ABOUT ANSA
Executive Committee
ANSA President: Bintu Bangura
Bintu is the lead Anaemia Nurse Specialist at Kings College Hospital foundation trust since 2015 and has been in Renal Medicine since 2006. Bintu has worked in a dialysis setting and also worked as a ward manager in the renal wards at Kings College Hospital for over 2 years.
Treasurer - Elaine Locke
Elaine is a Clinical Nurse Specialist and has worked in renal for many years. She has worked across all fields within renal i.e. PD, Tx, HD, Pre-dialysis. Elaine has worked mainly in the Wessex Kidney Centre, Portsmouth but has also worked at the Renal unit, Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton for 3 years from 1989 as a PD sister. Elaine returned to Portsmouth in 1992 where she took up the post within Anaemia Management, a post she still holds today.
Lesley Bennett
Senior Anaemia & Renal Patient Support Manager working at the Oxford Kidney Unit at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Lesley has worked in nephrology for over 35 years, she currently manages 5 various MDT and has been the senior nurse in Oxford for anaemia and advanced kidney care the past 20 years. She is a founder member and was the first President of ANSA.
Sharon Benton
Sharon Benton is an ANSA Past President and Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) for Renal Anaemia in Truro, Cornwall. She has worked in renal medicine since 1993 and became the CNS for Anaemia in 1998. Sharon joined the ANSA committee in 2008 and commenced her presidency tenure in 2012.
Karen Jenkins
Karen is a Consultant Nurse at the Kent Kidney Centre, East Kent Hospitals, University NHS Foundation Trust. She has been a nephrology nurse for most of her nursing career and has worked in all areas of renal. She was an anaemia nurse specialist from 1997 until she she took up her current role in 2003. She has experience in research, service design, education & training of staff and her present clinical workload includes conservative management and Advanced Kidney care. She is a co-founder of ANSA.
Iain Wittwer
Iain Wittwer is a Specialist Practitioner working in the Churchill Hospital, Oxford. He has worked in Nephrology since 1990 in the USA, London and in Oxford since 1994. He started working in the OKU Anaemia Team as the Anaemia Support Nurse in 2008.
He joined ANSA in 2009. He has been involved in writing some anaemia related articles and a book chapter.
Marie Chowrimootoo
Marie has been the Anaemia Nurse Specialist at St Georges Hospital London and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham retiring as a Anaemia Lead Nurse in 2018. Marie has been in Nephrology nursing since 1989 and has worked at a few hospitals, namely Walsgrave Kings, Oxford. She is a founder member of ANSA and rejoined the Executive Committee after a few years break.
Deborah Sumner
Deborah is an Anaemia Nurse Practitioner at the University Hospitals of North Midlands. She began as a Trauma Orthopaedic SN in 2004, SSN in Orthopaedic Pre-operative assessment 2008. In 2012 General Surgery joined Orthopaedics becoming Pre-Anaesthetic Management Services. In 2015, Deborah become the Anaemia Nurse Practitioner, developing a new service treating Pre-operative anaemia, monitoring and manage Haematology patients with chronic anaemia and providing education in patient blood management. She is also a member of the hospital Transfusion Team.
Dianne McDaid
Dianne is currently a renal dialysis access nurse at the Kent Kidney Centre, East Kent Hospitals University Trust. She has worked in a variety of nephrology nursing positions including anaemia, advanced kidney care and dialysis since 1992 in the UK and Ireland. She has been a member of ANSA since 2002 and joined the ANSA executive committee in 2014.
Juvy Ardael
Juvy has been in a nursing profession since 1990 and completed her Master's degree in nursing in the Philippines in 2000. A Clinical Instructor/Lecturer in the Philippines for 10 years before moving to the UK. Juvy is a nurse prescriber and completed this course in 2014 at Staffordshire University. She has worked as a Renal Nurse since 2001 and has been seconded to ITU for 2 years (2006-2008) to support staff with their haemodialysis using Acetate Free Bio-filtration. Juvy is an anaemia nurse in the dialysis unit covering Shrewsbury, Ludlow and Telford.
