Faculty

BAPEN Faculty comprises of members of the Association who, over the years have served BAPEN in various capacities and who have made a significant contribution to the field of clinical nutrition in the UK. The role of Faculty is to advise Council and the BAPEN Executive Committee and bring to their attention any concerns regarding future strategy.

BAPEN Faculty also reviews nominations for the John Lennard-Jones medal – BAPEN’s highest award given to members of the Association for their outstanding contribution to BAPEN over a long period of time.

Members

Ailsa Brotherton

Ailsa Brotherton

BAPEN Faculty Co-Chair, Executive Director of Improvement, Research and Innovation and Improvement Director, NHS Impact, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Ailsa Brotherton is the Executive Director of Improvement, Research and Innovation at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Professor at the University of Central Lancashire. She has also held the positions of Interim Clinical Quality Director for the North of England with the Trust Development Authority/NHSI and post-doctoral Senior Research Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire. Ailsa is a Health Foundation Generation Q Fellow, graduating from Hult Ashridge with a Masters degree as part of this improvement fellowship.

Ailsa is a registered Dietitian. Her PhD was focused on the impact of PEG feeding on patients’ Quality of Life. She was previously the Honorary Secretary for BAPEN and a member and then chair of BAPEN’s Quality and Safety Committee. She has a particular interest in system level improvement, working across organisational boundaries. Ailsa has been appointed to the role of Improvement Director for the recently established National Improvement Board, to underpin the ongoing work of NHS IMPACT.

Alastair McKinlay

Dr Alastair McKinlay

BAPEN Faculty Co-Chair

Dr Alastair McKinlay trained in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, and is a semi-retired Consultant Gastroenterologist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. His special interests include coeliac disease, nutrition, and eating disorders.

He was President of the British Society of Gastroenterology from 2020 to 2022, has been Secretary and President of the Scottish Society of Gastroenterology, Chair of BAPEN (Scotland), and Chair of the Scottish Government’s Nutritional Care Advisory Group. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh.

He is co-editor, with Dr Jane Morris of the textbook, Multidisciplinary Management of Eating Disorders, published by Springer in 2018.

His hobbies include photography, singing and playing the violin.

Dr Barry Jones

Dr Barry Jones

Member Faculty 2009, chair 2016-2019, Chair Independent Advisory Committee 2019-2022, Chair Faculty 2022-2023. Roll of Honour, and John Lennard-Jones Medal awarded 2021

Past chair of the British Artificial Nutrition Survey (BANS), BSG small bowel/nutrition and RCP nutrition committees and past BAPEN HPN coordinator. Retired Consultant Gastroenterologist in Dudley, West Midlands. Chair of the AGP Alliance (Aerosol Generating Procedure Alliance and later of CAPA (Covid Airborne Protection Alliance) during the Covid crisis. Now chair of Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance  (CATA) of which BAPEN is a leading member and which is a core participant in the Covid Public inquiry.

Received “Giving Voice” Award from Royal College of Speech & Language Therapy and Honorary Companionship of College of Paramedics for services during the pandemic. Sits as Trustee ex officio. Principle author off NGSIG Position paper on NGT safety.

Professor Mike Stroud

Professor Mike Stroud OBE

Now partially retired from his Consultant Gastroenterology post in Southampton where he led the Nutrition and Intestinal Failure Team as part of the National IF framework, he was Quality Committee chair and twice President of BAPEN and chair of BIFA. He led NICE guideline 2006 and many other seminal reports. He is an adviser to the British Army on Nutrition and received an OBE for “Human Endeavour and services to charities” and the Polar Medal for his extraordinary explorations in Polar regions. He was awarded the John Lennard – Jones medal and lifetime BAPEN membership. Most recently, he received the Complete Nutrition National Award for Outstanding Achievement.

Dr Janet Baxter

Dr Janet Baxter

Janet Baxter is a Nutrition & Dietetic Service Lead in NHS Tayside. Past member of MAG, BANS and BIFA committees, and ESPEN Home Artificial Nutrition Working group; Chair of BAPEN in Scotland and an author of the Healthcare Improvement Scotland Complex Nutritional Care Standards; entered BAPEN Roll of Honour in 2011 and received John Lennard-Jones medal in 2018.

Dr Jeremy Nightingale

Dr Jeremy Nightingale

Now partially retired, Jeremy was a Consultant Gastroenterologist at St Mark’s Hospital specialising intestinal failure and inflammatory bowel disease since April 2006. For 10 years previously he was a Consultant Gastroenterologist and General Physician at Leicester Royal Infirmary where he set up and established a nutrition support team. He originally trained at St Mark’s Hospital under the guidance of Professor JE Lennard-Jones. He was awarded the Sir David Cuthbertson Medal by the Nutrition Society in 1993 for his work on the problems of a short bowel. He has edited a “best-selling” textbook entitled “Intestinal Failure”. He is the chairman of the British Intestinal Failure Alliance (BIFA) and was the 2018 recipient of the Pennington Lecture at the BAPEN Annual Conference and in 2020 was awarded the John-Lennard Jones Medal for significant and consistent contribution to BAPEN over many years.

