About Us
We are a specialist consulting company that aims to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the areas of healthcare and education innovation. We aim to make our academic research and innovation impactful through advising and consulting in our areas of expertise; the pharmaceutical supply chain, pharmaceutical regulation, digital health innovation, healthcare technology piloting, and educational impact assessment.
Our Vision
At Solfen Healthcare, we believe that research should be impactful or contribute to future impact. We believe that learning from academia should be translated into outcomes which benefit the economy, society, culture, public policy, environment, quality of life, health and healthcare provision beyond academia.
Principal Consultant
Dr Bernard Naughton is an Assistant Professor and academic researcher at Trinity College Dublin, at the University of Dublin, and a clinical pharmacist with experience of working at large NHS trusts in Staffordshire, Oxford and London. Bernard has also provided consulting services for pharmaceutical companies, regulatory affairs organisations, national agencies, NHS hospitals and technology companies. Bernard is a researcher with a PhD in digital drug screening and the medicine serialisation regulations. Bernard has a track record of developing, implementing, testing, piloting and improving digital healthcare technologies in hospitals. Bernard has also completed extensive research on the topic of academic programme impact assessment and performed impact assessment on some of the most high profile business education programmes.
Senior Consultant
Dr Lindsey Roberts has a B.Sc. in Psychology, M.Sc. in Health Psychology and a PhD and postdoctoral training in medical image optimisation and Computer Science. Lindsey has a 16-year track record of completing research, clinical trial and innovation projects, on time and within budget, in a range of medical specialisms. Lindsey has a particular interest in system-wide and patient-focused medicines optimisation. For instance, Lindsey's career focus is to reduce medicines waste, improve patient health-related outcomes and quality of life through impacting on the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of healthcare service delivery, medicines supply chain digitisation and develop the NHS workforce to upskill health professionals in the art of patient empowerment and decision-making around medicines adherence.
