Meet Our Team Of Experts
Dr Anna Barnes - Director, Hon Consultant Clinical Scientist
Dr Anna Barnes - Director, Hon Consultant Clinical Scientist
Dr Anna Barnes - Director, Hon Consultant Clinical Scientist
Dr Anna Barnes FIPEM trained in medical physics in Glasgow and became a Clinical Scientist in 1999 after completing her training in Biomedical Engineering and Equipment Management and a PhD in advanced Neuroimaging in neurology and psychiatry. She continued her career in advanced neuroimaging; first 2 years at the Institute of Neurology i
Dr Anna Barnes FIPEM trained in medical physics in Glasgow and became a Clinical Scientist in 1999 after completing her training in Biomedical Engineering and Equipment Management and a PhD in advanced Neuroimaging in neurology and psychiatry. She continued her career in advanced neuroimaging; first 2 years at the Institute of Neurology in Glasgow, 2 years at New York University PET imaging centre for movement disorders, 1 year at GE Healthcare radiopharmaceutical development team, 2 years at Columbia University NY in the fMRI psychology lab and 5 years at University of Cambridge Brain Mapping Unit developing imaging biomarkers for psychiatry applications. In 2012 she took up an NHS post at UCLH as the Lead Clinical Scientist tasked to introduce the novel combined PET and MRI scanner in the newly built UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre. During this time she also represented the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine as their VP for external relations 2013/16, and most recently president elect 2023/25, and has held 2 NIHR senior fellowships. In 2020 Anna represented the Medical Physics Imaging workforce for IPEM by serving on the National Imaging Optimisation Delivery Board – part of the Transforming Imaging Services initiative – during the CoViD-19 pandemic for which she was awarded the President’s Gold Medal for services to IPEM. She was the Regional Chief Healthcare Scientist for all the SE region for NHS-England and Improvement 2020/22 and is currently the director of King’s College Technology Evaluation working predominantly on evaluation of AI enabled digital health technologies for NICE and NHS-England.
Dr Angie Kehagia - Deputy Director, Clinical Expert
Dr Anna Barnes - Director, Hon Consultant Clinical Scientist
Dr Anna Barnes - Director, Hon Consultant Clinical Scientist
Dr Angela Kehagia MD PhD is a neuroscientist and clinician. She serves as Deputy Director at KiTEC, Senior Health Technology Analyst and Clinical Expert. Angie leads on evidence generation drawing on prospective and retrospective RWE as well as RCTs, feasibility and early value assessments, generates insights through KOL engagement and
Dr Angela Kehagia MD PhD is a neuroscientist and clinician. She serves as Deputy Director at KiTEC, Senior Health Technology Analyst and Clinical Expert. Angie leads on evidence generation drawing on prospective and retrospective RWE as well as RCTs, feasibility and early value assessments, generates insights through KOL engagement and offers strategic HTA guidance. Her interests include patient reported outcome measures, surrogate endpoints and DHTs.
She read Experimental Psychology at Oxford, completed her PhD in neuroscience at Cambridge as a Gates Foundation Scholar, and later went on to complete her medical training at Barts and The London as a Foulkes Fellow. She is known primarily for her work on cognitive impairment and dementia in Parkinson’s disease, and brings more than 15yrs of clinical research in clinical outcomes and biomarker development. As an experienced teacher and award winning scientific writer with over 2300 citations, she has taught and presented to audiences ranging from biomedical scientists to NHS healthcare professionals, PPI groups, law faculty and disaster relief workers. Angie has held numerous research posts including a Sir Isaac Newton fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, fellowships at the University of St Andrews and the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a Lectureship at the Dept of Neuroimaging at King’s College London.
