Natalie Clark

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Email: [email protected]  

Telephone: 01642 835764 

Biography

Natalie Clark is a junior research project manager for the Academic Centre for Surgery.

Since starting at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in October 2019, she has worked for the trauma and orthopaedic research delivery team, coordinated the local lower limb complex arthroplasty, infection and tumour MDT as well as helping to develop an online patient education and support programme for elective hip and knee replacements, carpal tunnel syndrome and virtual fracture clinic.

Natalie graduated from Teesside University, Middlesbrough in 2018 with a First Class Honours in BSc Psychology followed by a Distinction in MSc Health Psychology and Clinical Skills in 2019. Her MSc thesis examined the influence of positive and negative attitudes on a person’s intention to be an organ donor under the new opt-out organ donation legislation implemented in England May 2020.

She has recently completed a Doctoral level Qualification in Health Psychology (Stage 2) with the British Psychological Society, and is now HCPC registered as a practitioner health psychologist. Her area of interest is individuals with hypermobility spectrum disorders and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.