2011 Speakers
John Sandham IEng MIET MIHEEM
Managing Director , EBME Ltd; Chairman, www.ebme.co.uk
John has been working in the field of medical devices for over 20 years. He is a recognised expert in his field of medical devices management. He has been instrumental in changing the device management processes of many NHS Trusts and has a proven track record in delivering safe recurrent cost saving improvements that also improve the NHSLA targets. His knowledge of medical devices includes general biomedical, X-ray and pathology. He believes in sharing best practice and is a respected professional in his field, speaking at many professional seminars.
John has been chairman of the medical devices website www.ebme.co.uk since 1999. He has spoken on radio and appeared on television representing the medical engineering viewpoint and acting as an expert in his field. John has had over 100 educational articles published. He has been published in the Open University Science review, Engineering Technology Journal (IET), plus various other newspapers, procurement and scientific publications and the EBME website www.ebme.co.uk. He is keen to share his knowledge and raise the profile of medical devices management.
Paul Lee
Paul started his 4 year apprenticeship in electronic engineering in 1982 and has spent his adult life working within the NHS. He started as a medical electronics engineer and took up his present role in 2003. He has led multi million pound projects, significantly reducing clinical risk and cost. He has designed many infusion device training courses, published articles and spoken at local and national conferences. In 2006, he achieved a first class honours degree in Education and Training, winning the student of the year award and published his results in a national nursing journal.
His research into maths skills for nurses led him to design teaching and learning aids including on-line calculation tools, pocket cards, posters and the iPhone ‘IV Drip-Rate’ App,. This work has also been shortlisted for three national patient safety awards in 2010 and 2011.
He currently chairs the Health Board’s multidisciplinary infusion devices sub-group and is an advisory board member of the UK wide group researching Computer Human Interaction, looking at errors associated with the design and safe use of a range of medical infusion devices.
Paul is a member of the all-Wales medical device trainer’s group and is currently vice-chair of NAMDET. He is an Incorporated member of IPEM and a registered Clinical Technologist. He sits on the IPEM Technologist Advisory Group and has recently been appointed as an assessor for students undergoing the IPEM accredited training schemes in the UK.
Karin Feit
Karin’s passion’s are blood pressure and thermometry!
Karin’s background is nursing and as such, she became aware of the advantages and shortfalls of many different diagnostic products which she used in her daily routine.
When the opportunity arose to work in Product Management for the medical device company, Tyco (now Covidien), she jumped at the chance as a way to help ensure that nurses and other clinicians had available to them the best devices possible.
Karin joined Welch Allyn 10 years ago and today, she looks after a wide range of diagnostic devices for Welch Allyn which includes both aneroid and automatic BP devices. Karin was instrumental in the launch of Durashock, the first major innovation in aneroid BP devices for almost 100 years, helping to make it a market leader throughout Europe.
David Cook
David is a Clinical Scientist and Engineer with extensive experience in both the NHS and the private sector. After 15 years in the NHS, including 7 years as Head of Clinical Engineering at The Royal Berkshire Hospital, David has spent a further 7 years working as a Director of Managed Equipment Services at two companies in the private sector. During this time David directed and led from Bid Development through to Financial Close in July 2007 the 35 year PFI-MES scheme at Peterborough, a contract worth more than £0.25 Billion. Subsequently David became Director of Operations across 5 operational MES contracts, taking responsibility for all operational delivery, client relations, procurement and scheme growth.
In early 2010, David left the private sector and re-joined the NHS as Head of Clinical Engineering at University College Hospital London, one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts. David is also directing a project to build a fully coordinated approach to Clinical Engineering across UCL Partners, which includes UCLH, The Royal Free, Great Ormond Street, Moorfields, the Whittington, North Middlesex and Barnet & Chase Farm hospitals, as well as University College. David is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of IPEM, and lists his hobbies outside work as golf, Moto GP and football.
Frankie Thompson
Frankie began her nursing career having trained at Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge in the 1980’s working in Trauma Orthopaedics and Spinal Injuries. A move to Lancashire in 1991 saw her move into General Intensive Care and in 1993 she moved to East Yorkshire continuing to work in General Intensive Care for 6 years followed by a further 4 years in Neurosurgical Intensive Care.
In 2003 Frankie was appointed as a Specialist Nurse in Intravenous Therapy leading programmes to raise standards and develop clinical practices in all aspects of intravenous therapy. She worked on major Trust-wide projects including; the procurement and standardisation of infusion devices, device configuration plans, rationalisation of intravenous therapy consumables and the implementation of needle-free/safety devices. Frankie also worked as joint lead for the NPSA Infusion Device Project, later going on to participate in the development of the NHSU infusion device e-learning programme.
For the past 2 years Frankie has worked as the lead specialist nurse for the OPAT Service within Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. This is a relatively new service developed from humble beginnings and minimum resources and recently won a ‘Golden Hearts’ award for outstanding customer service! Frankie was recently appointed as the Specialist Nurse Advisor to the ESPRC funded research project ‘CHI+MED’ researching computers and human error factors with medical devices. Her background is helping to provide advice to the group as they start to research errors with infusion devices.
David Dobbs BSc (Hons)
Product Manager Obstetric Systems, Huntleigh Diagnostics Product Division
www.huntleigh-diagnostics.com/diagnostics
David has worked within the medical industry for the past 17 years and is currently employed by Huntleigh Diagnostics as Product Manager, supporting and developing an Obstetric Business Unit.
Prior to this, he was employed as a Technical Services Manager for Huntleigh Diagnostics and successfully promoted and managed a small team of Clinical Engineering Technicians, in parallel to this he developed a modern day Service Department and various engineering projects within the medical industry.
Prior to Huntleigh Diagnostics, David worked for Vickers Medical and Steris Ltd as a Field Service Engineer. He also served for 9 years within the Royal Air Force 4 of which as Medical Engineer and Aero medical Support Engineer.
Jacob Castiel Bems, MHA
Jacob started his medical career as a chief paramedic instructor in the Medical Combat School of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
During his 3 year service he gained vast experience and had many responsibilities in addition to clinical environments including management of IDF field hospital in India in 2001, he took a similar position in the National Ambulance Service in Israel – “Magen David Adom ”.
As a part of his work at “Magen David Adom” where he held his position for over 15 years Jacob performed various clinical and educational management positions and underwent several international courses in clinical education (AHA, ERC certified Senior ALS instructor) and has had the opportunity to train numerous clinicians all over Europe.
Throughout his career and up to present, Jacob continues to volunteer as a Paramedic in the MICU and the A&E units of the Israeli national ambulance service “Magen David Adom”
In the past several years, Jacob has moved into the private sector and currently provides clinical and education consulting to manufactures and in the medical devices industry.