Her clinical leadership role focuses on:
• Treating patients with complex musculoskeletal presentations.
• Leading the clinical effectiveness agenda for 8 professions (pharmacy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, audiology, medical physics, dietetics, nutrition, speech and language therapy), facilitating clinicians to undertake clinical audit, research and service improvements, apply for higher degrees and clinical academic fellowships, and disseminate their work nationally and internationally.
• Leading an initiative, working with the Medical Research Centre and Occupational Health team, to implement a self-referral scheme for NHS staff to be able to access musculoskeletal physiotherapy. This work aims to reduce short-term sickness absence in the Trust due to musculoskeletal conditions and is currently in progress.
NHS outcomes have included:
• Leading the therapy services department to win the 2012 Chartered Society of Physiotherapy award for "demonstrating the impact of outcomes on patient care"
• Winning a Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Award in 2008 from the University of Southampton for an innovation to support clinicians to undertake scholarly activities such as research, audits and improvement initiatives and disseminate them nationally and internationally
• Leading a quality improvement initiative in the musculoskeletal outpatient service that resulted in improved patient experience, 6 per cent decrease in non-attendance and a reduction in waiting times by 12 weeks. This work was awarded an Arthritis Research UK silver medal.
Advisory group membership:
• President of the Society for Back Pain Research (2014-16)
• Member of the UK Spine Societies Board (2014-16)
• Member of British Orthopaedic Association Board of Specialist Societies (2014-16)
• Strategy Committee member of the Council for AHP Research (2014 – present)
• Physiotherapy Consultants’ group (2010 – present)
• National Institute for Health Research mentor for 3 clinical academics on the NIHR pathway
• Lisa is an NIHR Advocate for Physiotherapy – one of a team of passionate and proactive researchers working both individually and as a group to act as ambassadors for health research careers, promoting the NIHR training and career opportunities and supporting and advocating for non-medical professions and for individuals who wish to begin or continue a research career. See http://www.nihr.ac.uk/our-faculty/academic-training-advocates.htm
• Research priorities group for NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Board
• Vice-chair of BackCare Southampton Branch (1990 – present)
• Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (member 1989 – 2013: fellow 2013–present)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (formerly the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education) (2003-present)
Previous significant roles:
Arthritis Research UK Educational Fellowship panel (2011-13), awarding grants for musculoskeletal educational research
BackCare (Trustee 1995-2014; Research Committee 1999–2011, including Chair); Education Committee – Chair 1997-2001)
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: Updating the standards of physiotherapy practice (2011-12)