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 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 Chris Whitty

Professor Sir Stephen Holgate

Clinical professor of immunopharmacology and honorary consultant physician, University Hospital Southampton

Professor Sir Stephen Holgate researches the mechanisms and treatment of asthma, with over 1,000 research publications and a citation h index of 188. He is a past president of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, British Thoracic Society, British Association for Lung Research, and the Collegium International Allergologicum. His work has been recognised by international awards such as the King Faisal and J. Allyn Taylor international prizes in medicine, as well as a number of scientific achievement awards and honorary degrees and fellowships. Stephen is currently UK research and innovation clean air champion and special adviser to the Royal College of Physicians on air quality. He led the influential RCP air pollution report in 2016, titled Every breath we take: the lifelong impact of air pollution, and its update in 2025. He was appointed CBE in 2011 for contributions to clinical science and knighted in 2020 for medical research.

Dr Suzanne Bartington

Clinical associate professor in environmental health, University of Birmingham

Dr Suzanne Bartington leads interdisciplinary research and policy impact focused activities at the intersect of air quality, climate change and health. Suzanne has developed specific interests in developing clean air and climate solutions which deliver co-benefits for public health and equity. In her role as UK Clean Air Champion she works closely with policymakers, commercial and not-for-profit partners to translate research outputs arising from the £42.5 million UK Research and Innovation Clean Air Programme into knowledge and tools available for policy and practice.

Dr Ruth Law

Consultant in geriatric medicine, Whittington Health NHS Trust

Dr Ruth Law is a consultant physician in integrated geriatric medicine and general internal medicine at Whittington Health NHS Trust in London, where she is associate medical director for quality and clinical effectiveness. She is currently honorary secretary and vice president for policy of the British Geriatrics Society. She is a censor at RCP London and is actively involved in educational activity at the RCP including hosting PACEs and sitting on the board for the Specialty Certificate Examination in Geriatric Medicine.

Dr Sean Ninan

Consultant geriatrician, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Sean Ninan is a consultant geriatrician with a specialist interest in community geriatrics. He is the clinical lead for dementia and delirium at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He is also course director for Leeds Frailty Education (www.leedsfrailtyeducation.co.uk). Sean contributes to and teaches about quality improvement. He tweets @sean9n and @leedsfrailtyed and has educational videos on frailty on TikTok and YouTube @LeedsFrailtyEd. He writes a blog on geriatric and medical topics sean9n.wordpress.com

Professor Simon Conroy

Consultant geriatrician, Barts Health NHS Trust

Professor Simon Conroy is a consultant geriatrician at Barts Health NHS Trust. His ambition is to improve outcomes for older people living with frailty by embedding evidence-based medicine into clinical practice.

Dr Sinead Henderson

Consultant, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr Sinead Henderson is a palliative medicine consultant in Surrey. She completed her training in 2013 and has spent the last 4 years specialising in the care of older adults in the last year of life. Sinead is the clinical lead for the Department for Elderly Medicine as well as ReSPECT and EOLC lead at Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust.

Dr Susan Tadros

Dr Sacha Moore

WCAT specialty registrar in nephrology and general internal medicine, Cardiff University & University Hospital of Wales

Dr Sacha Moore is a specialty registrar in nephrology and internal medicine on the Welsh Clinical Academic Training Scheme in Cardiff, South Wales. His clinical interests include the management of cardiorenal disease, multimorbidity and acute kidney injury (AKI), and he was the lead author of the All Wales AKI Guideline. His research focuses on chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder (CKD-MBD) and vascular calcification as a driver of cardiorenal disease. He sits on the UK Kidney Research Consortium’s CKD-MBD clinical study group and will begin a Wellcome Trust-funded PhD Fellowship – the GW4 Clinical Academic Training Programme for Health Professionals – in August 2025; investigating osteogenic transformation of vascular smooth muscle cells in CKD. Sacha also chairs NEPHwork, the UK Kidney Association-supported resident doctor-led research collaborative, and serves as an Resident Doctor Committee representative on the RCP Research and Academic Medicine Committee. He is passionate about supporting academic resident doctors and enhancing academic training across the UK.

