Meet Our Team
Members include service users, researchers, nurse consultants, medical doctors, professors and functional practitioners.
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Meet Our Team
Members include service users, researchers, nurse consultants, medical doctors, professors and functional practitioners.
Michael Cook
BSc degree from London University in Physics and Mathematics
Gilian Crowther
MA (Oxon) ND/NT is a fully qualified Naturopath and Nutritional Therapist
Reine Corley
Nurse Consultant RN, Dip.HE BSc, MSc, ACST and Independent Prescriber
Rt Revd Prof Christopher Herbert
Monmouth School, the University of Wales, Trinity St David, the University of Bristol, and Wells Theological College.
Peter Kemp
Masters in psychotherapy research. Microscopy. Fluorescence microscopy. Spirochete blood-
culture.
Dr Nicola Lawrence
Head of Imaging at the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge
Professor Jack Lambert
Consultant in adult and pediatric infectious diseases at the Mater Hospital, Rotunda Hospital and UCD School of Medicine in Dublin
Nicolaus Carsten M.D PhD (immunology), Germany
Specialist in Lyme, tick-borne diseases and associated health conditions
Professor Andrew Price
Marine biologist and environmental scientist
Georgia Tuckey
Nurse Consultant, RGN and Independent Prescriber
Dr Jinyu Shan
Research Fellow at the University of Leicester and lead developer of phage testing for Borrelia.
Denise Longman
Retired research technician, departments of physiology, neuroanatomy and molecular biology, University of Manchester, UK.
Michael Cook
Michael J Cook, born 1943 in Redcar England, graduated with a BSc degree from London University (Physics and Mathematics).
His 36-year career included computer chip design, research and development and process engineering in the semiconductor industry. Working in the United Kingdom, and United States and leading multinational teams from the US, Europe and Asia.
He was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2009 and started to investigate Lyme and associated diseases. He is the author or co-author of 12 papers on Lyme disease and has presented his work at conferences in Paris, Boston, Dublin and London. Other work includes presentations to members of the UK Houses of Lords and Commons, medical and national & local government environmental and health agencies. He also investigated a UK Lyme testing laboratory and provided evidence of failures in support of patient representations to the UK Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman. He also accompanied a team to the United Nations where evidence regarding human rights abuses related to patients and doctors treating Lyme disease was presented.
Reine Corley
Nurse Consultant RN, Dip.HE BSc, MSc, ACST and Independent Prescriber
Reine has held many senior roles within both commissioning and provider healthcare systems within NHS England, Primary Care and Acute Trusts, and within the charitable sector as Director of Nursing, Director of Clinical Strategy and a Nurse Consultant for many years.
Reine has a special interest in the care planning, symptom management and treatment of patients with complex conditions. She has extensive experience in clinical governance, education and research.
Gilian Crowther
Gilian Crowther MA (Oxon) ND/NT is a fully qualified Naturopath and Nutritional Therapist.
Gilian Crowther MA (Oxon) ND/NT is a fully qualified Naturopath and Nutritional Therapist. She specialises in complex multisystem disorders. Her involvement with pathogen/mitochondrial testing has led her to specialise in bacterial/viral infections as well as mitochondrial dysfunction.
Gilian studied complementary therapy in Germany for many years before completing her training in the UK and is also a proficient and highly qualified translator and editor. She has been a senior member of AONM (the Academy of Nutritional Medicine) since 2010 and is their Director of Research. She also helps coordinate the Academy’s events and outreach.
Apart from being on the management board of AONM, Gilian holds the following professional memberships, and complies with their strict codes of conduct and ethical standards:
Fellow of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (FBANT)
Member of the Naturopathic Nutrition Association (NNA)
Member of the Association of Naturopathic Practitioners (ANP)
Full Member of the General Naturopathic Council (GNC)
Registered Practitioner with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC)
Committee Member of the British Society for Ecological Medicine (BSEM)
Senior Member of the Royal College of Medicine (RSM)
Rt Revd Prof Christopher Herbert
Christopher Herbert was educated at Monmouth School, the University of Wales, Trinity St David, the University of Bristol, and Wells Theological College.
