IFIC Scotland Integrated Care Matters: Webinar Series 7


IFIC Scotland and partners are delighted to announce the first webinar in our Integrated Care Matters Series 7. This series will consider innovations in holistic and personalised approaches to integrated care and support.
Each webinar will be accompanied by a topic resource with links to further information. All who register will receive links to the recordings and topic resources.
Join us @IFICInfo #IFICScotland for #IntegratedCareMatters7
Co-Hosts

Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)
Senior Associate, International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)



Parkinson Madrid Association, Spain

Co-Hosts

Anne Hendry
Senior Associate, International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)

Nessa Barry
Presenters

Janne Solpark

Raima Lohani
Lead of Knowledge Mobilization at the Centre for Digital Therapeutics

Noor El-Dassouki
Research Associate at the Centre for Digital Therapeutics
Host

Anne Hendry
Senior Associate, International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)
Presenters

Chris Wright
For the past 8 years Chris has held national roles within both the NHS and Scottish Government and is currently working in Scottish Government as the National Advisor for Digital Mental Health and as the Head of the Digital Mental Health Programme which he established in 2020. Chris is passionate about delivering innovative, high quality, sustainable digital services at large scale within mental health, speaking regularly at public forums about his experiences and approaches. His current focus is development of strategy, policy, service and innovative technologies and he is working to change the culture across Health and Care services to maximise the adoption and impact of digital in mental health.

Dr. Joan Vegué Grilló
Director, Mental Health and Addictions, Health Department, Catalan Government
Dr. Joan Vegué Grilló is Director of the Regional Plan for Mental Health and Addictions in the Health Department of the Catalan Government. A medical graduate from the University of Barcelona, he gained his specialist accreditation in Psychiatry from the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI) and is a certified Psychotherapist for the International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP)
Host

Anne Hendry
Associate Director
Senior Associate
International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)
Director
IFIC Scotland

Cara English
CEO
Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioural Health Studies (CGI)
Presenters

Anders Olauson
Honorary President European Patients’ Forum,
Chair
Agrenska Foundation, Sweden
Anders was involved in the founding of the Agrenska Centre in 1989. He served as director until 2004 and since then has been Chairman. He is responsible for establishing The Agrenska Virtual International Academy, a research centre for rare disorders, and has served as chairman of the Council of the Eesti Agrenska Foundation since it was established in 2003. A member of the EURORDIS board, he was president from 1999 to 2001. During this period EURORDIS was instrumental in establishing COMP (The Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products) at the European Medicine Agency. He represented EURORDIS as a member of the board of the European Patients’ Forum (EPF) until 2016, was president from 2005 to 2016 and was then appointed Honorary President.

Dorica Dan
Coordinator
NoRo Centre
Romania
Dorica is founding member and president of the Romanian Prader Willi Association, of the Romanian National Alliance for Rare Diseases and of the Romanian Association for Rare Cancers. She has been a member of EURORDIS board since 2007, and is a member of both the National Council for Rare Diseases and the Economic and Social Council and has been an Ashoka Fellow since 2018. Doris coordinates the strategic activities of the NoRo Center and the efforts of the employees and volunteers to achieve their objectives. She also facilitates finding of the necessary resources for all these to happen. She has a degree in psychology, with over 15 years of experience in lobbying and advocacy in the field of rare diseases.

Karsten R. Barton
Physiotherapist
Frambu Resource Centre for Rare Disorders,
Norway

Lisen Julie Mohr
Senior Communications Advisor
Frambu Resource Centre for Rare Disorders
Lisen has a university degree in medical librarianship and in languages and previously worked at Oslo University. Since 2009, Lisen has coordinated projects with European countries financed by EEA and Norway Grants. All projects are aimed at rare diseases and Frambu is a partner representing the donor country. Lisen also has experience of being the mother of a young man, now 40 years old, who has an intellectual disability, probably caused by a rare chromosomal disorder of unknown origin. Lisen established and ran the Norwegian organization for Williams syndrome for more than 10 years. During these years she also helped start up the Federation of European Williams Syndrome Associations.

