ChaMP-TRN Chair and founder

Fran is an ST7 neonatal subspecialty trainee, currently on an OOPR, studying towards an MD and working as a clinical research fellow. Her research projects are surrounding neonatal parenteral nutrition.

She founded ChaMP-TRN and hopes to drive the network forwards to improve research opportunities in the region.

She is mum to two strong-willed girls!

ChaMP-TRN Co-chair

Lauren is an ST3 paediatric trainee with an interest in Oncology. Her main research interest is paediatric epigenetics.

Lauren believes that research should be more accessible to all paediatric trainees, and she is excited for the opportunities that ChaMP-TRN will offer for networking and promoting the great research that is taking place in the region.

ChaMP-TRN Co-Chair

Hi I'm Charlotte, my interests in academic have been a slow interest but grown since medical school and am currently undertaking an academic clinical fellow post in clinical pharmacology. I've got previous experience in systematic reviews, air pollution, adverse drug reactions and medication errors. I'm currently working towards getting an application ready for a PhD, however as ever with academics things may change.

ChaMP-TRN Secretary

Kate is an ST3 paediatric trainee in the Cheshire & Mersey deanery. Her interest in research began during an intercalated Neuroscience degree at the University of Edinburgh and she went on to complete an Academic Foundation Programme in South East Scotland focusing on the effects of breast milk on brain development in premature infants. Kate is enthusiastic about making research more accessible to paediatric trainees in Mersey, particularly those who are new to research or to the region.

Social Media and Communications

Shabnam is an ST3 paediatric trainee and academic clinical fellow with an interest in rheumatology working at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Her current research projects are with the Experiment Arthritis Treatment Centre For Children looking at the lived experience of children and young people who take steroid medication. She has an interest in qualitative research methods and medical education.

Education Lead

Jess is an ST2 paediatric trainee and an NIHR academic clinical fellow in paediatric pharmacology. Her current research projects focus on paediatric pharmaco-oncology and patient / family experience of maintenance phase oral chemotherapy in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. She has joined ChAMP-TRN as education lead to help make research more accessible to those without prior experience or contacts.

Project Co-ordinator

Julie is an ST8 GRID trainee in Paediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes. She is currently OOPR completing an MD with the University of Liverpool. She has trained within the Mersey region since 2010. Her research experience began with a BMedSci (hons) at the University of Nottingham as an undergraduate. Prior to her MD, all research, presentations and publications were completed alongside full time clinical training. She secured a GRID training post in 2015. She is a mum to two wonderful children, currently aged 4 and 6.

Project Co-ordinator

Natasha is an ST5 paediatric trainee with an interest in neonates, currently working at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. She completed a lab-based MA (hons) at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate and is currently involved in neonates based research alongside being mum to 4-year old twins and a 2 year old.