Dr Judith Middleton
Chairperson
Judith was one of the founder members of the Trust (originally the Child Head Injury Trust). She worked as a clinical neuropsychologist for 20 years specialising in children with acquired brain injury and facial disfigurement.  She helped set up the head injury rehabilitation unit at the Children’s Trust Tadworth where she worked from 1986 to 1992, and then moved to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.  As a member of the Division of Neuropsychology, British Psychological Society, she has chaired a working party on services for children with acquired brain injury. This experience has highlighted the need for support for children and families with acquired brain injury, beyond the initial medical and surgical interventions.

As well as having published articles and chapters, she has lectured and taught extensively across the UK and at international conferences, and is consequently committed to the Trust’s education programme to expand the understanding of the long term consequences of acquired brain injury on children’s education.

Robert Thomas
Vice Chairperson
Rob joined CBIT as a Trustee in 2004.  He is a graduate of Reading University and has studied at Iowa State University and the University of Glamorgan where he completed his legal studies.  He is well travelled having spent a year in Canada, the USA and Mexico and his early career as a solicitor having taken him  from Swansea to Basingstoke via Reading and finally back to Cardiff where he now lives with his wife and two children.  Rob is a partner in the Neurolaw department of Hugh James Solicitors dealing with brain and spinal cord injury compensation claims.

Anthony Foreman
Treasurer
Anthony Foreman is a Tax Partner with PKF, one of the ten largest firms of Chartered Accountants. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, has been a Member of the Chartered Accountant Tax Technical Committee and currently represents ICAEW at meetings with the inland Revenue.

Tony’s association with CBIT goes back many years both as a trustee and as a fundraiser.  He successfully completed the London 10K in 2006 raising over £2,000.  In his spare time Tony likes to play tennis and is a keen reader of philosophy.

Mary Radnoti
Mary Radnoti has many years of experience in working with the media.  She helps CBIT to find opportunities to raise its profile and to assess the issues which attract public interest.  She lives in London and works with another charity and an energy network.

Lesley Kewley
Lesley has spent the last twenty years working with children and adults who have special educational needs.  She is a qualified teacher for people who have specific learning difficulties.  Her work has included managing educational provision and centres for children who have specific learning difficulties (such as dyslexia, dyspraxia) within Worcestershire, providing information and training to teachers and schools.  In 2000 Lesley was appointed the Head of Service of the Acquired Brain Injury Education Service.  The Centre is based at Evesham College and provides educational opportunities for adults who have sustained a brain injury.  During this time she developed support for children families and schools who were dealing with issues surrounding brain injury.  The Centre now also provides education to school leavers who have an acquired brain injury who find access to mainstream education difficult without specialist support.

Since retirement Lesley has become a Trustee of the Acquired Aphasia Trust which supports the work of the Centre.  She has been a Trustee of CBIT since 2004.

Dr Margo Edwards 
I am a consultant community paediatrician with an interest in acquired brain injury rehabilitation and spasticity management.  My appointment as a consultant is a joint post with Birmingham Children’s Hospital and South Birmingham PCT-Children’s Directorate and I work at both the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and a Child Development Centre in South Birmingham.  The two halves of my post complement each other as both involve working in multidisciplinary teams and providing support for long term conditions affecting brain development.  The challenge is communicating effectively with the agencies that support children with  brain injury, providing information to families and schools , and developing the resources to help children with brain injury to realize their potential.  I think cbit has accomplished a lot in all these areas and the information and services cbit provides have contributed enormously to my work and helped the children I treat

Anne Riley
Anne is a social worker by training and background and works as a brain injury case manager with children and young people in the North West.  She also manages a small but rapidly growing team of case managers specialising in work with children and young people.  She has worked with children and young people with acquired brain injury in rehabilitation and community settings for over 12 years.

When not working Anne enjoys reading, walking and gardening – the latter two in moderation!  She hopes in 2008 to get back on her bike!

Mr Jeremy P Cummin
Jeremy has been involved in healthcare information systems for over 25 years, Having started and led a number successful healthcare systems related companies.

In addition he has run businesses  including a specialist sports car dealership and a consultancy focussing on early stage health informatics opportunities. Through this consultancy, Jeremy has been involved in the negotiation of Local Service Provider (LSP) supplier contracts, business acquisitions and disposals and has served on several boards in either a chairman or non-executive capacity.

Jeremy served as Chief Executive of Pace Health Technology (a subsidiary of Pace Micro Technology Plc) in 2005 and subsequently formed Telehealth Solutions Limited in February 2006. Jeremy is a Fellow of British Computer Society.      

Simon John
Simon John has practised as a solicitor in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire since 1969. He is now a consultant at Kester Cunningham John Solicitors with 4 regional offices in East Anglia.

 He is a Senior Fellow of The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies.

He is a Member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), and past editor of AAJ's International Section Newsletter and a founding member of FOCIS (formerly The Richard Grand Society).

A good deal of his professional life was spent representing children with brain injuries. He conducted the first child brain injury case which established full legal liability by a driver doing 30mph in an urban environment.

He is currently a trustee of CBIT and another  Brain Injury Charity.