Meet the Scholl Academic Centre Team

Dr Ben Harris, Clinical Lead and Director of Quality

In addition to his clinical role at Hospice, Ben takes a special interest in outcome measurement and quality improvement across the organisation.  Hospice is the only Hub for Project ECHO on the Isle of Man and Ben has managed the implementation of Project ECHO and has successfully overseen the establishment of a strong community of practice with our partners as part of our philosophy of Hospice Influenced Care.

Cheryl extensive experience in palliative and end of life care plays a fundamental part in her research activities.  She has been instrumental in developing evidence based end of life guidance for the Isle of Man.  Cheryl also makes a significant contribution to our education portfolio delivering clinical, symptom management and specialist ethics programmes.  Cheryl is also the Clinical Education Lead for our team here at Hospice.

She is a member of the National Clinical Guideline Committee (NCDG) publishing clinical guidelines for the care of dying adults in the last days of life.  She is currently part of an Expert Panel critically reviewing and refining the study's preliminary findings and recommendations.

Cheryl’s interest in ethical issues led her to gain her MA in Ethics of Cancer and Palliative Care.  She also has a BSc (Hons) in Cancer and Palliative Care.

Gina handles all of the administration for our extensive programme of education and training courses.  In addition to this, she also ensures that our Mandatory Training is in place and monitors our high standards of completion.

Kim leads on our digital developments within the Palliative Care Academy.  Her role includes leading our Project ECHO programme as well as creating new education and training modules using innovative digital platforms.

We are fortunate to have Francis supporting our research activities.  She previously ran coding departments for London market research companies specialising in business, corporate finance and insurance sectors.

Lonan joined Hospice at the start of her research career and has quickly developed her expertise in working with young people from across the Isle of Man who have experienced bereavement.

Lonan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health and has already had her first paper published in the Journal of Integrated Care.

Hollie’s role with Hospice is split between clinical practice, being an active member of the academic research team and supporting our education programmes.  She is keen to draw on research in her practitioner role and develop interventions to reduce distress for patients and their families who access our palliative care services.

Her research interests are empirically focussed on systemic principles and the effects of close personal relationships on recovery from physical and mental disorders using qualitative methods, especially social constructionist approaches.

Hollie completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Nottingham.

Rosie joined Hospice in February 2020 having previously worked in Adult and Older Adult Mental Health and Primary Care Psychology services. As part of the Psychological Support team at Hospice, her role includes direct clinical work, supervision, education and service development. Rosie has a particular interest in therapeutic work with patients and relatives and is completing Practitioner training in Cognitive Analytic Therapy.

As a Clinical Psychologist, Rosie draws on the evidence base to inform her interventions. She is keen to contribute to this evidence base and is looking forward to working with the academic research team.

Rosie completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at University College Dublin.

Sarah has recently retired as Director of Research at Hospice and we are delighted that she has agreed to continue to support us as a valued associate and volunteer.  Sarah led on the Needs Assessment: Integrated Palliative and End of Life Care for the Isle of Man.

Sarah has extensive research experience with the University of Glasgow and the University of Hong Kong.  Her areas of research include epidemiology and economics, valuation of intangible benefits and measurement of quality of life, evaluation of services for chronic disease, cost effectiveness of vaccines and other treatments and costs of air pollution.  She has more than 160 published journal papers and book chapters on these topics.

Sarah has a PhD from the University of Glasgow and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians.

Kate specialises in psychotherapy with young people and adults with life threatening and life limiting illness and spent a large part of her career with the Isle of Man Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.

As part of her PhD research, Kate focused on working psychodramatically with clients post childhood sexual abuse.  She has written articles and chapters and co-edited two books.  She is a member of the UK Council for Physiotherapy (non-clinical) and he Research Committee of the Federation for European Psychodrama Training Organisations.

Helen is a registered nurse and brings expertise as a lead within the clinical research and health improvement fields.   As part of her role with the Department for Health and Social Care, she is the programme lead for custodial and forensic health specialist services programme to support the mental and physical health needs of offenders.

Lottie completed her training as a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Bath and has gone on to specialise in psycho-oncology and palliative care.  Lottie has published academic papers and conference presentations relating to psychological aspects of both physical and mental health conditions.  She has recently published a book chapter relating to palliative care.