Nursing and Midwifery staff
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Alison Simons
Senior Lecturer of Nursing & Midwifery
Alison was a cancer nurse for 18 years looking after patients with a variety of cancer and receiving a variety of treatments. She was the junior sister of a mixed oncology ward within a large teaching hospital. Alison then went on to become a professional development sister responsible for the educational needs of 200...
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Paul Smith
Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing
Paul is a mental health nurse with 25 years of clinical experience, largely within the specialty of child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS). After training in Birmingham and qualifying as an RMN, Paul initially worked for 4 years on an adult acute ward. He then moved into the child and adolescent mental health service and...
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Professor Theresa Smyth
Honorary Visiting Professor in Diabetes Care
Theresa is Nurse Consultant in Diabetes at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Visiting Professor in Diabetes Care at Birmingham City University. She co-leads and teaches on post-registration, BSc and MSc, courses on diabetes. She has held positions representing diabetes nursing on...
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Dion Smyth
Senior Lecturer (Cancer and Palliative Care)
Dion Smyth is a senior lecturer in cancer and palliative care, and teaches on both the undergraduate pre and post-registration curriculum and postgraduate courses. In the pre-registration BSc Nursing programme, Dion coordinates the module Nursing Practice 2, which addresses cancer, immunology, auto-immune conditions such as...
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Bernie St Aubyn
Senior Lecturer (Adult Nursing)
Bernie St Aubyn has been a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Birmingham City University over the last 14 years and has taught at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. She currently works on the BSc Nursing programme. Prior to working at the University she worked as a registered Midwife and registered Health Visitor in...
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Caroline Stevens
Assistant Lecturer in Child Health
Caroline has the role of assistant lecturer within the Children and young people’s health team. For the majority of her career so far she has worked within the community setting. She worked for seven years in the community children's nursing service in Wolverhampton. This involved visiting children, young people and their...
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Martha Stewart
Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead - MSc Advancing Diabetes Care
Martha began her career pathway as a secondary school teacher in Zimbabwe, where she was born. After moving to the UK in 1999, she embarked on her nurse training with Nottingham University and qualified as an Adult nurse in 2002. She worked predominantly within the surgical directorate at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and the...
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Katy Sutherland-Hastings
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Katy is a new member of staff as a Lecturer within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Having begun her career as a Healthcare Assistant, Katy undertook her nursing studies at King’s College London and qualified as a Registered Nurse. With a background in Oncology and Haematology, Katy has worked primarily within...
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Joanna Swan
Senior lecturer in Tissue Viability
Jo completed her RGN in 1994 and began work in a rotational post on a liver unit gaining experience in liver surgery, liver medicine and liver intensive care. Realising intensive care was where she wanted to specialise at this time, she began an 11-year journey through liver and general intensive care nursing. Jo specialised...
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Elizabeth Taylor
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Liz graduated from the University of Central England in 2006. Since graduating she has undertaken a rotation in accident and emergency, surgical, medical and acute admission wards. Liz has experience working in critical care for the past 15 years. During this time, she worked with the specialities of cardiac, trauma and burns...