Speakers Continued.

Nicola Gorb qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist from City University, London in 2002. She specialises in voice, functional breathing disorders, trans & non-binary voice and communication and dysfluency. For the last 13 years she has been working at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust in the ENT complex airway service. She has a special interest in the psychosocial aspects of communication challenges, and she integrates approaches such as Narrative Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy when working with individuals and groups. Her work using Narrative Therapy with CYP with chronic voice disorders was showcased in Bulletin 2023. She has co-presented on the two-day GOSH/ICH course Working with Children and Young People with Voice Disorders with Lesley Cavalli and Annie Elias, and has presented at study days and conferences on paediatric voice at the British Voice Association, Voice CENs and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy conference (2021). 

Olivia Mitchell MSc, MRCSLT is a speech and language therapist working in the adult acute team at University College Hospital. She completed her MSc at University College London, where her dissertation explored the psychosocial impact of voice disorders in children and young people. Prior to her career in speech and language therapy, she worked in a professional services firm and finance team of a telecoms company, delivering projects focused on service improvement, cost reduction and operational efficiency.

Lizzie Nash qualified from University College London in 1999. She’s worked in a variety of paediatric settings but for the last 20 years has specialised in complex airway, tracheostomy and voice in children’s hospitals. Lizzie completed her MSc in Human Communication at City University in 2008. Her thesis was researching the voice characteristics of supraglottic voice in children who had undergone laryngotracheal reconstruction surgery. Since then research/ project areas/ publications have always been a team effort and included: buccal speech, caustic soda injury, impact of video-laryngostroboscopy, laryngeal cleft, speaking valves.  In the past she has been MSc module lead for Clinical and Professional Skills at UCL and directed post-graduate education programmes. She is currently the Head of Speech and Language Therapy at Evelina Children’s Hospital where she lead on the establishment of the Speech and Language Therapy ENT Service in 2010 and the Paediatric Voice Clinic in 2017.  

Chelsea Roy qualified from University of Cape Town in 2014. Since then she has worked as a Speech and Language Therapist in a variety of paediatric settings and for the past 4 years has specialised in complex airway, tracheostomy and voice. She is the lead paediatric SLT  in our recently established Transition Clinic for young people moving from Evelina London Children’s Hospital into our adult service at Guy’s Hospital. Service improvement projects include clinic delivery to tracheostomy patients, laryngeal cleft pathways and laryngomalacia.   She co-ordinates the education programme within the Speech and Language Therapy department and is the lead for tracheostomy competency development of staff within the department.