Dr Shouvik Haldar

Consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Neil Chapman

Consultant physician, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr Neil Chapman is a consultant physician and hypertension specialist at Imperial College Healthcare Trust. He qualified from Cambridge University before training in general medicine, clinical pharmacology and hypertension in London and Sydney, Australia. He is the lead clinician for hypertension at Imperial College and the Peart-Rose Clinic at the Hammersmith Hospital – a tertiary referral centre for hypertension and cardiovascular risk factor management. He also runs hypertension clinics at several other sites in west London. He is a member of various groups aiming to improve hypertension management in London and works closely with local primary care via a weekly hypertension multidisciplinary research meeting.

Dr Honey Thomas

Consultant cardiologist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Honey Thomas is a consultant cardiologist based in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the north east of England. She completed cardiology training and a postgraduate MD qualification in the north east, developing a subspecialty interest in heart failure and advanced rhythm management/complex device implantation. She introduced and jointly leads the local service for implantation and follow up of complex cardiac devices. Honey contributes to cardiology research within Northumbria Healthcare and acts as principal investigator on several multicentre NIHR trials. She is secretary of the British Heart Rhythm Society (BHRS) and a member of the examination board for the BHRS professional accreditation qualification. She has led the BHRS work to develop and share a national guidance document for perioperative management of cardiac implantable electronic devices and shock therapy deactivation for patients approaching the end of life. Honey has a major interest in atrial fibrillation and is passionate about improving the quality of care in this area, developing local and regional pathways to try and optimise the care of patients with AF. She currently chairs the cardiac rhythm management subgroup of the Northern England Clinical Network specialty group. She works with the Pace4life charity, aiming to allow patients in less developed economies to benefit from cardiac implantable devices.

Dr P Boon Lim

Consultant cardiologist and clinical lead, Imperial Syncope Unit, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr P Boon Lim is a consultant cardiologist and clinical lead for the Imperial Syncope Unit. He completed a PhD in clinical electrophysiology at Imperial College London and his research focused on exploring the role of the autonomic nervous system in human atrial fibrillation. Since completing his PhD, Dr Lim has continued to be actively involved in research at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and is supervisor for several PhD students. As the clinical lead for the Imperial Syncope Diagnostic Centre, he is regularly invited to speak on syncope at national and international meetings, and is actively involved in setting up a multidisciplinary approach to treatment of patients with syncope and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. He continues to explore novel aspects of ablation and is currently exploring the role of ablation of the autonomic nervous system as a treatment strategy to treat certain forms of atrial fibrillation and vasovagal syncope.

Dr Theresa Barnes

Consultant rheumatologist, Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust | clinical lead for outpatients, Royal College of Physicians

Professor Andreas Goebels

Director, Pain Research Institute | chair of pain medicine and honorary consultant in pain medicine, University of Liverpool and Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Andreas Goebel completed training in anaesthesia, pain medicine and post-trauma immunology in Germany, USA, and UK (Oxford/UCLH) and was appointed as a consultant in pain medicine at the Liverpool Walton Centre in 2007. Since 2008 he has worked as senior lecturer (assistant professor), then reader in pain medicine at the University of Liverpool (and has been chair of pain medicine since 2023), with 50% clinical work in pain outpatient clinics, pain management programmes and pain theatres. His research has focused on understanding the role of the adaptive immune system in causing severe ‘unexplained’ chronic pain. He has first developed the concept of autoantibody-pain and the use of passive transfer models to explore this in patients, focusing with his studies on complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), and fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). Andreas is investigating the effects of immune-modulating treatments in these types of pain and has led a team that has developed novel recruitment approaches for drug trials in pain medicine. He is chair of: - UK interdisciplinary CRPS Guidelines Group, under the umbrella of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) - RCP UK Guideline Group on fibromyalgia diagnosis - Research Committee of the British Pain Society - European Pain Federation’s Task Force on CRPS - Special Interest Group on CRPS within the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Andreas is director of the Liverpool Pain Research Institute, a cross-departmental institute within the University of Liverpool, which supports and networks researchers in pain medicine in Liverpool and north-west UK, supported by the Liverpool Pain Relief Foundation, a Pain Research Charity (https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/pain-research-institute); he is keen to assist clinicians who wish to develop a research career in pain medicine.

Professor Chris Burton

Professor of primary medical care, University of Sheffield

Chris Burton is a professor of primary medical care at the University of Sheffield. His main research and clinical interest is in persistent physical symptoms but his work extends to broader issues around the intersection of physical and mental health. His work focuses on the interpersonal aspects of care including involving the processes of diagnosis, explanation and reassurance. Chris recently led Multiple Symptoms Study 3, a large trial of an extended role GP consultation intervention for persistent physical symptoms. His research involves a range of approaches including evidence synthesis, analysis of routine healthcare data, qualitative analysis and the development and evaluation of interventions. Chris worked for many years as a GP in a rural former coal-mining community in the SouthWest of Scotland. He completed his doctorate at the University of Edinburgh and was a senior lecturer in primary care at the University of Aberdeen before moving to Sheffield in 2017.

