ORCHID Annual Report 2023 - Flipbook - Page 2
Professor Jo Wray
Jo Wray is a Senior Research Fellow in ORCHID and
Professor of Child Health Psychology in Cardiology, Critical
Care and Transplantation in the Institute of Cardiovascular
Science at UCL.
Senior Management Team
Professor Faith Gibson
Faith Gibson is Professor of Child Health and Cancer Care at
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). From 2016 until 2024
this was a post she held jointly with the University of Surrey:
Faith is now Professor Emerita at the University of Surrey. She
has worked at GOSH since 1986 in many different clinical
roles, holding joint appointments with ICH/UCL and London
Southbank 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. This post is a key senior management and
leadership role in the Trust.
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.
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.
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. In 2024 she
received a life-time achievement award from the CCLG (The
Children & Young People9s Cancer Association).
Digital profile:
ORCID ID: 0002-8125-4584
Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=d7eXzcAAAAJ
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 highlight of 2024 was success, after several years
of trying and a number of failed grant applications, in receiving funding from
the British Heart Foundation to follow up a cohort of children with congenital
heart disease who were recruited as infants in 2015-2017 to a study looking at
the impact of cardiac surgical morbidity. This funding will enable approximately
200 children with CHD and 200 healthy controls to be comprehensively
evaluated at the age of 9-11 years in terms of academic, cognitive, motor,
psychosocial and quality of life outcomes. The study will commence in 2025
and will provide the largest UK data set focusing on these outcomes in
children with CHD and inform the development of outputs to raise awareness
of the issues a child with CHD may experience.
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 with the Digital Research,
Innovation and Virtual Environment (DRIVE) Team at GOSH in 2022,
evaluating Proof of Concept trials. In 2024 evaluation focused on a trial of
ambient AI in a range of diverse health care settings which included GOSH
outpatient clinics and other secondary and primary care environments.
Her current programme of psychosocial research and quality improvement
projects includes three main streams of work:
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Cardiorespiratory disease, critical care and solid organ transplantation
