Dr Andrew Goddard

President, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Andrew Goddard is the president of the RCP, and a consultant physician and gastroenterologist at Royal Derby Hospital. After gaining an MD from Cambridge University, Dr Goddard trained in Nottingham and was appointed as a consultant physician and gastroenterologist in Derby in 2001. He was director of the RCP’s Medical Workforce Unit for 5 years until being appointed RCP registrar in 2014. In this role, he oversaw professional and clinical affairs, both in the UK and internationally. His main policy areas were workforce, healthcare funding, the future of general medicine, the medical registrar and ‘keeping medicine brilliant’. In 2018 he was elected the 121st RCP president, the youngest for 400 years, and the first from the East Midlands. His priorities for his term are ‘workforce, wellbeing and worldwide’ and these will feature strongly in the RCP strategy for the next 3 years. He is currently chair of the MHRA expert advisory group on AI, software and apps, and has a keen interest in the use of innovative technologies in improving healthcare. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Goddard has been instrumental in influencing the national response and representing the fellowship and membership views.

Dr Mumtaz Patel

Consultant nephrologist, and vice president RCP Global

Dr Mumtaz Patel is a consultant nephrologist based in Manchester and the RCP global vice president where she seeks to address the global health agenda and health inequities. She is currently postgraduate associate dean for Health Education England and is a deputy director for conduct and progress at the School of Medicine at the University of Liverpool. After completing her medicine degree at the University of Manchester, Mumtaz went on to pursue a career in renal medicine. She is passionate and committed to drive the quality of training and has been involved in various educational roles and obtained an MSc in Medical Education.

Professor Chris Whitty

Chief medical officer for England, Department of Health and Social Care

Professor Chris Whitty is chief medical officer (CMO) for England, the UK government’s chief medical adviser and head of the public health profession. He represents the UK on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization. Chris is a practising NHS consultant physician at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, and professor of physic at Gresham College.

Rt. Hon. Sajid Javid MP

Secretary of State for health and social care

Sajid Javid was appointed secretary of state for health and social care on 26 June 2021. He was previously chancellor of the exchequer from 24 July 2019 to 13 February 2020. He was home secretary from 30 April 2018 to 24 July 2019. He was secretary of state for housing, communities and local government from 8 January 2018 to 29 April 2018, and secretary of state for communities and local government from July 2016 to January 2018. Sajid served as secretary of state for business, innovation and skills from May 2015 until July 2016. He was secretary of state for culture, media and sport from April 2014 to May 2015 and previously he was both the economic and financial secretary to the treasury. He was a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee from June to November 2010. He was elected conservative MP for Bromsgrove in 2010.

Dr Brian Wang

SFDN representative for London, Royal College of Physicians

Brian is an academic foundation year 1 doctor in London.

Brian completed his undergraduate at the University of Cambridge before moving to Imperial College London to complete his medical studies and a British Heart Foundation-funded PhD at the National Heart and Lung Institute.

Brian is the founder and trustee of the national widening participation initiative In2MedSchool.

As part of the SFDN, Brian wants to encourage medical students and doctors to support future doctors from disadvantage backgrounds. Brian also has a keen interest in academia and wants to encourage medical students and doctors to pursue teaching and research opportunities.

Sir Jim Mackey

Chief executive, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen

Acting chair of council, General Medical Council

Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen is acting chair of the General Medical Council (GMC), appointed in August 2021. Carrie is a consultant ophthalmologist for NHS Tayside and honorary professor at the University of Dundee. She served as chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges until 2020 and is past-president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Carrie is the clinical co-lead for the ophthalmology ‘Getting it right first time’ programme and the ‘Eye care recovery and transformation programme’ for NHS England/Improvement. She is a specialty advisor to the Scottish chief medical officer and leads the Scottish eyecare workstream. Carrie has served on several committees in support of education, training and assessment and NHS committees regarding service redesign for general medical services. She chairs the multi-professional subcommittee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, the Trustee Board of the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership, is a trustee of the Moorfields Eye Charity and a member of the council of the University of Exeter.

Chris Hopson

Chief executive, NHS Providers

Chris Hopson joined NHS Providers in September 2012 as chief executive following a career spanning the public, private and voluntary sectors. NHS Providers is the membership organisation for the 212 NHS hospital, mental health, community and ambulance trusts that account for £92bn of annual public expenditure and employ over one million staff. NHS Providers has 100% of the sector in voluntary membership.

Ian Trenholm

Chief executive officer, Care Quality Commission

Ian Trenholm was chief executive of NHS Blood and Transplant from 2014 until his appointment as chief executive of CQC in 2018. He was previously chief operating officer at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), a role which included being the department’s digital leader. Prior roles included chief executive of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead and strategic director for resources at Buckinghamshire County Council. Ian began his career as an inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police Service. He then served with Surrey Police for 4 years before moving to the commercial sector. Ian has a degree in geology from Goldsmiths College London and an MBA from Durham University Business School.

Dr Kamran Abbasi

Editor in chief, British Medical Journal

Kamran Abbasi is a doctor, journalist, editor and broadcaster. Following 5 years in hospital medicine, working in various medical specialties such as psychiatry and cardiology, he moved into senior editorial roles at the British Medical Journal (BMJ) from 1997 to 2005. He returned to the BMJ in a new role as executive editor for content, leading the journal's strategic growth internationally, digitally, and in print. In his career as a medical editor, Kamran has been acting editor and deputy editor of the BMJ, editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and JRSM Open, editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, and a consultant editor for PLOS Medicine. In January 2022 he became editor in chief of the BMJ. He has created three major e-learning resources for professional development of doctors including BMJ Learning and the Royal Society of Medicine's e-learning and video lecture service. Kamran has held board level positions and been chief executive of an online learning company. He has consulted for several major organisations including Harvard University, the UK's National Health Service, the World Health Organization, and McKinsey & Co. In addition, Kamran is an honorary senior lecturer in the department of primary care and public health at Imperial College, London. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of London, patron of the South Asian Health Foundation, and a member of the General Advisory Council of the King's Fund. He is an experienced contributor on radio and television. Kamran’s other passion is cricket, and he wrote one of the best read blogs in world cricket on cricinfo.com, a website in the top 100 of world internet rankings. He writes on cricket for publications throughout the world, including Wisden.

Professor Rachel Batterham

Professor of obesity, diabetes and endocrinology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and special adviser on obesity, RCP

Professor Rachel Batterham is professor of obesity, diabetes and endocrinology at University College London (UCL). She leads the University College London Hospital (UCLH) Bariatric Centre for Weight Management and Metabolic Surgery and the UCL Centre for Obesity Research within the Department of Medicine. She is the clinical director for the Division of Medicine at UCL and the director for the UCLH/UCL National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre obesity research theme. She is the RCP’s special adviser on obesity. Professor Batterham has made significant clinical contributions to defining the management of obese patients through her membership of the NICE Obesity Guideline Development Group and key roles in multiple professional associations. She is passionate about reducing the stigma that people with obesity experience and ensuring that the patient voice is heard. She has established a charity for people affected by obesity, Obesity Empowerment Network UK.

Professor Jonathan Valabhji

National clinical director for obesity and diabetes, NHS England

Professor Jonathan Valabhji is national clinical director for diabetes and obesity at NHS England, consultant diabetologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and professor of practice (diabetes) at Imperial College London. As well as a practising clinician and researcher, he leads the NHS England diabetes and obesity programmes, including the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, which has seen England become the first country to achieve universal population coverage with an evidence-based type 2 diabetes prevention programme. He qualified in 1990 from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London, and in 2019 was awarded OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List for services to diabetes and obesity care.

Professor Francesco Rubino

Chair of metabolic and bariatric surgery, King's College London

Dr Melanie Nana

Obstetric medicine registrar, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

She is the co-founder of thecore.wales, an online educational platform for core medical trainees in Wales. This is being expanded throughout the UK with the support of the RCP. She has a keen interest in medical education and completed the RCP Doctors as Educators Accreditation in 2017. Melanie is passionate about multidisciplinary quality improvement (MQI). She is a member of the Q community and was involved in the development and support of a 70-member strong MQI team in the Cwm Taf health board. She is currently leading a multicentre QI project across Wales aiming to improve the preconception care of women with pre-existing diabetes. Melanie has a particular interest in obstetric endocrinology and recently published a chapter on pituitary and adrenal disease in pregnancy in the online textbook Endotext. She hopes to expand her interest by carrying out a clinical fellowship in Obstetric Medicine and PhD in Obstetric Endocrinology.

Professor Catherine Nelson-Piercy

Consultant obstetric physician, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Hannah Douglas

Consultant cardiologist, Guy's trust and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Srividhya Sankaran

Consultant in maternal-fetal medicine and obsterics, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Saroj Jayasinghe

Emeritus professor of medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Saroj Jayasinghe, Emeritus professor of medicine and founder head, department of medical humanities, University of Colombo, has served the National Hospital of Sri Lanka as consultant physicians for almost 4 decades. He has MBBS, MD (general medicine), PhD (Colombo), MD by research from Bristol and MRCP (UK). He is a fellow of the RCP (London), the Ceylon College of Physicians, and National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka. He led curriculum reforms in Sri Lanka and helped introduce topics on social determinants of health (SDH), behavioural sciences and medical humanities. He has advised the Ministry of Health, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the International Science Council and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan, Maldives, Egypt and Indonesia. He is on editorial boards of several journals and has over 150 peer-reviewed publications. His research interests include clinical reasoning, urban health, racism and equity in health, and systems approaches to COVID-19.

Dr Duminda Munidasa

President elect, Ceylon College of Physicians

Dr Munidasa is a consultant in rheumatology and rehabilitation, board certified by the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo in 2002. He was admitted as a fellow of the Ceylon College of Physicians in 2013. He has served as its treasure in the past and elected to be its president for 2023.

Dr Olwen Williams

RCP vice president for Wales and consultant physician in genitourinary and HIV medicine, Glan Clwyd Hospital

Dr Olwen Williams OBE was elected RCP vice president for Wales in September 2019. She began her 3-year term on 1 January 2020. She is a consultant physician in genitourinary/HIV medicine at Glan Clwyd Hospital, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in Wales. During Olwen’s tenure as chief of staff, she obtained an in-depth understanding of the complexities and challenges of delivering whole system change across planned, unplanned and community care. As clinical lead for one of the RCP Future Hospital development site projects, she supported the introduction of telemedicine virtual clinics. In her clinical work, Olwen has striven to ensure the vulnerable have access to high-quality healthcare, establishing services for sexual assault referrals, prison sexual health and virtual outpatients. She has worked closely with the Welsh government throughout her career and advised on development of the Welsh sexual health strategy.

Dr Laura Waters

HIV and sexual health consultant, Central and North West London NHS Trust

Laura Waters is a HIV and sexual health consultant and HIV lead at The Mortimer Market Centre, London. She is chair of the British HIV Association (BHIVA) and represents BHIVA on the HIV Clinical Reference Group, advising NHS England on HIV treatment and care. She has published and presented widely and is a trustee for the Terrence Higgins Trust and The Food Chain. She teaches regularly at local, regional and national level, including on HIV courses for University College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Dr Rajna Golubic

NIHR academic clinical lecturer in endocrinology and diabetes, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Rajna Golubic is an NIHR academic clinical lecturer in diabetes and endocrinology at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (diabetes trials unit). She completed an MPhil in Public Health and a PhD in Epidemiology at the MRC Epidemiology Unit as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Her PhD focused on the epidemiology of physical activity and its associations with cardio-metabolic disorders. Subsequently, she was an NIHR academic clinical fellow at Cambridge combining clinical practice with research on the treatment of diabetes and obesity. She was a co-investigator on several trials conducted as an academia/industry partnership focusing on novel treatments including cotadutide, which is the topic for Medicine 2022 Turner-Warwick lecture. She received a Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation pump priming grant. She teaches medical students and is associate editor of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research. She is also a lead investigator with the NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health.

Dr Rasha Mukhtar

Consultant diabetologist and endocrinologist, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and RCP censor

A graduate of Khartoum University, Sudan, Dr Mukhtar then completed specialist training within the Severn Deanery. She is currently working as a consultant endocrinologist at Frimley Park Hospital with specialist interests in antenatal care, type 1 diabetes and diabetes technology. She has an MD in research into dietary interventions in metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk. Dr Mukhtar is a censor for the Royal College of Physicians and is involved with the educational activities within the college, including being a local and international examiner for the MRCP(UK) PACES examination, as well as being clinical tutor at Frimley Park Hospital.

Professor Martin Marshall

Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners

Dr Carey Lunan

General practitioner, NHS Lothian

Dr Carey Lunan is a GP partner in Craigmillar Medical Group, Edinburgh. This is one of Scotland's 'deep end' practices, which serve the 100 most socio-economically deprived populations across the country. She is a passionate advocate of the role of general practice in addressing health inequalities and is the current chair of the Scottish deep end project. This project was established in 2009, inspired by the pioneering work of Dr Julian Tudor Hart, who first described the 'Inverse care law' in 1971. The deep end project seeks to improve the lives of patients and clinicians living and working in economically disadvantaged communities through building appropriate and evidence-based workforces, involvement in research, education and training, lobbying and advocacy. She is also the immediate past chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in Scotland.

Dr Cathryn Edwards

Registrar, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Cathryn Edwards is a consultant physician and gastroenterologist working in South Devon. Cathryn trained in medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, prior to which she read Modern History at The Queen’s College, Oxford. Her postgraduate medical education was based in Oxford and her D Phil studies were supported by an MRC fellowship. Prior to her appointment as registrar, Cathryn held several other roles at the RCP, including chair of the Joint Specialty Committee for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, member of the Medical Specialties Board and RCP councillor. Her main clinical interest is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and related national roles have included the UK National IBD Standards Group, the IBD Registry and the National IBD Audit Steering Group. She is associate editor for BMJ Open Gastroenterology. Cathryn was the first female secretary of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and its second female president. As part of her work with the BSG, she promoted mentorship as a means of personal development, instigating the BSG Mentorship Programme launched in 2018. Cathryn also holds a non-clinical health sector role as trustee at Rowcroft Hospice Torquay, where she held the position of chair from 2017–19.

Dr Frances Baawuah

General practitioner, Brondesbury Medical Centre

Dr Maisun Elftise

General practitioner and RCGP first 5 lead, Coventry and Warwickshire

Dr Maisun Elftise is a general practitioner passionate about better respiratory health and tackling health inequality, she recently finished a leadership in deprivation fellowship as part of the national Trailblazers Fair Health Programme. She is currently working with Coventry Place on developing integrated COPD services. She is Coventry representative at the RCGP Midlands Faculty and has been recently appointed as the EDI lead for Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub. She is a mum of three daughters and she enjoys gardening and the occasional tweet @MaisunMansur.

Professor Bryan Williams

Chair of medicine, University College London and consultant physician, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Bryan Williams is chair of medicine at University College London (UCL) and director of the NIHR UCL Hospitals (UCLH) Biomedical Research Centre and director of research at UCLH. He is a consultant physician, senior director and board member at UCLH and continues to work as a patient-facing clinician in acute medicine. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, recognition that he is one of the UK’s leading clinical scientists. On behalf of the Royal College of Physicians of London, as chair and lead author, he led the development of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in 2012, its recent update NEWS2 (2017), and championed its adoption by the NHS and many healthcare systems globally. The NEWS has been described as one of the most important safety innovations in the NHS for a generation – improving the safety and outcomes for patients with acute illness. He serves on the NHSE/I Acute Deterioration Board and is the clinical advisor on NEWS for the RCP.

Professor Matthew Inada-Kim

National clinical director for infection, antimicrobial resistance and deterioration, NHS England

Professor Matt Inada-Kim is an acute physician at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , visiting professor UHS and clinical director for digital at Wessex Academic Health Science Network. He is national clinical director for infection management/sepsis, AMR and deterioration. He developed/led on national COVID-19 clinical pathways in all settings/policy/evidence in all settings and collaborated with WHO. He is clinical co-lead of the national COVID/oximetry virtual ward programme funded with £550 million. He sits on the RCP independent advisory group and has helped standardise the country in using NEWS2. He is currently developing integrated infection assessment hubs and virtual wards linked to both diagnostics and therapeutics to optimally manage infections in out-of-hospital settings: improving processes in the recognition, escalation, communication and response to the deteriorating patient, developing the soft signs of deterioration and collaborating on ReSTORE2 leads on the NEWS2 deterioration CQUIN. He has received HSJ awards for work on sepsis in 2019, deterioration in 2020 and safety in 2021.

Dr Alison Tavaré

Primary care clinical lead, West of England Academic Health Science Network and NHSE SW clinical lead for NHS@home

Dr Alison Tavare is a GP by background and primary care clinical lead at the West of England Academic Health Science Network. She has a special interest in the prompt identification and management of the deteriorating patient and particularly the use of NEWS2 as a common language across the NHS and its use in out of hospital settings. Alison also co-leads the West of England Learning Disability Collaborative (WELDC). The WELDC is a network of clinicians, carers, families and experts by experience who are working together with academics and policy makers to improve outcomes for people with a learning disability. She has a portfolio career and is an NHSE regional clinical lead for the south west which includes work on COVID-19 and the evolving NHS@home. Alison is also a clinical coordinator at the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD).

Dr Yasmin Samir

Academic foundation doctor, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Yasmin Samir is currently working as an academic foundation doctor at Manchester Royal Infirmary, with a developing interest in primary care, health inequalities and kidney health. Working to improve health within the ethnic minority community in Greater Manchester through her role with ASKDOC as a trustee. ASKDOC is a voluntary organisation which aims to address health inequalities within the ethnic minority community by engaging, educating and empowering communities. Over the years she has also been involved in a number of widening participation initiatives, including serving as a mentoring scheme chair for students from disadvantaged backgrounds for which she was highly commended by the University of Manchester and won the award for outstanding contribution.

Professor Fergus Caskey

Professor of renal medicine, Oxford University Hospitals Trust

Professor Fergus Caskey, professor of renal medicine, University of Bristol Fergus Caskey is professor of renal medicine at the University of Bristol. His research interests include the epidemiology of kidney disease, particularly around equity of access to treatment, and using embedded qualitative research and routine healthcare data to improve the efficiency of clinical trials. He was medical director of the UK Renal Registry (2013–2019) and is chief investigator of two ongoing NIHR trials (Prepare for Kidney Care and H4RT).

Professor David Wheeler

Professor of kidney medicine, University College London

Professor David Wheeler is professor of kidney medicine at University College London and honorary consultant nephrologist at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. His main research interest is in the complications and progression of chronic kidney disease. He has participated in the development and running of several large-scale clinical trials assessing lipid lowering regimens, calcimimetics, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors and hypoxia-inducible factor stabilisers in patients with chronic kidney disease. National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) national specialty lead for renal disorders, co-medical director of the North Thames NIHR Clinical Research Network and chair of the International Society of Nephrology Advancing Clinical Trials (ACTS) Committee. He has been involved in the development of clinical practice guidelines for several organisations, most recently for Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), serving as KDIGO co-chair between 2012 and 2019.

Dr Georgi Abraham

Professor and Senior Consultant, MGM Healthcare, Chennai

Dr Jennifer Burns

President, British Geriatrics Society

Dr Jennifer Burns is a consultant geriatrician based in Glasgow. She has a special interest in Parkinson's disease and leads a multidisciplinary service for movement disorder patients in addition to her acute assessment ward cover. Her interest in medical education led to a specialty specific role as training programme director for Scotland contributing to curriculum development and increasing trainee numbers. After a period as clinical director she moved to be appraisal lead for GGC Health board and latterly was deputy responsible officer overseeing revalidation processes for over 2,500 doctors. She is the current president of the British Geriatrics Society (from 2020 to 2022) and focuses on supporting and building the workforce needed to deliver excellence in older people's healthcare.

Dr Lucy Pollock

Consultant geriatrician, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and author, The Book About Getting Older

Dr Lucy Pollock trained at Cambridge and Barts and has been a geriatrician in Somerset since 2001. She loves her job and believes that with the right support we can provide better patient-centred care to older people. We will all become old if we are lucky – older people are just the rest of us, grown up. She enjoys meeting and teaching students and watching them learn what it is about geriatric medicine that is so irresistible. Most of all she believes that we can only provide the right care if we start by understanding the goals and wishes of our patents: their stories so far, and their hopes for the future.

Professor Andy Clegg

Professor of geriatric medicine and honorary consultant geriatrician, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Jugdeep Dhesi

Consultant geriatrician, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and vice-president, British Geriatrics Society

Dr Jugdeep Dhesi is clinical lead for the innovative and award-winning POPS (perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery) service. She is honorary reader at King’s College London and associate professor at University College London, with research interests including preoperative assessment and optimisation, health services research focusing on perioperative pathways and postoperative delirium. She has an education and training role, having established the first foundation and specialist registrar training programmes in perioperative medicine, co-authored e-learning modules, MSc modules and multiple textbook chapters. National roles include deputy director for Centre for Perioperative Care, immediate past vice president Clinical Quality British Geriatrics Society and involvement in a variety of steering, advisory and guideline groups (NELA, RCoA, BGS and NICE).

Dr Jo Szram

Consultant respiratory physician, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHs Foundation Trust and RCP Linacre fellow

Dr Jo Szram is a consultant respiratory physician and the RCP’s Linacre fellow, a role focused on the development and leadership of the RCP’s network of college tutors and associate college tutors. She is responsible for linking their work to that of other regional roles, the RCP’s Trainees Committee and New Consultants Committee representatives, and advocates and champions college tutors’ work within the wider medical workforce.

Dr Johanna Feary

Consultant respiratory physician, Royal Brompton Hospital

Dr Nazia Chaudhuri

Consultant respiratory physician, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Nazia Chaudhuri is a respiratory physician and the clinical lead for the interstitial lung disease (ILD) service at the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). She is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. She is also the academic year three lead for the undergraduate medical school. She is the principal investigator on a number of clinical research trials (>20 over 5 years) in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and is the UK chief investigator of multiple trials in ILDs. She is collaborator on a number of grants exceeding £5 million and has co-authored 41 peer reviewed articles in 5 years. Dr Chaudhuri has published and has presented over 30 abstracts pertaining to IPF, antifibrotics and the importance of a multidisciplinary team approach at all major respiratory conferences. She is chair of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) interstitial and rare lung disease specialist advisory group.

Professor Ioannis Vogiatzis

Professor of rehabilitation sciences, Northumbria University

Ioannis Vogiatzis is a professor of rehabilitation sciences at Northumbria University, Newcastle. For 3 years he was chair of the Rehabilitation and Chronic Care Group of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and is currently the ERS elect head for assembly 1 (respiratory, clinical care and physiology). He has contributed to several joint ERS and American Thoracic Society (ATS) clinical statements on pulmonary rehabilitation, skeletal muscle dysfunction, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, respiratory muscle function assessment and physical inactivity in patients with respiratory diseases. He has co-chaired an ATS/ERS joint policy statement for enhancing implementation, use and delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation globally. Ioannis is a fellow of the ERS and is currently a member of the British Thoracic Society Specialist Advisory Group for Pulmonary Rehabilitation and member of the development group for COPD of WHO interventions for rehabilitation.

Dr Chris Rutkowski

Consultant allergy, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Chris Rutkowski is a consultant allergist at the department of adult allergy, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London, a European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) and World Allergy Organisation Centre of Excellence. He trained in allergy at Cambridge. He has extensive experience in all aspects of adult allergy care. His special clinical interests include urticaria/angioedema and drug/vaccine allergy. Dr Rutkowski leads the largest anti-IgE (omalizumab) service for chronic spontaneous urticaria in the UK. He works alongside his dermatology colleagues in the first UK joint allergy/dermatology difficult urticaria clinic at St John's Institute of Dermatology. He is a member of the EAACI Task Force on paediatric urticaria and leads on the new British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology chronic urticaria guidelines. Dr Rutkowski is a published author in the field of drug allergy and contributes to the education and training of students, allergists, dermatologists, GPs and general physicians at a national and international level. He is president of the clinical immunology and allergy section of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Dr Iason Thomas

Consultant allergist, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Iason Thomas is a consultant allergist at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. He qualified in medicine in 2006 and completed the Academic core medical training programme in Wales. He was awarded a competitive NIHR Academic clinical fellowship in allergy and completed his specialty training at the largest UK Adult Allergy Department at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London. He has successfully taken the European exams in allergology and clinical immunology for both adults and children. Dr Thomas has a broad experience in all aspects of allergic disease, with clinical and research interests in food allergy, drug hypersensitivity and digital health. He has experience in lab and clinical research and has completed a master's degree in immunology. He has been involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and holds a diploma in medical education. He is a published author in the fields of basic immunology, drug and food allergy, and telemedicine.

Dr Magda Dziadzio

Consultant immunologist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Helen Lane

Diabetes and endocrinology and general internal medicine consultant physician, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Dr Helen Lane started writing poetry during the pandemic to relieve emotional tension and connect to others, and found it a powerful tool as a creative outlet. Since then she has published an anthology of poems ‘Reflections through the Waves; poems of the pandemic’, with all proceeds donated to three charities; Beat, YoungMinds and 2wish upon a star. Hundreds of copies have been sold and reviews and feedback have demonstrated others’ ability to either relate to them or have a better understanding of the emotional and mental challenges that have been faced by healthcare staff over the past two years. Since this time, Helen has also been invited to record a podcast by The Leadership Log ‘Leading through the pandemic’ which reflects on the journey over the pandemic and the balance of clinical leadership, home life and self-care. She has also joined a creative writing group aimed at helping healthcare staff, facilitated by the wellbeing team in the Health Board called ‘The Voices Project’, with plans to create a further anthology in support of others. Helen is a diabetes and endocrinology and general internal medicine consultant physician at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board where she has worked for the last 15 years and a Quality Improvement Skills Faculty Tutor for HEIW (Health Education Improvement Wales). Having held a number of lead roles in Innovation and Improvement within the Health board for many years and clinical lead for the multi-disciplinary QI teams, she is also the Associate Medical Director in Quality Improvement for CTMUHB. She has a distinction in Clinical Leadership (Dip level 7), is an Improvement Advisor (Improvement Cymru & IHI) and has recently been a finalist in the Womenspire awards 2021.

Professor Trish Greenhalgh

Professor of primary care health sciences, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford

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 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 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

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 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.

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.

Dr Axel Petzold

Consultant neurologist, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Dr Axel Petzold works as consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Amsterdam University Medical Centre. His interest in translational medicine originated in the challenge to timely quantify what is prognostically relevant for any human afflicted by disease: neurodegeneration. Neurological loss of function is related to loss of neurons and axons. The late consequence – atrophy – can be demonstrated by imaging, but this is too late to influence the disease course. Therefore, Dr Petzold pioneered analytical methods which permit reliable quantification of compounds released during the acute phase of neurodegeneration. He contributed to analytical, experimental and clinical validation. These methods are now in their 4th generation and used successfully as outcome measures in treatment trials. In his Lady Estelle Wolfson Lectureship, he will speak about neurofilaments, starting with a 2,600-year-old murder mystery.

Dr Ivan Beckley

CEO of a healthcare company, Suvera.

Dr Alex George

Youth mental health ambassador, Department for Education

Dr Alex George is an accident and emergency and TV doctor, bestselling author, and youth mental health ambassador to the government. Alex has become a well-known and respected figure among healthcare professionals in the UK, bringing the nation accessible and reassuring advice directly from his patient-facing role. His first book, Live well every day was published in May 2021 and is a Sunday Times number 1 bestseller. He also hosts his own radio show, ‘Inner harmony’ on Classic FM, Sundays at 9pm. Alex is on a mission to make mental health education compulsory in schools and has become prolific throughout the UK in his campaigning with charities such as YoungMinds, Anna Freud Centre and Mind, with a goal to ensure mental health sits alongside the likes of Maths and English on the curriculum. Alex has now been appointed by the prime minister as youth mental health ambassador to the government. Alex is a resident presenter on ITV’s ‘Lorraine’, and last year presented his first full length documentary for BBC One and Children in Need, ‘Dr Alex: our young mental health crisis’. Alex also has his own self-care business, Prescrib'd, which was born out of his love for a bath bomb after a long shift in A&E. He has become a leading voice in mental health and wellbeing and uses his platform to make health and medicine more accessible to millennials and beyond.

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

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.

Dr Justine Durno

ST3 histopathology registrar, Barts Health NHS Trust

Ian Bullock

Chief executive officer, Royal College of Physicians

Ian has expertise in evidence-based healthcare, research and development (including quality improvement), critical care clinical practice, and clinical and higher education. Ian’s career focus is on ‘making a difference’, using education and research to improve the quality of patient care and experience. Ian is executive lead for education at the Resuscitation Council (UK), a fellow of the Health Foundation (Quality Improvement and Leadership), an associate fellow of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the School of Health and Social Studies at the University of Warwick, and has also fulfilled advisory roles at the Department of Health.

Professor Stephen H Powis BSc (Hons) BM BCh PhD MBA FRCP

National Medical Director of NHS England/NHS Improvement and Professor of Renal Medicine at University College London.

Professor Stephen Powis is the national medical director of NHS England/NHS Improvement and professor of renal medicine at University College London. Previously he was medical director (and latterly group chief medical officer) of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust from 2006 to 2018. Professor Powis was also a member of the governing body of Merton Clinical Commissioning Group for 5 years and a director of Healthcare Services Laboratories LLP. He is a past chairman of the Association of UK Universities (AUKUH) Medical Directors Group and has been a member of numerous national committees and working groups, including the Department of Health Strategic Education Funding Expert Group. He is a past non-executive director of the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, including a period of 8 months as acting chairman. He is a past chairman of the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB) Specialty Advisory Committee (SAC) for Renal Medicine and a former board member of Medical Education England. He was director of postgraduate medical and dental education for UCLPartners from 2010–13. He is a past treasurer and trustee of the British Transplantation Society and a former member of the UK Transplant Kidney Pancreas Advisory Group. He has also served as a member of the Renal Association Executive Committee. He was editor of the journal Nephron Clinical Practice from 2003 to 2008. In 2017 he became the inaugural editor-in-chief of the journal BMJ Leader. He has been a trustee of several charities, including the Royal Free Charity and the Healthcare Management Trust.