Site Miners
Site Miners
MIMIT™ has identified senior representatives within each organisation to identity both clinical need and clinical exploitation potential in science and engineering. These ‘Site Miners’ are the catalyst for forming collaborative relationships amongst clinicians, scientists and engineers.

Site Miners are of critical importance to MIMIT™, being well-established professionals in their field.

The Site Miners’ role is to:
- Identify unmet clinical problems
- Identify exploitation potential in technology & engineering developments 
- Share knowledge across disciplines and between institutions 
- Foster innovation, enterprise and entrepreneurship 
- Act as the catalyst to form collaborative relationships


MIMIT™ Site Miners

Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust  
Adults: 
Mr Jarrod Homer FRCS, Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon
Paediatrics:
Dr Stephen Playfor, Consultant Paediatric Intensivist
Dr Robert Yates, Consultant Paediatric Intensive Care

Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Andrew Wardley, Consultant & Senior Honorary Lecturer
Mr Dave Mott, Consultant Physicist

Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust
Prof Ian Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry

Salford Primary Care Trust
Helen Meredith, Project Lead Provider Governance

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Dr John New, Consultant Physician & Clinical Director, North West eHealth

University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
Prof Ashley Woodcock, Professor of Respiratory Medicine
Kevin McGuinness, Clinical Engineer

The University of Manchester
Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering and Fluid Mechanics: 
Prof Ali Turan, Chair in Thermodynamics of Power Generation

Electrical Engineering:
Prof Hugh McCann FIET, Professor of Industrial Tomography

Molecular Bioengineering:
Prof Peter Fielden, Professor of Analytical Science

Tissue Engineering:
Prof Nicola Tirelli FRSC, Chair of Polymers and Biomaterials, School of Pharmacy

Nanotechnology & Computing Science:
Dr Ernie Hill, Director, Manchester Centre for Mesoscience & Nanotechnology

Jarrod HomerProf Ashley WoodcockDr Stephen PlayforRobert Yates

Top to Bottom:
Jarrod Homer, Ashley Woodcock, Stephen Playfor, Robert Yates

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