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2004 - 2007 - Cicely Saunders Institute - King's College London

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Anna Kolliakou BA MSc<br />

Maruzza Foundation Research Assistant<br />

Anna has a BA in Psychology from the University of Essex<br />

and was awarded an MSc in Clinical and Public Health<br />

Aspects of Addiction from the <strong>Institute</strong> of Psychiatry,<br />

King’s <strong>College</strong> <strong>London</strong>. Following her studies she worked<br />

at the <strong>Institute</strong> of Psychiatry for The Cochrane Collaboration<br />

Depression, Anxiety and Neurosis Group on an<br />

online European mental health library and went on to<br />

become a Research Assistant at the MRC Social Genetic<br />

and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, on a genetic study<br />

investigating issues in unipolar and bipolar depression.<br />

During this time she also held a post at Imperial <strong>College</strong><br />

as a fieldwork interviewer on a co-morbidity study on<br />

mental health and substance use. Most of her work has<br />

been completed at the National Addiction Centre<br />

focusing on motivational interviewing in reducing drug<br />

use and drug related harm in young adults. She rejoined<br />

King’s <strong>College</strong>, after a year-long break, as a Research<br />

Associate for the Department of Palliative Care, Policy<br />

and Rehabilitation on producing a WHO booklet in Better<br />

Practice in Palliative Care for Older People. The project is<br />

funded by the Maruzza Lefebvre D'Ovidio Foundation.<br />

Janet Law OT MSc<br />

Honorary Research Associate<br />

Janet trained in occupational therapy in South Africa. In<br />

addition to her work in South Africa, she has worked in<br />

America, and more recently in <strong>London</strong>. Through the<br />

years, she developed a clinical interest in neurological<br />

rehabilitation, which led to the completion of her MSc in<br />

Neuro-rehabilitation at Brunel University. Her MSc<br />

dissertation focused on Further Evaluation of the United<br />

Kingdom Functional Assessment Measure and<br />

Functional Independence Measure (UK FIM+FAM)<br />

extended activities of daily living items. Janet now<br />

combines her work as a senior occupational therapist on<br />

the Regional Rehabilitation Unit at Northwick Park<br />

Hospital, with a part-time role in research within the<br />

Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation<br />

at King’s <strong>College</strong> Hospital. Her interests lie within<br />

evaluation and development of outcome measures for<br />

neurological rehabilitation, of which her current projects<br />

include the Northwick Park Therapy Dependency<br />

Assessment Scale and Rehabilitation Complexity Scale<br />

with the rehabilitation research team.<br />

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