CURRENT POSITION

• Director, UK NEQAS Haematology since 2014
• Director of the WHO Collaborative Centre for Quality Assurance in Haematology
• UK NEQAS Board Divisional Representative Haematology Division
• UK NEQAS Vice-President for external relationships
• Co-organiser, UK NEQAS Pre and Post-analytical quality monitoring service.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

• Joined UK NEQAS in 2000 as UK NEQAS Haematology Scheme Manager and Deputy Director
• Former UK NEQAS Executive Committee member and chair
• Has over 25 years laboratory haematology experience with a strong professional interest in the laboratory diagnosis of inherited red cell disorders
• For the past 5 years has been the Director of UK NEQAS Haematology, located in the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ROLES INCLUDE

• Member, British Society for Haematology Guidelines General Haematology Task Force
• Member, Independent Laboratory Performance Review Group of the NHS Sickle and Thalassaemia Screening Programme
• Member, International Council for Standardisation in Haematology
• Member, UK Proficiency Testing Working Group
• Member, European Quality Assurance in Laboratory Medicine (EQALM) organisation and EQALM co-representative on the European Federation for Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) pre-analytics working group
• Member, ACB pre-analytics working group
• Member, BSI IVD committee
• Board Member, International Society for Laboratory Haematology.