Dr Anne Kinderlerer FRCP

Digital health clinical lead, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Anne Kinderlerer is a consultant rheumatologist, associate medical director (patient safety) and clinical director for discharge and integrated care at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Anne leads on the RCP’s digital health strategy which guides and supports members and fellows to grasp the opportunities presented by digital health to improve patient care and outcomes.

In her clinical leadership roles, Anne’s focus over much of the past decade has been on working with others to improve systems and processes so that they work for patients and make it easier for staff to do the right thing. Anne has a particular interest in how to build more usable systems that reduce burnout and increase safety.

Anne has trained extensively in improvement methodologies including completion of the Flow Coaching Academy Programme in 2017 which brings together people, data and patient stories to improve complex care pathways. She subsequently trained as a Flow Coaching Academy coach and was a clinical coach for the first Sepsis Big Room.

Professor Alastair Denniston

Professor of regulatory science and innovation, University of Birmingham

Professor Alastair Denniston is chair of the UK’s National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare, an National Institute for Health and Care Research senior investigator, professor in regulatory science and innovation at the University of Birmingham, and a clinician at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He is director of the UK’s Centre of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation in AI and Digital Health, is a member of the UK government’s Regulatory Horizons Council and is non-executive director to the UK’s Health Research Authority. He is passionate about supporting innovation in advanced digital and AI health technologies, to accelerate the development of products that are effective, safe and equitable – and which make a difference to people in the ‘real world’.

Dr Jess Morley

de Vries-Sherif associate research scientist and associate director of research, Digital Ethics Centre, Yale University

Dr Jess Morley is de Vries-Sherif associate research scientist and associate director of Research at the Digital Ethics Center, Yale University. She holds a BA, MSc and PhD from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the ethics and governance of health data and AI, and she has previously served as a technology adviser at NHSX and as lead researcher for the Goldacre Review. She sits on the NHS England AI Advisory Board and the UK National Data Guardian’s panel, and is an associate editor at BMJ Digital Health & AI.

Dr Hilary Williams FRCP

Clinical vice president, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Hilary Williams is clinical vice president of the Royal College of Physicians and a consultant medical oncologist. She combines frontline clinical experience with a passion for improving patient care to reduce variation across the UK and tackle health inequalities. Hilary's other leadership roles include RCP vice president for Wales, acute oncology lead for the Wales Cancer Network and board member of UK acute oncology services. She regularly speaks at national conferences and contributes to the media on issues of workforce, cancer, equality and healthcare improvement.

Dr Nicholas Hicks

Senior strategy adviser, Department of Health and Social Care

Dr Nicholas Hicks qualified as a doctor in 1982 and trained in general practice and public health. Currently, he is on secondment from Green Templeton College, University of Oxford to the DHSC System Strategy Unit, supporting the development and implementation of the 10 Year Health Plan. Nicholas’s career has included time as a practising GP, as a director of Public Health, PCT chief executive, a Harkness Fellow and several attachments policy making in the Department of Health where he was the lead author of the Coronary Heart Disease National Service Framework, then the doctor in the department’s Strategy Unit and a major contributor to the NHS plan’s health inequalities policies.

Dr Emma Rowlandson FRCP

Consultant in acute medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Emma Rowlandson is a consultant in acute medicine at West Middlesex Hospital and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Emma obtained her CCT in acute medicine in 2012 and completed her MBA in 2024, focusing on collaboration across the Hounslow health and social care system. She is the Pan-London lead for stage 1 IMT and has held multiple educational leadership roles, including RCP tutor, local and regional IMT training programme director, and supervisor for London’s wellbeing and flourishing fellowships. She also helped secure funding for the new RCP wellbeing research fellowship and has co-authored work on clinician wellbeing. As lead of the Society for Acute Medicine’s Wellbeing Committee, she champions initiatives that support clinicians to thrive and strengthen acute medicine as a sustainable, fulfilling specialty. Emma has held several senior clinical leadership posts, including service director for ambulatory emergency care and acute medicine, clinical director for medical specialties, and clinical director for strategy, integration and partnerships. Her focus is on collaborative service design, improving patient experience, reducing health inequalities and developing neighbourhood care models across Hounslow.

