Nichola manages the third health check activities at the Norwich Clinic. She has put together a highly experienced team to carry out the latest phase of the EPIC study. She is also a member of the management committee which steers the direction of the study as a whole.

Nichola worked at the Government Chemist Laboratories in London, before moving into the NHS where she managed the bone densitometry unit at St George’s Hospital, Tooting. It was there that her interest in research began when acting as Study Site Co-ordinator for various clinical research trials.

Nichola moved into Epidemiology when she joined Cambridge University in 1994, employed as the Norfolk Co-ordinator of the EPIC collaborative study- the European Prospective Osteoporosis Study (EPOS). Her duties for this included the management and co-ordination of a mobile bone densitometry unit.

More recently, she has also co-ordinated the Advanced Detection Of bone Quality (ADOQ) study, collecting normative data for a new 3d bone scanner looking at bone micro-architecture.

Her role within EPIC evolved when heel bone ultrasound was introduced to the second health check and she took on the position of Quality Assurance Monitor and had the responsibility of cross-calibrating the ultrasound scanners at the various EPIC sites.

Always busy, Nichola has held various voluntary roles within the local community, one of those as the Poppy Appeal Organiser for the Royal British Legion and currently as a Local Councillor, where she sits on a number of Committees dealing with a variety of age groups from the youth sector, to the Senior Citizens Club.

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