Dr Sorena Kaini

Consultant immunologist, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Andrew Whyte

Consultant allergist and immunologist, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

Professor Michael Boon

Dr Paul Jarman

Chair, Department of Neurology and Neuro-rehabilitation, Cleveland Clinic London

Dr Christopher Carswell

Consultant neurologist, Imperial College London

Dr David Brooks

Macmillan consultant in palliative medicine, Chesterfield Royal Hospital

Dr Erin Kadodwala

Palliative medicine speciality trainee, Chesterfield Royal Hospital

Dr Sharon Chadwick

Consultant in palliative medicine, Hospice of St Francis Berkhamsted

Dr Sharon Chadwick is consultant in palliative medicine, medical director and deputy CEO at the Hospice of St Francis in Berkhamsted. Prior to her medical career, she trained and worked as a hospital pharmacist. She went on to study medicine at the University of Birmingham, graduating with distinctions across the board. Following her success in passing the membership examinations for the RCP, she went on to attain her core surgical training in chest medicine and an MD in cystic fibrosis research. She has a particular interest in the palliative care of patients with end-stage respiratory disease and end-stage heart failure. She has developed services locally, working with specialist heart failure and specialist respiratory nurses to improve palliative care for these patients. She works across all settings locally; as palliative medicine lead at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospital Trust, in the Hospice of St Francis and in the community, and as medical director and deputy CEO at the Hospice.

Dr Sebastian Van der Linden

Speciality registrar in palliative medicine, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Seb Van der Linden is a specialty registrar in palliative medicine and general medicine in Sheffield. In 2024 he was awarded the Abe Guz Fellowship from the Association for Palliative Medicine and undertook work on the collation of resources on breathlessness management, along with research into equity of access to breathlessness support services across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Today’s presentation will focus on the pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of breathlessness in the palliative setting.

Professor Mieke van Hemelrijck

Professor in cancer epidemiology, King's College London

Professor Mieke Van Hemelrijck leads the Transforming cancer OUtcomes through Research (TOUR) Team in the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences at King's College London (KCL).

Mieke studied for an MSc in biomedical sciences (2001–2005) and an MSc in statistical analysis (2005–2006) at Ghent University, Belgium. While doing so, she became engaged in epidemiology research in the field of urology. She continued her epidemiological training by spending 2 years at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (2006–2008), where she obtained an MSc in population and international health, staying focused on urological research. From 2008–2010, she worked with Professor Lars Holmberg at King’s College London and obtained a PhD in cancer epidemiology. In 2012, she was appointed as a lecturer in cancer epidemiology at KCL. She leads the TOUR Team and became a professor in late 2020. You can read more about her work on the KCL website.
 

Professor Rudolf A. de Boer

Dr William Dunn

Haematology registrar, Cambridge University Hospitals (Addenbrookes Hospital)

Dr William (Billy) Dunn is a haematology registrar at Addenbrooke's hospital and a PhD student co-supervised by Professor George Vassiliou (clinician-scientist) and Dr Irina Mohorianu (Turing Fellow in Computer Science (Machine Learning and Bioinformatics)). He completed his BSc, medical degree and MSc (Bioinformatics) at the University of Glasgow. After foundation training in the west of Scotland, he took up an academic clinical fellowship post in Cambridge in 2019. At present, he holds a Cancer Research UK Clinical Research Fellowship and utilises bioinformatics and machine learning techniques to detect and characterise clonal haematopoiesis and myeloid pre-leukaemia.

Dr Mike Rossiter

Consultant in sport, exercise and MSK medicine, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Mike Rossiter is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine (SEM), clinical director of the Candover Clinic in Basingstoke and recent chair of the SEM Committee for the Royal College of Physicians. He has recently retired as NHS clinical lead for SEM and musculoskeletal (MSK) medicine. Mike has worked with a variety of professional sports for over 25 years, including as chief medical officer (CMO) for GB hockey, CMO for GB synchronised swimming, and as a club doctor in both football and rugby. He has attended four Olympic Games (one as deputy CMO for Team GB), six Commonwealth Games (three as CMO for Team England), and European and World Cups. He has appointed again as CMO for Team England at the Commonwealth games and also as CMO for Team GB at the Winter Olympics, both in 2026. Mike is currently clinical lead for premiership rugby and the premiership match day doctors, tutor on the Rugby Football Union’s pre-hospital immediate care in sport course since 2005, and independent match reviewer for concussive events in rugby. He is also a member of the UK Anti-Doping Medical Committee. He is actively involved in research across several sporting areas.

Dr Felicity Hughes

Sport and exercise medicine ST4 registrar, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Anna-Louise Mackinnon

Dr Kim Gregory

David Salman

Dr Imogen Grant

FY1, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Imogen Grant studied medicine at the University of Cambridge. While there, she learnt to row and went on to race at two Olympic Games, most recently at the 2024 Paris Olympics where she became Olympic Champion in the lightweight women's double sculls. 2 days after the Closing Ceremony, Imogen began work at Wexham Park Hospital as an FY1. She has an MPhil in obstetrics and gynaecology, and also has an interest in sports physiology.

Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Dr Chris Packham

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 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 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 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 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

Dr Waqas Akhtar

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