Natalie Clark

Contact information

Email: [email protected]  

Telephone: 01642 835764 

Biography

Natalie Clark is the clinical trials co-ordinator for the Academic Centre for Surgery and has worked for trauma and orthopaedic research at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since October 2019.

Natalie has previous experience in co-ordinating the local lower limb complex arthroplasty, infection and tumour MDT as well as helping to develop an online patient education and support program for elective hip and knee replacements, carpal tunnel syndrome and virtual fracture clinic.

Natalie graduated from Teesside University, Middlesbrough in 2018 with a first class honours in BSc psychology followed by a distinction in MSc health psychology and clinical skills in 2019.

Her MSc thesis examined the influence of positive statements and negative attitudes on a person’s intention to be an organ donor under the new opt-out organ donation legislation implemented in England May 2020.

Currently, she is undertaking a doctoral level qualification in health psychology (stage two) with the British Psychological Society with a focus on individuals with hypermobility spectrum disorders and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.