Malisa Pierri

Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:

Award: Research Capacity Building Collaboration (RCBC) Wales fellowships

Biography

Malisa Pierri is the Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist and manager of the Welsh Epilepsy Centre. After qualifying she started work in neurosurgery at the University Hospital of Wales and following a period of working in Sydney, Australia, returned to Wales and took up the post of Neurology Nurse Practitioner.

In 2004 she commenced her post within the epilepsy with special interest in the management of suspected first seizures. In 2011 she was awarded a Florence Nightingale travel scholarship to look at experiences following first seizures in America and Australia. In 2012 she was awarded the inaugural Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board scholarship by the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales. In 2018 she was a runner up in the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Wales Nurse of the Year and in 2019 was awarded Epilepsy Action’s health practitioner of the year. Malisa is currently undertaking a First into Research fellowship with Research Capacity Building Collaboration (RCBC) Wales, looking at people’s experiences of remote care since the onset of COVID-19.