Nursing and Midwifery staff
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Dezita Taylor-Robinson
Associate Professor of Nursing & Midwifery
Dezita started her theatre career as a nurse cadet on an apprenticeship scheme and she went on to qualify as an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) back in 2006. Dezita is a passionate and dedicated ODP who has gained professional credibility for her strong work ethic and for being a driving force for change within clinical...
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Alice Temporin
Lecturer in Children and Young People’s Health
Alice is a Lecturer within the Department of Children and Young People’s health, which she joined in October 2023. She graduated as Children’s Nurse in Rome, and she moved to Liverpool, at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital to work in PICU. After two years, she moved to Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where she specialised in...
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Joanne Thomas
Senior Lecturer and doctoral supervisor
Joanne has worked in adult and paediatric operating theatres for over 10 years, specialising in transplant surgery, upper and low GI, general , trauma and emergency surgery, including ENT and head and neck. Joanne has a special interest in Situational Awareness and other Non-Technical Skills as well as Ergonomics in...
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Eve Thrupp
Assistant Lecturer
Eve started her journey at BCU in Nursing in 2002. She is a qualified Paediatric Nurse. Upon qualifying, she worked in Neonatal care and then moved to work in trauma and Orthopaedics at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Eve then worked more rurally and completed her specialist practitioner degree in public health. Eve worked as a...
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Samuel Todd
Visiting Lecturer in Midwifery and Professional Midwifery Advocate
Sam completed his degree in Midwifery at Birmingham City University in 2012. He subsequently worked as a Band 5 Midwife during a 12 month preceptorship programme at Birmingham Women’s Hospital which included rotations to the Birth Centre, Delivery Suite, Antenatal Ward and Postnatal Ward. From December 2013 Sam worked as a...
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Samantha Toland
Senior Lecturer in Haematology
Sam has been a cancer / haemato-oncology nurse for 18 years, having worked initially in Haemato-oncology and stem cell transplant, she then went on to become a Chemotherapy nurse trainer, responsible for the chemotherapy training and education of all nursing staff in a large teaching hospital trust. She then took on a...
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Emma Tonks
Lecturer
Emma qualified as a Paediatric Nurse from Birmingham City University’s Dip HE course in 2011, she then began her career at Birmingham Children’s Hospital on the Liver and small bowel unit. In 2012 she moved to Heartlands Hospital on the paediatric inpatient ward. During her 9 years at UHB she progressed to a Sister’s role...
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Dr Martin Vreugdenhil
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology
Martin received a Masters in Biomedical Science from the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Because he had developed a strong bias for epilepsy research, he took a Post Doc research post at the University of Amsterdam looking into cellular effects of antiepileptic drugs. ...
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Chantelle Waite
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Chantelle graduated as an Adult nurse from the University of Birmingham in 2005. Chantelle’s first nursing role was in acute renal dialysis at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This role gave her many skills such as HD, HDF, PD, APD dialysis, plasma exchange and ABOi treatment. She then went on renal rotation and practiced in...
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Louise Walden
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Louise attended Coventry University in 2002 and was awarded a BSc in Psychology. However, nursing was her main passion, so Louise decided to follow this path and completed the Graduate Diploma in Adult Nursing from Birmingham City University. Louise worked within Cardiology for a before focusing her career within...