KATHERINE DARTON

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:
1982-1985 University College London PhD 1986. Physiology.
1979-1982 Chelsea College London (now Kings College London) BSc Physiology Hons, 1982
1972-1973 Guildhall School of Music and Drama LGSM (Music Therapy), 1973.
1966-1972 Guildhall School of Music and Drama Part-time. LGSM (Flute teaching), 1970
1966-1969 North-Western Polytechnic (now London Metropolitan University) BA (Lond), 1969.

WORK HISTORY:
1994-2016 Information Officer, Mind (National Association for Mental Health).
1993 Sessional teaching, Department of Social Work and Health Sciences, Middlesex University.
1985-1995 Freelance scientific abstract-writing (Derwent Publications)
1986-1992 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, West Middlesex University Hospital and Charing Cross and
Westminster Medical School, moving to Royal Free Hospital in 1989
1973-1977 Music therapist (p/t) at Lindon-Bennet School Hanworth
1970-1981 Flute teaching. ILEA Instrumental Teaching and Home and Hospital Tuition Panels.
1970-1982 Flute teaching at various schools and children’s music groups, including Putney High School, the American School in London, Watford School of Music.
1970-1971 Diagnostic index clerk (p/t), Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney.

PANEL MEMBERSHIP:

2012-2015 Member of Medicines for Women’s Health panel, Medicines and Healthcare
products Regulatory Agency.
2005-2012 Member of Patient Information Expert Advisory Group, Medicines and Healthcare
products Regulatory Agency.
2005-2009 Member of steering group for project on complementary therapies in mental health,
Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health.
2002-2004 Member of steering group for setting up Studentsinmind.
2001-2003 Member of steering group of British Library Co-operation and Partnership Programme
No.6, Healthinfo4u.
2001-2002 Member of Mental health and Learning Disabilities Expert Panel for setting priorities for
physiotherapy research in the UK for Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
1999-2001 Consumer member, Therapeutic Procedures Panel (2000 – 2001) and Acute Sector
Panel (1999 – 2000) of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme.
1998-2009 HTA Referee

VOLUNTARY WORK:
Participation in street arts projects for rehabilitation after disaster in Gujerat (2002), Kosovo (2003), Sierra Leone (2006), Haiti (2006-7 and 2011) and Somalia (2011). School building projects in Nepal, 2005, Ethiopia 2016; building project for organic farmers, Tamil Nadu, 2017.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
2000-present SCENAR, InterX and PhysioKey Therapy: Trained in use of these therapeutic technologies.
1993-1994 Birkbeck College Extra-mural evening course: Health Services Research Methods.
1993-1994 “Women into Management”, C.I.T.E. (Associates) Ltd.
Writing and presentation: Publications list available. Also patient information, use of DISCERN; research presentations, workshops; educational videos on tremor, Raynaud’s phenomenon, and MindinfoLine. Proof-reading. Group Skills. Trainer on psychiatric drugs for Mind.
Computing: Word, Wordperfect, Wordwise and View; SPSS/PC, Crystal Reports, Access; programming in Basic; use of Internet; Pagemaker; Frontpage, Serif.
Listening skills: Listening and responding to callers on Mind’s Information Line; Raynaud’s and scleroderma patients.
Languages: Good French. O level German and Latin.
Driver: clean licence since 1966

OTHER INTERESTS:
Member of Wolsey Orchestra since 1972; Scientific and Medical Network; Nonsuch History and Dance, Friends of Charleston; the Arts Society RSPB; Bat Conservation Trust, Woodland Trust, Wildfowl and Wetland Trust; Music, Sound and Psyche. .