Headway Scotland

Development Office

Pauline inn

Headway Scotland Development Manager

The Headway Scotland Development Office 

The above office was set up in August 2001.  It is based at the Astley Ainslie hospital in Edinburgh and staffed by a full-time Development Manager and a full-time Administrator. 

The purpose of this team is to support existing Headway services across Scotland and to develop new Headway provision. 

The Scotland Development Committee (SDC) meets quarterly in Glasgow and is made up of representatives from all of the Headway groups and branches throughout Scotland as well as allied professionals.  This committee was set up to advise and assist in the strategic direction of the Headway movement in Scotland and is governed by a Terms of Reference developed by the membership. 

Pauline Linn, the Scotland Development Manager and Liz Shannon, the Administrator can be contacted on telephone 0131 537 9481 by fax on 0131 537 9482 and by email headway.scotland@lineone.net.

 Pauline and Liz deal with telephone enquiries about acquired brain injury (ABI) from all over Scotland.  They represent Headway on a number of ABI forums and work closely with other organisations to improve the overall quality of life of brain injury survivors their families and carers.

The Headway Scotland Development office is to host a conference in Perth

on the 12th September 2008.

 Information from the Headway Scotland Development office

We have a new chairperson

Congratulations to Dr. Tom Gillingwater.

Tom Gillingwater holds a BSc (Hons) in Human Biology (Anatomy) from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh. He was appointed in 2004 as Lecturer in Anatomy in the College of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where his teaching specialities include human gross anatomy and neuroanatomy. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Anatomy in 2008. Tom sits on several University committees, including MBChB exam boards, is the Course Director for the Anatomy & Pathology 2 module on the BSc Medical Sciences program and is a Director of Studies for 30 medical students. He also plays an active role in neuroscience and anatomy outreach activities. Tom is the head of an active research laboratory - comprising several postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows - engaged in a range of scientific projects focussed on understanding and manipulating degeneration in the nervous system. The laboratory is currently supported by in excess of £500,000 of research grants from charities and research councils, including; Medical Research Scotland, the BBSRC, the Wellcome Trust, Tenovus Scotland, BDF Newlife, and the BDSRA. He regularly publishes research findings on neurodegeneration and neuroprotection in leading international journals such as Brain, Nature Neuroscience, the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism and Human Molecular Genetics. In addition, he is regularly invited to give presentations at international conferences and other universities, including Oxford and Cambridge. Tom is a Licensed Anatomist, Member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain & Ireland and Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (FRMS). 
 

Tom graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MBA in 2006, which he studied for part-time at evening school. This qualification, alongside his management experience, led to him being elected as a Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI) in 2007. Besides his professional interests in the human nervous system he has been on the Management Committee of Headway East Lothian since the summer of 2007. 
 

 

Dr Thomas H Gillingwater Senior Lecturer in Anatomy Hugh Robson Building George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD

We also have a new vice chairperson.

Dr Lorna Langrell  (MB.BCh.BAO.BA.DCH.DMH) 

Associate Specialist in Psychiatry 

I studied Medicine at Trinity College Dublin, qualifying in 1989. I came to Scotland in 1994 to train in General Practice. Subsequently I worked at the Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh for 18 months. I was then appointed to the post of Clinical Manager at the Robert Fergusson Unit (The Scottish Neurobehavioral Rehabilitation Service) at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in 1997. I have continued in this post since. I received a Diploma in Psychiatry from Edinburgh University in 2004 and completed my training in Applied Behavioural Analysis at the Institute of Applied Behavioural Analysis in Los Angeles in 2005. I was made an Affiliate of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2008.  The Robert Fergusson Unit is a National Unit providing multidisciplinary assessment and rehabilitation for patients with complex neurological and neuropsychiatric sequelae of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). It specialises in the assessment and treatment of behavioural and psychiatric problems following ABI. I am responsible for managing the day to day running of this service.  I also travel throughout Scotland assessing patients with ABI and advising on their management. I liaise with individual Health Boards to secure funding for patients requiring admission to our service, to discuss various aspects of the patients' treatment while in the unit and to identify suitable long term placements for those patients who cannot return to the community. I provide advice to Public Health Consultants, Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine, Consultant Psychiatrists, Mental Health Officers, Social Workers, Care Homes, Voluntary Agencies and other Health Professionals on various aspects of ABI.  
 

It is good to know that we are in such capable hands.

they will make a formidable team.

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