
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Ms Cindy Brooks
Research Fellow, CIS
Cindy Brooks joined in January 2017 as a Research Fellow at Wessex AHSN - Centre for Implementati...
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Geoff Cooper
Programme Manager & Improvement Coach
Geoff is a qualified nurse with a background in intensive care and
coronary care nursing, speci...
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Cheryl Davies
Programme Manager Healthy Ageing
Cheryl Davies has worked for the NHS for over 18 years. Her background is in statistics and has w...
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Linda du Preez
Programme Co-ordinator Healthy Ageing
Linda is a Programme Co-ordinator for Wessex AHSN within the Healthy Ageing workstream.
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Charlotte Forder
Communications Manager
Charlotte is Communications Manager for Wessex Academic Health Science Network.
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Alison Griffiths
Programme Manager, Mental Health
Alison Griffiths is the Programme Manager for mental health. Alison has worked in healthcare for...
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Dr Richard Guerrero-Luduena
Senior Research Fellow, CIS
Dr. Richard Guerrero-Ludueña is a Senior Research Fellow at the Wessex AHSN Centre for Implementa...
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Sarah Harraway
Senior Programme Manager - Insight
Sarah has worked in the NHS for the last 10 years in a variety of innovation and service improvem...
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Jemima Kakpa
Senior Administrator & Communications Officer
Jemima Kakpa joined the Wessex AHSN - Centre for Implementation Science (CIS) in January 2019.
...
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Nadia Kuftinoff
Programme Co-ordinator - Innovation Adoption
Nadia began her career as a software development project manager in London. Her projects included...
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Lesley Mackenzie
Programme Manager
Lesley has over 30 years experience in the NHS as a general nurse working in acute, community and...
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Dr Catherine Matheson-Monnet
Senior Research Fellow, CIS
Catherine [MA (Hons:1), MSc (MedEd), PhD, CertCouns, FHEA] joined Wessex AHSN in 2015 as Senior R...
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Kathleen McCulloch
Senior Communications Officer
Kathleen is the Senior Communications Officer at Wessex AHSN. She began her career in local gover...
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Philippa Moran
Senior Programme Manager Insight
Philippa joined the AHSN in November 2018 with nearly 8 years NHS experience, having been with th...
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Caroline Norris
Wessex PSC Administrator
Caroline joined the Patient Safety Collaborative in April 2018 after 12 years’ experience in heal...
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Sandra Nwokeoha
Research & Innovation Associate Industry & Innovation
Sandra is a biomedical engineer and research associate at the Wessex AHSN and NIHR CRN where she ...
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Robert Payne
Programme Assistant Innovation Adoption
Rob studied Ancient History at Swansea University and graduated in 1998.
He spent 4 years work...
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Peter Rhodes
Senior Programme Manager Industry & Innovation
Peter is Senior Programme Manager for Industry & Innovation. He joined WAHSN in 2018 after a 30-...
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Vicki Rowse
Senior Programme Manager
Vicki leads the Medicines Optimisation and Atrial Fibrillation programmes at Wessex Academic Heal...
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Andrew Sibley
Evaluation Programme Manager
Andrew undertook his PhD at the Centre for Innovation and Leadership, Faculty of Health Sciences,...
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Andrew Smith
Programme Assistant - Industry & Innovation
Andrew has developed his career working in public service firstly within Adult Social Care before...
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Paul Steynor
Programme Manager Industry & Innovation
Paul Steynor is the Programme Manager in the Industry and Innovation team
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Katie Taylor
Programme Manager Innovation Adoption
Katie is an Innovation Adoption Programme Manager.
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Suzi van Es
Programme Manager Innovation Adoption & PReCePT Programme Lead
Suzi is an Innovation Adoption Programme Manager with a focus on the spread of nationally priorit...
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Abby Walker
Programme Coordinator - Innovation Adoption
Abby Walker joined Wessex AHSN from the private sector in October 2018. Previously her roles were...
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Adam Wells
Programme Manager – Innovation Adoption
After completing a degree in physiotherapy, Adam began working on the contracting and procurement...
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Matthew Williams
Programme Co-ordinator Innovation Adoption
After nearly 20 years within the private sector, Matthew joined Wessex AHSN in 2018 as an Innovat...
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