ORCHID Annual Report 2023 - Flipbook - Page 3
Strategic Management Team
Professor Faith Gibson
Faith Gibson is Professor of Child Health and Cancer Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital
(GOSH) and the University of Surrey. This is a post she has held since 2016. She has worked
at GOSH since 1986 in many different clinical roles, holding joint appointments with ICH/UCL
and London South Bank University over this time.
Now, as Director of Research-Nursing and Allied Health at GOSH, leading the Centre for Outcomes and
Experience Research in Children9s Health, Illness and Disability (ORCHID), Faith has direct overall
responsibility for the day to day running of the Centre. Preparing and supporting the academic development
of the nursing and allied health research workforce of the future is one of her main responsibilities. Faith has
a significant role in enhancing the research culture at GOSH, ensuring we have the next generation of
researchers at GOSH. Faith also has a programme of patient centred and supportive care research in cancer
care, supporting the development of high-quality evidence for children9s cancer nursing in the UK and
beyond. She has both a national and international profile, collaborating with others to ensure the evidence
base for cancer care is strong. She was conferred a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2007, she
received a life-time achievement award from the International Society of Paediatric Oncology in 2018 and
was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2020. She holds an Honorary Associate
Professor position at UCL GOSH Institute for Child Health.
Her main fields of research, scholarship and supervision include:
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Improving process and outcomes of care for children/young people with cancer and their families;
Improving assessment and management of symptoms;
Improving skills of the nursing workforce to deliver cancer care;
Understanding and improving survivorship care;
Improving the experiences of children and young people receiving care in hospital.
Digital profile:
ORCiD ID: 0000-0002-8125-4584
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=d7e-XzcAAAAJ
Professor Jo Wray
Jo Wray is a professor and Senior Research Fellow in ORCHID and a health psychologist in
the Heart and Lung Directorate at GOSH and the Institute of Cardiovascular Science at UCL.
She has worked in the field of paediatric cardiology and transplantation since 1984, both as
a health psychology practitioner and researcher, and she established a clinical service and
research programme in paediatric cardiothoracic transplantation at Harefield Hospital in 1988.
In recognition of her contribution to the field she received the Distinguished Allied Health Professional Award
from the International Paediatric Transplantation Association in 2013.
Her research and the majority of her academic supervision are focused on patient and family outcomes and
experience in the field of complex health, particularly in relation to critical care and cardiorespiratory medicine
from infancy to early adulthood. Part of this work also includes different approaches to screening and early
intervention to improve developmental and psychological outcomes. A further topic of her current research
is health inequalities, their impact on outcomes and how adverse impacts can be ameliorated.
As an interdisciplinary researcher she is particularly interested in engagement and using innovative, creative
and technological approaches to facilitate communication about health, both with those affected by specific
conditions and/or treatments and the wider public. Building on the themes of innovation and digital
technologies, she began working more closely with the Digital Research, Innovation and Virtual Environment
(DRIVE) Team at GOSH in 2022, evaluating Proof of Concept trials.
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