Multi-Disciplinary Team
Sophie Hayes RN, CPASS Clinical Lead
Sophie Hayes RN is a registered nurse working within the NHS, CPASS Nurse’s Arm Clinical Lead and Lead Nurse at Integro Medical Clinics.
Sophie is a specialist in Emergency and Acute Medicine and has worked in A&E at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Acute Admissions at St Thomas’s Hospital and is currently working in the critical care units at Kings College Hospital as part of a trauma course, where she gained frontline experience in response to Covid-19.
Her journey championing medicinal cannabis began in 2009 when her partner was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease and discovered cannabis helped him relieve some of the symptoms. In 2014 he became involved in patient advocacy organisation, United Patients Alliance, evolving into a leading member of the grass-roots team. Sophie joined him and other volunteers in travelling the country to help educate the public and policymakers on how cannabis had helped them. When qualifying as a nurse in 2017, Sophie wrote her dissertation on “The role of the Nurse when working with patients using cannabis to manage their conditions.”
Sophie’s professional nursing background with her experience and knowledge in medicinal cannabis was spotted and warmly welcomed to be involved in establishing the Nurse’s Arm of CPASS.
Dr Anthony Ordman
Senior full-time Specialist Consultant in Pain Medicine. Senior Clinical Advisor and Hon. Medical Director at Integro Clinic.
He founded the Pain Management Service at London’s Royal Free Hospital in 1997, including the highly regarded Chronic Pain Clinic with a specialist multidisciplinary team designed to help patients with pain and its associated difficulties. He also set up the Royal Free’s Acute Pain Service to help those suffering from post-surgical and trauma pain.
Dr Ordman has many years of experience looking after patients with pain across a wide variety of conditions, including spinal, musculoskeletal and nerve pain, post-surgical and trauma pain, and some cancer-related pain. He firmly believes that an individualised, patient-centred approach is important for each person, and understands how to help with the low mood and exhaustion that long-term pain can bring.
Dr Ordman was appointed as Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians for his contribution to pain medicine and serves as President of the Pain Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. With a passion for music and singing, Dr Ordman, therefore, is delighted to have been appointed Medical Advisor and Consultant in Pain Medicine to the Royal Society of Musicians.
Carl Hovey MPharm MRPharmS DipCLinPharm IPresc DBA
Medical Clinic Chief Pharmacist & Partnership Director, Sapphire Medical Clinic, Private Healthcare Representative for NHS Digital’s Expert Advisory Committee & CPASS Advisory Board Member.
Carl Holvey is an experienced Clinical Pharmacist and healthcare manager with extensive experience in the NHS delivering direct patient care and managing services.
Carl considers himself to be an innovative, dedicated individual, able to apply analytical and procurement skills to effect change. He thrives on the challenge of engineering solutions to deliver improvements.
Dr Leon Barron
Founder of the Primary Care Network, created to help educate GPs in understanding medical cannabis treatments and enable them to have informed conversations with patients and to be able to confidently answer questions on this subject matter.
Dr Barron is a GP based in London, UK. His interests within General Practice include mental health and managing complex symptoms that often combine physical, psychological and social components. A holistic approach to his clinical practice has led to an interest in medical cannabis as an alternative therapy for patients who have not found conventional therapies to be effective. He has undertaken specialist training in medical cannabis prescribing from leading physicians from Canada and Israel, who are considered global experts in this emerging field of medicine. Dr Barron is an executive committee member of The Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society which provides high quality, balanced education and expert support to inform clinicians about the current state of evidence with regard to the efficacy of cannabis and its side effects. He also continues to undertake regular NHS work and is a visiting tutor for undergraduate medicine at University College London.
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