BAPEN Executive Meet the 2012 BAPEN Executive Team
Introducing…
Dr Tim Bowling – BAPEN Chair
Tim has been a member of BAPEN Exec for a number of years in the positions of Honorary Secretary and Chair Elect. Tim is a Consultant in Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition at Nottingham University Hospitals. He runs the clinical nutrition service and a nine-bedded intestinal failure unit and spends much of his time looking after acute type 1 and 2 intestinal failure patients, originating both from his local surgical wards and from further afield. He also runs the home TPN service. His academic interests all lie within nutrition support and concentrate on the physiological responses to enteral feeding. He has published over 60 papers, has edited books on nutrition in cancer and on nutritional support and lectures widely. Work is well underway to deliver BAPEN’s 2012 objectives, which include the development of the new BAPEN website, clinical guidance for frontline teams and delivering improved membership benefits in addition to the political work that is ongoing.
Ailsa Brotherton – BAPEN Honorary Secretary
Ailsa joined BAPEN Exec at the AGM in 2010. She was Head of Acute Dietetics at the Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust before taking up the post of Senior Research Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire. She has recently undertaken a secondment to the Department of Health's QIPP Safe Care workstream which has delivered a national improvement programme with a focus on nutrition and hydration. In addition to the secretarial role, Ailsa is a member of BAPEN’s Quality Group and is involved in developing national nutrition policy and appropriate system levers. Ailsa is also Editor of the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics.
Dr Simon Gabe – BAPEN Honorary Treasurer
Simon is BAPEN’s Honorary Treasurer and Caldicott Guardian. He was a regional representative for BAPEN in 1999 and Chair of the Regional Representatives from 2003-6. In 2005, he became an Executive Officer, until 2008 when he started as Treasurer.
Simon is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at St Mark's Hospital in Harrow. He co-Chairs the nationally commissioned Intestinal Failure Service at St Mark’s, one of two centres in the UK funded to provide this service. Dr Gabe has a wide clinical experience in dealing with complex inflammatory bowel disease, especially with fistula development as well as intestinal failure, clinical nutrition, home parenteral nutrition and consideration of intestinal transplantation. Simon also co-Chairs the National Adult Small Intestinal Transplant (NASIT) forum and is an Editor of Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Journal.
5 BAPEN In Touch No.64 March 2012
Dr Tim Bowling
Dr Ailsa Brotherton
Dr Simon Gabe
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