Biographies

Christina Walsh
Regional Executive Director

Christina has been a Registered Nurse since 1990, and has worked in the independent care sector since 1993. These services have covered a variety of patient groups including younger adults, dementia, elderly and mental health services. Throughout her career Christina has worked in various roles and experiences within the independent sector. She has been in Senior Management roles since 1996. She is an experienced Unit Manager and Regional Manager, who has vast experience of managing services to ensure high standards of care are developed, maintained and that the service continually evolves in order to meet the changing needs of the patients. She has been a registered Manager with Health Authority, National Care Standards Commission and Commission for Social Care Inspection aswell as Registered Responsible Individual for large portfolio of care services. Christina has also completed a large number of post registration courses including the Registered Managers Award.

Christina started with PiC in November 2007, after moving from Bupa in order to expand her knowledge & experience in Brain Injury services to help grow and develop the existing services in Essex & Northampton.

Fernando Lazaro-Perlado LMS, MRCPsych, MSc.
Medical Director

Fernando joined Partnerships in Care in April 2004 when he was appointed Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at Grafton Manor. Fernando began his training at the University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain), before moving to the UK in 1994 to further his studies at post-graduate level. Here he studied under the supervision of Dr Simon Fleminger and later Dr German Berrios, obtaining CCSTs in General Adult Psychiatry, Liaison Psychiatry and Old Age Psychiatry, in April 2004.

During this time he developed an interest in medical education and also started a Masters degree in Clinical Neuropsychiatry at the University of Birmingham, completed at the beginning of 2006. As an Honorary Research Fellow at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit prior to joining Partnerships in Care, Fernando is author/co-author of various published papers on his specialist area: The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Acquired Brain Injury.

Moira Amos RGN, RMN
Unit Director

Moira carried out her initial training at Northampton General Hospital, completing her post-graduate RMN training at Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge. After moving to the private sector in 1987, Moira became Staff Nurse at St Andrews. Her career with Partnerships in Care began in 1988 when she took up the post of Rehabilitation Officer at Grafton Manor. Through a series of promotions, Moira took up the helm at Grafton in 1996 and is now Unit Director.