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Daniel Naeh – IT Manager
MSc graduate in Computing with 14 years UK and international experience in large institutions and software houses. Worked as an IT consultant and project manager specialising in the development of banking applications such as asset management, securities and futures trading systems.
Currently IT Manager for the Wales Cancer Bank (WCB) with responsibility for the WCB's IT infrastructure, including project management and development of WCB software and integration with NHS clinical information systems.
Also a qualified counsellor and member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
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Three nurses currently work in Swansea. Suzanne Williams (lead WCB nurse), Helen Bevan and Pam Hayward. They consent patients in Singleton and Morriston hospitals. |
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Suzanne Williams
My name is Suzanne Williams and I have been nursing for 25 years. I trained in Cardiff and worked on a bone marrow unit for a few years until I returned to Swansea in 1990 where I worked on a Haematology/Medical ward. I passed my Diploma in Nursing in 2003. I started my post as a Wales Cancer Bank Nurse for Swansea in September 2004. I have since passed my BSc in Cancer Care.
My present role consists of coordinating the Tissue Bank in Swansea where I liaise with surgeons, specialist nurses, pathologists and nursing staff to enable a smooth running of the Wales Cancer Bank. To date, in Swansea we collect 20 different cancer specialties between 2 hospitals within the same University Health Board.
I am now the Lead Nurse for the Cancer Bank and support other nurses in hospitals around Wales, with training and regular audits. I recently did a nurse exchange with a fellow colleague who works for a Tissue Bank in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I worked in Rio for a week learning about the different cultures and gave a presentation at a Bio Banking conference, this was an amazing experience, one that I have gained much knowledge from. |
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Helen Bevan
I started my nurse training in 1985 at Morriston Hospital, where I qualified as a State Enrolled Nurse. I worked in Medical and Neurosurgery wards for eight years and then did my Conversion Course for Registered General Nurse, level 1 in 1994.
I obtained a Diploma in Health Care Studies and a Diploma in Haematology in 2003 and then moved to Singleton hospital to work on the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit and on the Haematology and Oncology ward, as a Staff Nurse, where I worked until taking up this position, as Tissue Co-ordinator, with the Wales Cancer Bank.
After working 26 years in patient care, I felt I needed to take up a new challenge, and was accepted to take up my current post in November 2010. I have found this role both challenging and exciting, and I feel that you are never too old to take up new experiences.
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Pam Hayward
I started nursing at the age of 39 in November 1986 as a mature student in Swansea. My background has been mainly in Haematology. I started in 1990 as a staff nurse on Ward 11 Haematology and General Medicine and was Ward Sister for Ward 11 until December 1999. I then became the Clinical Nurse Specialist for Haemophilia and Anticoagulation until I retired at the end of March 2007. I always said I would still like to work for two days a week so I came back a few weeks later and continued to run the Anticoagulation Clinics until they filled my post. Unfortunately I was diagnosed with breast cancer in November 2007 and was off sick having chemotherapy and radiotherapy. I returned to work in September 2008 and joined the Wales Cancer Bank as a Research Nurse in November 2008. I felt this was a really worthwhile organisation and I could empathize with patients as I have been through the cancer journey myself. |
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