The Board was formally established in January 2020 and includes representatives from adult and paediatric services from all 8 trusts across the region, patient and family representatives, primary care and regional NHS England commissioners.
The Board meets four times per year and is chaired by Professor Jonathan Wyllie from South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The Network Board has representatives from across the region including the Level 1 Specialist Surgical Centre at Newcastle and the other 7 acute Trusts. The board is multidisciplinary including clinicians, nurses, managers, patients, family representatives and regional commissioners.
Jonathan Wyllie
Akintayo Adesokan
Jonathan Wyllie
Network Chair
Jonathan is a consultant neonatologist at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and was clinical director of neonatology until May 2017. He has a special expertise in paediatric cardiology, has run PEC clinics since 1994 and was a founding member of PECSIG.
Helen Oxenham
Akintayo Adesokan
Jonathan Wyllie
Adult Clinical Lead
Akintayo Adesokan
Akintayo Adesokan
Akintayo Adesokan
Paediatric Clinical Lead
Kaye Walsh
Terry Phillips
Akintayo Adesokan
Lead Nurse
After qualifying as a children’s nurse in 2002 Kaye worked in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery in both Dublin and Newcastle. She specialises in the lifespan care of patients with CHD and leads professionals across the region developing collaborative relationships and robust education programmes.
Terry Phillips
Terry Phillips
Terry Phillips
Network Manager
Terry has over 20 years project and programme management experience working in both the private and public sector to deliver regional and national programmes of work. Her interests lie in forging a network approach to enhance collaborative working to improve patient care and workforce development.
Patient and Family Representatives
Ivan Hollingsworth
Mark Overton
Fetal cardiology
Vedrana Caric - South Tees
Majd Abuharb - Newcastle
Paul Moran - Newcastle
Magdalena Sajnach-Menke - Newcastle
Neonatology
Jonathan Wyllie - South Tees
Prashant Mallya - South Tees
Sundaram Janakiraman - South Tees
Imran Ahmed - South Tyneside and Sunderland
Paediatric cardiology
Carla Pimentel - County Durham and Darlington
Yee Mon Aung - North Cumbria
Sangeeta Tiwary - Northumbria
Madhu Podalakur - North Tees and Hartlepool
Lekshmy Prasad - South Tees
Satyam Veeratterapillay - South Tyneside and Sunderland
Adult congenital
Jenny Crilley - County Durham and Darlington
Ray Meleady - Gateshead
Justin Barclay - North Cumbria
Thomas Green - Northumbria
Helen Oxenham - North Tees and Hartlepool
Pamela Brown - South Tees
Shahid Junejo - South Tyneside and Sunderland
Other clinical
Emily Bell (clinical psychology) - Newcastle
Gemma Barwick (social work) - Newcastle
Michelle Moffatt (paediatric dentistry) - Newcastle
Graham Walton (adult dentistry) - Newcastle
