Russ Cowper

Russ is 60 years old and a long term patient at SRFT, he has psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and epilepsy. He has been in hospital 29 times spending over 3 years of his life on the Dermatology ward. He has spoken at various conferences, to pharmaceutical companies, made films, written poetry and blogs about his experiences. He is a member of the Patient panels at Health Innovation Manchester, GM-ARC and vocal as well as being a co founder of PRP-NETT which is a think tank that is looking to improve patient representation in research. He is currently a co-applicant on three research projects working with the Universities of Manchester, Bath, Oxford and Newcastle.