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Our people

Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley Directors and Board members are listed first. Scroll down or click through to the next pages for other members of our team. Alternatively, you can refine your search by using the specialties listed below.

Sarah Brown

Sarah is part of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Oxford and Thames Valley. In her role as Senior Implementation, Innovation and Evaluation Manager, she works with researchers and clinicians to help improve outcomes for patients and the public by supporting the implementation of ARC research outputs into practice. She works closely with the Oxford […]

Specialties: Clinical Innovation Adoption

Seema Gadhia

Seema has substantial experience of working in community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, mental health trusts; primary care trusts and clinical commissioning groups. She has also worked as a clinical advisor for pharmacy management. Her particular area of expertise is service improvement – Seema has strategically led and delivered a number of change and improvement projects.

Specialties: Clinical Innovation Adoption

Alice Dean

Alice joined in July 2019. She has more than ten year’s experience as an executive assistant working at board and director level in the NHS, higher education and publishing.

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement

Samantha Collins

Samantha provides programme support to the CIA team. Prior to joining in July 2019 she worked in incident reporting, governance and risk management within a NHS trust.

Specialties: Clinical Innovation Adoption

Matthew Epton

Matthew has over ten years’ experience working in the NHS in primary care, holding operational management, strategic management and commissioning roles. He also has worked in adult social care business support and performance management. Matthew has an academic research background with a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division.

Specialties: Clinical Innovation Adoption

Flora Gleave

Flora has experience in conducting region-wide service evaluation and adoption projects. She led a programme aimed at implementing and evaluating various digital innovations across our partner NHS trusts. This also involved collaborating with clinical colleagues to complete a service pathway redesign, real-world evaluation and health economic study to gather the necessary evidence for further scaling […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Lisa-Anne Dallas

Lisa-Anne joined in November 2021 as Executive Assistant to Sian Rees & Project Support Officer within the Community Involvement & Workforce Innovation Team.  Lisa-Anne has worked as an Executive Assistant for over 12 years in both Finance and Hospitality.

Specialties: Community Involvement Workforce Innovation

Mamta Bajre

Mamta leads our industry support team, focusing on early value assessment, conducting feasibility studies, identifying barriers to adoption, and assisting innovators in meeting NHS needs. As the head of health economics and methodology, she collaborates extensively with industry, research groups, and innovators to develop innovative and cost-effective devices, benefiting patients, clinicians, and the NHS. With […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Nadia Taylor

Nadia joined in September 2018. She has worked in R&D for industry and has over six years’ experience in diagnostic pathology within the NHS. She has previously worked in the field of Genomics, facilitating the 100,000 Genomes Project. Nadia has obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Genomic Medicine from the University of Birmingham. Since joining […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Marianna Lepetyukh

Marianna joined in 2017. She leads on the Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Endoscopy workstreams. Marianna has over 15 years’ experience in commercial and business development in both multinational companies and the NHS, with expertise in delivering income and business generation projects, strategic business planning and business modelling.

Specialties: Clinical Innovation Adoption