To Be Announced - Secretary

Contact details:
Email: secretary@bas.org.uk

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Annette Cameron - Membership Secretary

Annette is a Speech and Language Therapist. She has worked with people with aphasia for many years. She is currently working with a recently established Mobile Stroke Team covering the peripheral wards at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. This is an acute teaching hospital. There is an existing Acute Stroke Unit, and the Mobile Stroke Team was set up to meet the needs of those on the outlying wards.

Annette has worked for many years to highlight the needs of people with aphasia. She has been involved in the Grampian Aphasia Action Project to raise awareness of aphasia (e.g. public awareness day at Music Hall when 400 people attended; publicity in local press and television). She is currently working with Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) and service providers to raise awareness of aphasia. She was also instrumental in setting up the local self-help group ‘Speakeasy’, which is now affiliated to Speakability.

Annette has been involved in various areas of research and is currently working along with others on anosognosia and aphasia.

Contact details:
Speech and Language Therapy Department
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZN

Email: membership-secretary@bas.org.uk

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Janet Webster- Treasurer

Janet Webster is a speech and language therapist who works in Speech and Language Sciences at the University of Newcastle. She is Co-Director of the North East Aphasia Centre and is involved in teaching aphasia to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her research interests include the assessment and treatment of aphasia, focusing particularly on difficulties affecting verb and sentence processing.

For further information about the BAS newsletter, click here.

Contact details:
School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
King George VI Building
University of Newcastle
Queen Victoria Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU

Tel: 0191 222 5235
Email: treasurer@bas.org.uk

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Claire Gatehouse - Therapy Symposium Co-ordinator

For further information about the Therapy Symposium, click here.

Chief SLTfor Rehabilitation & Research, Plymouth Primary Care Trust

I qualified from Central School of Speech & Drama in 1986 and worked in the various aspects of the adult neurological field, London & Essex. In 1991 I took up a four-year research post at Birkbeck College, investigating cognitive neurological aspects of aphasia and aphasia therapy. During this period I began lecturing in SLT, firstly at Central and then at UCL. In 1995, I returned to clinical practice at National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery at Queen Square, alongside lecturing at UCL and moved to a full-time clinical post at Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow in 1997.
I moved to Plymouth in 2001 and did a series of short-term locums between having two children. I have been working in current post since January 2005.
My areas of interest continue to be cognitive neuropsychology in aphasia, single case studies in clinical practice, MDT team working, outcome measurement, service delivery and clinical education.

Contact details:
Chief Speech & Language Therapist,
Day Therapy Unit, Room OPD 40,
Local Care Centre,
Mount Gould Road,
Plymouth, PL4 7QD
Tel. 01752 (4)34803 / 34806

Email: therapy-symposium@bas.org.uk

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Catherine Hodgson - Website Co-ordinator

Catherine is currently a MMedSci student in Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield. Before this she was a lectuere at the University of Manchester. Her main research revolves around acquired language disorders and factors that affect lexical retrieval processes, and she relies heavily upon collaborations with Speech and Language Therapists and other clinicians.

Please email any comments or suggestions about the BAS website to Catherine.

Contact details:

Email: website@bas.org.uk

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Deborah Cairns - Conference Support Fund Officer

I have worked with people with aphasia since qualifying as a Speech and Language Therapist in 1995. I worked first in acute and rehabilitation settings in Plymouth, before moving to Connect’s London centre in 1999. More recently I completed a PhD (funded by Connect) with Jane Marshall and Lucy Dipper at City University. My research project investigated the processing of events with a small number of people with aphasia.

I took over the role of BAS Conference Support Fund Organiser in September 2003. Please contact me for any further information about the BAS Events Grants or the Support Fund for Conferences (non-BAS).

Contact details:
Email: conference-support-fund@bas.org.uk

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Dianne Webster - Newsletter Editor

Dee is a speech and language therapist working in Sheffield within Intermediate Care services. She spends half her time with the Community Stroke Team, providing intensive therapy as part of a multidisciplinary team. She also works at the Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre which has a special interest in stroke and Parkinson's disease. She has an interest in aphasia therapy and outcome measurement and is currently, along with her Community Stroke Team colleagues, part of a research collaboration with Ruth Herbert at the University of Sheffield.

For further information about the BAS newsletter, click here.

Contact details:
Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
Assessment and Rehab Centre / Community Stroke Team
Sheffield Primary Care Trust

Tel. 0114 2264034 CST (Mon, Wed afternoon, Thur)
Tel. 0114 2716576 ARC (Tue, Wed morning, Fri)
Email: newsletter@bas.org.uk

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Heather Waldron - Student Prize Co-ordinator

For further information about the Student Project and Essay Prizes, click here.

Heather is a Speech and Language Therapist who currently works part time at Sunderland Royal Hospital with a mixed adult neurology caseload. This includes acute inpatient and community outpatient work with people who have had a Stroke as well as people with other neurological conditions. She is also studying part time for a PhD at Newcastle University, funded by a grant from the Stroke Association. Her PhD research is looking at therapy for people with aphasia who have phonological assembly difficulties.

Contact details:
Speech and Language Therapy Department
Sunderland Royal Hospital
Kayll Road
Sunderland
SR4 7TP

Email: prizes@bas.org.uk

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Emma Eaton - BASics Officer

Emma works full-time as a speech and language therapist in Hastings. She covers stroke-related communication disorders in acute, sub-acute and community settings when she's not too busy with dysgraphia caseload(!). Her speacialist interest is spoken word production and it's breakdown in aphasia, and she is currently working on a PhD in jargon aphasia at City University.


Contact details:
Speech and Language Therapy
Egerton Unit
Conquest Hospital
Hastings
East Sussex
TN37 7RD

Tel: 01424 755255 ext. 8767

email: basics@bas.org.uk

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Martyne Chaston - Publicity Officer

Martyne Chaston is Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist and the Clinical Advisor for Aphasia for Eastern & Coastal Kent PCT and is based in Canterbury and Thanet. At present she works with people with aphasia on an acute stroke unit and in an out-patient clinic. She has a longstanding interest in aphasia and has previously worked in a number of settings including rehabilitation units and a community stroke team. She has recently completed research as part of her MSc investigating how specialist speech and language therapists decide whether people with aphasia have the communicative capacity to make legal and healthcare decisions.

Contact details:
Speech & Language Therapy Dept.
HCOOP
1937 Building
Kent & Canterbury Hospital
Ethelbert Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT 3NG

Tel: 01227 766877 ext: 73110

Email: publicity@bas.org.uk

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Melanie Derbyshire - Speakability Representative

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Contact details:
Speakability
1 Royal Street
London SE1 7LL
Tel: 020 7261 9572
Fax: 020 7928 9542

Email: melanie.speakability.org.uk