APCP has 7 special committees which each have up to 12 members. There is a representative from each comittee who attends National Committee meetings. The special committees organise many training opportunities within their specialty including Foundation courses and Advanced courses as well as researching and producing relevant guidelines or publications.
Special Committee Representatives- GO TO SPECIAL COMMITTEES INDEX PAGE
CPIP-UK National Network
Philippa Burgess
Philippa Burgess is a Paediatric Physiotherapist, Team Leader and Clinical Specialist in the central area of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in North Wales. She has been a Community Paediatric Physiotherapist for 25 years and has worked in Wales for 21 years specialising in a caseload of children with neuro disability, providing services to children in the local Child Development Centre, special schools, mainstream and out-patient settings. Philippa is currently the CPIP Regional Representative for Wales and represents the CPIP National Network on the Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists National Committee
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MSK Committee
Neonatal Committee
Charlotte Xanthidis
Charlotte has been working as a clinical specialist neonatal physiotherapist at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton since 2020, and in addition is one of the lead physiotherapists for the West Midlands Neonatal Operational Delivery Network since April 2022.
Charlotte graduated from King’s College London in 2004. She has worked in paediatrics since 2007 and solely within neonates for the last 11years. She worked for a long period at the Evelina Children's Hospital in London before moving to her current roles in the West Midlands.
Charlotte is the AHP lead representative for the Neonatal Implementation Board and has been driving forward the creation and implementation of network AHP roles. Charlotte is also part of the team currently working with HEE to develop education programmes for physiotherapists coming into the field of neonates.
Charlotte joined the APCP Neonatal Committee in 2012 and has held the positions of secretary and vice chair, and took on the role of chair in September 2021.
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Neurodisability Committee
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Neuromuscular Committee
Julie Burslem
Julie Burslem trained in Newcastle and qualified in 1997. She specialised in Paediatrics in 2000 initally working at the Children's Hospital in Sheffield and then moving to the North of Scotland working in community in 2002. In July 2016 she started a new part time post in addition to her community remit as a neuromuscular specialist providing the clinical lead for Neuromuscular Services in the North of Scotland covering Grampian,Tayside, Highland, Orkney and Shetland. linking with colleagues in each locality.
She is on the Steering and Paediatric subgroups of the Scottish Muscle Network and links with colleagues in Glasgow and Edinburgh to promote best practice across Scotland.
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PPIPS
Gomathi Murugesan
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Respiratory Committee
Laura Lowndes
Laura Lowndes qualified from Nottingham University in 2006 and since then has worked in Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge. After doing her band 5 and 6 rotations she has specialised into paediatric respiratory physiotherapy. She works within the CF centre at Addenbrookes and is also currently doing an 18 month research project looking into the use a new device called PlayPhysio on the effect of compliance in children with CF.
Laura also has a special interest in treating children with complex disabilities who have respiratory compromise. She leads the complex chest and lung defence service at Addenbrookes which is a regional service for the East of England.
Laura joined the APCP respiratory committee in March 2019.