Christopher Herbert was educated at Monmouth School, the University of Wales, Trinity St David, the University of Bristol, and Wells Theological College.
A trained teacher, he was ordained in Hereford in 1967 and served the diocese as a curate and later was Diocesan RE Adviser, and Diocesan Director of Education.
He became Vicar of The Bourne, Farnham in 1981, was Director of Post-Ordination Training and an Honorary Canon of Guildford Cathedral. In 1990 he was made Archdeacon of Dorking, and in 1995 became Bishop of St Albans. He was a member of the House of Lords for ten years and served on a Select Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a pre-legislative scrutiny committee exploring the ethical dimensions of donor-assisted conception. He was also the National Chairman of the Hospital Chaplaincies Council and the Council of Christians and Jews.
In retirement, he served as a Non-Exec of the national Abbeyfield Society and the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability. He is a Visiting Professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Surrey and is Chairman of the Ethics Forum at the Royal Surrey Hospital, Guildford and until recently, was Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Princess Alice Hospice, Esher,
He has an M.Phil and a PhD from the University of Leicester in the field of Art History, plus two honorary doctorates, and is a prolific author. He has lectured extensively in the UK and northern Europe on art history and written books and articles about fifteenth-century art and religion in England and in the Burgundian Netherlands. In the last three years, he has majored in local history, writing a book about Waverley Abbey, and a biography of Bishop Charles Sumner.
More details can be found on his website: www.threeabbeys.org.uk
Peter Kemp MA
Masters in psychotherapy research. Microscopy. Fluorescence microscopy. Spirochete blood-
culture.
Masters in psychotherapy research. Microscopy. Fluorescence microscopy. Spirochete blood-culture. Developed culture method for spirochetes and biofilm from blood, 2015, donated to Igenex. Culture and documentation of intra-erythrocyte spirochetes, 2018, (protocol for replication in progress). Stakeholder-author for NICE guidelines consultation, ME/CFS 2007, 2021, Lyme disease 2018. Founder-member of VIRAS campaign group.
Professor Jack Lambert
Consultant in adult and pediatric infectious diseases at the Mater Hospital, Rotunda Hospital and UCD School of Medicine in Dublin
Professor Jack Lambert is a consultant in adult and pediatric infectious diseases at the Mater Hospital, Rotunda Hospital and UCD
School of Medicine in Dublin. He has worked in infectious diseases for over 30 years, training in Michigan, Rochester NY, and then moving to faculty positions in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland Institute of Human Virology, before returning to UK where he completed further training in London at Kings College Hospital, and then taking up position in Dublin Ireland. He has published over 250 peer reviewed papers, 10 book chapters, and has been funded over 3.5 million Euros in Dublin for projects on HIV, hepatitis, Covid 19 and Tickborne infections. He has a special interest in infections in pregnancy. Currently he runs clinics on tickborne infections and long covid in Dublin and Ireland. He is lead trustee of the Lyme
Dr Nicola Lawrence
Head of Imaging at the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge
Dr Nicola Lawrence is Head of Imaging at the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge. She is an expert in light microscopy techniques as used in the life sciences and as such has contributed to a wide range of research projects at the Gurdon Institute and in the wider School of Biological Sciences. Dr Lawrence has an active interest in public engagement with STEM and has been involved in a variety of Cambridge-based projects including the Aspiring Scientists Training Programme. For the last 4 years, Dr Lawrence has been a Lyme disease patient advocate and runs activities to raise awareness of the disease and educate the public about ticks and tick-bite prevention. She is part of the Tick-borne Disease Working Group UK/Ire with an aim to improve disease surveillance and ultimately to change policy and improve patient outcomes. She is a carer for a dependant with Lyme disease.
Denise Longman
Occupation: retired research technician, departments of physiology, neuroanatomy and molecular biology, University of Manchester, UK.
Qualifications: BSc(Hons) Pharmacology, University of Bath 1974
MSc, by original research, in Neuroanatomy/Neurochemistry, University of Manchester 1986 Postgraduate Certificate in Education, University of Bath 1975. I co-authored several papers on basal ganglia neuro-transmission, listed in ResearchGate.
