Find out about The TOPS team, the Patient Advisory Group, and the four study sites below

The TOPS Team

  • Victoria Jansen

    Study Chief Investigator, Physiotherapist, Pulvertaft Hand Centre, University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust. Victoria is an NIHR/ICA Fellow at Keele University.
    Find out more about Victoria

  • Professor Danielle van der Windt

    Professor of Primary Care Epidemiology, School of Medicine Keele University

  • Dr. Elaine Nicholls

    Research Fellow in Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Keele University

  • Dr. Charlotte Woodcock

    Lecturer in Applied Health Research, School of Medicine Keele University

  • Dr. Michelle Marshall

    Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Epidemiology and Imaging, School of Medicine, Keele University

  • Emma Marshall

    Trial Co-ordinator, Keele Clinical Trials Unit

  • Sarah Bathers

    Senior Trials Manager, Keele Clinical Trials Unit

  • Dr. Paul Hendrick

    Assistant Professor in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Nottingham

  • Debbie Larson

    Highly Specialised Occupational Therapist, Spire Hospital, Norwich

  • Annie Glover

    Project Administrator, Keele Clinical Trials Unit

  • Helen McKenna

    Occupational Therapist Extended Scope Practitioner in Hands, Pulvertaft Hand Centre, University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Trust.

Patient Advisory Group

Our patient advisory group (PAG) is made up of people who have thumb base OA.

  • Ken Clamp

    Patient Advisory Group member, and part of the Study Management Group.
    Check out Ken’s video on Staying the Course

  • Deb Hickson

    Patient Advisory Group member

  • Kathy Fell

    Patient Advisory Group member

  • Dave Tyler

    Patient Advisory Group member

  • Stephen Dent

    Patient Advisory Group member

  • Carmel Ashby

    Patient Advisory Group member

Study sites

We will be adding information and links about the four sites at which the study will take place.
The four sites are:

  1. Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Royal Derby Hospital

  2. Hand Therapy Department, Kings Mill Hospital

  3. Nottingham City Care

  4. Pennine MSK Service, Oldham