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

Professor Derick Wade MA MB BChi, MD FRCP
Honorary part-time Chair of Rehabilitation
In addition to his general medical training, Derick trained
in several specialities related to his current posts
including neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and
neurophysiology. He has expertise in many clinical
areas, including: stroke, head injury rehabilitation,
management of multiple sclerosis and motor neurone
disease, assessment of patients in the Permanent
Vegetative State, and the management of patients who
have disability without any underlying disease. His
research activities cover a wide area and he has
published over 180 papers in peer reviewed journals on
many different studies. He is starting studies on mental
practice as a rehabilitation technique. He writes books
and book chapters on many aspects of disabling
neurological disease and has edited Clinical Rehabilitation,
since 1994. He is involved in training doctors and
other professions who are specialising in rehabilitation
and supervises and examines higher degrees.
Heather Williams MSc RN ONC
Dunhill Research Training Fellow
Heather is a qualified Orthopaedic nurse. She worked
for many years as an orthopaedic ward sister at
Northwick Park Hospital before moving into Clinical
Audit. Heather completed further education in
“Evaluation of Clinical Practice”, which helped to
develop her research interests. She joined the Regional
Rehabilitation Unit at Northwick Park in February 2002,
and is currently conducting a research project to further
develop the Northwick Park Dependency Score to
calculate in-patient nursing staff provision within a
rehabilitation setting.
Derick is closely involved in health service management
and development. He has been an advisor to
Oxfordshire Health Authority and been involved in local
working parties on many aspects of neurological
rehabilitation. He has been involved in many national
groups and committees. He has also been involved in
WHO groups and advised national groups in the USA
and New Zealand. In 2001, he was appointed Visiting
Professor in Community Rehabilitation at the University
of Maastricht, the Netherlands. In June 2002, he was
made an honorary fellow of the College of Occupational
Therapists; and in October 2005, he became a part-time
professor in neurological rehabilitation at King’s College
Hospital London.
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