WHO
WE ARE
Meet the Team
ASKeN Founder & Advisor
Sajan Sathyan
Deputy Chief Nurse, Airedale NHS Trust.
ASKeN Advisor
Siji Salimkutty
Lead ACP & Guest Lecturer,
Cardiff and Vale ​,NHS University Health Board
ASKeN Chair
Dr. Agimol Pradeep BEM
Senior Transplant co- ordinator, Kings College Hospital
Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford
ASKeN Vice Chair
Deepa Leelamany
Lead Urology CNS, The Princess Grace Hospital HCA Healthcare
Visiting Lecturer, university of Roehampton
EU - ACNE Board member
NMC UK- FtP panel member
ASKeN Secretary
Reegan Puthussery
Lead Nurse for long term ventillation, Lead ACP, Royal hospital for neurodisability, London
ASKeN Joint Secretary
Shini Jijay
Advanced Nurse Practitioner Surgical SDEC
Manchester Foundation Trust, Manchester
ASKeN Treasurer
Smitha Dony
Consultant Practitioner Hospital at Home & Frailty virtual wards.
Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS FT
ASKeN Freedom to Speak Up Guardian
Pancy Jose
Lead Freedom to Speak Up Guardian and Clinical Operations Site Manager,
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS FT
ASKeN Shared Decision-making Council
Dhanya R Dharan
Deputy Divisional Head of Nursing Surgery and Cancer division, Mid Cheshire hospitals NHS FT
ASKeN Shared Decision-making Council
Anita Philip
ACP Neurosurgery-Spine
North Bristol NHS Trust
ASKeN Shared Decision-making Council
Avin Varghese
Head of Education and Practice Development
James Paget University Hospital NHSFT
ASKeN Shared Decision-making Council
Rosemary Thomas
Lead- site nurse practitioner.
King’s College hospital-London
Shared Decision-making Council
Emil Elias
Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Cardiology and Lead Nurse for Heart Failure
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Shared Decision-making Council
Binsy Mathew
Practice development lead nurse
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Shared Decision-making Council
Dr. Dilla Davis
Lecturer & Researcher in Nurse Education, Kings college, London
Faculty of Nursing Midwifery & Palliative care