Dr Bhavna Pandya

Consultant nephrologist and physician, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Bhavna Pandya has been a consultant nephrologist and physician in Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2005 and is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Liverpool. She began as regional chronic kidney disease lead in 2006, following the UK government's initiative regarding chronic kidney disease, and was trust lead for long term conditions. Bhavna is a founding trustee of three charities, including Liverpool Kidney Patients’ Charity. She chaired the Equal Opportunity in Nephrology Committee of Renal Association 2016–19 and was an elected medical and dental staff governor for two terms, as well as being elected as deputy lead governor. Currently, Bhavna leads the Ethnic Minority Staff Network for the trust. She is a trustee of UK Kidney Association and has remained as an education and teaching lead in the department.

Professor Smeeta Sinha FRCP

Consultant nephrologist, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Smeeta Sinha is a consultant nephrologist and honorary professor at the University of Manchester and a visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is a Northern Care Alliance research and innovation deputy director and her research interests include CKD epidemiology, rare renal disease, vascular calcification disorders and multi-morbidity. In addition to Smeeta’s research roles, she is the NHS England national clinical director for renal medicine.

Dr Rupert Major

Dr Kristin Veighey FRCP

NIHR academic clinical fellow in general practice, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Kristin Veighey trained in Belfast and graduated in 2004, prior to moving to Southampton to be a junior house officer. After a 4-year period as a junior doctor in Wessex, she started renal (kidney) speciality training in London and completed a PhD. During her research time, Kirstin supported a multi-national clinical trial (REPAIR) and developed a passion for clinical research to improve patient care. She worked as an NHS consultant nephrologist for 5 years, before making the decision to retrain as a clinical academic GP. Kirstin is currently leading on National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded research to understand how we can better identify and manage people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in primary care. She is the UK Kidney Association Integrated CKD clinical co-lead, sits on the UK Kidney Association CKD Special Interest Group (SIG), leads the Society for Academic Primary Care SIG, and is the clinical lead for a Hampshire & Isle of Wight Integrated Care System industry funded service improvement project, SPOT-CKD. Kirstin led the development of a framework for extended roles for GPs in kidney health with the Royal College of General Practitioners. Additionally, she works as co-director of the Southampton Academy of Research, and leads the Research Leaders Programme.

Mr Owain Brooks

Lead renal pharmacist, Swansea Bay University Health Board

Professor Claire Shovlin

Professor David Weinkove

Professor, Durham University

Dr Rick Seah FRCP

Consultant in sport, exercise and musculoskeletal medicine, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Dr Rick Seah is a consultant in sport, exercise and musculoskeletal medicine at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) NHS Trust in North London. He is an honorary associate professor at the Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science, University College London (UCL). 

 He obtained his medical degree from Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals Medical School, King’s College London and completed a master's degree with distinction in sport and exercise medicine (SEM) at UCL.

 Rick is clinical lead for the departments of rheumatology, metabolic bone disease and SEM at RNOH and a consultant appraiser. He is deputy chair of the RNOH medical staff committee. He is current chair of the RCP SEM Committee and an RCP Medical Specialties Board member. He is a Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM[UK]) council member and previous chair of the FSEM(UK) communications committee. Rick is interested in medical education and lectures or examines for UCL, University of Bath and FSEM(UK).

Dr Carys Webster

Dr Jean Wong

Dr Vincent Ninh

Dr Raj Amarnani

Consultant in sport and exercise medicine, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Raj Amarnani is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and fellow of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine. He is the current president of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Section and is also a medical adviser and trustee for the National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society. He is an honorary clinical lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and a member of two European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology taskforces, currently developing international guidelines on physical activity and fatigue in rheumatic diseases. He is the chair of the physical activity specialist interest group at the British Society for Rheumatology and winner of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine’s association prize.

Dr Adam de Belder

Medical director of invited reviews, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Adam de Belder is the current medical director (MD) of invited reviews at the RCP.

A clinical chair in cardiology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, he has pursued a career as a cardiac and valve interventionist and was part of a team that set up adult cardiological services based in Brighton in 1999. His experience in developing advanced cardiac audit programmes led to his appointments as chair of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) and vice president of the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) for clinical quality and standards. He was appointed deputy MD of RCP invited reviews in 2019 and MD in 2021.

