Jo Wray

Dr Jo Wray is a senior research fellow and health psychologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, Professor of Child Health Psychology at the Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UCL and a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey. Having set up a clinical and research programme with patients undergoing cardiac surgery or cardiothoracic transplantation at Harefield Hospital in 1988, she subsequently moved to Great Ormond Street in 2008. Her current research focuses on patient and family outcomes and experience in the field of paediatric critical care and cardiorespiratory medicine and approaches to screening and early intervention to improve developmental and psychological outcomes. As an interdisciplinary researcher she is particularly interested in engagement and using innovative, creative and technological approaches to facilitate communication about health, both with those affected by specific conditions and/or treatments and the wider public.