EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Barbara Cleaver

Barbara's over 15 years in Emergency Medicine has given her first hand experience of the challenges which face ED nurses and managers. Her detailed insights into current problems and the new directions in Emergency Medicine practice, underpin the development of SortED's mix of new ideas and strategies to respond to these challenges. Barbara is Clinical Lead for the Partnership.

INVENTORS & ENTREPRENEURS
Mark Leaning & Gillie Francis

Mark and Gillie are both serial inventors with a strong track record of innovation in all the areas they have tackled. Both are also entrepreneurs and IPO veterans, having founded several companies between them. Sort-ED Partnership LLP is an extension of their joint interest in healthcare technologies.

MEDICAL & CLINICAL RESEARCH
Gillie Francis & Barbara Cleaver

The ability to assess the evidence from claims in the medical and triage literature is essential for our evidence-based medicine approach. Gillie has spent her whole career in medical research and is therefore well versed in the evaluation of evidence, dissecting that from simple opinion. Barbara has experience in evaluating clinical guidelines relating to ED practices.

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS & MODELLING
Mark Leaning

Mark has extensive experience in analysing systems, both physiological and operational systems in healthcare. He also uses mathematical modelling to better understand systems and predict how system modifications will impact performance. He and Gillie first collaborated on a model of random events in stem cell differentiation. Now his models of ED processes allow prediction of departmental 'meltdown'.

PROGRAMMING
Gillie Francis & Mark Leaning

Gillie has been responsible for programming and app design of the prototype stage of SortED Tablet. Her background in programming stems from projects at London University. She has also programmed the analytical tools within SortED Tablet which allow data-driven software refinement. Mark has been programming the algorithms of SortED Control Panel and its predictive system.

IT & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Paul Luper

Paul has responsibility for all IT matters required to support the clinical trials. His expertise in testing large-scale systems is also invaluable in setting up the necessary infrastructure we will need for integrating SortED into hospital systems. Paul acted as project manager for our recent contract under the SBRI scheme. This contract funded our first observational clinical trial of SortED tablet.

DATA ANALYSIS
Gillie Francis, Lucy Boyde & Jacqui Garland

SortED Tablet gathers and evaluates data obtained at initial assessment to benefit patients; and time differences between SortED and control nurses give key proof of concept. In addition, at this stage the data and special analytical tools also allow us to study the interaction between the software and the nurse. They even tell us how much training we need - the answer is very little. Gillie is assisted by Lucy and Jacqui with the data deluge.

ED NURSES
ED & HOSPITAL MANAGERS

We are extremely grateful to the band of Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospital nurses who have helped with our clinical trials on SortED Tablet. We also had early input from nurses at Musgrove Park hospital in Somerset during bench tests. Mark has had useful contributions from ED nurses, plus ED and hospital managers during his development work for SortED Control Panel.

Barbara Cleaver MBBS(Hons) FRCEM - ED Consultant - 0000-0003-4351-3992
Barbara qualified from The Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine in 1999. She has since held a variety of posts including emergency medicine, acute medicine, vascular surgery, acute general surgery, orthopaedics, intensive care medicine, anaesthetics and paediatrics.  Her training has mostly been in North West London.  She also spent a year living and working in Sydney Australia. Since 2014, Barbara has been employed as a substantive Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Her specialist interest within Emergency Medicine is Service Design and Delivery. She is part of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Service Design and Delivery Committee with the specific role of working on Triage and Rapid Assessment and Planning/Treatment. Barbara is also a key member of the Emergency Medicine team involved in the design and flow of the Emergency Department (ED) for the new Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust hospital rebuild. In her clinical role she is regularly a Trauma Team Leader at a Major Trauma Centre and the lead for trauma simulation education within the ED. Barbara is also an examiner for post graduate examinations at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

