Professor Ramesh Arasaradnam

Professor of gastroenterology, University of Warwick, and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Prof Ramesh Arasaradnam was previous academic vice president of the Royal College of Physicians. He developed a national research strategy for physicians working closely with the NIHR. He set up and chaired the RCP national advisory group on health and environmental sustainability. Currently he chairs a local drugs and therapeutics committee and is director of the Institute of Precision Diagnostics and Translational Medicine.

Professor H Jervoise Andreyev

Consultant gastroenterologist Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group

Professor H Jervoise Andreyev’s first degree was in Arabic studies, before qualifying in medicine in 1987 and completing a PhD in molecular biology in 1997. In 2000, he was appointed senior lecturer at Imperial College London and in 2006 appointed at the Royal Marsden Hospital as the first gastroenterologist ever asked to focus on treating GI side effects of cancer treatments. In 2016, Jervoise was honoured to be the Nimmo visiting professor at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia, before moving to Lincoln County Hospital. In 2019, he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Nottingham. While working as a full time NHS clinician, Jervoise has enrolled 1,500 patients into randomised trials and several thousand patients into interventional cohort studies. He has published approximately 175 papers and has a h-index of 49. Jervoise’s research has focused primarily on the GI toxicity of cancer treatments, however, his team’s findings have also been shown to be also relevant to non-cancer related GI disorders.

Dr Natalia Zarate-Lopez

Consultant gastroenterology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Natalia Zarate-Lopez completed her Gastroenterology certificate of completion of training (CCT) in Spain where she started her training in the field of neurogastroenterology under the supervision of founder of the field, Professor Malagelada. She then moved to Canada, after been awarded a post-CCT fellowship by the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology at McMaster University, to complete her PhD. Back in the UK she continued her training at the The Royal London Hospital and University College London Hospitals (UCLH). She is currently the Gastrointestinal Physiology Unit lead at UCLH, consultant in neurogastroenterology, lead of the UCLH Adolescent Neurogastroenterology Transition Service and UCL associate professor. Her work in developing multidisciplinary team neurogastroenterology adolescent service influenced a recent review and recommendations for transition of this cohort of patients, and was published in Neurogastroenterology and Motility in 2024. She is passionate about promoting training to guarantee evidenced based management of patients and the development of new technologies to assess gut sensorimotor function. Natalia has lectured and published extensively, contributing to the recent European guidelines in both functional dyspepsia, gastroparesis and, more recently, in functional bloating.

Dr Anita Arasaretnam

Consultant haematologist, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Sharath Panamoottil

Dr Shivir Moosai

Consultant haematologist, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Shivir Moosai is a consultant haematologist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust with a special interest in lymphoid malignancies. He is actively involved in clinical trials and treatment optimisation, focusing on improving patient outcomes through research, real-world data analysis, and service development. Shivir is passionate about medical education, and serves as an educational lead, training haematology registrars and resident doctors. He also contributed to the British Society for Haematology (BSH) through its Lymphoma Special Interest Group (SIG) and Communications Committee. Beyond the UK, he aims to contribute to strengthening haematology services in resource-limited settings. His interests include healthcare system improvement, audit and quality initiatives, integrating clinical excellence with education and innovation.

Dr Michael Desborough

Consultant haematologist and associate professor of haematology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Michael Desborough is a consultant haematologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and honorary consultant haematologist with NHS Blood and Transplant. He subspecialises in immunohaematology, transfusion medicine and obstetric haematology. Michael is the lead for the Oxford Specialised Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) and Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) Centres, as well as an associate professor at the University of Oxford where his research focuses on platelets, fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT), and intracerebral haemorrhage.

Dr Sarah Wheeldon

Haematology SpR, Royal Devon University Hospital

Dr Sarah Wheeldon is an ST7 haematology specialty registrar in Exeter, having commenced her specialty training in the Peninsula Deanery in 2019. Sarah went to medical school at the University of Oxford, followed by foundation training in Thames Valley, core medical training in Peninsula. and a post as a trust grade in ICU in Exeter. She has an undergraduate degree in physiological sciences and a postgraduate certificate in clinical education (PGCert). In 2023/24 Sarah held a 1-year post with NHSBT as a transfusion education fellow, responsible for populating the RCPath pathology portal. Her main interests include transfusion, clotting, liaison haematology and medical education.

Dr Shari Spencer

Dr Sarah Logan

Consultant in infectious diseases, Hospital for Tropical Diseases UCLH

Dr Sarah Logan is a consultant in infectious diseases and general medicine, as well as clinical lead for the HTD at UCLH and medical workforce director at the RCP. She runs the outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) service at UCLH and spends a lot of time thinking about how to improve the care of patients with infections across the UK.

Angela McBride

Dr Stephen Poole

Dr Isra Halim

Locum consultant in infection (microbiology), Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Helen Umpleby

Dr Padmasayee Papineni

Consultant in infectious diseases and acute medicine, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr Tommy Rampling

Consultant in infectious diseases and virology, Hospital for Tropical Diseases and UK Health Security Agency

Dr Tommy Rampling is a consultant in infectious diseases and clinical virology and holds joint positions at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at University College London Hospitals, and the Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL), at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) where he is part of the team delivering the national Imported Fever Service. He has an interest in emerging infectious diseases and severe viral infections. Through his work at RIPL, Tommy contributes to the national response to severe infectious threats such as Lassa fever, Marburg disease and Mpox.

