HI and HIG Tutors
Health Informatics and Health Information Governance
Alice Breton
Joint Programme Director
Courses HI 7, 10, 12 and HIG 8
Alice's first role in postgraduate health informatics education was in 1997, working with a team to establish a distance learning postgraduate medical informatics programme in NZ. She started contributing to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh online programme in 2001. She joined the Faculty of Health Informatics in 2002 and took up the position of Director in 2003 until 2010 when she took on the role as Director for eLearning for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She is interested in all aspects of health informatics, tutors on the programme and supervises dissertation projects. She has an ongoing interest in the educational aspects of online and blended learning. Alice lives in and works from New Zealand.
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Robin Beaumont
HI 3 and HIG 6: Patient Care Systems
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Janet Seaton
HI 4: Health Informatics in Practice I
I have an MSc in Healthcare Informatics awarded in 2006. I currently work as a Risk Informatics Manager in Scotland but have a varied background in Nursing, Clinical Audit, Risk Management and Clinical Governance. My main role in NHS Grampian is the development and ongoing implementation of a Risk Management Information System which is used to record incidents, complaints, risks and safety alerts. I am married with two children.
Fiona Stewart
HI 4: Health Informatics in Practice I
I am an on-line tutor on the Health Informatics MSc programme. Having personal experience gaining my own MSc in Healthcare Informatics on-line I understand the challenges and joys student face studying in this environment. My full time career has been with the NHS in Scotland. My career to date has incorporated Clinical Audit and Effectiveness, Knowledge Management, Corporate Communications and Workforce Planning and Redesign working at a national level for NHS Education for Scotland, regionally for the North of Scotland Planning Group and locally for NHS Grampian.
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Dr Paul Woolman
FBCS CITP
HI 5: Health Informatics in Practice II
Paul is currently the Enterprise Information Architect for the Scottish Government eHealth Directorate. He also chairs the UK Faculty of Health Informatics and the BSC Health Scotland group. Formerly, he managed the Terminology Service, Data Standards Service, and several project teams within NHS National Services in Scotland.
He has had over 60 publications and conference presentations in more than twenty-five years of experience. A clinical scientist by background, Paul has worked on many clinical information system developments. He has been actively involved in developing international standards in Health Informatics for more than fifteen years.
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Bob Pyke
HI 8: Remote Healthcare
Bob is a Nurse and Nurse Practitioner and e-health/telehealth mensch both nationally and internationally. He has consulted/advised to e-health/telehealth start ups, venture capitalists and consulting firms in Silicon Valley and sits on advisory boards on start-ups in e-health and telehealth as well as on the board of Health Span International where he helps promote e-health and telehealth in the developing world.
He currently works for Med-e-Tel part time, as the North American Coordinator Med-e-Tel, The International Educational Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT and his broad based Nursing experience, Medical Informatics Education, LTC and Assisted Living, brings clinical expertise to those involved or considering e-health and telehealth.
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Val Baker
HI11: Organisational Change
Trained as a General nurse in Edinburgh and following graduation worked for a few years in New Zealand. My career shifted balance towards technology following a NHS Management posts in the 80s. The frustration at my perceived incomplete understanding and use of information led me to undertake 2 post graduate degrees related to technology and health economics. Latterly I have worked in senior manager positions in eHealth in NHS Lothian, most recently representing Lothian in the national Clinical Change Leadership Group as Clinical lead for eHealth. I manage a small but efficient clinical eHealth informatics team and am Information governance lead.
In real life I love to travel, read, walk and I swim a lot. Most recently becoming a granny has added a wonderful dimension to getting older!
Kirstin Efskind
Personal Tutor
I am the personal tutor for the Diploma in Remote and Offshore Medicine, Health Informatics and Health Information Governance Programmes. I provide pastoral support for students and can help them with issues such as authorising extensions, difficulties with studying or generally anything that isn't to do with course material itself.
I studied in St Andrews and Aberdeen in Scotland and worked in the North East of Scotland for 8 years as a GP before moving to Norway where I continue my GP work as well as being an Emergency Care Doctor. I also do a lot of work with asylum seekers and assault victims and I am a graduate of the RCSEd’s Medical Informatics programme.
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