Who we are

PSP project team

PSP Project Lead

Dr Salman Razvi, Consultant Endocrinologist 
Salman is responsible for driving our project and ensuring its successful completion.

JLA Adviser

Dr Jo Watson

As a neutral facilitator, Jo’s role is to ensure that the JLA process is followed in a fair, transparent way with equal input from people with lived experience and healthcare professionals.

Information Specialist

Dr Henrietta Graham, University of Cardiff

Henrietta is responsible for  managing, analysing and categorising the data and ensuring the survey responses identify research areas that have not yet been answered.

Project Coordinator

Julia Priestley, British Thyroid Foundation

Project Administrator

Joanne Ploix, British Thyroid Foundation

Steering Group

Our Steering Group is made up of a wide range of people with an interest in thyroid disease:

Patient and carer representative/s:

• Celia Charlwood (parent)
• Caitlin Hitchens (patient)
• Kasia Kurowska (patient)
• Lyn Mynott (representative of Thyroid UK and patient)
• Joe Straw (patient)
  
  Clinical representative/s:
• Mrs Louise Breen, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Endocrine
• Dr Fiona Eatock, Endocrine Surgeon, President of the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons
• Dr Sam Finnikin, GP and Clinical Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
• Dr Michelle Griffiths, Health Psychologist, Research Fellow, University of West of England
• Prof Catia Montagna, Emeritus Professor in Economics, University of Aberdeen 
• Dr Onyebuchi Okosieme, Consultant Endocrinologist, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Honorary Professor, Cardiff University
• Dr Catherine Peters, Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
• Dr Nicola Zammitt, Consultant Endocrinologist and Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

Partner organisations

We are partnering with organisations to involve their communities in identifying the top 10 priorities. Our partners represent the following groups:

• people who have been diagnosed with thyroid disease
• carers of people who have been diagnosed with thyroid disease
• health and social care professionals with experience of thyroid disease.

Our partners are:

• Royal College of General Practitioners

Our Priority Setting Partnership has been kindly supported by The Peter Sowerby Foundation.