Leadership and structure
We're an independent charity run by a team of expert Trustees drawn from the fields of nursing, research, education and industry.

Jeannie Donnelly
Chair
Belfast
Jeannie is Chair of the Society of Tissue Viability and qualified as a Registered Nurse in Belfast in 1988. She spent the first 8 years of her career working in a Fracture Trauma Unit Read more…

Sarah Gardner
Vice Chair
Cumbria
Sarah spent 40 years working within the NHS with much of this time in the community. Read more…

David Hibbitt
Treasurer
UK
David is passionate about wounds, clinicians and patient outcomes. Read more…

Srinivasa Chakravarty Budithi
Trustee
Midlands
Srinivasa works at prestigious Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries based at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, United Kingdom. Read more…

Ina Farrelly
Trustee
New Zealand
Ina is a Podiatrist specialising in biomechanics as it relates to wound care and lymphoedema Read more…

Clare Greenwood
Trustee
Leeds
Clare has worked as a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Tissue Viability at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust for the last 11 years. Read more…

Natasha Levy
Trustee
Huddersfield
Natasha is a Senior Lecturer in Podiatry at the University of Huddersfield, where she has worked since 2010, Read more…

Victoria Murray
Trustee
UK
Victoria works across the North Europe Region as Scientific Affairs and Education Specialist Read more…


Fran Norman (was Spratt)
Trustee
Southampton
Fran has 30 years nursing experience based mainly within an acute environment. She has been a Tissue Viability nurse for 17 years and has been lead for the service at Southampton for the last 13 years. Read more…

Samantha Rooney
Trustee
Birmingham
Samantha is a Senior Physiotherapist working in Neuro Critical Care at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. Read more…

Sharon Scattergood
Trustee
Barnsley
Sharon worked in the nurse-led leg ulcer clinic once a week in her first job as a newly qualified nurse on a general surgical ward Read more…

Joanna Swan
Trustee
Birmingham
Joanna qualified as an RGN in 1994 and worked on a liver unit where her interest in tissue viability (TV) began. Read more…

Gill Sykes
Trustee
Harrogate
Gill has over 30 years of experience as a specialist podiatrist Read more…

Connie Traynor
Trustee
Glasgow
Connie has long had an interest in tissue viability and wound repair. Read more…

Samantha Wharton
Trustee
Buckinghamshire
Sam is a tissue viability specialist nurse at Buckinghamshire NHS trust. Read more…

Kate Williams
Trustee
Leeds
Kate is Honorary Tissue Viability Nurse for Leeds Community Healthcare Trust. Read more…

Peter Worsley
Trustee
Southampton
Peter is Associate Professor within the School of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton. He is a qualified physiotherapist with a PhD in Bioengineering. Read more…


Ayesha Marshall
Co-opted Trustee
North East
Ayesha is a Nurse Consultant in an integrated trust in the North East of England. Read more…
Become a Society Trustee
If you’re an expert in skin health and wound care, join us as Trustee and help us do even more to solve skin and wound challenges.
Being a Trustee of the Society of Tissue Viability is an invaluable opportunity to steer our organisation and make sure we’re working as effectively as we can to achieve our core mission of solving skin and wound challenges together.
