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Board of Trustees

Chair: Manohar Bance

Professor of Otology and Skull Base Surgery, University of Cambridge, Honorary Consultant Cambridge University Hospitals Trust

Term of office ends AGM 2025, then Past Chair to AGM 2026

Emmeline Centre, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Level 1, Box 163, Hills Road
Cambridge, CB2 0QQ

01223 217589
mlb59@cam.ac.uk

   

Past Chair: Helen Cullington

Clinical Scientist (Audiology)

Term of Office ends AGM 2024

University of Southampton
Auditory Implant Service
Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ

02380 597606
hec@isvr.soton.ac.uk

   

Secretary:  Catherine Totten

Lead Principal Clinical Scientist (Audiology) and Joint Service Coordinator

Term of office ends AGM 2027, 2028 or 2029

Yorkshire Auditory Implant Service
Listening for Life Centre
Bradford Royal Infirmary
Duckworth Lane
Bradford BD9 6RJ

01274 364853
catherine.totten@bthnft.nhs.uk

 

 

Treasurer:  Ying Guo

Auditory Implant Audiology Service Manager

Term of office ends AGM 2025, 2027 or 2029

Royal National ENT & Eastman Dental Hospitals UCHL Trust
47-49 Huntley Street
London WC1E 6DG

 0203 456 5002

   

Membership Secretary:  Jenny Townsend

Clinical Scientist, Head of North Wales Auditory Implant Programme

Term of office ends AGM 2025 or AGM 2027 or AGM 2029

Audiology Unit, Glan Clwyd Hospital
Bodelwyddan
Denbighshire
North Wales LU18 5UJ

03000 843864
Jenny.townsend@wales.nhs.uk

   

Vice Chair: Jane Gallacher

Consultant Speech and Language Therapist

Term of office ends 2025

Scottish Cochlear implant Programme
The Raj SIng Cochlear implant Unit
Crosshouse Hospital
Kilmarnock KA2 0BE

01563 827569

   

Ordinary member: Martin O'Driscoll

Consultant Clinical Scientist, Head of Audiology and Implants

Term of office ends AGM 2024

The Richard Ramsden Centre for Hearing Implants
Manchester Royal Infirmary
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9WL

0161 701 1218

   

Ordinary member: Emma Stapleton

Consultant Otolaryngologist and Auditory Implant Surgeon

Term of office ends AGM 2024, 2026 or 2028

The Richard Ramsden Centre for Hearing Implants
Manchester Royal Infirmary
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9WL

0161 701 1218

 
 

Ordinary member:  Anirvan Banerjee

Consultant ENT surgeon, Director, North East Regional Cochlear Implant Programme

Term of office ends AGM 2024, 2026 or 2028

James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough TS4 3BW

01642 853068

   

Ordinary member: Catherine Killan

Research Fellow and Clinical Scientist (Audiology)

Term of office ends AGM 2025, 2027 or 2029

Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research
Ropewalk House 
113 The Ropewalk
Nottingham NG1 5DU

   

Ordinary member: Hannah Meakin 

Specialist Audiologist

Term of office ends AGM 2025, 2027 or 2029

The Emmeline Centre for Hearing Implants
Box 163
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Hills Road
Cambridge CB2 0QQ

   

Ordinary member: Shanelle Canavan

Clinical Scientist (Audiology)

Term of office ends AGM 2025, 2027 or 2029

Yorkshire Auditory Implant Service
Listening for Life Centre
Bradford Royal Infirmary
Duckworth Lane
Bradford BD9 6RJ


01274 364853

   

   Ordinary member: Rhian McTaggart

    Clinical Scientist (Audiology)

    Term of office ends AGM 2025, 2027 or 2029

    Audiology (Hearing and Balance) Centre
    Peter Mount Building
    Manchester Royal Infirmary
    Oxford Road
    Manchester M13 9WL                                                        

                                                               
                                                                 0161 276 3465

 

 

Terms of Office for BCIG Trustees


Chair: 2 years then Past Chair for 1 year.

Vice Chair: 2 years then Chair for 2 years.

Secretary: 4 years with extension to 6 years with the agreement of 75% of trustees.

Treasurer: 4 years with extension to 6 years with the agreement of 75% of trustees.

Membership Secretary: 4 years with extension to 6 years with the agreement of 75% of trustees.

Trustees: 2 years with extension to 4 or 6 years with the agreement of 75% of trustees.

 
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Membership of the BCIG is open to anyone who has a clinical role in the field of auditory implants, or who is actively involved in research into auditory implants or who represents other allied non-commercial organisations.

 

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