I became ill after multiple ticks were attached for 20 hours, on a summer walking holiday in Scotland, midsummer's day, 1985.
Incubation time was more than 3 weeks but brain fog symptoms began the next day. Diagnosed with PVFS and M.E. NHS antibody tests in 1989 and 2009 were negative. I Became too ill to work in 1990. Still suffering from disseminated Lyme, Ehrlichia, Cpn and Mycoplasma pneumoniae; with embedded biofilm bladder infection still being treated long term by the Whittington LUTS team; adult onset bilateral vitelliform retinal dystrophy; radiculopathy; great fatigue; probable recurrence of heart symptoms present now.
I began to be a member of the Yahoo group EuroLyme and started to do awareness work in 2004, and joined Wendy Fox's small group which became the Lyme charity, called BADA. There were 12 of us, but once BADA became an official charity, 7 of us including myself, were no longer needed.
I Met Prof Malcolm Hooper at a Norwich ME Support meeting in 2004, and gave him a copy of Dr Brian Fallon's work, showing SPECT scans of ME and Lyme brains, which I like to believe may have been the reason why Prof Hooper became interested in Lyme disease.
I became a member of Dr Bransfield's forum MMI in late 2007 after being proposed by Dr Virgia She rr, and after writing an article under a pen name (Annie Drummond) which was titled "Mists and Myths Swirl around Inverness". I tried to show the high probability that ME patients could have Lyme disease.
Dr Carsten Nicolaus M.D PhD (immunology), Germany
Specialist in Lyme, tick-borne diseases and associated health conditions
Dr Carsten Nicolaus is a world-renowned Lyme expert, dedicated to researching, diagnosing, and treating Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. Since 1990, he has advised over 25,000 Lyme patients from more than 80 countries and has trained and mentored over 1,500 doctors since 2006.
After obtaining his medical license in 1988 and specialising in organ transplant, he went on to do his doctorate in immunology in Munich. In 1990, having set up his own GP practice in Augsburg, Germany, which he wasn’t aware was in a Lyme endemic area, he began to diagnose and treat patients, realising that many of the patients he was seeing were suffering from chronic Lyme.
Professor Andrew Price
Marine biologist and environmental scientist
Andrew Price is a marine biologist and environmental scientist. He is an emeritus professor at Warwick University’s School of Life Sciences and an international consultant. His symptoms of Lyme disease/tick-borne infections began in early 2013. Following late diagnosis, and receiving a range of treatment protocols in UK and Germany, symptoms have gradually improved, with the expectation of stopping treatment in early 2024. Andrew is also interested in research into Lyme tests and treatment.
Dr Jinyu Shan
Research Fellow at the University of Leicester, Lead developer of phage testing for Borrelia
Jinyu Shan holds the position of a Research Fellow at the University of Leicester and Chief Scientific Officer at Phelix Research and Development, alongside his pivotal role as Product Technical Manager at Youseq, a renowned company specialising in the production of qPCR kits over 400 unique bacterial, viral, and protozoan infections, including tick-borne diseases.
Jinyu's academic journey began with a BSc from Shandong University, progressed with an MSc in Life Sciences from Nankai University, and culminated in a PhD in Molecular Microbiology from the University of Warwick. This robust educational background has cultivated his extensive knowledge in molecular diagnostics, covering the spectrum from design and implementation to commercialisation.
His professional journey is marked by significant roles across various organisations, including Chief Scientist at Marker Diagnostics, Associate Principal Scientist at the Rosalind Franklin Laboratory, and Deputy Lab Manager at Cignpost Diagnostics. In these capacities, he has garnered invaluable insights into microbiology, cell biology, molecular diagnostics, and assay development within regulated frameworks.
Georgia Tuckey
Nurse Consultant, RGN and Independent Prescriber
Georgia has been a registered nurse for 30 years and an independent prescriber for 15 years and has experience of treating patients with Tick-borne diseases, having received training under Dr Carsten Nicolaus and Dr Berkowitz. Georgia attended a specialist clinic in Germany where she undertook training in laboratory investigations, clinical assessment, development of treatment plans and treatment delivery.