Dr Katharine Cheston

Mildred Blaxter postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University

Dr Katharine Cheston is Mildred Blaxter postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology and Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. She recently completed an in-depth qualitative study, funded by Wellcome, which drew on humanities and social science methodologies to elucidate how stigma and shame affect women living with symptom-based disorders. Dr Cheston’s recent publications appear in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, the Journal of Medical Humanities and Literature and Medicine. Katharine’s current programme of work is supported by the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness.

Dr Mohnish Suri

Dr Nora Shannon

Consultant clinical geneticist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Claire Searle

Consultant clinical geneticist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Claire Searle is a consultant clinical geneticist and joint cancer genetics lead at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. She specialises in the diagnosis and management of hereditary cancer syndromes, leading service development and integrating genomic testing into oncology mainstreaming pathways. Claire has a strong interest in education, training clinicians across disciplines in genomic medicine, and actively contributes to national working groups and the Genomic Medicine Service Alliances. She is also engaged in research, being principal investigator on several projects and contributing to multiple publications. Claire’s work bridges clinical care, research, education, and service transformation to advance personalised medicine.

Dr Abhijit Dixit

Consultant clinical geneticist, Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust

Professor Ponnusamy Saravanan

Professor of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism, University of Warwick

Dr Anna Herrey

Consultant cardiologist, Barts Health NHS Trust

Dr Nithya Sukuma

Consultant in diabetes and endocrinology, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Dr Yasmin Jamil

Consultant obstetric physician, UCLH

Professor Matt Phillips

Consultant in GU medicine, North Cumbria | president, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV

Professor Matt Phillips is the current president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV. He trained in Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) in the North West region and Dublin. Matt obtained his master’s degree from Keele University in the field of gender, sexuality and human rights law and has continued through his career to contribute to thinking around ethics in relation to HIV. He is an honorary professor at the University of Central Lancashire.

Dr Suneeta Soni

Consultant physician, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation trust

Dr Suneeta Soni is a consultant in sexual health and HIV in Brighton and an honorary associate professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She is co-chair of the Bacterial Special Interest Group for BASHH and has authored several BASHH guidelines including mycoplasma genitalium, gonorrhoea and scabies. Her current interests are antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship in clinical settings and in her NHS role Suneeta works collaboratively with private online STI care providers to assist guideline implementation and ensure high quality care for everyone. She represents her specialty nationally and internationally through invited lectures and policy work. She also leads the undergraduate HIV/GUM module and Medical Electives Programme at BSMS.

Dr Chris Ward

Consultant physician genitourinary medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Chris Ward is a consultant in genitourinary medicine at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. He studied medicine at Manchester University and then trained in sexual health and HIV in the north-west. He has an MSc in public health and a PGCert in postgraduate medical education. Chris has a special interest in Chemsex and PrEP and leads for both for Manchester. He also has an interest in the development of services for young people, chairing safeguarding MDTs, and has contributed nationally to child sexual exploitation developments, particularly in boys. He is a diploma of HIV examiner, is part of the BHIVA external relations subcommittee, and is the current BASHH conference and communication secretary.

Dr Cara Saxon

Consultant physician in genitourinary medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Dr Cara Saxon is a consultant in genitourinary and HIV medicine at Sandyford Sexual Health Services and The Brownlee Centre in Glasgow. Cara trained in the north west of England and worked as a consultant and clinical lead at the NHS services in Withington and Trafford, Manchester for 9 years, before relocating to Glasgow in early 2023. Cara is currently clinical lead for genitourinary medicine and clinical risk at Sandyford. Cara has a specialist interest in recurrent vulvovaginitis and is lead author of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) UK guidelines on the management of vulvovaginal candidiasis. Cara is the current BASHH general secretary, a member of the BASHH Clinical Effectiveness Group and editor of the BASHH patient information leaflets.

Dr Sarah Marsh

Consultant in intensive care medicine, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Sarah Marsh is a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine (ICM) at Harrogate District Hospital. She is clinical lead for critical care and organ donation for the trust. Her external roles include a number; for the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) she is course director for the FICM exam preparatory course and chair of the Education Sub-Committee (responsible for the educational output for FICM). As the chair of the Education Sub-Committee, she has led the production and launch of several national educational work streams for ICM, including the creation of an international e-learning platform funded by Health Education England (e-ICM, elearning for healthcare), organised national professional development events and has developed FICMLearning (free educational content for ICM consisting of weekly blogs, podcasts, simulation and clinical cases). Sarah is also a member of the Clinical Reference Group for adult critical care for NHS England.

