Our Expertise
Meet the Team
Directors Board
John Niland
Chair and Executive Director
John has joined NeuroResponse as the Chair of the Executive board at NeuroResponse.
Bernadette Porter MBE
CEO & Clinical Lead,
NeuroResponse
Bernadette has received many awards including an MBE for services to nursing, the inaugural HSJ top 50 NHS Innovators List and E health Nurse for the UK in 2014.
Dr Carmel Curtis
Consultant in clinical
Microbiology
Carmel is currently a Consultant in Clinical Microbiology at UCLH where she is primarily responsible for the Clinical Microbiology service at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Hospital at Queen Square. In addition to the Directors Board, Carmel is Chair of the NeuroResponse Specialist Advisory Board.
Conan O'Neill
Digital Advisor & Operational Lead
In addition to his role supporting digital development and leading operational plans for NeuroResponse, Conan also holds the position of Head of Digital Delivery in Digital Development for NHS England, in which is he develops national strategy and digital innovation plans for the NHS.
Adrian Russell
MSc PA-R, Clinical Lead & Physician Associate
Adrian is committed to co-design to create digital solutions that improve the quality of life for people and families living with Neurological conditions.
Stephanie Donaldson
Board Member
In addition to supporting NeuroResponse, Stephanie is a trustee on the Board of the Revolving Doors Agency, a charity which aims to help those repeatedly stuck in the revolving door of the criminal justice system and she is a governor on the board of Thorley Hill Primary School in Bishops Stortford.
Blu Reynolds
Board Member
In 2017, Blu was appointed Director of Operations for a London provider of Integrated Urgent Care services providing care to 2.3 million people across North Central and North West London. In this role, Blu oversees multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a service portfolio of £25mn annually; developing strategies to innovate and deliver improvements to patient services.
Specialist Advisory Board
Deputy Chair
Dr Robert Brenner
Consultant Neurologist
Dr Brenner has been involved in the co-design of the NeuroResponse model contributing to the benchmark audit of Multiple Sclerosis service across the UCL partner region and the patient and family co-design events.
Prof Jeremy Chataway
Consultant Neurologist
He has a particular interest in advanced clinical trial design in Progressive MS and was the Chief Investigator (CI) of the MS-STAT1 trial in secondary progressive MS, using high dose simvastatin; and is the CI of the MS-SMART (recently published*) and MS-STAT2 (still recruiting) trials in secondary progressive MS. He was until recently the Clinical Director of the UCL Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit and works closely with the MRC Clinical Trials Unit and the UK MS Society. Separately, he was a Founder member of the Queen Square Adult Onset Leukodystrophy Group, studying rare white matter disorders.
*MS-SMART trial: Lancet Neurology Jan 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(19)30485-5
Professor Jalesh Panicker
Consultant Neuro-urologist, Expert in Neurogenic bladder
He has joined NeuroResponse as a key member of the Clinical Advisory Board bringing expertise in the management of Neurogenic bladder.
Dr Timothy Gluck
Deputy Chair, Clinical Advisory Board
Tim is Deputy Chair of the Clinical Advisory Board.
Dr Nick Dattani
GP Partner, GPPA Board Member NCL (Barnet), Borough Clinical Director NCL (Barnet) ICB
Patient Engagement Officer
Nikan Golesorkhi
Patient Engagement Officer
Nikan has joined NeuroResponse as a Patient Engagement Officer where he supports the onboarding of new people onto the service and offers additional support for those with cognitive and physical impairments.