Gillian E Francis MB, BS, MSc(Biochem), DSc(Med), FRCPath - Medical scientist, entrepreneur and inventor - 0000-0001-7677-369X
As Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Clinical Science, senior lecturer and Honorary Consultant at the Royal Free Hospital, she led the formation of their Wellcome-funded Molecular Cell Pathology Laboratories. This multidisciplinary team's inventions led to the successful 1995 spin-out/flotation of PolyMASC Pharmaceuticals plc (Dr Francis acting as CEO). With Dr Mark Leaning she built queuing theory models of complex stem cell systems.  Discussions on Dr Cleaver's clinical experience of emergency medicine stimulated the formation of the SortED group. Dr Francis gained programming experience while working with SortED collaborator Paul Luper on another project, becoming keen on rapid development cycles for prototype testing and clinical validation. A serial inventor, she has considerable experience of intellectual property. Her publications and strong track record in research and experimental design led to a DSc from the University of London in 1995.

Mark S Leaning MA, MSc, PhD - Entrepreneur and inventor
Mark gained an engineering degree from Cambridge University, followed by an MSc and PhD in Systems Engineering from City University. He was Lecturer in Medical Computing at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, then Principal Research Fellow at University College London. In 2009 he was appointed a Visiting Professor at University College London and is currently adviser on Industry to the UCL Institute of Digital Health. As an innovator and entrepreneur with a passion for using technology to transform healthcare his work has led to large-scale market adoption, listings, acquisitions and the development of ground-breaking products. Mark is Chairman of Helicon Health, which provides digital health services for clinicians and patients to improve outcomes of chronic diseases such as atrial fibrillation. He is also founder of Directed Systems Ltd, which is developing autonomous care systems to improve safety and efficiency in intensive care and combat casualty care. Historic posts include CEO of Applied Physiology (now CPL Innovations), a company he founded in Australia and Executive Director at HCN, Australia's leading supplier of Clinical GP systems. In both companies Mark played a key role; raising equity, developing innovative products, and stock exchange listing.

Paul Luper IT consultant
Paul has been working in the IT business for over 40 years. Starting with machine code, he went on to master many of the varied disciplines, including: application design and development, system architecture, database design, management and implementation through to business analysis and project management. Projects include transforming the IT systems for the South Eastern division of British Rail to support privatisation, the design and implementation of the ticketing and admission systems at the Millennium Dome, and the IT infrastructure and office automation at Gillingham Football Club. More recently his focus has been on the testing of large systems for corporates, and leading various test teams for organisations such as British Telecom and ITV. During this time he has worked as a consultant on a number of projects with Dr Gillian Francis. This has included: infrastructure advice during the setting up of the Molecular Cell Pathology Laboratories at the Royal Free Hospital; subsequent work at PolyMASC Pharmaceuticals plc; collaboration on the software implementation of an advice system for biotechnology companies and latterly supporting the development of the SortED prototype and its infrastructure requirements.

Jacqui Garland - Associate Member appointed 2021
Jacqui has been involved in this project from its inception. Working with Gillie Francis in Somerset she helped create the very first prototype. Jacqui currently manages the partnership’s day to day accounting as well as participating in qualitative data analysis for our trials. Her previous roles include a civil service role (research and in depth analysis of companies accounts). Another civil service role involved managing budgets and negotiating contracts. She also held a clerical officer role with the MOD working on army remuneration. Jacqui is responsible for purchasing and managing budgets on behalf of the Partnership. In the private sector Jacqui worked for West Country auctioneers in their farming and fine arts departments. She has also worked for local trainers riding and working with racehorses.

Lucy Boyde - Associate Member appointed 2021
Lucy has had a comprehensive and successful career in marketing, public relations and administration.  Her experience includes non-profit, cultural and educational organisations, the international oil field industry, as well as celebrity and fashion PR companies and record labels. From 2001 to 2014 she held a series of Marketing Director, Marketing Executive and PR account Executive roles in the United Arab Emirates. Her work with the oil industry gave her expertise in data analysis. She has  a meticulous eye for detail and can work confidently and carefully with large, complex spreadsheets and statistical analyses. She has a good level of technical literacy. This expertise has proved useful in quantitative data analyses for clinical trials of SortED software. Since joining the team Lucy has also had an active role in managing and maintaining the Partnership’s website.