Meet the Cystic Fibrosis team

Key members of the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Cystic Fibrosis (CF) team include:

Consultants

Dr Helen Spencer
Consultant Paediatric Transplant Physician

Professor Ros Smyth
Director, Institute of Child Health

CF Fellow

Dr Emma Kavalinuaite
Cystic Fibrosis Fellow

Specialist Nursing team

Denise Sheehan
CF Clinical Nurse Specialist

Charlotte Dawson
CF Clinical Nurse Specialist (Outreach Service)

Frances Choudhry
CF Clinical Nurse Specialist plus GOSH/North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) collaboration

Eve Kirkham
CF Senior Healthcare Assistant

Ana Marote
Badger Ward Manager

Physiotherapists

Louisa Hill
Senior Respiratory Specialist Physiotherapist

Helen Douglas 
Senior Respiratory Specialist Physiotherapist

Ryan McCathie 
Physiotherapy Assistant

Dietitians

Marie Creedon
Specialist Paediatric CF Dietitian

Elizabeth Owen
Specialist Paediatric CF Dietitian

Rebecca Margetts
Specialist Paediatric CF Dietitian

Psychologists/social worker

Andrea Ralph
Senior Clinical Psychologist

Liz Muscat
CF Specialist Social Worker

Specialist pharmacist

Nikesh Gudka
Specialist CF Pharmacist

Management team

Ammani Prasad
CF Unit Manager

Anne Layther
Divisional Director of Operations, West Division

Andrew Taylor
Divisional Co-Chair and Divisional Director, West Division

Pauline Whitmore
Head of Nursing, Critical Care and Cardiorespiratory Unit

Lung function laboratory

Stephanie Rees 
Senior Respiratory Physiologist 
Special interests: pre-school testing and multiple breath washout testing

Gurminder Chana
Clinical Respiratory Physiologist 
Special interest: neuromuscular lung function testing

Emma Fettes BSc Hons Physiology
Senior Respiratory Physiologist 
Special interests: pre-school testing and multiple breath washout testing

Jane Kirkby PhD
Senior Respiratory Physiologist 
Special interests: pre-school testing and multiple breath washout testing 

Rosemary O'Meara 
Respiratory/Sleep Physiologist 
Special interests: respiratory physiology and the role of lung function results in the diagnosis of a disease, and full polysomnography testing in children.

INSPIRE-CF study team

Sean Ledger
Senior Paediatric Respiratory Research Physiotherapist and Exercise Specialist

Helen Douglas
Senior CF Specialist Physiotherapist

Paul Rayner
Sport and Exercise Scientist, INSPIRE-CF Personal Trainer

Laura Sarria Jaramillo
Physiotherapist, INSPIRE-CF Personal Trainer