Annie has consulted and taught on inter-professional conflict for over thirty years, with a PhD in Organisational Psychology, and a special interest in medical power structures and behaviours. 

Trained as a pharmacist and worked in several London Teaching Hospitals before studying economics and organisational behaviour and working as an academic.

She has a Diploma in the Social History of Medicine and an MA in Nineteenth Century Studies which she uses to write fact-based novels to illuminate the ways in which organisations succeed and fail.