Honorary senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool with a sub-specialty interest in vascular ultrasound and ultrasound-guided venous access. Lead consultant in the vascular access service at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital with responsibility for the training of medical and nursing staff.

I have been involved in running and lecturing at multiple training courses in ultrasound-guided venous access and in the development of phantoms for in vitro training.

Consultant Vascular and Interventional Radiologist
Royal Liverpool University Hospital

After completing my nurse training in 1985 I took up post in a busy neuroscience department in Glasgow. My post entailed both interventional radiology and post procedure recovery.

I really enjoyed the radiology aspect of my job as it involved scrubbing and assisting the radiologist during procedures. Radiology took off in quite a big way during my time in the department, and we began not only diagnosing disease, but also in treating conditions.

Promotion took me to another busy general radiology department in the Victoria Infirmary Glasgow. My post then included radiology and gastroenterology.

I took up post in a new private hospital, HCI in 1994, and was lucky to be allowed to set up the department from scratch; again the focus of my job was radiology and cardiac catheterisation.

I moved once more to my present department in Gartnavel General Hospital in Glasgow in April 2000 to gain more experience in interventional radiology. This is where I was exposed to a lot of venous access work, and where my interest in the procedure began.

I set up the nurse led tunneled central venous catheter insertion service in October 2002, and have since trained a number of nurses from the Division and also Nationally in tunneled central venous catheter insertion.

I have extended the service to now include the insertion of dialysis catheters.

I have lectured at numerous conferences, and organised the 1st Scottish Venous access courses that took place in October 2005.

I have completed my Master's degree in Nursing.