Advisors

Dr. Su Laurent MBBS FRCPCH: Medical Education Advisor (Pictured)

Dr Su Laurent MBBS FRCPCH was a Consultant Paediatrician at Barnet Hospital, Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for 30 years. She was the named doctor for safeguarding for her hospital. She is now the Director of Medical Education for Barnet Hospital and the Chair of Training Programme Directors for North Central and East London, responsible for ensuring excellent training and supervision of large numbers of trainee paediatricians. She is also Associate Medical Director of Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice.

Su has been involved with Child Bereavement UK since its inception, inspired by what she learned about bereavement support on a residential course attended mainly by nurses, and hugely impressed by the focus on learning from parents. Keen to spread the teaching to doctors, she became involved in making training DVDs and facilitating on courses. She was a Trustee until 2013.

Su is involved in running a bereavement support course for paediatric trainees which is now mandatory in London. She also facilitates on courses across the UK and is on hand to advise the charity about what’s happening in medical education.

Dr. Katie A. Koehler: Research Advisor

Katie is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience in working with children and families, and providing supervision for professionals providing direct services in a variety of settings. Katie has facilitated training for us for the past nine years, and for eight and a half of those years was Child Bereavement UK's Deputy Director of Bereavement Services and Education. Prior to joining us in 2009, Katie worked in an NHS Child and Adolescent psychology service where she was the psychology lead for a multidisciplinary Child Development Team, supporting both children with developmental delay and those caring for them.

Katie has a particular interest in support around children with learning difficulties and autism, the area in which she carried out her doctoral research.

Dr. Ann Rowland: Clinical Advisor

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Child Bereavement UK training

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