The Executive meets monthly, and includes representatives from our research and cross-cutting themes, and each of the collaborating organisations.

The Executive is accountable to the ARC South London Board.

Members of the Executive       

Rachel Allen

Capacity building lead, director of the Institute for Medical and Biomedical Education, St George's, University of London

Sabrina Bajwah

Clinical senior lecturer, King's College London and honorary consultant in palliative care

Ioannis Bakolis

Economics and biostatistics deputy lead, senior lecturer in biostatistics and epidemiology, King's College London

Mary Chambers         

Patient and public involvement research co-lead, professor mental health nursing, Director Centre for Public Engagement, Kingston University

Ray Chaudhuri         

King's College Hospital representative (deputy), equality, diversity and inclusion representative for the ARC South London board, professor of neurology / movement disorders at King’s College Hospital and King's College London

Natasha Curran               

Implementation and involvement lead, medical director, Health Innovation Network

Paolo Deluca               

Alcohol research deputy lead, reader in addiction research, King's College London

Richard Dobson              

Applied informatics, deputy lead, professor of medical bioinformatics, King's College London

Colin Drummond        

Alcohol research lead, professor of addiction psychiatry, King's College London

Abigail Easter 

Maternity and perinatal mental health lead, senior lecturer in maternal and newborn health, King’s College London  

Julia Forman               

Children and young people deputy lead, lecturer in applied statistics and epidemiology, King's Collge London

Fiona Gaughran           

Applied informatics lead, professor of physical health and clinical therapeutics, King's College London and director of research and development at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust 

Cilla Harries 

Capacity building theme, co-deputy lead and NIHR training lead, professor of occupational therapy, associate dean of research and director of the Research Centre at the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at Kingston University & St George's, University of London

Michele Harris-Tafri       

Communications lead, ARC South London, King's College London

Andy Healey                

Economics and biostatistics theme, senior health economist, King's College London

Savi Hensman 

Patient, public and service user involvement (PPI) coordinator, ARC South London, activist and writer

Irene Higginson         

Palliative and end of life care lead, professor of palliative care, director of the Cicely Saunders Institute, and vice dean (research) at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's College London

Louise Hull                    

Implementation science research theme lead, deputy director of the Centre for Implementation Science, King's College London

Fiona Jones

Implementation science research deputy lead, professor of rehabilitation research, St George's, University of London and Kingston University, and founder and CEO of ‘Bridges self-management'

Rashmi Kumar

Trustee, Lambeth Patients and Public Participation Group (PPG)

Sabine Landau                

Economics and biostatistics lead, professor of biostatistics, King's College London

Zoë Lelliot

Deputy co-lead, ARC South London, and director of King's Improvement Science 

Matthew Maddocks

Deputy co-lead, ARC South London and deputy theme lead, palliative and end of life care, professor of health services research and rehabilitation, King's College London

Jill Manthorpe        

Social care lead, professor of social work, King's College London and director of the NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit

Iain Marshall

Public health and multimorbidity theme, clinical senior lecturer, King's College London

Abigail Mensah

Founder Ladies in Waiting community group

Ann-Marie Murtagh             

Director of research and innovation, head of nursing, King’s College Hospital, (King's College Hospital representative)

Caroline Norrie

Deputy theme lead, social care, research fellow, King's College London, NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit/NIHR School for Social Care Research

Josephine Ocloo

Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) lead, ARC South London, senior researcher in the Centre for Implementation Science, King’s College London 

Stan Papoulias   

Patient and public involvement research deputy lead, research associate and assistant director of Service User Research Enterprise (SURE), King's College London 

Hilda Seleji-Paulo 

Senior finance manager, research and development, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Mariana Pinto da Costa

Senior lecturer, King's College London and consultant psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Beverley Randall

Associate programme director, Mosaic Clubhouse 

Kritika Samsi                  

Social care deputy lead, research fellow, King's College London

Lana Samuels

Public research panel member

Jane Sandall         

Maternity and perinatal mental health lead, professor of social science and women's health, King's College London, and head of midwifery research, NHS England and NHS Improvement

Nick Sarson                

Communication lead, ARC South London, King's College London

Jane Stafford              

Associate director of operations, ARC South London

Robert Stewart              

Informatics deputy lead, professor of psychiatric epidemiology and clinical informatics, and leads clinical and population informatics in the Maudsley NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

Graham Thornicroft      

Director ARC South London, professor of community psychiatry, King’s College London, and consultant psychiatrist, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Tushna Vandrevala       

Capacity building co-deputy lead, professor of health psychology, Kingston University

Andrew Walker

Implementation manager, ARC South London, head of evaluation and implementation science, Health Innovation Network  

Ingrid Wolfe                  

Children and young people lead, Director Evelina London Child Health Partnership, consultant in paediatric public health

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