Associates
At Minervation we work with a number of different associates to provide the best possible service to our clients. We find that effective partnership working enables us to put together really effective project teams and it's also a lot of fun!
Our talented associates include:
Julia Cartwright
Julia is a research psychologist and director of Flex Business Consulting Ltd. She is an experienced facilitator and coach and has an expert knowledge in patient information and health communications and has worked for a variety of clients in both the public and private sectors in addition to acting as a strategic advisor to HealthQWest Scotland. She has also held research posts at The Picker Institute, The University of Oxford's Health Service Research Unit and Oxford Brookes University, where she continues to lecture on the Attitudes to Health & Illness module. Julia had a first career as an investment surveyor with a Merchant Bank.
Sally Crowe
Sally is a Director of Crowe Associates Ltd. She has extensive experience in providing consultancy, training and project management for patient and public involvement in health and social care research, as well as strategic/services development. She also provides consultancy and facilitation for consultation events, team development and away days, and conferences. She is a project consultant to the PRIME (Partnership for ME Research) Project, and the UK Prostate Link project. She is currently managing the development of a service user and carer component to the social care themed Log on to Care site and chairs the monitoring and implementation group of the James Lind Alliance, a national initiative that aims to tackle treatment uncertainties in health care.
Carl Heneghan
Carl Heneghan BA (Hons) Oxon, MRCGP has had an association with the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine since 1995. Currently holding a Dept of Health Career Development Award, he is a General Practitioner and a senior clinical research fellow in the Department of Primary Care at Oxford University. He has considerable experience in teaching for undergraduates, postgraduates and teachers of EBM practice. He has co-authored the EBM toolkit (BMJ), and is involved in work that promotes the understanding and teaching of critical appraisal.
Carl is the cardiovascular lead within the Department and is currently a principal investigator in the new NIHR Centre for Monitoring of Chronic Disease in Primary Care. Within the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Carl provides teaching, support and resources to individuals and groups to facilitate Evidence-Based Practice. The EBM group undertakes research that focuses on both the general issues of implementation of Evidence-Based Practice and also specific disease related issues. Research interests include the barriers to practicing Evidence-Based Medicine in practice. Currently Carl is lead applicant with Professor Paul Glasziou on a project looking at the utilization of research in primary care. In addition, Carl has research interest in improving the methods used in both primary and secondary research and has an interest in two areas of diagnosis and diagnostic test evaluation.
Sue Lacey-Bryant
Sue is an independent health information specialist, focused on service improvement to deliver high-quality, user-centered services that fully utilise the opportunities presented by IT.
As programmer manager for Quality:UK, Sue is leading a three-year Health Foundation project focused on a whole system approach to quality improvement of healthcare across Milton Keynes.
Sue has wide experience of project management, and service development within the NHS, and with commercial clients including Doctors.net.uk, with whom she has developed targeted communications and online learning systems and processes. With extensive experience of working with colleagues in primary care and public health, she stays in touch with the coalface, continuing to work with 3 general practices on a sessional basis.
Recent projects include: leading on the development if a Comissioning handbook fo information profressionals, developing a health information toolkit for MLA South East, working with Minervation on an evaluation of document delivery systems, a national audit of Clinical Question Answering Services on behalf of the National Knowledge Service, delivering workshops on developing library services for primary care for NHS South West.
Co-author of the National Service Framework for NHS funded library and information services in England, Sue currently works with NHS London for one day each week, supporting service modernization.
Kay Renfrew
Kay is a freelance project manager. After a short stint straight out of university as a management consultant, she moved into the pharmaceutical industry and developed a specialism in document management systems, before side-stepping into multimedia and becoming Director of Operations for a production company in Oxford.
She now works freelance for a group of select clients managing IT, media and translation projects and has worked with a wide variety of companies including Vodafone, BMW, InterContinental Hotels Group and The Blue Cross.
Karla Soares-Weiser
Karla obtained her medical degree in 1987 in Brazil, and then completed a residency in psychiatry. During 1992-1994 she completed a MA degree in psychiatric epidemiology, and between 1994 and 1997 a PhD in a programme supported jointly by the Universities of São Paulo (Brazil) and Oxford (England). During that period she worked intensively with the Cochrane Collaboration. She was also involved with the activities of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, and participated in a series of courses organised by the Centre on methodological design and analysis of randomised trials. In June 1997 she was awarded her Doctorate, with merit, and worked with the Brazilian Cochrane Centre (São Paulo, Brazil) and the Ibero-American Cochrane Centre (Barcelona, Spain), teaching and providing methodological support for reviewers. At the end of 1998 she moved to Israel. She has continued to work closely with the Cochrane Collaboration, specifically with the UK Cochrane Centre (Oxford), where she has been a Visiting Fellow since 2000. She also helped to organize the 15th Cochrane Colloquium, which took place in São Paulo in October 2007. Over the years, she has accumulated broad, hands-on experience relevant to the preparation of systematic reviews of intervention studies, and more recently, of screening and diagnosis studies. She currently manages a small company (Enhance Reviews) that undertakes research work in evidence-based health care.