Carolyn Wheatley

Carolyn Wheatley

Carolyn Wheatley chair of PINNT (Support and advocacy for people on home artificial nutrition (HAN)) has been part of BAPEN since its inception. She was a member of the Kings Fund working party, chaired by Professor J. E. Lennard-Jones, who published ‘A positive approach to nutrition as treatment’ in 1992 which was BAPEN’s foundation. She advocates in the UK and values the international network that has been established via PINNT. She has contributed to NICE guidelines, numerous BAPEN documents and publications, international collaborations along with being an author and co-author on chapters in textbooks edited by Jeremy Nightingale, Intestinal Failure.

She is chair of the newly established BAPEN Patient Network Group (PNG) and the PINNT representative on BAPEN council as a core group. In 1999 she was honoured to receive the John Lennard-Jones medal, she was awarded BAPEN Life Membership in 2007, and was the recipient of the Pennington Lecture at the BAPEN Annual Conference in 2009.

Carolyn believes that those receiving and caring for people on HAN should be partners and contribute to a positive approach to their care and treatment options which will have an impact on their ability to cope, adjust and adapt to living with HAN.

Tim Bowling

Dr Tim Bowling

Dr Bowling qualified as a doctor in London in 1986. He has been a Consultant since 1996, and his current role is as a Consultant in Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition at Nottingham University Hospitals since 2003.

Dr Bowling is the senior consultant at the Nottingham intestinal failure unit, which is the regional IFU for the East Midlands.

He is a respected national authority for intestinal failure, and a past President of BAPEN (2011-2014). He has published extensively, with over 200 publications in gastroenterology and nutrition.

Tim Sizer

Tim Sizer FRPharmS

Consultant QA Pharmacist, Director of NHS TSET Healthcare CPD

Tim Sizer is a pharmacist with more than 33 years’ experience in the NHS and over 10 years in academia. As a pharmacist, Tim has had varied roles covering chemotherapy, paediatrics, ITU and clinical nutrition, as well as the management of personnel and environments for the aseptic preparation of medicines. He is a lecturer, and researcher.

For six years Tim was an advisor to the Joint Formulary Committee for the British National Formulary (BNF) and was one of the very first prescribing pharmacists in Britain.

He was one of the founders of the British Pharmaceutical Nutrition Group and inaugurated the first national courses in clinical nutrition for pharmacy. He also directed the commercial and technical development of a hospital based PN Compounding Unit, forming a Trust owned business entity known as “Cheltenham Nutrition” which pioneered the use of isolator technology, and gained ‘Specials’ Manufacturing’ and ‘Wholesale Dealers’ licenses.

Tim was an original member of the Kings Fund working party on clinical nutrition (1990-92) that led to the set-up of BAPEN and served on BAPEN council for the first 10 years of its existence and chaired a National multi-disciplinary working party on BAPEN Standards for Nutritional Support in Hospitals.  For 16 years Tim was a member of the ‘Royal Colleges of Medicine – Intercollegiate Working Group on Nutrition’ and occasionally lectured on the Intercollegiate Nutrition Certificate Course.

Despite many pressures and changes in role, Tim has maintained his interest and links in the field of parenteral nutrition, still serving as a member of the BPNG Executive Committee.

Tim currently undertakes a variety of consultancy roles in technical pharmacy and is the Director of NHS Pharmaceutical CPD for NHS Technical Services Education and Training as well as a Senior Teaching Fellow for the Universities of Leeds and Manchester.

Simon Gabe

Dr Simon Gabe

Dr Gabe is a consultant in gastroenterology & intestinal rehabilitation at St Mark’s Hospital and chair of the NHS National Reference Centre for Severe Intestinal Failure at St Mark’s. This is also an Integrated Care centre for intestinal failure and a recognised ESPEN Training Centre.  He has a wide clinical experience in dealing with complex nutritional problems, inflammatory bowel disease, fistula management, intestinal failure requiring enteral or parenteral support, home parenteral nutrition and consideration of intestinal transplantation. 

Dr Gabe is a past President of BAPEN. He co-founded the National Adult Small Intestinal Transplant (NASIT) Forum in the UK and has been an active member of a Clinical Reference Group within NHS England responsible for the development of a clinical network in England for all patients with Intestinal Failure (HIFNET). He currently co-chairs the HPN Clinical Advice and Management Group for NHS England.

Dr Gabe has completed an MD in intestinal permeability and an MSc in Clinical Nutrition.  His academic and research interests include nutrition (including intestinal failure & enterocutaneous fistulae), home parenteral nutrition (survival & growth factors), intestinal transplantation and intestinal tissue engineering.

Pete Turner

Pete Turner

Pete Turner qualified as dietitian in 1990, completing the postgraduate course following a degree in pharmacology. He has a Master’s degree in Health Sciences.  He worked in Liverpool for over 20 years specialising on parenteral nutrition and ICU before taking up his current post as nutrition support clinical specialist at the Ulster Hospital in May 2016. He completed two full terms as chair of PENG in the ‘naughties’ before joining BAPEN Council as chair of the committee that organises their annual conference.

Other Members (bios coming soon):

  • Wendy-Ling Relph
  • Tony Murphy
  • Trevor Smith (ex officio)