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New Clinical Governance Editors Announcement
We are pleased to announce that the new editors of Clinical Governance are; Alan Cameron Gillies, Professor of Information Management, School Research Co-ordinator, School of Public Health and Clinical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire and Nick Harrop, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Victoria Hospital, Blackpool.
Alan has been Professor of Information Management at the University of Central Lancashire since 1994. He graduated from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1984 in Chemistry. His PhD, awarded by the University of Central Lancashire, was in problem solving methodology using knowledge based systems and formed the basis of his first book The Integration of Expert Systems Into Mainstream Software.
After nearly five years at the IT Institute at the University of Salford, he returned to Preston, and in 1998 joined the newly formed Lancashire School of Health and Postgraduate Medicine. In 2008, the School was amalgamated and expanded to form the School of Public Health and Clinical Sciences.
He has also held part time positions at the University of Oxford PGMET, RMIT in Australia, and in 2002 was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj Napoca.
Alan has over 100 publications including over 30 peer reviewed articles and 18 books. He has recently returned from a project working with John Howard for the Czech Government. He also has ongoing work in Ontario Canada, and has just been successful in bidding with Mark Cutter for the AHEAD-EU project on widening access for disabled students, with partners in Germany and Sweden.
Nick Harrop is currently taking PhD studies in Health Informatics at the University of Central Lancashire and is a colleague of Professor Gillies. Nick’s studies have provided experience of research methods in social science, complementing the basic appreciation of clinical research methods he already possesses by virtue of his postgraduate medical training. He hopes to complete in winter, 2009-10.
Since 1985, he has worked as a consultant in the Emergency Department of a large hospital. The department presently receives 90,000 new patients per annum. This has required him to maintain a demanding service to commitment and to ensure high standards of clinical practice, through a mix of personal example, policy formation and dissemination and the development of a departmental ethos that affords the highest priority to the safety, comfort and reassurance of the patients who attend.
Alongside service delivery, it has been necessary for Nick to foster the professional development of the entire clinical team through self-directed and guided learning. Due to exposure to the large numbers of patients received Nick has had experience of working with complaints and using this rich source of information about the patient’s perspective as fuel for continuous organizational learning and improvement.
We welcome the new editors of Clinical Governance to the editorial team.
Editorial team contact details:
Professor Alan Gillies, Editor, agillies@emeraldinsight.com
Nick Harrop, Editor
Nicola Codner, Publisher, ncodner@emeraldinsight.com
Daisy Banham, Assistant Publisher, dbanham@emeraldinsight.com