Meet the team
Editor-in-Chief - Sue Woodward
Sue Woodward has worked within the field of neurosciences nursing almost exclusively since she qualified in 1988. Having trained at Charing Cross Hospital, her first staff nurse post was in the regional neurology unit there. After a brief sojourn to a general surgery ward she returned to the specialist field she loves and completed the ENB 148 course. From there she moved to a senior staff nurse post in neurology at Guy's Hospital and then to a sister's post in neurology at the Brook Hospital. She transferred with the service to King's Healthcare in 1995 and in 1996 successfully completed a Masters degree in clinical neuroscience from the University of Surrey. Following this she was appointed to a lecturer/practitioner post in neurosciences jointly between King's Healthcare and King's College London. This gave Sue the opportunity to combine her neuroscience nursing practice with another interest: education. During the first year of this post she developed the ENB 148 course that was delivered in the School of Nursing at King's College London, and was the course leader until September 2005.
Sue became a full-time lecturer at King's College London in 1999 and is currently programme leader for critical care post-registration education. She has completed a four-year term as head of department for specialist and palliative care and is now part-way through PhD studies in the Burdett Institute, a joint venture between King's College London and St Mark's Hospital, Northwick Park.
Sue has particular interests and expertise in continence nursing within neurosciences, complementary therapies (having qualified as a reflexologist in 2003) and neurological assessment. She has recently been co-opted onto the Royal College of Nursing Neurosciences Forum committee and has been Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing since its inception in April 2005.
Editor - Liam Benison
Liam Benison has worked in life science and medical publishing since arriving in the UK in 1999. He has been editor of British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing since May 2005 and editor of Practice Nursing since January 2001. He has a Masters degree in early medieval English literature from the University of Melbourne, Australia. His professional interests include effective communication and the dissemination of research and complex knowledge in an accessible form.
Editorial board
Thomas Aird - Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, London
Susan Baxter - Centre for Germontological Practice, Glasgow Caledonian University
Mary Braine - School of Nursing, University of Salford
Iain Bowie - Lecturer, King's College London
Chris Brunker - Practice Educator, Neuro Critical Care, St. George's Hospital, London
Linda Caie - Parkinson's Disease Nurse Specialist, Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen
Maureen Coggrave - Nursing Research Fellow, National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury
Neal Cook - Specialist Practitioner in Critical Care (Neurosurgery), University of Ulster, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Belinda Crawford - Clinical Nurse Leader, Neuro Critical Care, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
Mary Davies - Project manager, The Clinical Governance Support Unit, The Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, Morriston Hospital, Swansea NHS Trust, Swansea
Jane Dundas - Clinical Nurse Specialist in Stroke, Charing Cross Hospital, London
Christine Eberhardie - Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, St Georges Hospital Medical School, London
June Farrar - Clinical Services Manager, Southampton University Hospitals, Southampton
Maria Fitzpatrick - Specialist Nurse Stroke Management, King's College Hospital, London
Carol Forde-Johnston - Lecturer Practitioner in Neurosciences, School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
Douglas Guerrero - Clinical Nurse Specialist, Neuro-Oncology, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton
Stuart Hibbins - Trauma Co-ordinator, King's College Hospital, London
Jackie Holt - Director of Nursing, The Walton Centre NHS Trust, Liverpool
Stephen Leyshon - Lecturer in Primary Care Nursing, King's College London
Kate McArdle - Head Nurse, Modern Matron Neuro ITU, Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
Anne McLeod - Lecturer in Critical Care, St Bartholomews School of Nursing and Midwifery, City University, London
Shanne McNamara - Specialist Nurse Neuro-Oncology, Edinburgh Centre for Neuro-Oncology, Edinburgh
Ann-Marie Mestecky - Lecturer, King's College London
Judith Newton - MND CNS, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
Bernie Porter - MS Nurse Consultant, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
Anne Preece - Professional Development Nurse, Neurocritical Care Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust
Liz Preston - Assistant General Manager, Dept of Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
Cathy Queally - Epilepsy Clinical Nurse Specialist, Kings College Hospital, London
David Robson - Lecturer, University of Central England, Birmingham
Chris Rhymes - CNS for prion disease and prion disease research, National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
Kirsten Turner - Specialist Nurse, Parkinson's Disease Nurse Specialist Service, Harold Wood Hospital, Romford, Essex
Catheryne Waterhouse - Lecturer/Practitioner, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
Mandy Wells - Nurse Consultant, Bladder and Bowel Care Services, Franklyn Hospital, Exeter