ONAHP 2025
Confirmed speakers
Cdr Alan Brockie QARNNS
Cdr Brockie is a Nursing Officer in Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service, currently based at the Academic Department of Military Nursing in Birmingham. He has had a varied career in the Armed Forces, serving at home, abroad, and on operations in both regular and reserve Army and Navy units. He is an experienced operating theatre nurse, and a burgeoning bioethicist. Pondering the ethical dilemmas encountered in field hospitals on operations in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan prompted him to undertake a Master’s degree in Healthcare Law & Ethics to broaden his knowledge and understanding, and was awarded his LLM in 2014. Still contemplating military nurses’ experience of ethical decision-making on combat and humanitarian deployments, their moral character and values, and ethical self-awareness, Cdr Brockie has recently defended his PhD thesis examining those very subjects at viva examination.
Susanna Tucker
Susanna qualified as a physiotherapist from University of Birmingham in 2017 with a first-class honours degree. Susanna is currently completing her PhD exploring post-operative rehabilitation following spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) alongside her clinical work as a senior physiotherapist at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Birmingham. Susanna has a varied MSK clinical caseload but with a special interest in scoliosis and spinal pain. As part of her academic studies Susanna has published work exploring post-operative return to sports, exercise, and physical activity as well as presented at several national conferences. Most recently she completed an international e-Delphi study, the first international consensus on post-operative rehabilitation following spinal fusion for AIS. Alongside her clinical work and academic studies Susanna has also worked as a teaching fellow at University of Birmingham and is currently supervising masters dissertation students.
Beulah Dilipen
Nikki Brockie
Nikki has over 23 years’ worth of experience in nursing, clinical and operational leadership and management. She has held senior positions across the UK as a Matron in both Critical Care and Medicine, as a Service Lead in Radiology at Heartlands Hospital, as a General Manager in Cardiac & Respiratory Services in Gloucester and latterly as a Health Education England (HEE) funded project manager in the biggest NHS trust in the South West.
Gareth Stephens
Gareth is a physiotherapist by background with 20 years clinical experience, and current Head of Research, Audit and Development at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. He is a PhD student at Edge Hill University; an Honorary Research Fellow at University of Birmingham and has successfully contributed to approximately £2 million of current research grant funding.
Lesley Brash
Bio coming soon
Lucie Gosling
Lucie works as a Consultant Physiotherapist specialising in Young Adult Hip Pain, and also oversees the peripheral Musculoskeletal Service at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham. She is a co-founder of and co-chairs the UK Hip Physio Network @UKHipNetwork which links Physiotherapists and researchers at the Young Adult Hip Centres around the UK, providing education, collaborative projects and research dissemination. Lucie completed an MSc in Advancing Clinical practice in 2014 and Masters to Doctorate bridging programme 2018. She is an MACP tutor and lectures at The University of Birmingham.
Dr Louise Mew
Louise is a research nurse at Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) and leads the T&O, ICU, Covid19 & Influenza research portfolios. She completed her PhD in 2024 and was awarded an NIHR pre application support grant beginning in December 2024 to further develop her current research proposals in the speciality of orthopaedics. Louise is about to start a new role as Orthopaedic ANP at MKUH.
Mark Garvey
Mark is a Consultant Clinical Scientist in Microbiology and the Clinical Director of Infection Prevention and Control for the Infection Prevention and Control Service at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Mark is also the Director of the Hospital Infection Research Laboratory that investigates hospital infections. Mark is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Mark’s research interests include infection prevention and control and water microbiology. Mark has over 80 peer reviewed journal articles in the field of infection prevention and control and has given over 100 national/international presentations on various infection prevention and control topics.