Marianne Tyler
Senior Development Officer
Children and Young People Programme
Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland
Marianne leads a programme that aims to support the outcomes of Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) and a range of other children’s policy and practice. She is passionate about empowering disabled children and children living with long term conditions and their families to make Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) work for them. She is a strong advocate for increasing the voice of people with lived experience and the capacity of the third sector to engage with and contribute to the GIRFEC approach.
Host

Anne Hendry
Associate Director
Senior Associate
International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)
Director
IFIC Scotland
Presenters

Dr Clíona Ni Cheallaigh
Infectious diseases and internal medicine physician
St James’s Hospital
Lecturer
Trinity College, Dublin
Clíona Ní Cheallaigh is an Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine physician. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2003 with a first-class honors degree and a TCD Gold Medal. She started her specialist training in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine in 2007. In 2008, she was a recipient of an Irish Health Research Board/Health Services Executive National SpR Academic Fellowship Award, which funded integrated training as a clinical academic. She completed her specialist training in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine in 2016. Clíona Ní Cheallaigh is an infectious diseases and internal medicine physician in St James’s Hospital, Dublin, and Senior Lecturer in Medical Gerontology. She brings to TILDA clinical and research expertise in immunology, social determinants of health, health equity, and implementation.
Clíona Ní Cheallaigh’s research seeks to look at the effect of socio-economic status/ psychosocial stress on ageing. She hypothesizes that this is through stress causing chronic low grade activation of the innate immune system. Her cellular biology work is informed by her doctorate studies in the Department of Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, culminating in the Immunity publication of findings on a novel role for the signaling adaptor protein, Mal. Her immunological interests lie within innate immunity – particularly autophagy – and with examining the mechanisms through which psychosocial stress causes immune activation and through which low-grade chronic inflammation affects brain health and aging.
Dr Ní Cheallaigh is also Clinical Lead of a pilot Inclusion Health Service in St James’s Hospital dedicated to improving access to specialist hospital care for homeless and other marginalized individuals. She is developing an adaptation of TILDA methodology to study premature ageing in long-term homeless adults in Dublin.

Gillian Street
Researcher
After completing an Australian double degree in health promotion and nutrition, Gillian conducted research for Mentally Healthy Western Australia. Later she worked with vulnerable population groups in the City of Cockburn, leading health promotion teams for the Local Government and Cockburn Integrated Health (total 12 years). This included the Federally Funded Healthy Communities Initiative and the HOP, both targeting vulnerable populations. From 2018-2020, she coordinated an end-of-life care needs assessment for the Scholl Academic Centre (Hospice Isle of Man).
She completed a Graduate Diploma in Psychology in October 2022 and set up Bea Veayn, specializing in diabetes, depression, and dementia prevention.

Katharine Ross
Senior Health and Social Care Integration Lead
NHS National Services Scotland
Katharine is the Senior Health and Social Care Integration Lead for NHS National Services Scotland. She brings extensive experience in national and local health and social care strategic development as well as operational management of care services to this role. She was Director of her own care at home organisation from 2005 – 2012 and the National Workforce Lead for Scottish Care 2014 – 2019.
Katharine is passionate about transforming service delivery and consistently championing co-production and participation to support organisations and individuals manage complex change programmes across the health and social care sectors. She has a particular interest in inequalities and workforce development.
She is a member of the Health Foundation Q Community and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development.

Ross McGuffie
Chief Officer
Health and Social Care North Lanarkshire
Ross has worked within the health and social care agenda in Lanarkshire since 2003, commencing within Health Improvement, which nurtured a focus on prevention, early intervention and living independently at home for as long as possible.
Following this, Ross moved into roles within general management and then from 2013-15, project managed the Health Board Boundary Changes, working jointly between NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Most recently, Ross held the position of Head of Planning, Performance and Quality Assurance within the North Lanarkshire Health and Social Care partnership.