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Our people

Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley Directors and Board members are listed first. Scroll down or click through to the next pages for other members of our team. Alternatively, you can refine your search by using the specialties listed below.

Rochelle Nelson

Rochelle, who joined in 2014, is currently supporting the Strategic and Industry Partnerships team with communications and marketing activities including managing content for websites and social media. She also supports the Head of Communications on communications with a wide range of stakeholders.

Specialties: Oxford AHSN core team Strategic and Industry Partnerships
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Sarah Brown

Sarah is part of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Oxford and Thames Valley. In her role as Senior Implementation, Innovation and Evaluation Manager, she works with researchers and clinicians to help improve outcomes for patients and the public by supporting the implementation of ARC research outputs into practice. She works closely with the Oxford […]

Specialties: Clinical Innovation Adoption

Florence Serres

Florence joined in November 2019. She supports the market access team within the Strategic and Industry Partnerships team focusing on European projects. Prior to joining Florence worked as a medical information specialist and pharmacovigilance officer for a healthcare service provider company. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience and worked for many years as a research […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Matthew Lawrence

Matthew leads on Industry and Innovation within the Strategic and Industry Partnerships Team. Matthew has a broad NHS and industry background covering primary, secondary, tertiary and commissioning functions in the NHS. Prior to the NHS, Matthew worked in charitable health and social care, technology, finance, and medical publishing. He has a BA from Stanford University, […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships
Matthew Lawrence

Seema Gadhia

Seema has substantial experience of working in community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, mental health trusts; primary care trusts and clinical commissioning groups. She has also worked as a clinical advisor for pharmacy management. Her particular area of expertise is service improvement – Seema has strategically led and delivered a number of change and improvement projects.

Specialties: Clinical Innovation Adoption

Alice Dean

Alice joined in July 2019. She has more than ten year’s experience as an executive assistant working at board and director level in the NHS, higher education and publishing.

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement
Alice Dean

Samantha Collins

Samantha provides programme support to the CIA team. Prior to joining in July 2019 she worked in incident reporting, governance and risk management within a NHS trust.

Specialties: Clinical Innovation Adoption

Matthew Epton

Matthew has over ten years’ experience working in the NHS in primary care, holding operational management, strategic management and commissioning roles. He also has worked in adult social care business support and performance management. Matthew has an academic research background with a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division.

Specialties: Clinical Innovation Adoption
Matthew Epton

Flora Gleave

Flora has experience in conducting service evaluation and adoption projects across the BOB ICS. She led a BOB ICS programme aimed at implementing and evaluating various digital innovations across the local NHS Trusts. The programme also involved collaborating with clinical colleagues to complete a service pathway redesign, real-world evaluation, and health economic study to gather […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Eileen Dudley

Eileen leads on the Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme and continues to practise clinically as a midwife. Eileen has held various NHS positions including operational, supervision and quality improvement roles. She is project lead for the award-winning intelligent intermittent auscultation in labour programme.

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement