Speakers

Fiona is a Professor of Rehabilitation Research at City St George’s, University of London, she has led studies to evaluate self-management approaches within healthcare including stroke, brain injury, trauma, and recently long Covid. She is co-applicant on several projects including ‘TULAY’ a Global NIHR funded project which will co–design and evaluate rehabilitation and self-management support for people with stroke, ‘TIPTOE’ an HTA funded project evaluating personalised self-management support for older people with joint pain and multimorbidity, and a new study starting in March to evaluate prehabilitation and early rehabilitation after shoulder replacement. In 2013 Fiona launched a social enterprise ‘Bridges Self-management’ (Bridges), based on accumulating evidence and impact that self-management support is more effective when personalised to individual needs and whole teams utilise language and strategies which prioritise these methods. Bridges training is co-delivered with people living with long-term conditions and used by 100’s of healthcare teams across the UK and internationally. Fiona’s focus is on co-design and working in partnership with patients, families, and clinical teams to drive quality in self-management training, interventions, and resources.