Dr Philip Gothard

Associate global director for Sub-Saharan Africa, RCP and consultant in infectious diseases and general internal medicine, Hospital for Tropical Diseases and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1992 and completed postgraduate training in Oxford and London. From 1997 to 2000, he worked as a research fellow on the immunology of malaria vaccines at the Medical Research Council Laboratories in The Gambia and the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford. Phil is the training programme director for infectious diseases in London and an associate professor of tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He joined the RCP Global team in 2016 as a technical advisor on postgraduate training to the East Central and Southern Africa College of Physicians (ECSACOP). For the past decade, Phil has spent three months each year based in Tanzania and Uganda as course director for the East African diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene.

Dr Susan Hopkins

Healthcare epidemiologist consultant in infectious diseases and microbiology, Public Health England

Dr Susan Hopkins became clinical and public health transition lead and the chief medical advisor for UKHSA in October 2021. Previously she was the interim chief medical advisor at NHS Test and Trace and the strategic response director for COVID-19 in PHE and led the division of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance. She was appointed in 2006 as a consultant in infectious diseases and microbiology at the Royal Free Hospital in London and continues to practice clinically. She holds current research funding of approximately £20 million with research partners across the UK and has more than 250 peer-reviewed publications related to infectious diseases.

Professor Linda Bauld

Professor of public health, The University of Edinburgh

Professor Linda Bauld OBE is Bruce and John Usher chair in public health in the College of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and chief social policy adviser to the Scottish government. For the past 25 years she has led a range of studies to prevent or treat the main modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases with a particular focus on tobacco, alcohol, diet and inequalities in health and more recently on COVID-19. She is a trustee of Diabetes UK, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Faculty of Public Health, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Social Sciences.

Dr Habib Naqvi MBE

Director, NHS Race and Health Observatory

Dr Habib Naqvi is director of the NHS Race and Health Observatory, which leads work nationally on identifying and tackling ethnic health inequalities. Habib joined the NHS in 2001, managing large public health research programmes in the south west of England. He also spent a number of years working at the Department of Health and Social Care where he led national equality and diversity policy, including on the health sector’s response to the UK government’s review of the Public Sector Equality Duty. He joined NHS England in 2013, where he directed the development and implementation of national health equity programmes. Habib volunteers as a trustee of the Mary Seacole Trust, and was listed in the Health Service Journal’s ‘100 most influential people in health in 2021’. Habib reverse mentors the former chief executive of the NHS, Lord Simon Stevens, and was awarded an MBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to equality and diversity in the NHS.

Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy

Deputy chief medical officer for England

Dr Caroline Barry

Clinical director for palliative medicine, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Caroline Barry graduated from Hull York Medical School and completed her postgraduate training in East Anglia. She is currently clinical director of palliative medicine at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. She is director of the Norfolk Motor Neurone Disease Care and Research Network and is the Macmillan clinical advisor for the East of England. She obtained an LLM from Cardiff Law School in 2014 with particular expertise in the application of the mental capacity act towards the end of life.

Dr Paul Paes

Consultant in palliative medicine, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Paul Paes is a consultant in palliative medicine based in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Alongside his clinical role, he led the development and integration of palliative care services in the trust, including the creation of innovative hospital inpatient Palliative Care Units, the Marie Curie @ Northumbria joint venture and a 7-day rapid response service. End of life services in the trust are rated as ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission. He was clinical director of the Northumberland new models of care vanguard programme as part of the NHS Five Year Forward View, and is now director of community services, focusing on delivering planned and urgent out-of-hospital care across North Tyneside and Northumberland. Dr Paes has a joint appointment with Newcastle University where he is director of medical studies, leading the medical degree programme. His research interests are around clinical decision making and developing new models of care.

Professor Simon Noble

Marie Curie professor in supportive and palliative medicine, Cardiff University

Professor Simon Noble is Marie Curie professor in supportive and palliative medicine at the Marie Curie Research Centre in Cardiff. He has a clinical and research interest in cancer associated thrombosis (CAT) and set up the South-East Wales CAT service, seeing 400 new cases per annum. He has sat on CAT clinical guideline groups for National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and has previously co-chaired the Scientific Sub Committee on Malignancy for ISTH. He has lectured on CAT in over 40 countries across 5 continents and published over 200 original papers and abstracts, 27 chapters and 5 books. His hobbies include travel, the history of cinema and hip hop. He is daddy to Hector the cockerpoo who is very cute but can be a little mischievous.

Professor Andrew Davies

Professor of palliative medicine, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin

Professor Andrew Davies is the professor of palliative medicine at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and Our Lady’s Hospice Dublin. He was an undergraduate at St George’s Hospital Medical School in London, and initially trained in general medicine (and clinical oncology), before specialising in palliative medicine. His previous academic appointments were at the University of Bristol, Imperial College London and the University of Surrey. The related consultant (clinical) positions were at Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre, the Royal Marsden Hospital and the Royal Surrey County Hospital / St Luke’s Cancer Centre.

Dr Alastair Gilmore

Consultant in acute medicine, Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and deputy registrar, RCP

Dr Alastair Gilmore works as consultant physician in acute medicine at Arrowe Park Hospital, part of Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, on the Wirral where he grew up. He qualified in medicine from the University of Edinburgh and undertook early postgraduate training between Edinburgh and Liverpool. He stayed on in the Mersey region for specialty training in acute and general internal medicine, where he developed interests in critical care and point-of-care ultrasound and was appointed as a consultant physician in 2015. Alastair has represented colleagues in Mersey at the RCP’s New Consultants Committee since 2016 and has gone on to chair the committee and sit on RCP Council. He is currently working for the RCP on several projects including developing standards for enhanced care, updating ward round guidance and new consultant development. As well as a busy clinical commitment in acute medicine, he has been trust lead for medical simulation and is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Liverpool where he has led on design of large scale high fidelity simulation training.

Professor Daniel Lasserson

Professor of Acute Ambulatory Care and Clinical Lead of Acute Hospital at Home

Professor Daniel Lasserson is the clinical lead for the acute hospital at home service, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and professor of acute ambulatory care at the University of Warwick. He is the theme lead for acute care interfaces in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands and theme lead for acute ambulatory care in the NIHR Community Healthcare MedTech and In-Vitro Diagnostic Cooperative (MIC). He has an interest in how point of care diagnostics, both blood and ultrasound, can support acute medical decision making and care delivery in out of hospital settings. He is the chief investigator of an NIHR policy research programme study examining the optimal acute medical care delivery model during winter and waves of COVID-19 and leads the NIHR STOPAPE trial on the management of sub-segmental pulmonary embolism. He sits on the Society for Acute Medicine Research Committee and is on the editorial board of the Acute Medicine Journal.

Dr Vicky Price

Consultant in acute medicine, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Vicky Price is a consultant in acute medicine based at the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She is the ambulatory care (SDEC) lead on the Royal Hospital site and has created 60 AEC pathways designed to keep patients at home during their investigations and treatments. She is also mortality lead for the AMU and enjoys teaching and trying to persuade all juniors to become an acute medic. She is the current secretary of the Society for Acute Medicine and sits on the National SDEC steering group for workforce planning. Her main vocation is being mum to three daughters who are currently educating her on the finer techniques of patience and diplomacy, while also allowing her to come to the realisation that in no situation ever is she ever right...

Dr Adnan Gebril

Consultant physician in acute medicine

Dr Adnan Gebril has completed most of his training in the north west region and has acquired a CCT in acute medicine with special interest in tropical medicine and hygiene. He is currently the clinical lead for ambulatory emergency care (AEC) / SDEC service and the medical high care unit (MHCU) at Salford Care Organisation, North Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. He is a member of the Society of Acute Medicine Benchmark Audit (SAMBA) committee and member of the Society of Acute Medicine Quality Improvement (SAMQI) committee.

Michael Rosen

Author

Michael Rosen is one of Britain’s best loved writers and performance poets for children and adults. His first degree in English Literature and Language was from Wadham College, Oxford and he went on to study for an MA at the University of Reading and a PhD at the former University of North London, now London Metropolitian. He is currently Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London where he co-devised and teaches critical approaches to reading on an MA in Children’s Literature, having done the same at Birkbeck, University of London. He has taught on MA courses in universities since 1994. He was the Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009. Michael is also a popular broadcaster and has presented BBC Radio 4’s acclaimed programme about language, “Word of Mouth” since 1998, including lengthy interviews with Steven Pinker, Philip Pullman, David Walliams, Malorie Blackman, Raymond Antrobus, David Crystal, as well as regularly presenting documentary programmes for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3, including the Sony Gold Award-winning “On Saying Goodbye”, ‘Zola in Norwood’ (on Emile Zola’s exile in England) and in-depth programmes on the subjects of eg Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, the poetry of Roald Dahl, the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the working methods of Cressida Cowell, the German youth rebels in the Nazi period, the Edelweisspiraten, and memorialising the Holocaust. He is a frequent contributor to news or arts radio and TV programmes on the subject of children’s reading, poetry and literature in general. Michael has published over 200 books for children and adults, including “The Sad Book” with Quentin Blake (Walker Books) - a meditation on bereavement written after the loss of his son, Eddie; “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” with Helen Oxenbury (Walker Books) - made into an animated film for Channel 4 broadcast Christmas Day 2016 - and “A Great Big Cuddle” with Chris Riddell (Walker Books) and most recently ‘The Missing’ a study of the fate of his father’s uncles in World War Two. His poetry for adults includes “Don’t Mention the Children” (Smokestack) and “Selected Poems” (Penguin). Non-fiction work for adults includes “Good Ideas: How to Be Your Child’s (and Your Own) Best Teacher” (John Murray), “The Disappearance of Emile Zola, Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case” (Faber), and his memoir “So They Call You Pisher!” (Verso). Michael writes a monthly open “letter” to the Secretary of State for Education in The Guardian where he critiques Government policy on schools from the standpoint of a parent. He also writes a column in the ‘New Humanist’ on language based on the history and use of words in the media. He visits schools, teachers’ conferences and university teacher training departments where he is in demand to give performances, workshops and keynote addresses. He also appears regularly at literary festivals all over the UK and Ireland including Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Birmingham, Belfast, Dublin, Jewish Book Week and many more. He has visited international schools and conferences in Paris, the Hague, Prague, Vienna, Milan, Chicago, Vancouver, Sidney, Montreal, Toronto and many more. He frequently gives talks on the arts in education and the history of children’s literature or related topics for such institutions as the Royal Academy, the British Library, the Royal College of Arts, the Institut Français. He has been commissioned to do work for major national institutions such as the British Museum, Snape Maltings and collaborations with the London Sinfonia, the Bach Choir, the Barbican Arts Centre, the Wellcome Collection, Tate Modern and History Works in Cambridge on local history and Holocaust Education and Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations. Michael has received several honorary awards, including degrees from the Open University, the University of Exeter, the University of London Institute of Education and the University of East London/Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. For outstanding contribution to children’s literature he received the Eleanor Farjeon Award. In recognition of his contribution to the profile of French culture in the UK, he was made Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Michael’s Youtube channel – “Kids’ Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen” has over 200 videos of poems and stories and interviews with writers such as Frank Cottrell Boyce, David Almond and Malorie Blackman - has had 68 miilion views around the world.

Professor Hugh Montgomery

Director of the UCL Centre for Human Health and Performance, University College London

Professor Hugh Montgomery has obtained a 1st class BSc (1984), medical degree (1987) and MDRes (1997). He is professor of intensive care medicine at University College London (UCL) and director of the UCL Centre for Human Health and Performance. He has published >550 papers and has won >8 (inter)national awards. He chaired two Lancet Commissions on human health and climate change (CC), and now the 42-institition, 27-country Lancet Countdown on health and CC. He has briefed policymakers (inter)nationally; co-leads the UCL MSc module on CC and health; was a founder member of the UK Climate and Health Alliance; led the first RCP meeting on health and CC; led the first international meeting on CC, health and security; was appointed London leader by Greater London Authority’s Sustainable Development Commission; attended many international ‘COP’ negotiations; led the children’s CC education ‘Project Genie’; and co-led the ITV documentary on floods and climate change in 2020. He initiated the 2022 Regent's Declaration Process. His 2022 OBE was awarded in part for his work on climate change.

Dr Marina Romanello

Executive director of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

Dr Marina Romanello is the executive director of the Lancet Countdown, a collaboration of 43 leading academic institutions and UN agencies tracking progress on health and climate change. She trained as a clinical biochemist in the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and holds a PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Cambridge. Her research has focused on the impact of environmental exposures on epigenetic alterations and cancer onset. In 2019 she joined UCL's Institute for Global Health to research the links between climate change and global health within the Lancet Countdown, where she has since been leading on the improvement of its metrics and development of the indicator report.

Dr Natalia Kurek

Senior clinical lead, Greener NHS Programme, NHS England and Improvement

Professor Simon Bowman

Consultant rheumatologist, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and RCP treasurer

Professor Simon Bowman is a consultant rheumatologist at Milton Keynes University Hospital, honorary consultant at University Hospitals Birmingham and honorary professor at the University of Birmingham. He is deputy treasurer at RCP (previously Harveian librarian) and a past president of the British Society for Rheumatology and of the British Sjogrens Syndrome Association. Professor Bowman's research interest has been in outcome assessment in Sjogren's syndrome (PROFAD-SSI, ESSDAI, ESSPRI). He collaborated with Professor Wan-Fai Ng to set up the UK Sjogren's Syndrome Registry and was chief investigator of the TRACTISS study of Rituximab in Sjogren's syndrome which was the first and largest UK led biologic trial in this condition. He continues to collaborate on a number of academic and pharmaceutical led studies in Sjogren's syndrome and is workpackage 8 leader of the EU-funded euros 15M multinational NECESSITY study to develop new clinical endpoints in primary Sjogren's syndrome.

Dr Manish Pareek

Professor of infectious diseases, University of Leicester

Dr Manish Pareek graduated from the University of Birmingham with Honours in Medicine and undertook general medical training before completing an academic specialist training programme in infectious diseases and general medicine in Leicester and London (Imperial College London) funded by the Medical Research Council. At present he is an associate clinical professor at the University of Leicester and honorary consultant in infectious diseases within University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. His primary research interests are tuberculosis, migrant health, health policy, modelling and health economics. He has undertaken a significant amount of work on the impact of ethnicity on COVID-19 outcomes and is the chief investigator of UK-REACH which is examining COVID-19 in healthcare workers.

Professor Reecha Sofat

Professor of clinical pharmacology, UCL Institute of Health Informatics, University College London

Dr Caroline Dale

Senior research fellow, University College London

Dr Lauren Walker

Senior clinical lecturer and honary consultant in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, University of Liverpool

Dr Lauren Walker is a senior clinical lecturer in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics and associate director of the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She is passionate about the safe and effective use of medicines, from discovery and development through to post-marketing surveillance. Her research involves artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to improve structured medicines reviews for those with complex conditions. She contributes to outpatient clinics, inpatient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings for adults with complex multimorbidity and polypharmacy and is co-chair of a National Polypharmacy Services Consortium, a collaborative venture between clinical pharmacologists, pharmacists, geriatricians and GPs. She has experience of medicines optimisation in both primary and secondary care settings and is committed to improving communication across the interface.

Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed

David Weatherall Chair of Medicine, University of Liverpool

Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed is the David Weatherall chair of medicine at the University of Liverpool, and a consultant physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He is also director of the Centre for Drug Safety Sciences, and director of the Wolfson Centre for Personalised Medicine. He is an inaugural NIHR senior investigator, fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK, chair of the Commission on Human Medicines and is a non-executive director of NHS Improvement, and immediate past president of the British Pharmacological Society. He was awarded a Knights Bachelor in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2015. His research is data-centred, and focuses on personalised medicine, genomics, clinical pharmacology and drug safety.

Dr Emma Magavern

Researcher, Queen Mary, University of London

Dr Emma Magavern is a researcher at the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, and a clinician at the department of clinical pharmacology, cardiovascular medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust.

Dr Richard Turner

Director, physican geneticist, GlaxoSmithKline

Dr Richard Turner joined GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in 2021 as a physician scientist and works within GSK's genomic sciences group. Prior to this, he was an academic clinical lecturer at the University of Liverpool with a Health Education England Genomics Research Fellowship and completed clinical training in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics alongside general internal medicine. He graduated in medicine from the University of Cambridge and completed subsequent academic foundation training at the East of England deanery. In 2012, he took up an NIHR academic clinical fellowship in Liverpool and, from 2014 to 2017, undertook a PhD as an MRC fellow investigating the clinical and pharmacogenomic factors associated with statin exposure and adverse muscle toxicity. Richard’s involvement within the working group that has produced this report was whilst he was an academic clinical lecturer and through his affiliations with the University of Liverpool and the British Pharmacological Society.

Dr Simon Fleming

Registrar in orthopaedics, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Partha Kar

Director of equality, Medical Workforce, NHS England

Professor Partha Kar is a consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth and National Specialty Advisor for Diabetes for NHS England.

He has led and delivered so far on (April 2016 - till date):
Freestyle Libre being available on NHS -across country
NHS Right Care Diabetes pathway
Diabetes “Language Matters” document
Type 1 diabetes NHS England web-resource – on NHS choices
Introduction of Frailty into QoF treatment targets for diabetes care in NHS
Availability of CGM to all T1D pregnant patients
Diabetes Technology pathway development with multiple stakeholders
Setting up pilot projects for diabulimia treatment in London & Wessex
Introduction of Low Carbohydrate App into NHS Apps Library

Other work has involved input in updating of driving guidelines in relation to use of technology in those living with diabetes, helping to develop a virtual reality programme to improve hospital safety and starting work on increased mental health access for diabetes patients across the NHS

He received an OBE in the New Years Honours List, UK in 2021 for “services to diabetes care”

Dr Rose Penfold

Academic clinical fellow in geriatric medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London

Dr Rose Penfold is an academic clinical fellow (ST3) in geriatric medicine based in South London, where she has been undertaking research at the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology looking at delirium in frail, older adults. She is in the first cohort of the new internal medicine training programme and acts an IMT/ CMT trainee representative for the Royal College of Physicians. Alongside four NHS colleagues, Rose co-founded Women Speakers in Healthcare, the largest database of women speakers across health and social care in the UK and an organisation committed to achieving gender balance, with parity of opportunity for all. She is delighted to be invited to this conversation to share both her personal experiences and those of her network.

Dr Emma Vaux

Consultant nephrol

Dr Emma Vaux is a consultant nephrologist and general physician at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust where she is also clinical lead, Berkshire Kidney Unit; clinical director, integrated medicine; and medical associate director, patient safety. She is immediate past vice president (education and training) and senior censor at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and is currently RCP chief examiner. She led on the development of the RCP500 Code of Conduct. She is a Health Foundation Generation Q Fellow and founding member of the Q Community. Emma is Co-editor of ABC Quality Improvement in Healthcare and Associate Editor of Future Healthcare Journal. She is a member of the HEE Sustainability in Quality Improvement Education Advisory Group. She is a member of NHSE/I Menopause Clinical Reference Group. Emma was awarded an OBE for services to medical education in 2021

Dr Wajid Hussain

Clinical director for digital health, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Wajid Hussain is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. He is involved in the investigation and treatment of patients with all forms of arrhythmia problems. His research and clinical interests are focussed on catheter ablation of complex cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. He has an interest in Digital Health. He undertook a diploma and then a Masters in Digital Health Leadership from Imperial College. He is the chief clinical information officer for his trust and the clinical director for digital health for the Royal College of Physicians London. He is involved in various national bodies developing career pathways in digital heath and remote care.

Professor Harold Thimbleby

See change fellow in digital health

Professor Harold Thimbleby is a leading international computer scientist who works in healthcare. He has been an expert witness in NHS criminal cases involving IT and has given talks and workshops on IT problems and solutions in over 30 countries. His goal is to improve the quality of digital healthcare. His new book Fix IT: See and Solve the Problems of Digital Healthcare (OUP, 2021) is full of powerful stories that tell how computers create problems for both staff and patients. The book also has stories of success and describes how we can get to a much-improved digital future.

Professor Ramesh Arasaradnam

Academic vice president, Royal College of Physicians

Professor Ramesh Arasaradnam graduated from Queen’s , and then pursued specialty training in Sheffield and a PhD in Newcastle. Thereafter, he took up a consultant position at Coventry with joint honorary academic appointments at Warwick, Leicester and Coventry universities. Currently, he is the academic vice president at the RCP. He was previously chair of the Research Committee for the British Society of Gastroenterology. In 2020, as part of the Queen’s birthday honours, he received an OBE for services to the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic. His research interest is varied, but largely focused on diagnostic tools (he holds three patents) in cancer and inflammation to improve clinical pathways.

Dr Lucy Chappell

Chief scientific adviser, Department of Health and Social Care

Professor Lucy Chappell is National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) research professor in obstetrics at King’s College London and honorary consultant obstetrician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She runs a research programme investigating prediction and prevention of adverse pregnancy outcomes, particularly in women with multiple pre-existing health conditions such as chronic hypertension and chronic kidney disease, using randomised controlled trials and observational studies. She has subspecialty training in maternal-fetal medicine and a master’s degree in higher education, supervising higher degree students from obstetric, nephrology and general practice backgrounds. She is president of the Blair Bell Research Society, an academic editor for PLOS Medicine journal, a member of the NIHR HTA Clinical Evaluation and Trials Board, the RCOG Maternal Medicine Clinical Studies Group, and the International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy Council.

Dr Louise Wood CBE

Director of science, research and evidence directorate, Department of Health and Social Care

Louise Wood is director of science, research and evidence at the Department of Health and Social Care. She has led the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) with Professor Chris Whitty, since 2016 and also has responsibility for policy research and science policy. Previously, she held several roles in the department’s research and development directorate, including deputy director leading on relations with the life sciences industry, and subsequently for research infrastructure in the NHS and partner universities to support delivery of groundbreaking research to improve patient care and population health and cement the UK's reputation as a leading international centre for healthcare research and science. She spent her early career working at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and served on the agency's executive board for 4 years as founding director of the General Practice Research Database, forerunner to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. ‎More recently Louise spent a year on secondment at the Association of Medical Research Charities as its director of policy and public affairs. Since 2018, Louise has served as a council member for the Medical Research Council and as a member of the Advisory Board to the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter. She was elected an honorary fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine in 2011 and awarded a CBE for services to health research in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Dr Ruth Watkinson

Research fellow, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester

Dr Ruth Watkinson is a research fellow in the health organisation, policy and economics (HOPE) group at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on health inequalities, in particular looking at inequalities between ethnic groups and socio-economic groups. Current projects include research into ethnic inequalities in health-related quality of life among older adults, and inequalities in vaccine uptake between ethnic groups. Before joining the University of Manchester, Ruth completed an MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a PhD at the University of Cambridge.

Professor Sir Tumani Corrah

Founder and co-president, Africa Research Excellence Fund

Professor Sir Tumani Corrah KBE is emeritus director of the Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia @ The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is founder and president of the Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF). Established 6 years ago, AREF focusses on talented emerging health researchers in the continent, providing them with stepping-stones to a successful research career in Africa for Africa. Research that will impact on policies to improve health and save lives in Africa and World-wide.

Professor André Ng

Professor of cardiac electrophysiology and consultant cardiologist, University of Leicester

Andre Ng is professor of cardiac electrophysiology and head of department of cardiovascular sciences at the University of Leicester. He is honorary consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital with active clinical practice in heart rhythm management and champions innovation in clinical interventions. He leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers spanning preclinical, clinical and engineering / mathematical science. He serves as non-executive director of Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and deputy chair and clinical pathway lead for heart rhythm management of the East Midlands Clinical Network. He is vice president (education and research) of the British Cardiovascular Society.

Professor John Camm

BHF emeritus professor of clinical cardiology, St. George’s University of London

Dr Harshil Dhutia

Consultant cardiologist, Glenfield Hospital

Dr Harshil Dhutia is a consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. He is the lead for the adult inherited cardiac conditions service in the region and is also a complex cardiac device implanter. His research interests have focused on the prevention of sudden cardiac death in young individuals and he has publications in several peer-reviewed journals. In addition, Dr Dhutia has a strong education background and is the current regional Royal College of Physicians tutor. Dr Dhutia is also the medical lead for the Joe Humphries Memorial Trust, a Leicestershire charity organisation dedicated to raising awareness of sudden cardiac death in the young.

Dr Claire Martin

Consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Claire Martin is an electrophysiologist at Royal Papworth Hospital. She completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge funded by a Medical Research Council Training Fellowship, and for this was awarded the British Cardiovascular Society Young Research Workers’ Prize. Following specialist training at Papworth Hospital, she undertook clinical fellowships at Barts Heart Centre and subsequently at the Hopital du Haut-Leveque, Bordeaux, through funding from a European Society of Cardiology training grant. She has subspecialist interests in the ablation of ventricular arrhythmias in structural heart disease and in arrhythmias in patients with adult congenital heart disease. Her research interests are in the mechanisms and ablation strategies for complex atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. She is currently principal investigator for studies funded by the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation and industry partners.

Dr Nima Ghadiri

medical ophthalmologist, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Ian Pearce

Consultant ophthalmologist, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Nicholas Beare

Consultant ophthalmologist, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Natasha Jones

President, Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine

Dr Ashley Ridout

Registrar in sport and exercise medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Ashley Ridout is a sport and exercise medicine registrar in Oxford. Prior to SEM training she worked as a GP in London. She is the registrar representative for Moving Medicine and has an interest in the role of physical activity in prevention and management of long-term medical conditions.

Dr William Wynter Bee

Sport and exercise medicine SpR, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust

William is a sport and exercise medicine (SEM) registrar in London with an interest in physical activity and mental health. Prior to SEM training he completed GP training at Guy’s and St Thomas’ in London. He has completed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) diploma in elite athlete mental health and subsequently has developed moving medicine mental health modules and mental health services for the European Tour Group. He is currently setting up an SEM led exercise medicine clinic at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Dr Catherine Lester

Consultant in Sport, Exercise & Musculoskeletal Medicine

Dr Sam Botchey

Sport and exercise medicine registrar, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Chris Speers

Consultant in sport and exercise medicine, Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust

Dr Chris Speers is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine. He has led the development of multiple Moving Medicine modules and is the lead consultant for the Active Hospitals in Oxford (https://movingmedicine.ac.uk). He currently sits on the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK Council and works for Aston Villa Football Club.

Dr Farhan Shahid

ST5 specialist registrar in sport and exercise medicine, University College London Hospital NHS Trust

Dr Farhan Shahid is a sport and exercise medicine specialist registrar based in the London Deanery at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health (ISEH).  He has developed a strong interest in exercise medicine education, elite sport care and musculoskeletal ultrasonography. Farhan completed GP training in Warwickshire Deanery prior to SEM training. He has also developed Sport and Exercise Medicine Modules at University College London (UCL) and University of Birmingham Medical Schools, as well as teaching the BSc and Masters students. Farhan is part of the Moving Medicine team and is co-leading the Anxiety Module to provide evidence based information to promote patient centred conversations with promoting physical activity. He also hold roles for the Football Association (FA) as a Men’s Development Squad Doctor and work at Fulham FC Academy. 

Professor Cheng-Hock Toh

Professor and consultant in haematology, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

Professor Cheng-Hock Toh is an academic haematologist at Liverpool who has won awards for his services to patients with bleeding and thrombotic conditions. He has held diverse leadership roles, including as RCP academic vice president, president of the British Society for Haematology and national specialty lead of the NIHR Clinical Research Network. More recently, he received the Royal College of Pathologists’ highest Achievement Award, the European Hematology Association inaugural Education and Mentor Award and was featured by the British Medical Journal as an exemplary role model.

Dr Subarna Chakravorty

Consultant paediatric haematologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Subarna Chakravorty is a paediatric haematologist with a special interest in non-malignant haematology. She joined King’s College Hospital as a consultant in July 2015. Prior to that, Subarna led the paediatric haemoglobinopathy service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for 5 years, where she was also involved in the bone marrow transplant programme for paediatric haemoglobinopathy. Since 2021, Subarna has been involved in the adult sickle cell BMT service at King’s College. Subarna was the national lead for the UK haemoglobinopathy peer reviews, 2018–2020. She is one of the clinical leads at the Southeast London Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre for sickle cell disease and a member of the Clinical Reference Group for haemoglobinopathy, NHS England. She is a trustee of the British Society for Haematology and the UK Forum on Haemoglobin Disorders. Subarna is interested in clinical and molecular research in sickle cell disease and is involved in a number of projects at King’s College London.

Professor Ian Roberts

Professor of epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dr Ian Roberts is professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He trained as a paediatrician in the UK and then in epidemiology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and McGill University, Canada. He is a clinical academic who works collaboratively with health professionals worldwide to conduct large multicentre clinical trials aimed at improving patient outcomes in life threatening emergencies. He works with others to build global research partnerships to answer questions that could not be answered by anyone working alone. He has played a lead role in several large trials, including the CRASH trials and the Woman trial.

Dr Kaushik Chaudhuri

Consultant rheumatologist, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Dr Kaushik Chaudhuri has been a consultant rheumatologist for over 2 decades. He has held a number of roles at the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) including regional chair for the West Midlands 2013–16 and trustee and chair of the Education Committee from 2016–19. He is currently honorary secretary of the British Society for Rheumatology and an elected councillor of the RCP. He is also the treasurer of the UEMS Rheumatology section.

Dr Zoe Paskins

Reader and honorary consultant rheumatologist, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Dr James Bateman

Consultant rheumatologist, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Dr James Bateman is a consultant rheumatologist at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, he has an interest in healthcare education and digital technologies. He has previously completed a master’s in medical education, and an Education Research Fellowship / PhD with Versus Arthritis which involved researching ‘virtual patients’. He is the head of undergraduate education in his trust, for medical students from the University of Birmingham and Aston Medical School.

Dr Peter Lanyon

Consultant rheumatologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Peter Lanyon is a consultant rheumatologist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, honorary clinical associate professor at the University of Nottingham and past president of the British Society for Rheumatology. As national clinical co-lead for rheumatology in the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme (NHS England and NHS Improvement) he uses national NHS data to improve the treatment and care of patients and reduce variation through in-depth clinically led reviews of services, benchmarking, and presenting a data-driven evidence base to support change. He is a clinical lead in the National Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Registration Service (NCARDRS, NHS Digital). NCARDRS is a service to support clinicians and patients, service delivery, commissioning and public health. His research focuses on improving health outcomes for people with rare autoimmune diseases, and he has led the design and implementation of NHS England commissioning policies for these conditions.