Staff

Director
Rosemary Cook CBE
Rosemary is Director of the QNI, and takes overall responsibility for its professional activities, and for the running of the charity. A trained nurse with clinical experience in both hospital and primary care settings, Rosemary has also worked for the Department of Health and the former NHS Modernisation Agency. She joined the QNI in January 2005. Rosemary is a keen football fan, and follows Liverpool and Macclesfield Town FC. 
Telephone 020 7549 1406

Finance

Finance Manager
Geraldine Isherwood
Geraldine joined the QNI in June 2006 and is responsible for all the financial affairs of the charity.  This is a most welcome change in direction from her background in arts management.  She recently took a break to work with special needs children in a local primary school for 2 years, and now also works for the volunteering charity, REACH, and for The Dystonia Society.  Gerry is married with two daughters at secondary school, and is a volunteer for Traidcraft. 
Telephone 020 7549 1419

Practice Development

Practice Development Manager
Anne Pearson
Anne Pearson has a background in acute and community nursing. Since 1990 she has worked in the voluntary sector in a variety of information and education roles and setting up new services. In 2004 Anne started working at the Queen's Nursing Institute as Practice Development Manager with responsibility for the management of all awards funding and supporting the award winners through the professional development programme. She also supports the Director in the growing professional and policy work of the QNI. When she’s not busy reading or drinking cappuccino, Anne likes nothing better than walking long distance footpaths pretending she can map read.
Telephone 020 7549 1409

Professional Officer
Alison Blackman
Alison joined the practice development team in January 2008 as a professional officer. She was previously a nurse for nine years: she worked as a hospital nurse for two years before venturing out into community nursing where she worked as a district nurse team leader and community matron for a London PCT. Alison lives with her husband and in her spare time enjoys going to the theatre, doing London walks and practising yoga.
Telephone 020 7549 1408

Homeless Health Initiative Co-ordinator
Kate Tansley
Kate Tansley joined the QNI in June 2007. She is the Homeless Health Network Co-ordinator – offering support, professional development, and a network for nurses who work with homeless people. Kate previously ran a community empowerment project with excluded older people in Islington - which was awarded Beacon Status by Government assessors. Before that she worked providing advice to disabled people in refugee community groups, a Community Mental Health Team and GP’s surgeries. Kate speaks Spanish, enjoys walks in the park and the country, and is involved in ecological campaigns. She also loves boat journeys and dreams of travelling by boat and train to Morocco one day – with an excellent book on hand of course.
Telephone 020 7549 1402

Homeless Health Initiative Administrator
Barbara Walsh
Barbara joined the QNI in October 2007. Her previous employment has included various secretarial roles within BBC World Service and, more recently, as administration manager for School Home Liaison. Barbara is married with four grown up children. In her spare time she enjoys going to the theatre, cooking, making and decorating cakes (the quality of which staff at the Institute can attest to) and gardening.
Telephone 020 7549 1422

Financial Assistance

Welfare and Grants Officer
Joanne Moorby
Jo Moorby joined the QNI in October 2005 and became Welfare Administrator in March 2006.  The QNI is committed to providing financial support to nurses in the community when they are in times of financial duress through illness or other life crisis.  Jo’s work at the QNI centres on providing this support and she is proud to work for an organisation that takes such good care of its clients.  Previous to working at the QNI, Jo worked for several years in various administrative roles in an NHS Mental Health Trust finally becoming Complaints Manager in 2003.  Jo is married and has 2 grown up daughters.  As one daughter lives in Spain , Jo is learning Spanish and although a graduate in linguistics, she says that she is finding it more difficult than she anticipated!
Telephone 020 7549 1405

Communications and Fundraising

Fundraising Manager
Currently recruiting.

Communications Manager
Matthew Bradby
Matthew joined the QNI in March 2008 from alcohol education charity Drinkaware, where he managed grant-making and social marketing campaigns. His background is firmly in the voluntary sector including stints at The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, Charities Advisory Trust and Directory of Social Change as well as some American non-profits. He also spent three years at The Charity Commission in the large charities unit. Matthew is involved with community and environmental groups in Haringey and enjoys local history, architecture, classical music, gardening and "The Great Outdoors".
Telephone: 020 7549 1407

Communications and Fundraising Officer
Joanna Sagnella
Joanna joined the QNI in May 2007 as Communications and Fundraising Officer and is responsible for supporting and developing the communications and fundraising functions of the Institute. She has a varied background having worked as a staff writer on a parenting magazine and later as a freelance journalist, an administrator for financial institutions and as a tour guide when she lived in Italy. She enjoys taking part in charity runs for Cancer Research and when not busy experimenting with recipes, she likes trying to draw people's portraits.
Telephone 020 7549 1404

Administration

Senior Administrator
Cathie Brennan
Cathie joined the QNI in June 2004 as Administrative Assistant, and since November 2006 has taken on a more senior administrative role supporting all strands of QNI work.  Before joining the Institute, Cathie worked as an office manager for the Lea Valley Regeneration Team; a consortium of architects charged with preparing the blueprint for the 2012 Olympic Bid.  Prior to a career break to raise her family Cathie spent an enjoyable 11 years working as PA to the Director of Personnel at National Magazines, publishers of Cosmopolitan, Company, Good Housekeeping, She and Harpers & Queen among others. Cathie is married with three teenage children and has spent the past two years rebuilding and renovating her home.
Telephone 020 7549 1410

Administrative Assistant
Deborah Hinds
Deborah started working at the QNI in July 2007 following two months in a temporary position.  Deborah has performed a wide range of administrative roles over the past twenty years and her CV  encompasses roles at a medical firm and solicitors. The mother of a teenage daughter, Deborah truly believes that we are what we eat and is currently half way through a degree in nutrition.
Telephone 020 7549 1401