HEART: People
Researchers
Directors
- Group Director: Professor Mike Hurley, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences (rehabilitation sciences, rheumatic conditions, complex health interventions)
- Research Director: Professor Andy Jewell, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences (immunology and cancer)
Research fellow
- Gill Mein, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences (rehabilitation sciences)
Academic staff
- Dr Iain Beith, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences (rehabilitation sciences, pain)
- Dr Penny Bidgood
Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, Kingston University (statistics) - Lisa Cole
Faculty of Science, Kingston University (sports and health psychology) - Dr Rosie McNeice
Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, Kingston University (statistics) - Dr Ruth Pettengell, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, St George’s, University of London (haematology and oncology)
- Dr Gita Ramdharry, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences (rehabilitation sciences, neuromuscular diseases, biomechanics)
- Dr Dimitra Nikoletou, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences (rehabilitation sciences, respiratory)
- Dr Nicola Smith
, Faculty of Science, Kingston University (sport and exercise biomechanics) - Professor Philip Terry
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University (psychology)
Associated academic staff
- Dr Rachel Garrod
Consultant Physiotherapist, Kings College Hospital NHS Trust (pulmonary rehabilitation) - Dr Les Ansley
Sports Science, Northumbria University (exercise physiology) - Dr Paula Ansley
Sports Science, Northumbria University (exercise physiology and fatigue) - Dr Emma Baker, Respiratory Medicine, St George’s, University of London (respiratory physiology)
- Dr Charlotte Bolton
Respiratory Medicine, Cardiff University (COPD, cystic fibrosis) - Dr Shirley D’Sa, Haematology Department, UCL (haematology and oncology)
- Dr Nick Hopkinson
Consultant Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Heart and Lung Institute (COPD, lung cancer) - Dr Glyn Howatson
Sports Science, St Mary's University College, Twickenham - Professor Paul Jones, Respiratory Medicine, St George’s, University of London (exercise physiology and health psychology)
- Professor Andy McLeod
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London (health psychology) - Professor Declan Naughton
Faculty of Science, Kingston University (biomolecular science) - Ted Poulter, Exercise Co-ordinator, Wandsworth Teaching Primary Care Trust

- Professor Dennis Shale
Respiratory Medicine, Cardiff University (COPD, cystic fibrosis) - Dr Ken van Someren
Physiology, English Institute of Sport (exercise physiology) - David Tropman, Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust
- Dr Kwee Yong
Haematology, UCL (haematology and oncology)
Research students
- Akram Amro, Physiotherapist, Kingston University: Functional and physical outcome in stroke patients
- Gill Arbane, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences
- James Brouner
, Sports Scientist, Kingston University: Compensatory gait strategies in walking and running - Jane Canavan, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences
- Lisa Cole, Sports Scientist, Kingston University: Evaluation of exercise intervention in Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Jo Corbett
Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Portsmouth: The facilitation of fat metabolism - Adrian Haggart, Sports Scientist, Kingston University: Cardiovascular risk associated with maximal exercise in healthy subjects
- Agnieszka Lewko, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences
- Apostolos Papachristos, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences
- Rachel Summers, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences

