The Team
CHAT2MA is being developed by a collaborative team of experienced researchers, engineers and clinicians.
Professor Kerry Gaskin
Kerry joined BCU in January 2024 as the first Professor of Congenital Cardiac Nursing in the UK. Kerry studied at North Birmingham College of Nurse Education, becoming a Registered General Nurse in 1992. She is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University with a BA (Hons) in Paediatric Nursing (1996); an MSc in Advanced Practice (Nursing) from Birmingham City University (2005) and a PhD from Coventry University (2017).
As a registered nurse, Kerry held leadership and education roles in the National Health Service within children’s cardiac intensive care and cardiac high dependency care at several specialist children’s hospitals in the UK. She moved into academia as a Senior Lecturer in children’s nursing in 2005, developing the first entirely online international post-graduate programme in congenital cardiac nursing. Later she became Principal Lecturer in Advanced Clinical Practice and Associate Professor of Nursing.
Kerry is the chairperson for the Congenital Cardiac Nurses Association UK and a member of the British Congenital Cardiac Association and the Society of Pediatric Cardiovascular Nurses (USA). She is an Associate Editor for Evidence Based Nursing and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Paramedic Practice.
Dr Chris Bowers
Chris is a Principal Lecturer in Computing at the University of Worcester. He completed a BSc in Physics and Computer Science at Keele University before progressing to a MSc in Natural Computation and PhD in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham.
Chris is a specialist in Intelligent Interactive Systems. His work bridges the domains of Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. He retains a particular focus on Mobile and Ubiquitous systems.
Chris has applied his expertise across a wide variety of domains having worked on several successful international projects across the healthcare, engineering, media, culture and heritage sectors.
Professor Jo Wray
Jo 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.
She has been at GOSH since 2001 and since 2008 has focused on leading the development and implementation of Patient Reported Experience and Outcome Measures and psychosocial research in the cardiac department. She is also an Associate Professor in the Institute of Cardiovascular Science at UCL.