Biography
Dr Umesh Prabhu is Currently working as Medical Adviser for Edgehill University for international medical recruitment, Patron of AvMA, also Member of Patient Safety Advisory committee of Datix. After his graduation in India Dr Prabhu came to the UK in 1982. He then trained in Paediatrics at Oxford, Edinburgh and Leeds. Dr Umesh Prabhu became a Consultant Paediatrician (1992-2010), Clinical Director of Paediatrics (1992-1998), Medical Director of Bury NHS Trust (1998-2003), Board Member of UK National Patient Safety Agency (2001-2003), National Adviser to the National Clinical Assessment Service UK (2003-2015), Medical Director of Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT (2010-2016) Following my own mistake in 1992, he developed a keen interest in patient safety, quality and why doctors make mistakes. Over the past 25 years or so he has done lot of work on patient safety, medical errors, clinical governance, why doctors make mistakes, professional regulation, organizational governance, culture, leadership and institutional racism, subconscious bias and so on. He has given more than 200 lectures and conducted many workshops for doctors nationally and internationally on patient safety, quality, why doctors make mistakes, professional regulation, value-based leadership, clinical governance and so on and advised and helped more than 500 doctors, mostly Indian doctors in UK.
Research Interest
Medical errors and patient safety
Biography
Ching Rong Lin concerns about patient's mental health status to help them adapting and coping with stress, managing in body-mind-spirit symptoms such as pain, fatigue, insomnia, satisfying their long-term needs, and promoting their quality of life. She also works with caregivers those whose family members lived with chronic disease and suffered from mental distress to manage their anxiety and depressions, searching for meaning of life and hope, and cooperating with different medical and caring team members to gain better quality of life. Emma is interested in researches in the longitudinal changing outcomes of patients, including cancer survivors and their family caregivers, with psychiatric or mental distress. Specific concerns about designing and testing of cognitive- behavioral therapeutic and mindfulness interventions were targeted to improve the physical, psychological and social distress and needs. Emma is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing of College of Medicine of Chang Gung University, and senior researcher of Department of Radiation Oncology and Proton and Radiation Therapy Center of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. Emma received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Nursing of College of Medicine of National Taiwan University. She completed clinical psychiatric nursing practice training in Medical Center of National Taiwan University Hospital. She keeps on contributing her mental health professional knowledge and clinical skills towards teaching student nurses, working with nurse practitioner, and cooperating with multiple disciplines members to provide caring for patients suffering with psychiatric or cancer-related distress and their family caregivers in the Medical Healthcare System.
Research Interest
Mental Health, Psychiatric Nursing, Psycho-Oncology
Biography
Steven is an Alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science where he gained an MSc in Social Work and Social Policy. He qualified as a Psychotherapist in 1991 from Birckbeck College, University of London and specialized in working in child protection and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. During his academic career, he gained an MPhil in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and was appointed Principal Lecturer, Head of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Anglia Ruskin University where he designed an award-winning, multidisciplinary training course for all staff working with troubled young people. Steven has published 14 books and over 50 International peer-reviewed scientific papers and presented his research at 10 International Conferences in Russia, Spain, Australia, Hong Kong, Buenos Aries, Greece, Scotland, and the UK. He currently works as a sessional lecturer with Ph.D. Psychology students at Essex University and as a volunteer Counsellor with a local Youth Charity
Research Interest
Cyberbullying, multi-cultural service provision, refugees and asylum seekers, and feminist practice