Meet the team
Theresa Porrett, MSc, RGN – Consultant Editor
Terri is Nurse Consultant in Coloproctology. She was a ward sister at St. Marks Hospital before she joined the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 1991 as Clinical Nurse Specialist in Stoma Care. Terri has been instrumental in developing a range of Nurse Led colorectal services for patients at the Homerton.
In 2006 the Homerton Colorectal Nursing Department was accredited as an Academic Department of Advanced Colorectal Nursing Practice by City University.
Terri is currently undertaking a PhD, exploring the coping and help seeking behaviour of women with Pelvic Floor Dysfunction. She is a visiting Lecturer for the Burdett Institute, Kings and City University. Terri has published two textbooks embracing all aspects of colorectal nursing practice, and has been published extensively in medical Colorectal and nursing Gastrointestinal Journals.
She is currently Clinical Director of the North East London Bowel Cancer Screening Centre.
Alice Hall - Editor
Alice Hall has a first class honours degree in politics and history from the University of Durham. Since joining MA Healthcare Ltd in February 2009, Alice has worked as assistant editor of Practice Nursing and the British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing. Alice became editor of Gastrointestinal Nursing in August 2009.
Editorial board
Joanne Cooper - Nursing/AHP Research and Development Facilitator, Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln
Alison Coutts - Senior Lecturer, City University, London
Carol Cox - Professor of Nursing, City University, London
Dawn Elliot - Upper GI Nurse Specialist, Wansbeck General Hospital, Northumberland
Elaine Macleod - Stoma Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, The Southern General Hospital, Glasgow
Angela Narbey - Liver Nurse Consultant, South London Healthcare NHS Trust, London
Yvette Person - Colorectal Nurse Consultant, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust Foundation Trust, Wales
Terri Porrett - Nurse Consultant, Homerton Hospital, London
Julia Robathan - Hepatology Clinical Nurse Speialist, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury
Graeme D Smith - Lecturer/Specialist, University of Edinburgh
Julia Williams - Senior Lecturer, Burdette Institute of Gastrointestinal Nursing, Harrow
