Who's Who?

Leo is a volunteer PPI patient lead and a member of the Centre Management Committee. Leo’s particular interest in the Centre is its focus on applied outcomes and he has helped drive a focus on the social risk factors around asthma, his insight coming from the experience of his daughter’s death. Leo has businesses in healthy food and digital marketing. 

Bill is a volunteer PPI patient lead and member of the Centre Management Committee. He feels passionately that all people with asthma should have the same access to specialist treatment in order to improve their health before they become chronically ill. Bill is on the committee of the ‘CHILL’ study into the effects of the London Ultra Low Emission Zone and has contributed feedback to several other studies since joining the PPI group.

Elisabeth Ehrlich is a patient, retired teacher and a volunteer PPI patient lead. She collaborates with researchers in grant applications, reviews lay summaries and PhD proposals. She contributed to an npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine article published in 2014 and Asthma UK's Forgotten Generation report.

Olivia is a volunteer PPI patient lead, and speaks from her experiences of living with severe asthma. She is a member of the Centre Management Committee, speaks at various meetings from the patient perspective and co-facilitates the SPEAK Asthma group.

Tracy Jackson is the PPI Research Fellow. She advises researchers on how to meaningfully involve patient and public members in their research.  She also facilitates both the Patient Advisory Group and the children and young persons’ group, SPEAK Asthma.  She is always happy to hear from new volunteers, please email her at asthma.volunteer@ed.ac.uk!

Anna is the Patient and Public Involvement Lead, supporting Tracy and the Patient Advisory Group. She is a Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care, based at QMUL, and a GP. Anna also sits on the Centre Management Committee.

Ann McMurray is an Asthma Nurse Specialist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh. She facilitates our SPEAK Asthma group for young people with asthma and is a grantholder for our Centre. Ann is also doing a PhD exploring patient and parent perspectives of fatal and near fatal asthma in young people.

Laura is the PPI Hub administrator. She is a qualified secondary school teacher who supports the Patient and Public Involvement team and the volunteers with all areas of PPI. A very sociable person, she would love to hear from you, please contact her at asthma.volunteer@ed.ac.uk