THE BIG PITCH 22 | Tamsin Holland Brown Paediatrician and Founder of Hear Glue Ear and Paediatric HealthTech Tamsin works as a paediatrician in Cambridge. She specialises in children who are deaf. This led her focus on children with temporary hearing loss due to glue ear (a common condition, where fluid builds up behind the ear drum, causing temporary deafness in young children). She created an affordable medical device to improve hearing and an app to improve childhood developmental skills and self management of glue ear between appointments or when operations are unavailable. This became a remote solution during the COVID pandemic. The device and the app won innovation and paediatric awards, with NICE ‘highly commending’ the app and the UK app awards awarding ‘Children’s app of the year 2019’. Tamsin’s research and experience of implementing a medical device as well as app’s into clinical pathways led her to become an educator in digital health. She founded Hear Glue Ear and the company Paediatric HealthTech and was recognised in the new years honours list last year. Once upon a time she used to play ultimate frisbee for GB womens (which is a real sport, honest guv). www.hearglueearapp.com www.hearglueear.wordpress.com Email: [email protected] Twitter: @hearglueear Peter May Net Zero Advisor, The Greener NHS Programme at NHS England and NHS Improvement Peter is a Net Zero Advisor for the Greener NHS Programme, where his main focus is supporting the design and delivery of low carbon models of care. Peter started his a career as a physiotherapist based in the Royal London Hospital. After specialising in musculoskeletal injuries, he transitioned into the research setting where he worked on surgical trials and latterly COVID-19 research. Before joining the Greener NHS Programme, he worked on a digital health start-up on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneurship Programme and developed a sustainable education package with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. Peter is passionate about tackling climate change in order to improve and protect the health of NHS staff, patients and the public. LinkedIn: /netzeropeter The CEP is a fantastic programme and will lead to retention of more doctors by allowing them to pursue innovation alongside a clinical career. I would not be working for the NHS right now if it wasnt for the CEP.
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