Dr Salma Ayis - Reader in Medical Statistics
Dr Anna Barnes - Director, Hon Consultant Clinical Scientist
Dr Catriona Inverarity - Senior Health Technology Assessor
Dr Salma Ayis obtained her first degree in statistics, BSc (Honours) at Khartoum University, a PGDIP in Mathematics, and a MSc and PhD in Statistics from Southampton University [PhD thesis title: “Modelling Unobserved Heterogeneity: Theoretical and Practical Aspects". Salma has worked extensively on analyses of longitudinal data and cau
Dr Salma Ayis obtained her first degree in statistics, BSc (Honours) at Khartoum University, a PGDIP in Mathematics, and a MSc and PhD in Statistics from Southampton University [PhD thesis title: “Modelling Unobserved Heterogeneity: Theoretical and Practical Aspects". Salma has worked extensively on analyses of longitudinal data and causal inference, with applications in various chronic health conditions. Salma teaches statistics at various levels, from undergraduates to post-doctoral courses. She was the director of the Master of Public Health (MPH) Programme (2016-2020). She has extensive experience in the design and analysis of observational studies, clinical trials and surveys, providing statistical advice to researchers and students at King's College London and other institutions, through the Research Design Service (RDS) and other King's consultancy venues. Salma has led several multinational studies in the development and validation of prediction models, trajectories of biological markers and long-term adverse outcomes, and the psychometric properties of mental health scales among others. She is an executive member of the medical section of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and serves as editor of RSS Journals. Salma is currently a Reader in Medical Statistics at KCL. She joins KiTEC offering statistical support and supervision of ongoing and future studies and grant applications.
Dr Catriona Inverarity - Senior Health Technology Assessor
Dr Ben Caswell-Midwinter - Senior Health Technlogy Analyst, Research Fellow
Dr Catriona Inverarity - Senior Health Technology Assessor
Dr Catriona Inverarity is a Senior Health Technology Assessor at KiTEC and has a diverse background in healthcare innovation. She holds a BEng in Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering and a PhD also in biomaterials, focused on scaffold design for full-thickness skin repair in chronic wounds and extensive burns.
Catriona also has sev
Dr Catriona Inverarity is a Senior Health Technology Assessor at KiTEC and has a diverse background in healthcare innovation. She holds a BEng in Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering and a PhD also in biomaterials, focused on scaffold design for full-thickness skin repair in chronic wounds and extensive burns.
Catriona also has several years' experience in the medical devices industry including wound care materials, antimicrobials and in vitro diagnostics. Her role focused on research and product development but also encompassed quality assurance, regulatory compliance, technical transfer and scale-up. She has also worked in research management, with a focus on knowledge sharing and science communication. Most recently, she led on the development of science strategy at the Institute of Physics & Engineering (IPEM), and worked closely with NHS clinical scientists and engineers. She is interested in both the technical and systems level factors that influence technology adoption. Her role focuses on evidence synthesis and stakeholder engagement.
Dr Babak Jamshidi - Medical Statistician
Dr Ben Caswell-Midwinter - Senior Health Technlogy Analyst, Research Fellow
Dr Ben Caswell-Midwinter - Senior Health Technlogy Analyst, Research Fellow
Dr Babak Jamshidi is a medical statistician with a mathematical background. His BSc and MSc were in pure mathematics and financial mathematics, respectively, and he has a PhD in statistics.
He has experience in constructing novel models and introducing new methods especially in epidemiology. His role at KiTEC as a medical statistician in
Dr Babak Jamshidi is a medical statistician with a mathematical background. His BSc and MSc were in pure mathematics and financial mathematics, respectively, and he has a PhD in statistics.
He has experience in constructing novel models and introducing new methods especially in epidemiology. His role at KiTEC as a medical statistician involves designing trials, determining required sample size, providing analysis, and implementing innovation and evidence-based interventions.
Dr Ben Caswell-Midwinter - Senior Health Technlogy Analyst, Research Fellow
Dr Ben Caswell-Midwinter - Senior Health Technlogy Analyst, Research Fellow
Dr Ben Caswell-Midwinter - Senior Health Technlogy Analyst, Research Fellow
Dr Ben Caswell-Midwinter is a versatile analyst and researcher. Ben's role at KiTEC is to handle, analyse and visualise the diverse types of data generated in projects. Ben also provides computational support for data collection and developing operating procedures, and research support in the design and write-up of projects. Ben's experie
Dr Ben Caswell-Midwinter is a versatile analyst and researcher. Ben's role at KiTEC is to handle, analyse and visualise the diverse types of data generated in projects. Ben also provides computational support for data collection and developing operating procedures, and research support in the design and write-up of projects. Ben's experience in behavioral, physiological, and computational research related to hearing devices greatly informs his work at KiTEC.
