BAPEN Executive
With the new BAPEN Executive Team now in place, it’s now only apt that we introduce each BAPEN Executive and what role they have in moving BAPEN forward throughout 2012.
Dr Sheldon Cooper – Honorary Officer: Education and Training
Dr Nicola Simmonds – Treasurer Elect
Nicki has worked as a Consultant Gastroenterologist with an interest in Nutrition at the Luton & Dunstable Hospital since 1996. Until recently, she led the Nutrition Support Team (which won the NHS Team of the Year award in 2000) and chaired the Nutrition Steering Committee in Luton, dealing with all aspects of nutrition care in the hospital. She has had an interest in training junior doctors in nutrition and in ethics in relation to nutrition and has spoken on the subject at the BSG and Leeds course in Clinical Nutrition.
Nicki was introduced to BAPEN when it was founded in 1992 and, in recent years, has been a member of the Education and Training Committee, Honorary Secretary of BAPEN Medical, has written the educational modules for junior doctors that are currently available on the BAPEN website (
http://www.bapen.org.uk/elearning/), and been involved in the BAPEN quality group and writing the commissioning toolkit. Nicki is currently Treasurer Elect of BAPEN due to step into the role of Treasurer at this year’s AGM and is also leading the development of the new BAPEN website on behalf of BAPEN Exec.
Andrea Cartwright – Honorary Officer: Membership
Andrea is taking a lead role for membership on BAPEN Exec in 2012 and is a Nutrition Nurse Specialist at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She has a BSc (Hons) in Nutrition Support, is a registered Specialist Practitioner in Adult Care and a Nurse Independent and Supplementary Prescriber. Andrea was Chair of the National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG) 2006 – 2009 and has represented the NNNG on BAPEN Council since 2001 as both NNNG Secretary and Chair. Andrea has been involved in many national working parties, most notably the NICE nutrition support guidelines (2006), and The Royal College of Physicians Feeding Oral Dilemmas (2010). If you have any requests for particular membership benefits or ideas for the BAPEN membership drive then please contact Andrea via the BAPEN Office (
bapen@bapen.org.uk).
Sheldon is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Nutrition Lead at the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust in the West Midlands. During specialist training in the West Midlands he completed a Masters degree in Nutritional Medicine at the University of Surrey. Subsequently, he has undertaken an MD examining the aetiology of oesophageal adenocarcinoma, currently being written up. Sheldon took over the Dudley Home Parenteral Nutrition service in 2009 when first appointed, and has now developed this into an Intestinal Failure Unit, currently looking after 35 to 40 HPN patients in the West Midlands. He also holds an honorary contract as a visiting consultant with one of the national intestinal failure units in Salford. Other clinical interests include inflammatory bowel disease – Sheldon co-leads a wireless capsule endoscopy and double-balloon enteroscopy service – in addition to intestinal failure and clinical nutrition. In 2009, he became a member of the BAPEN Medical Committee (now ex-officio) and in 2010 joined the BAPEN Education and Training (E&T) Committee, becoming chair later that year. BAPEN Medical responsibilities include organising the Powell-Tuck Prize, a new venture to encourage trainee doctors to produce quality nutrition research, along with sitting on the BAPEN Programmes Committee and BAPEN Council. This led to Sheldon being elected to BAPEN Executive in 2011, and he is leading the development of BAPEN nutrition guideline production.
BAPEN In Touch No.64 March 2012 6
Dr Nicola Simmonds
Andrea Cartwright
Dr Sheldon Cooper
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