VOLITION
Shared decision-making for people living with multiple long-term conditions
VOLITION
Shared decision-making for people living with multiple long-term conditions
Dr Andrew Palmer is a social scientist with extensive experience of using qualitative and mixed methodologies, and participatory approaches with a range of diverse populations, to help address social and health-related issues. Andrew has a strong track record in engaging with public sector organisations and developing innovative and creative research approaches.
Professor Umesh Kadam is a clinical epidemiologist, health services researcher, and a GP. He is an experienced clinical academic whose research focus has been on multimorbidity and comorbidity, and he was the first UK academic to develop these concepts from 2001. He has led the development of programmes which have included ageing and multimorbidity research. He is a Chair of the NIHR Advanced Fellowship panel, member of the MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship panel, and a NIHR mentor.
Professor Suzanne Richards specialises in developing, optimising and evaluating the quality and effectiveness of complex interventions aimed at improving the health and well-being of older people in primary and acute care settings. She has worked on intervention design and testing across a diverse range applied health and social care settings. As the establishing director of the Leeds Unit for Complex Intervention Development, Sue brings expertise in the design & evaluation of complex interventions, clinical trials, process evaluation, qualitative methods, mixed method research and systematic reviews.
Professor Karen Mattick is an internationally recognised expert in the education of health professionals and associated research into the healthcare workforce. Professor Mattick leads the Health Professions Education & Wellbeing research group at Exeter, which exists to support the local and national implementation of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, with its three priority areas “Train, Retain and Reform”. She brings experience in wide ranging methodologies including realist reviews and evaluations.
Miss Beccy Summers brings research expertise on exploring key healthcare stakeholder perspectives on value in patient education and activation programmes. She has a clinical background in adult nursing. A member of the Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula (PenARC), Beccy’s interests are primarily focused on patient and public involvement in research and ensuring that a diverse range of patients, carers and the public are provided with the opportunity to shape healthcare research so that it is of higher quality and more relevant.
Ms Lynn Tatnell brings a wealth of lived experience of relevance to the research topic, as well as years of experience in engaging with research, including for the previous work for this project and as a prior member of the PenARC PPIE group.
Dr Jo Butterworth is an NIHR academic clinical lecturer in medical education and general practice. As CI, she brings experience in intervention development, systematic reviews, qualitative methods, statistical analysis (regression modelling), mixed methods (sequential exploratory-explanatory approach) and trial design. She also brings significant experience in successful PPIE from the project work to date. Jo has subject expertise in shared decision-making.