Suzanne Beale
Co-Applicant – Clinical Therapy Expert.
Clinical specialist Occupational Therapist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

Suzanne is a Senior Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist at the Birmingham Hand Centre specialising within the field of upper limb therapy.

The role includes academic hand therapy with education and professional development responsibilities and research therapy leadership for the Hand, Plastics and Peripheral Nerve Research Network (HaPPeN) within the Birmingham Hand Centre at UHB.

Sue is leading and supporting a number of projects that are clinician and therapy led locally and nationally. She is the chief investigator for SCOPING – a clinical rehabilitation study evaluating the predictive capabilities of early clinical signs and thermographic imaging in the recovery of mixed motor-sensory nerve injury.

Sue is a member of the British Association of Hand Therapists Clinical Evidence Committee (BAHT CEC). She is a reviewer for the BAHT Journal, Hand Therapy.

Sue has a major interest in education and leads BAHT level II training courses on the Surgery and Therapy Management following Flexor and Extensor tendon repair. She is the training lead for hand therapy for the BSSH Diploma for Surgery of the Hand for the Birmingham Hand Fellowship programme. Her clinical interests are hand trauma and rehabilitation of tendon and nerve transfers for the management of upper limb paralysis.