Dr Christina Petridou

Consultant in microbiology and infectious diseases, RIPL, UKHSA

Dr Christina Petridou is a consultant in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology, working part of the week in a clinical role in the NHS and part of the week at the Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL), at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) where she is part of the team delivering the national Imported Fever Service. She is interested in tick-borne diseases and is clinical lead for Lyme disease at RIPL.

Dr Alexander McFarquhar

Acute medicine registrar, Cambridge University NHS Foundation Trust - Addenbrookes

Dr Nick Murch

Consultant physician in acute medicine and medical education, Royal Free Hospital

Dr Vicky Price

AMU consultant physician, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Vicky Price is an acute medicine physician for Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the current president-elect of the Society for Acute Medicine. She has an interest in same day emergency care and end-of-life care.

Dr Zack Ferguson

Acute medicine registrar, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Zack Ferguson is an acute medicine registrar and honorary lecturer in medical education based in Surrey. He has a special interest in improving postgraduate training with a specific focus on situated workplace learning. In addition to teaching on the postgraduate certificate in medical education at the RCP, he has published research exploring how internal medicine training doctors transition into the role of the medical registrar. Zack is also a passionate advocate for the use of point-of-care ultrasound at the front door, having gained accreditation in both FAMUS and FUSIC-Heart. He is currently undertaking a takeAIM fellowship through the Society for Acute Medicine, promoting the specialty to resident doctors and medical students.

Dr Anika Wijewardane

Consultant acute and stroke physician, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Anika Wijewardane is a consultant in acute and stroke medicine and deputy chief of service for acute and general medicine at Frimley Park Hospital. She has led on major transformation of medical SDEC and AMU, achieving measurable improvements in patient flow, reduced admissions, and improved staff morale. As a former national takeAIM fellow and Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) trainee representative, Anika co-authored the current national curriculum for acute medicine and has promoted the specialty through education, engagement and recruitment initiatives. She continues to collaborate with SAM, more recently co-authoring national guidance to support acute medicine service development. Anika applies lean principles to design acute care models that are efficient, sustainable and empowering – grounded in the belief that well-designed services improve not only system performance, but also the everyday experience of staff and patients alike.

Dr Parizad Avari

Dr Hermione Price

Consultant diabetologist, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Hermione Price is a consultant diabetologist at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and University Hospitals Dorset in Bournemouth. Hermoine is a visiting professor at the Health Sciences University and an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Southampton, where she has a research interest in the interface between diabetes and mental ill health. She has published widely on this topic and has received several research awards including the 2021 National institute of Health Research and Royal College of Physicians NHS researcher of the year award. She was awarded her DPhil by the University of Oxford in 2010 and her doctoral research concerned cardiovascular disease risk in adults living with type 2 diabetes. Hermoine is passionate about delivering specialist diabetes care in a community setting. She is especially interested in improving care for those people often thought of as ‘hardly reached’, including people in care homes or living with a serious mental disorder or a learning disability. She has led the writing group for both the first and second editions of the Joint British Diabetes Societies guideline: ‘The management of diabetes in adults and children with psychiatric disorders in inpatient settings’.

Dr Katherine Fayers

Diabetes consultant, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Katherine Fayers is a diabetes consultant at Hampshire and Isle of White Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Patient empowerment has been at the heart of Kate’s strategy for developing an intermediate community diabetes service which has relocated type 1 and type 2 diabetes care into the community since 2010. Her interest in leadership development and quality improvement has supported the development of a number of transformation projects across many aspects of diabetes care, improving community integration and reducing inequalities across West Hampshire. Kate’s current roles include Wessex training programme director for diabetes and endocrinology, less than full-time trust champion and ABCD meeting secretary.

Dr Marilia Amaro Calcia

Consultant liaison psychiatrist, King's College Hospital

Dr Waqas Akhtar

Consultant in cardiology and intensive care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Kapil Agarwal

Internal medicine trainee Year 3, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Kapil Agarwal is an internal medicine trainee, shortly due to complete IM stage 1 training. He completed his MBBS in 2020 from Imperial College London, including an intercalated BSc in medical sciences with endocrinology. Kapil has also completed postgraduate training (to date) in Severn Deanery. He is currently an RCP associate college tutor and provides PACES teaching locally in Bath. Previous roles include foundation doctor representative and resident doctor on the Medical Workforce Planning Group. Kapil enjoys teaching as well as leadership and management roles.

Dr Anthony Martinelli

Clinical lecturer, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Anthony Martinelli is a clinical lecturer in respiratory medicine, based in Cambridge. He has been co-chair of the RCP Resident Doctor Committee since September 2024. Anthony has research and clinical interests in iron biology, COPD and infection.

Bobin Lee

Medical student, University of Buckingham | SFDN representative, Royal College of Physicians

Bobin Lee is a 4th-year postgraduate entry medical student at the University of Buckingham. Prior to medical school, she completed a bachelor’s degree of psychology and masters of nursing in Sydney, Australia, where she worked as a registered nurse in A&E and anaesthetics. Through her background, Bobin experienced clinical education and training in varying health systems and professions. This led her to strongly believe that supporting trainee experience is a key driving force for creating a healthier, more resilient and sustainable workforce. Bobin is passionate about improving student mental health and wellbeing, having assisted in the formal introduction of a peer support programme at her medical school. She continues to advocate for her colleagues as a member of the RCP Student and Foundation Doctor Network.

Dr Hatty Douthwaite

Renal/ GIM SpR, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust