BLISS: Our people

Programme Manager: Dr Alexandra Enocson

Programme Administrator: Amanda Davies

Research Fellows: Dr Andy Dickens

Research Facilitator: Sukhi Sehmi

PhD students: Dr Shamil Haroon (Graduated 2015), Kiran Kalirai, Jane Young & Dr Halima Buni

Administrative Assistant: Vanessa Rouse

To ensure patient involvement in the BLISS programme, a Patient Advisory Group (PAG) was created with a group of current COPD patients invited to take part.

The PAG (chaired by Michael Darby) have met regularly since the start of the project and have been actively involved in the development of the BLISS logo as well as reviewing and commenting on our Patient information leaflets and patient questionnaires, helping to make them as user-friendly as possible. They have also been integral to the organisation and timings of our measurements and have allowed our research assistants to complete spirometry and other physiological measurements on them in order to hone their skills.

Members: 

• Michael Darby (Chair)
• Maireade Bird
• Marie James
• Jan Turner
• Anne Yeomans
• Don Etheridge
• Chris Huckle
• Geoff Baxter

Chief Investigators

• Professor Peymané Adab
• Professor David Fitzmaurice

University of Birmingham

• Professor Rachel Jordan
• Professor KK Cheng
• Professor Sue Jowett
• Professor Sheila Greenfield
• Professor Kate Jolly
• Dr Jen Marsh
• Professor Stan Siebert
• Professor Amanda Daley
• Professor Alice Turner
• Professor Martin Miller

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

• Professor Rob Stockley
• Dr Brendan Cooper

Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust

• Dr Clive Thursfield

The Programme Steering Committee provides independent expert oversight and advice to the Chief Investigators of all the research in the BLISS Programme

• Chair: Professor Debbie Jarvis, Imperial College London
• Statistician: Dr Simon Gates, Warwick University
• Health Economist: Dr Jane Wolstenholme, Oxford
• Patient representative: Mr Michael Darby