East Midlands Region

Rachel Reynolds

Health and Fitness Development Officer
Loughborough College

Lancashire and Yorkshire Region

Costas Tsakirides

Senior Lecturer - Health-related Exercise and Fitness
Course Leader BSc HREF
Leeds Metropolitan University

Costas is the BACR regional co-ordinator for Lancashire and Yorkshire (since 2002). He is a Senior Lecturer in Health-related Exercise and Fitness at Leeds Metropolitan University. His teaching and research interests are in the role of exercise and physical activity in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and metabolic disease.

Northern Region

Coral Hanson

Health and Fitness Manager
Blyth Valley Arts and Leisure.

Scottish Region

Ann Ross

Allied Health Professions Lead for Emergency Care and Medical Services
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

South Region

Joy Martin

Senior Lecturer and Programme Manager for Exercise, Health and Sport
Farnborough College

South East Region

Annie Holden Cert Ed., B.Ed Pt 1, RSA, MSc.

Health & Fitness Partnership & Brand Manager
Active Lifestyle, Bromley

Annie has lectured, assessed and verified courses in Sport, Exercise and Fitness throughout her career and now has strategic responsibility for borough wide health and fitness provision including work with the EUROACTION team as the Physical Activity co-ordinator in a European research project.   She represents exercise specialists nationally within the BACR-Exercise Professionals Group and is a member of the BACR Phase IV Steering Group.

South West and South Wales Region

Diane Crone BSc (Hons), PhD.

Reader, Exercise Science
University of Gloucestershire

Diane is a Reader in Exercise Science at the University of Gloucestershire. Her work involves  research, supervision and consultancy in exercise and health, for example in the evaluation of exercise referral schemes, the role of physical activity for mental health, and as a lecturer on the BSc (Hons) Exercise and Health Sciences degree and on the MSc in Physical Activity and Health Development.

Thames Valley Region

Lesley Simpson

Group Health Promotion Manager
Wycombe Leisure Limited

Lesley is the Group Health Promotion Manager for WLL, a Leisure Trust which has 14 sites over Bucks and West Oxford. Within this role she works with partners to develop a health strategy which, amongst other projects, includes initiating and developing Phase IV cardiac rehabilitation classes. She is also responsible for developing the exercise component of the Phase III cardiac rehabilitation group.

Gwen Strong

Freelance Cardiac Specialist Nurse

Gwen gained a post registration qualification in cardiothoracic nursing in 1981 has worked with cardiac patients most of her career culminating in setting up ,developing and running a community based cardiac rehab programme for the last for 18 years. She was on the original development working party for the BACR Phase IV training course in 1995 and been heavily involved in its development ever since. She has an MSc in Advanced Cardiothoracic Nursing.

West Midlands and North Wales Region

Dr John Buckley

Dr John Buckley has been lecturing and working as a frontline practioner in the areas of Exercise Referral and Cardiac Rehabilitation for 20 years. He is a Founding Managing Partner of the Lifestyle Exercise & Physiotherapy Centre, Shrewsbury (est 1988) and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chester.

Gareth Mapp

Regional Development Manager (Physical Activity/Health)  for Sport England West Midlands