Administrative Staff

Leonie Remington

Office manager
Leonie is our office manager. She came to the UK from New Zealand in 1998. She has a BA in psychology and criminology, and is a qualified clinical hypnotherapist and reflexologist with a practice in Newbury.

Karen Starr

Registrar
Karen graduated from the College in 1999 and now practices at the College clinic. In her role as our registrar she processes applications and answers queries about course structure and content.

Julian Oxley

Finance officer
Julian is an Oxford graduate and chartered accountant. He was for many years finance director of a public engineering group, and then director-general of a large national charity. After retiring he returned to part-time accountancy practice, and was also a non-executive director of a local NHS hospital trust.

Charlotte Ribeiro

Administrator and weekend student clinical organiser
joined us in 2002 as an office assistant and is now our administrator. Her main responsibilities are organising the busy teaching clinic for third year clinical students and managing the weekend staff. She also provides cover for the Registrar and undertakes a large variety of other administrative and support duties for both students and teaching staff.

Mary West

Receptionist
is our main receptionist. Originally from Wales, she joined the RAF and subsequently became director of an export company, living in various countries in the Middle East. She later settled in Reading, becoming branch administrator for a well-known shoe company before joining the College.

Silvia Hovancova

CPD coordinator & Tui na course registrar
Silvia joined us in March 2005 as our office assistant. Her main responsibility is to coordinate our continuing professional development programme. She is also the registrar for our Tuina course.

Heather Lanyon

Coursework administrator
Heather joined our admin team as an office assistant in 2005. Her main responsibility is to deal with students' assignments as well as other office duties.

Lauren Shotton

Weekend receptionist

Gabi Gavril

Weekend receptionist

Nicole Bester

Weekend receptionist

Michael Pringle

Library and learning resources coordinator
Michael is our library and learning resources coordinator and our Resources Manager. He has been practicing acupuncture since 1982 and is also a Chinese herbalist.

In order to bring you high standards of teaching the College has a teaching staff with a huge range of expertise and knowledge. Students often comment on the community spirit and enthusiasm of the teaching staff and notice their desire to get the best out of the students. Our teaching staff meet regularly in order to enhance their clinical and teaching skills.