Dr Richard Pile
Clinical Advisor to the Team
Dr Richard Pile is a GP partner specialising in Cardiovascular & Lifestyle Medicine and Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group board lead for Prevention. He is also clinical lead GP for Thrive Tribe and co-founder of Living Life Better His first book, Fit For Purpose ("Your guide to better health, wellbeing and living a meaningful life") , was published by Harper Collins this year. Richard is also the newly appointed clinical director of the Guild of Health and St Raphael.
Dr Sue Martin
Company Secretary
Dr Sue Martin is our company secretary. She has worked for 35 years in the public and not for profit sectors, including health, policing, housing, education and law. She is a qualified company secretary and is passionate about the importance which good governance can make to all organisations. Because of her background in health, Sue fully supports the aims of the Guild especially helping people to understand the links between physical, mental and spiritual health. In addition to working for the Guild, Sue is a member of the Joint Audit Committee of her local police force and a churchwarden at her local church.
Theresa McDowall
Executive Assistant to the Team
Theresa has spent much of her working career in education, primarily as a teacher of science and more recently at a local charity run preschool. She is passionate about education for all age groups and the important impact of health and wellbeing on individuals and communities.
Although new to this role, she is looking forward to building relationships with our members of the GoHealth community to support their healing ministry.
Theresa is happiest spending time with her children and being outside in nature.
The Revd Dr Gillian Straine
Chief Executive Officer
She is passionately committed to health, healing and Christian living. She is a cancer survivor, Anglican priest, theologian and scientist with a strong interest in communication and teaching. She has a doctorate in Physics from Imperial College London and an MA in Theology from the University of Oxford. She is particularly keen to bring the study of science into conversations about Christian healing. She is the author of Introducing Science and Religion: A path through polemic (SPCK, 2014), The Limits of Science? (CSP, 2017) and Cancer: A Pilgrim Companion (SPCK, 2017).
Wendy Lloyd
Resource Development Partner
Wendy Lloyd has created and curated education, worship, prayer, theology and bible discussion resources for a number of organisations and co-edited Rage and Hope: 75 prayers for a better world (SPCK, 2020). She has an MLitt in Bible and the Contemporary World from the University of St Andrews. Working for the Guild of Health and St. Raphael (GoHealth) allows her to explore and share her interest in faith, wellbeing, and communication. As well as working for GoHealth she is a communications manager for the Iona Community and is a trustee of the Scottish Pilgrim Routes Forum. She regularly supports pilgrims to make meaningful journeys across the Isle of Mull through her Mull Another Way initiative. She has trained as a spiritual director with Sarum College.
Graham Fender-Allison
Online Learning Partner
Graham Fender-Allison is the Online Learning Partner for the Guild. He is a Glasgow based liturgist, facilitator and (mostly) full time dad.
Graham brings to this role 20 years of experience in theology, group facilitation, spiritual direction, community education and online resourcing. He is delighted to be working with the Guild because he shares our passion for health and healing as well as our belief that God yearns to offer life in all its fullness for the whole of Creation - and like all of us, he is eager to join God in that work.
Graham worked nationally for the Church of Scotland as the Team Leader of its Resourcing Worship Team, which provided congregations across Scotland with resources to develop their experience and understanding of worship through music, prayer, preaching, ritual, art and architecture.