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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.

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

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

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 IS CURRENTLY ON MATERNITY LEAVE. Flora has experience in conducting service evaluation and adoption projects across the BOB ICS. She led a BOB ICS programme aimed at implementing and evaluating various digital innovations across the local NHS Trusts. The programme also involved collaborating with clinical colleagues to complete a service pathway redesign, real-world evaluation, […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Hannah Oatley

Hannah leads our cardiovascular disease (CVD) programme, working with a wide range of stakeholders on various initiatives aimed at preventing CVD. She has extensive experience of the NHS acute sector, having worked for many years in both operational and strategic management roles at acute trusts. Hannah has a masters degree in biochemistry and is a […]

Specialties: Clinical Innovation Adoption

Ankur Chauhan

Ankur has over a decade of experience of analysis and economic evaluation of health programmes and applications. She holds a PhD, specialising in disease prevention, management and control, and an MSc in Public Health with a focus on health economics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Ankur previously worked in research and […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Lucy Walters

LUCY IS CURRENTLY ON MATERNITY LEAVE. Lucy joined in January 2021. She is responsible for managing events and communications for the Community Involvement and Workforce Innovation team both within and outside the organisation. She has over ten years’ experience in events and project management within corporate and academic fundraising settings. Lucy has a degree in […]

Specialties: Community Involvement Workforce Innovation

Ania Scigala-Ali

Ania joined the Patient Safety team in October 2024. She has a background in clinical and organisational psychology, research and quality improvement. She is an International Coaching Federation-accredited coach and project manager. Ania has held various front-facing and leadership roles within the NHS and third sector. She is particularly interested in co-design, culture and behaviour […]

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement

Lauren Hudson

Lauren joined in January 2020 as a project manager. She has worked in both R&D and commercial roles within the medical device and pharmaceutical industry. She supports the market access team with early evidence generation for innovators.

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships