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.
Polly Moffat - Editor
Polly graduated from the University of Leeds in 2002 with a degree in French and Spanish. On completion of her degree she worked for a medical communications agency for three and a half years, first as editorial assistant and then as sub editor. She joined MA Healthcare in March 2007 and combines her role as editor of Gastrointestinal Nursing with being the editor of International Journal of Palliative Nursing.
Editorial board
Dawn Elliot - Upper GI Nurse Specialist, Wansbeck General Hospital, Northumberland
Helen Griffiths - Nurse Consultant, Hereford County Hospital, Hereford
Terri Porrett - Nurse Consultant in Coloproctology, Homerton University Hospital, London
Graeme D Smith - Lecturer/Specialist, University of Edinburgh