Research and Education Sub Committee

Dr Karen Heslop-Marshall

Chair of Research and Education Sub Committee

Karen has worked in respiratory medicine since 1988. Karen’s clinical role is varied and she see’s patients a number of respiratory conditions including asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, lung fibrosis, tuberculosis, lung cancer and bronchiectasis. Karen mainly works in secondary care but also undertakes home visits.

Karen has represented nurses on a number of committees including the British Thoracic Society Standards of Care Committee, BTS Specialist Advisory Group for COPD. She has been involved in representing nurses on national guideline groups for nebulisers, asthma, bronchiectasis, COPD, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Quality Standards for Bronchiectasis and the NICE COPD Quality Standards Group and Commissioning Framework Group and is BTS Quality Improvement Committee.

Karen’s interest in conducting her own research developed when she completed a post graduate diploma in CBT in 2003. Karen developed a CBT treatment specifically for patients with respiratory problems who face psychological difficulties. Karen completed a National Institute of Health Research PhD Clinical Academic Training Research Fellowship from 2011 to 2016. Her PhD research was the largest RCT into Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for COPD patients who experience anxiety and depression. Karen is developing an interactive online CBT treatment programme for COPD, similar to Karen’s face to face treatment. Karen also provides a foundation course in CBT for the physical health setting for staff wanting to learn CBT skills in the physical health setting.

Karen is a co-applicant for research in the use of CBT for respiratory patients before pulmonary rehabilitation and supervisor for two PhD students.

Kate Lippiet

Vice Chair of Research and Education Sub Committee

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Kate has worked in the NHS since 1999, first in complaints and litigation, then in NHS management. She completed the NHS management training scheme in 2003 and was awarded an MSc in Health Management from the University of Birmingham in 2005. She then re-trained as a nurse, specialising in acute medical and then respiratory nursing. In 2016, Kate was awarded a Health Foundation scholarship, administered by the University of Southampton, to undertake a full-time PhD, identifying and characterising patients’ experiences of burden of treatment in lung cancer or COPD.

Kate currently works as a Senior Research Assistant in the Macmillan Survivorship Research Group (MSRG) within Health Sciences.

Lindsay Welch

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Lindsay is currently a Lecturer in Nursing and Researcher in Long Term Conditions, at the School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton.

Lindsay has been a specialist respiratory nurse for 18 years, with an interest in the care of people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Her clinical work has spanned primary care, acute care, research delivery, community nursing and pulmonary rehabilitation. She has a clinical research interest in the whole COPD patient pathway and therefore has developed a depth of understanding of the barriers, challenges and complexities of COPD management.

Previously Lindsay has led several clinical service developmental bids including a successful bid with the service to the Queens Nursing Institute to develop a sustainable Singing in COPD project. This included further funding for the British Lung Foundation to integrate singing into the clinical service.

Aleksandra Gawlik-Lipinski

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Aleksandra Gawlik-Lipinski, MSc Nursing, PgDip Respiratory Medicine, BSc Paramedic, MA Education, Independent Prescriber

Aleks is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner Trainee and COPD Lead at Balham Park Surgery in London. From a background in education and holding an MA in Education and German Linguistics Aleks subsequently undertook a BSc in Public Health & Paramedic Science from Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In this capacity she has gained experience in a wide range of emergency medicine settings including work in A&E, Ambulance Services, remote mountain and wilderness rescue, as Flight Paramedic, and as Clinical Supervisor and Auditor for NHS 111.

Aleks re-trained as a nurse at King’s College and started her nursing career at King’s College Hospital A&E and in Acute Medicine in 2015 before moving into Primary Care in 2016. In that setting she completed her MSc in Nursing at Kings with a dissertation focused on high-fidelity simulation training. She further developed an interest in Respiratory Medicine, completed her PgDip, and focused on the management of chronic respiratory conditions while studying Advanced Clinical Practice.

Aleks is very enthusiastic about training and education of primary care nurses and puts her education background to good use by providing respiratory training for the local Wandsworth Training Hub, and leads on the improvement of respiratory care and knowledge within her practice. Additionally, Aleks works as Senior Consultant for NECS and collaborates with the authoring team to produce the Good Practice Guidance for Primary Care.

Debbie Duncan

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Debbie has worked as an ANP and non-medical prescriber in Primary Care for over 20 years. She has a special interest in long term conditions, namely, respiratory disease. Debbie has worked as a lecturer in nurse education since 2010 and presently runs the postgraduate respiratory course and Specialist practice respiratory pathway at Queens University Belfast.

Debbie is passionate about education and wants it to be accessible, especially for those based in primary care. As a writer, Debbie has had over 50 articles published in the nursing press. She has also written two textbooks. One of which, the respiratory textbook, was made free online during the first surge of Covid 19.