Dr Emily Kwong - Clinical Engineer
Dr Lauren Gatting - Behavioural Scientist
Dr Lauren Gatting - Behavioural Scientist
Dr Emily Kwong is a Senior Clinical Engineer at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. She has a doctorate in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Oxford and has over ten years of academic research experience. She currently works at the Department of Clinical Engineering. Her expertise is in medical device governance and regu
Dr Emily Kwong is a Senior Clinical Engineer at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. She has a doctorate in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Oxford and has over ten years of academic research experience. She currently works at the Department of Clinical Engineering. Her expertise is in medical device governance and regulations, and device life cycle within the Trust. At KiTEC, she leads on health technology assessments relating to medical devices. She and the Clinical Engineering team provide a unique insight into the real-world value of innovations to compliment health economics modelling.
Dr Lauren Gatting - Behavioural Scientist
Dr Lauren Gatting - Behavioural Scientist
Dr Lauren Gatting - Behavioural Scientist
Dr Lauren Gatting is an experienced researcher with an interdisciplinary PhD in Psychological Medicine from the University of Glasgow. She was a founding member of the Cancer Behaviour Research Group, at the University of Glasgow, where she worked as a Research Assistant. Her role at KiTEC as a Qualitative Researcher is to plan and execut
Dr Lauren Gatting is an experienced researcher with an interdisciplinary PhD in Psychological Medicine from the University of Glasgow. She was a founding member of the Cancer Behaviour Research Group, at the University of Glasgow, where she worked as a Research Assistant. Her role at KiTEC as a Qualitative Researcher is to plan and execute qualitative aspects of a health technology assessment. She has expertise in Behavioural Science and experience in qualitative, quantitative, and participatory methods. She is currently a board member of the European Health Psychology Society’s Synergy and was previously a committee member of CREATE. She is dedicated to advancing the field of health psychology and her current interests lie in the conceptualisation and measurement of acceptability in the areas of cancer screening and artificial intelligence in healthcare.
Shima Maqsood - Clinical Engineer
Dr Lauren Gatting - Behavioural Scientist
Shima Maqsood - Clinical Engineer
Ms Shima Maqsood is a registered clinical scientist working as a Clinical Engineer at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust. Shima has worked in the NHS for 6 years, and at the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department of the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital while training in Clinical Bioinformatics. Shima
Ms Shima Maqsood is a registered clinical scientist working as a Clinical Engineer at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust. Shima has worked in the NHS for 6 years, and at the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department of the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital while training in Clinical Bioinformatics. Shima specialises in innovation, assessments and approvals, as well as standardisation and MDSO. She has a keen interest in medical device regulations and risk management in healthcare. She supports KITEC as a health technology assessor.
Sarah Hammoudi - Project Manager
Charlotte Jones - Clinical Engineer
Charlotte Jones - Clinical Engineer
Ms Sarah Hammoudi is responsible for project managing KiTEC’s AI in Health and Care Award portfolio, which consists of four evaluation contracts commissioned by NHS Transformation / NHS AI Lab. Sarah has over fifteen years of project management experience. Earlier in her career, Sarah worked in programme development with international thi
Ms Sarah Hammoudi is responsible for project managing KiTEC’s AI in Health and Care Award portfolio, which consists of four evaluation contracts commissioned by NHS Transformation / NHS AI Lab. Sarah has over fifteen years of project management experience. Earlier in her career, Sarah worked in programme development with international third sector organisations both in the UK and abroad. She has spent the last six years project managing research grants, including a large value, EU-funded cancer imaging grant.
Sarah has a strong background in programme development, communications and stakeholder engagement. She has a MA in Media and Communication from Goldsmiths University.
Charlotte Jones - Clinical Engineer
Charlotte Jones - Clinical Engineer
Charlotte Jones - Clinical Engineer
Ms Charlotte Jones is a registered Clinical Scientist specialised in Clinical Engineering. She has three years of clinical experience working across a range of physiological measurement services in the NHS, with a particular focus on gait analysis. Now working within the Clinical Engineering team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, she wor
Ms Charlotte Jones is a registered Clinical Scientist specialised in Clinical Engineering. She has three years of clinical experience working across a range of physiological measurement services in the NHS, with a particular focus on gait analysis. Now working within the Clinical Engineering team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, she works on medical device regulation, risk management, implementation of new medical devices into hospital settings and clinical service pathway mapping.