Dr Elizabeth MacPhie FRCP

Consultant rheumatologist, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Lizzy MacPhie is a consultant rheumatologist in Preston and clinical lead for the integrated musculoskeletal service. Lizzy works in a community-based service and has been involved with the tender and then mobilisation of a new integrated service, which has been a unique opportunity to be heavily involved with service redesign. She has held the roles of chair of the Clinical Affairs Committee and chair of the Standards, Audit and Guidelines Working Group at the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR). She is a founder member of the BSR QI Special Interest Group. She has developed a particular interest in quality improvement through her work with service redesign and is an advocate of sharing good practice. In 2023 she was appointed the ICB clinical and care professional lead for Central and West Lancashire.

Dr Kathy McLean

Dr Rebecca Brown

Clinical lead for child health and neighbourhood transformation, Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Dr Rebecca Brown is a GP based in York with specialist interests in child health, neighbourhood health and urgent care innovation. She has developed GP-led paediatric services in partnership with secondary care, enabling greater clinical acuity to be managed safely in community settings. Rebecca’s work focuses on shifting care from hospital to neighbourhood models, with an emphasis on reducing inequalities and addressing the impact of deprivation on health outcomes. She has particular expertise in coordinating care for children with complex needs, drawing on her experience in paediatric palliative medicine and hospice care to support families and integrate services around the child. Her leadership approach emphasises collaboration across primary, secondary, community and voluntary sectors, with a strong commitment to co-production and patient-centred innovation. Rebecca worked within the NHS England North East and Yorkshire regional team as clinical lead for CYP asthma, representing the region nationally and co-founding the National Leadership Forum to enable collaboration and shared learning. She has been a principal investigator for national and international trials, including HARMONIE, a trial on RSV vaccines, and has presented nationally on child health and service transformation.

Dr Arani Nitkunan FRCP

Consultant neurologist, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Dr Arani Nitkunan studied at Newnham College, Cambridge and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London graduating in 1999. Arani was awarded a PhD for stroke research at St George’s Hospital, London in 2007. She was appointed as a consultant neurologist in 2013 with general neurology clinics at Croydon University Hospital and a specialist neuro-ophthalmology clinic at St George’s. Her two sub-specialist areas are stroke and neuro-ophthalmology. She was appointed clinical lead for neurology at Croydon in 2015 where she has transformed acute neurology and driven the appointment of five nurse specialists. Since May 2023, she is the chair of the Association of British Neurologists (ABN) Services Committee and hence a member of ABN executive council. She has held the previous ABN role of vice-chair of the newly formed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and was a member of the Quality Committee and Acute Neurology Special Interest Group. She has been secondary care co-chair of the Southwest London Neurological Services Network since 2019 and was a trustee on the board of the Neurological Alliance.

Dr Nicola Giffin FRCP

Consultant neurologist, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Nicola Griffin has been a consultant neurologist at the Royal United Hospital in Bath since 2003 and is currently clinical lead of an expanding inpatient and outpatient district general hospital department. She gained expertise in her specialist interest in primary headache disorders as a clinical research fellow for Professor Peter Goadsby in the Headache Group at Queen Square . She has been a committee member for the British Association for the Study of Headache and previous chair of the Association of British Neurologists (ABN) Headache and Pain Advisory Group. She was also meetings secretary for the ABN 2022–2025.

Dr Heather Angus-Leppan FRCP

Consultant neurologist and honorary associate professor, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Heather Angus Leppan is a consultant neurologist, epilepsy lead and director of epilepsy research at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. She is an honorary associate professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Her clinical practice includes general and acute neurology, with interests in epilepsy and headache. Heather is involved in clinical research and leadership, with a focus on improving diagnostic accuracy, patient safety and quality of care. She has contributed to national guidelines and multidisciplinary care pathways and is engaged in medical education across undergraduate and postgraduate settings. She is past president of the Clinical Neurosciences Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and president-elect of the Medical Society of London. She also contributes to professional, advocacy and patient focused organisations in the UK and internationally.

Dr Anthony Pereira FRCP

Consultant neurologist, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust