General Assembly
Representing respiratory nursing expertise from across international healthcare systems.
Secretary
Carol Stonham MBE, RN, MSc, QN. PCRS Policy Lead
Following 26 years working in general practice Carol now works at Gloucestershire ICB on the Respiratory Clinical Programme Group and is the CYP Asthma Clinical Lead. Carol has also been appointed as a co-clinical lead of the NHSE South West Respiratory Network.
Carol is the past Executive Chair of PCRS – the first non-doctor and first female to take the chair. She is current policy lead for PCRS.
She is also a director of the UK Lung Cancer Coalition, and a board member of the UK Inhaler Group and National Asthma and COPD Audit as well as sitting on the NHS Long Term Plan Respiratory Delivery Board.
She also co-chairs the Lung Health Task Force early and accurate diagnosis group and is a member of the NHS Long Term Plan Breathlessness Diagnosis group.
Advisor
Georgia L. Narsavage PhD, APRN, FAAN, ATSF, FNAP
Dr. Narsavage is Professor Emerita retired from the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Nursing where she served as Dean of the WVU School of Nursing and founding Director of InterProfessional Education for the WVU Health Science Center.
In 2018, she served as Interim Associate Dean at the College of Nursing, University of South Carolina., She is a Fellow in the American Thoracic Society, the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) and the National Academies of Practice, recently re-appointed to the Global Health panel of the AAN. Her education includes: BSN – University of Maryland; MSN in community/adult health- Misericordia University; PhD in Nursing and post-doctoral work-University of Pennsylvania, post-masters Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP) – Case Western Reserve University.
As an Adult Nurse Practitioner and researcher, she has had the privilege of directly caring for patients, educating the next generation of health care providers and researchers, and contributing to scientific discovery of best practices for out-of-hospital care for patients with lung disease.
She has been a founding member of the International Coalition of Respiratory Nurses (ICRN), the Respiratory Nursing Society and Interprofessional Collaborative (RNSIC), receiving the Founders Award in 2018 and serves on their Board of Directors. She is on the Board of Campus Community Partnerships for Health (CCPH).
Her research focused on chronic disease management in community settings, working with evidence-based medicine and nursing. She has received over $7 million in external federal grants, exploring nursing interventions for patients and families with end-stage COPD and lung cancer, as well as nursing education and practice. She has been Co-PI on an NCI R15 project (CA150999): Telemonitoring Following Hospital Discharge in Patients with Lung Cancer, and continues to work as a consultant on projects with HRSA funding.
Her educational expertise centers on developing and testing effective measures of service-learning/ community-based care education, and in establishing clinical partnerships that make it possible to recruit and track multi-disciplinary students’ development over time. In 2013-2014, she obtained funding from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation to support Community-Based Care and Interprofessional Practice projects that changed healthcare practice in WV, and from The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation to support a workshop to introduce faculty in Appalachia to InterProfessional Education. She remains active in nursing as a consultant and grant reviewer for PCORI and HRSA.
General Assembly Member
Malin Axelsson
Malin is an Associate professor and Senior lecturer in Care Science at Malmö University, Sweden.
Malin is a registered nurse, bachelor in pedagogy and has a PhD in Respiratory Medicine/Allergology.
Her main focus is nursing education and research on health psychology i.e. personality, adherence, health-related quality of life and epidemiology linked to obstructive lung disease.
Education:
Undergraduate and postgraduate nursing education
Doctoral education
Research leader for the research area of Physical Health.
Member of the Interdisciplinary research platform Research Informed Development of Higher Education (RIDHE).
Member of the Nurses Group, European Respiratory Society.
General Assembly Member
José Miguel Padilha
Miguel is a Doctor of Nursing, a Nurse Specialised in Nursing Rehabilitation and a Nurse Specialised in Medical-Surgical Care to the person with chronic conditions.
Professional & Scientific activity:
Professor Coordinator at the Nursing School of Porto (ESEP) where he coordinates the Master in Rehabilitation Nursing;
Executive Director of IP ALLIANCE
Member of the Scientific Board of ESEP
Member of the Scientific Board of Associated Laboratory RISE
Principal Investigator of the Health Education and Simulation Technologies Group
Coordinator of the Nurses Group of the Portuguese Society of Pulmonology
Chair of the Nurses Group of the European Respiratory Society (2022-2025)
Published more than 30 articles
General Assembly Member
Mariana Paula Rezelj
Born in Argentina where she graduated as a nurse. There she worked in the emergency unit, teaching at the University and in the management of a University hospital.
In 2007 she moved to Slovenia where she works in the Clinic for pulmonary diseases at the University Clinic Golnik. As a respiratory nurse, her fields of interest and research are mainly allergies and asthma.
Since 2022 she is President of the Nurses’ Section in Pulmonology of Slovenia.