Richard Amos

Detox and aftercare worker and IPED Lead for GDAS
richard.amos@gdas.wales

Competitive bodybuilding background. Working at the moment in Caerphilly running a IPED clinic where we run a needle exchange and offer support for IPED users ie psycho Social interventions Cognitive behavioural therapy, and clinical intervention for BBV and a wound clinic.

Jamie Annarkin

Principal Public Health Specialist
Wolverhampton Council
Annakin4@sky.com

Gary Beeny

Worked in Manchester needle exchange services since 1999.
Gary.Beeny@cgl.org.uk

Dale Boulding

Recovery worker/IPED Lead
Forrest Bank
Dale.boulding@Sodexogov.co.uk

I have been working as a Recovery in HMP Forest Bank for nearly 20 years. In my role as a recovery worker I have been working with offenders who have had history of AAS and PIED use. I do 1-1 work and also groups with clients who need advice on PIEDS and AAS. I have been delivering this as part of healthy living sessions which can cover diets, why you want to use, training and harm reduction advice . This is not an subject which is not usually discussed in Prison setting as focus can be more on standard substance misuse ie heroin use. Clients have found it useful and informative and hopefully they take away useful information if they want to start when they are released or re commence with using PIED or AAS.

John Campbell

Injecting Equipment Provision Improvement Manager
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
John.Campbell@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

Aaron Carnahan

Nurse Practitioner.
Working directly with IPED users since 2008-15 within Shropshire Substance Misuse Service.
Shropshire Lead for the previous IPED national surveys.
aaron.carnahan@nhs.net

Developed and co-ordinates The HENCH Project. A dedicated service to address the needs of IPED users. A standalone initiative for Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust.
This is an outreach program for ‘hard to reach’ individuals to use IPEDs. The focus is on harm prevention/health promotion. Individuals are seen in a dedicated clinic in a local sports supplement store/gym. BBV screening and pathology for basic health markers including FBC, U&E, LFT and Lipids to monitor health and identify health areas to address. Winner of NHS Trust “Improving Lives” category 2016/17.
Also includes blood testing for hypogonadism (usually ASIH) and able to provide direct referrals to Professor Geoff Hackett. Current full-time role in HMP Stoke Heath (prison). Working directly with previous (and current) AAS users. Role as per HENCH Project, also includes training and awareness session for both patients and staff.
Established private practice ‘Vitruvian Man’ 2012 to address needs of IPED users and access to pathology. Approximately 20 articles published in ‘UK Beef’ magazine regarding IPED use and impact on health.

Kevin Flemen

Drug and alcohol trainer based in the UK.
Website: www.kfx.org.uk
Email: kevin@kfx.org.uk
Twitter: @kfxnews

Having set up the KFx drugs awareness website in 2002 he now runs over a hundred courses a year. Although working across all areas of drug and alcohol use in community settings, Kevin has a specialism in NSPs and Harm Reduction. This has included helping generic drugs workers better address the needs of Performance and Image drug users. These courses seek to act as a bridge between the highly specialised knowledge of those working in sports clinics and the core knowledge and skills essential in drug and alcohol services and needle exchanges. Kevin also has interests in Novel Psychoactives, drugs and housing and drug legislation and young people’s drug use.

John Fox 

Works from home: West Yorkshire Peer Lead for the Hepititis C Trust
john.fox@hepctrust.org.uk

I currently work with 4 hospitals and all the Drug and alcohol services in West Yorkshire; testing treating educating and patient finding people with Hepatitis C. My Background is Needle exchange and Harm reduction work; which I continue to carry out.

Peter Furlong

North West Development Manager for Change, Grow, Live (CGL). Based in Merseyside, Lancashire & Manchester.
Peter.Furlong@cgl.org.uk

Leads on Harm Reduction for North West Services and has an interest in the ongoing development, quality improvement and service responses for all injecting drug users including IPED users. Peter has worked in the voluntary sector in the North West for over 20 years with experience in developing harm reduction services in Merseyside including outreach work, needle & syringe program development and staff and service user training.

Dr Greg James

Doctor
Gwent Specialist Substance Misuse Service
g.james@doctors.org.uk

Joe Kean

Criminal Justice and Harm Reduction Team Leader
Change, Grow, Live
Joseph.Kean@cgl.org.uk

Lorraine Maden

Lead Clinical Pharmacist with We Are With You (formerly known as Addaction) 
lorraine.maden@wearewithyou.org.uk

A lead clinical  pharmacist with special interest in NSP and IPED service users.  Working closely with both our staff in services nationally and community pharmacies to enhance knowledge and provision to clients in these areas now and in the future. 

Mike Mallett

Needle and Syringe Programme Coordinator
Gwent Specialist Substance Misuse Service
mike.mallett@wales.nhs.uk

Paul Martindale

Senior Social Worker/IPED lead
The Juice Bar, East Riding Partnership
paulmartindale1@nhs.net

David Prescott

GDAS
Humankind, Calderdale
David.Prescott@calderdalerecoverysteps.org.uk

Dave Rourke

Harm Reduction Lead/Recovery Worker
Juice Clinic, Sheffield
David.Rourke@shsc.nhs.uk

Joseph Tay

I am a GP with a special interest in addictions and I work alongside my nurse and harm reduction colleagues at our local IPED clinic every Monday night at Spittal Street in Edinburgh.
joebtay@gmail.com

Mark Tudor

Mark is an IPED Trainer and Train the Trainer and a UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) Accredited Advisor and Clean Sport Advisor. Mark is also UKAD Coach Clean certified.
South Wales
mark@marktudor.co.uk

Mark has worked in the field of harm reduction for almost 20 years and spent 14 years working as a Door Supervisor in the night-time economy. Mark also has almost 30 years’ experience of the bodybuilding and gym scenes and related IPED and substance trends. Mark’s Master’s dissertation was entitled ‘Do you want customer service with that?’ critiquing delivery of customer service in needle and syringe provision.

Naim Vali

Community Educator, Specialist Diversity and Steroid Lead
Dewsbury
Naim.Vali@cgl.org.uk

Naim has worked in the field of Substance Misuse & Harm Reduction for over 14 years. His main interests include the use of steroids, harm reduction, and working with diverse communities to provide access to services. He delivers training in a range of areas both internally and to external agencies, as well as to members of the community. He is the current Chair of the Yorkshire and Humberside IPED reference group and is part of the International IPED forum. Naim has been a keynote speaker at many IPED and Harm Reduction conferences and has been at the forefront of several IPED research projects in the UK. Naim also sits on the National Harm Reduction Forum for CGL and is considered to be an expert in this field. More recently, Naim has been approached by Public Health England to support the development of the Alcohol Clinical Guidelines in relation to BAME communities.

Arron Owen

Steroid Education website
info@sted-ed.co.uk

Sam Wingrave  

Bradford, West Yorkshire
Sam.Wingrave@cgl.org.uk

Currently harm Reduction co-ordinator. Work with gyms and help manage needle exchange, provide district training (including IPEDS). I have worked in the substance misuse field in London, Lancashire and West Yorkshire for many years. Harm Reduction has always been an essential guiding principle in all my work.