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DPhil Candidate, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

Gino is a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with a clinical specialism in selective mutism at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

He was awarded the NIHR Predoctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF) in 2018. During this fellowship, he carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of nonpharmacological interventions for children and adolescents with selective mutism.

He was awarded the NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (CDRF) in 2022. He is currently doing his DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. His doctoral research uses mixed methods to co-design a therapist led online programme to support children with selective mutism. The project is known as the Preschool and primary school intervention for selective mutism (PRISM) study.

Experience

  • 2013–present
    Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • 2009–2013
    Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation NHS Trust
  • 2007–2009
    Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation NHS Trust
  • 2005–2007
    Speech and Language Therapist, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation NHS Trust