Phillip Brawn

Major Trauma Clinical Psychologist , University Hospital Wales, Cardiff

Phil is the principal clinical psychologist at the major trauma centre in Cardiff. He is a specialist in mental and physical health psychology, delivering evidence-based therapies to major trauma patients from the hyper acute inpatient phase through to outpatient rehabilitation.

Working with polytrauma and neurological injuries, he offers support to families and patients and responds to staff needs by providing ongoing reflective practice sessions and support after critical incidents at work. Phil has worked for the NHS for almost 20 years, 10 years in the North West of England before moving to South Wales. He is passionate about collaborative multi-disciplinary working and helping organisations become trauma informed environments.

Phil trains medical professionals on psychological approaches to care, as well as teaching on  doctorate, AHP and nursing courses. In past roles he managed NHS staff wellbeing talking therapy and advised executives on staff care and crisis management following high profile organisation incidents.

Rishi Nasvaria

Consultant Physiotherapist and Senior Lecturer, RNOH, Stanmore and University of Hertfordshire

Mr Rishi Navsaria Qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2003/4 and completed his core rotational training in orthopaedics, musculoskeletal, neurological and medical respiratory at the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital, and Imperial College Healthcare Trust. In 2013 he began his Advanced Orthopaedic Practitioner role within Spinal Orthopaedic Surgery at Imperial College Healthcare, assessing patients with acute spinal trauma and those with degenerative spinal conditions.

Since then, Mr Navsaria has gone on to take Advanced Practitioner roles in primary and community care, delivering point of care diagnostic ultrasound and guided injection procedures in the community, improving early patient management and reducing unnecessary waits for radiology diagnostics.

He won the prestigious National Health Service Journal award for innovation for the work in this area. He is now one of only a handful of Consultant Physiotherapists in Spinal Orthopaedics with speciality skills working across primary, secondary and tertiary care in order to deliver expert care earlier in a patient’s journey to avoid the development of chronic long term spinal orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions.

He is the Clinical Lead for the new RNOH MSK Hub in Enfield, one of the first such hubs in the country, which looks to deliver the RNOH expertise to local regions by having RNOH multi-professional expert clinicians under one roof based in the community.

Mr Navsaria also carries a part time permanent academic role within the Health and Social Care Faculty at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the Lead Tutor for the Masters Level First Contact Practitioner Programme. Mr Navsaria’s current research interests include metabolic syndrome, MSK Health Inequalities and Spinal orthopaedic care.