Dr Dhruv Parekh

Consultant in intensive care and respiratory, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Taqua Dahab

ST9 ICM/AIM/GIM, Whiston Hospital

Dr Taqua Dahab is ST9 in acute, general and intensive care medicine in Liverpool. She is the deputy lead for the intensivists in training and international medical graduates (IMGs), and a rep for the FICM Board. She is also the IMGs lead for the north-west of England deanery, as well as the organ donation fellow for NHS Blood and Transplant. Taqua has a degree in medical education with a special interest in differential attainments among the international medical workforce. Her special interests also feature point of care ultrasound (POCUS) including echocardiography. She has a growing interest on enhanced care areas and their interface with Intensive Care Units.

Dr Andrew Sharman

Consultant in intensive care medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Andrew Sharman is a consultant in intensive care medicine, working at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which admits over 3,500 level 2 and 3 patients as a regional specialist centre as well as a regional trauma centre. Andrew qualified from the Royal Free Hospital and undertook his medicine training in Leicester before moving to Nottingham to undertake intensive care training with anaesthesia, being one of the first dual speciality trainees. He completed his diploma of intensive care medicine, writing his dissertation on anticoagulation in renal replacement therapy. Andrew’s clinical interest are renal medicine, trauma and rehabilitation post-intensive care, where he sees patients weekly in clinic. He is the lead regional adviser for the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (soon to be College) and his passion remains education and training. Despite Andrew’s national roles and examiner duties for the Faculty and the Royal College of Physicians, he remains embedded in clinical practice where he strives to inspire the next generation of residents to love clinical medicine.

Dr Natalie Harper

Consultant nurse, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Hitasha Rupani

Consultant respiratory physician, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Kay Roy

Respiratory consultant physician, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Kristien Boelaert

Professor of endocrinology, University of Birmingham

Professor Kristien Boelaert is a professor of endocrinology at the University of Birmingham and a consultant endocrinologist at University Hospitals Birmingham. She is an active researcher in the field of thyroid diseases. She has published more than 200 papers and has received more than £10 million in research grant funding. Kristien was the clinical lead for the NICE guidelines on thyroid disease and leads the National Consensus Statements on management of thyroid cancer. She is a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Green-top and the American Thyroid Association (ATA) guideline panels on thyroid disease in pregnancy. Kristien is senior editor for the Journal of the Endocrine Society and Endocrine Connections. She serves on the editorial boards of several endocrine journals including The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. She is president of the British Thyroid Association, president elect and clinical committee chair for the Society for Endocrinology (SfE), co-chair of the ATA 2025 Programme Organising Committee and a member of the SfE council and the European Thyroid Association executive committee.

Professor Mark Gurnell

Professor of clinical endocrinology, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Rachel Crowley

Professor Marie Freel

Consultant endocrinologist, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Dr Marie Freel is a consultant endocrinologist and physician and honorary associate clinical professor at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. Her major clinical and research interests are in adrenal disorders and endocrine hypertension, and she chairs the Scottish national adrenal MDT. Marie is a member of the Programme Committee for the Society for Endocrinology BES meeting, co-editor in chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Case Reports Journal and president of the Clinical Endocrinology Journal Foundation. She is also an associate postgraduate dean for medicine.

Dr Katherine McCullough

Consultant in diabetes, endocrinology and general medicine, Royal Surrey County Hospital

Dr Samantha Scholtz

Dr Anita Banerjee

Obstetric physician and diabetes and endocrinology consultant, Guys and St Thomas's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Mumtaz Patel

President, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Mumtaz Patel is a Consultant Nephrologist based in Manchester, UK. She is a Postgraduate Associate Dean for NHS England and is currently acting as President for the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), London. She was elected as Senior Censor Vice President for Education and Training for the RCP in 2023 having completed her successful 3-year term as Global Vice President (2020-2023). She graduated with Honours in 1996, from the University of Manchester. She obtained MRCP (UK) in 2000 and a PhD in 2006 exploring the genetics of Lupus Nephritis. She was appointed Consultant Nephrologist at Manchester University Hospitals in 2007. She has held various educational roles including Renal Training Programme Director, RCP Regional Advisor, Clinical Lead for Quality, JRCPTB. She attained FRCP in 2011 and was awarded MSc in Medical Education with Distinction in 2014. Her educational research interests include Assessment, Doctors in Difficulty, Differential Attainment and Fairness in Medical Education. She has published widely in Medical Education and presented at national/international conferences.

Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Dr Chris Packham