Dr Peter Belfield

Dr Peter Belfield

Dr Adam de Belder

Medical director of invited reviews, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Adam de Belder is the current medical director (MD) of invited reviews at the RCP.

A clinical chair in cardiology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, he has pursued a career as a cardiac and valve interventionist and was part of a team that set up adult cardiological services based in Brighton in 1999. His experience in developing advanced cardiac audit programmes led to his appointments as chair of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) and vice president of the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) for clinical quality and standards. He was appointed deputy MD of RCP invited reviews in 2019 and MD in 2021.

Dr Emma-Kate Reed

Dr Elizabeth Price FRCP

Consultant rheumatologist, Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Elizabeth Price is a consultant rheumatologist at Great Western Hospital in Swindon. In addition to general rheumatology, she has a specialist interest in Sjogren disease. Elizabeth was the lead author and driving force behind the British Society for Rheumatology guidelines for the management of Sjogren disease, published in 2025. She is a past president of the British Society of Rheumatology (2018–20) and current national clinical lead for the HQIP mandated New early inflammatory autoimmune audit running across England and Wales.

Dr Hilary Williams FRCP

Clinical vice president, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Hilary Williams is clinical vice president of the Royal College of Physicians and a consultant medical oncologist. She combines frontline clinical experience with a passion for improving patient care to reduce variation across the UK and tackle health inequalities. Hilary's other leadership roles include RCP vice president for Wales, acute oncology lead for the Wales Cancer Network and board member of UK acute oncology services. She regularly speaks at national conferences and contributes to the media on issues of workforce, cancer, equality and healthcare improvement.

Dr Zuzanna Sawicka FRCP

Clinical director for patient safety and clinical standards, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Zuzanna Sawicka is an acute and community consultant in elderly medicine at Mid Yorkshire NHS Teaching Trust. She is the clinical director for patient safety and clinical standards at the Royal College of Physicians. Zuzanna is passionate about the patient and staff voice, especially in keeping patient’s safe. She is committed to improving clinical standards, developing staff to achieve their full potential, and ensuring that patient’s get the right care at the right time in the right place and, where possible, that the care is delivered close to the place the person calls home. Through the years, Zuzanna has worked on many patient safety issues, from championing PJ paralysis to improving hospital pathways and now more recently led, and has advocated for, improved care in the community setting by implementing a Hospital at Home Programme locally, truly believing in that fact that little things matter. In today’s world, where in health and social care we face challenges, recurrent bed pressures and financial constraints, Zuzanna firmly believes the ability to strive for excellence is vitally important and that, most of all, we must not do harm and ensure patients receive the care they need and deserve.

Dr Richard Thomson

Professor Matthew Sadlier

Dr Theresa Barnes FRCP

Consultant rheumatologist, Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust

Dr Emma Vaux FRCP

Global vice president, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Emma Vaux OBE is a consultant nephrologist and general physician at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust since 2003. She is clinical director, integrated medicine A and associate medical director, patient safety. She is the clinical lead for the NHS England (NHSE) South-East Renal Clinical Network CKD workstream, and a member of NHSE Renal Services Clinical Reference Group.

At the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Emma has been senior censor and vice president education and training (2017–20), RCP chief examiner (2018–22) and on the RCP education faculty since 2009. She continues as an MRCP(UK) PACES examiner. Emma led the development of the RCP500 Code of Conduct. She is a Generation Q fellow with the Health Foundation and a founding member of the Q Community. Emma is co-editor of ABC Quality Improvement in Healthcare and an assessor with NHS Resolution. She was awarded an OBE for services to medical education in 2021.

Dr Amrita D'Souza

Clinical fellow in medical microbiology and virology, Public Health Wales

Professor Philippa Matthews

Dr Hilal Al Saffar FRCP

International adviser for Iraq, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Hilal Al Saffar is a consultant cardiologist and was the director of medical education at the University of Baghdad. He completed his education in Baghdad and graduated from College of Medicine, University of Baghdad in 1981. He became a fellow of the RCP in 2012.

He is experienced in clinical cardiology and the training and education of both under-postgraduate students and postgraduate trainees and oversaw the Iraqi UK training programme, which includes 400 Iraqi specialists training in the UK for two months across many disciplines (2007–2010).

He has great experience in medical education and curriculum reform, leading the modernisation of Baghdad College of Medicine curriculum, from subject-based to system integration, in collaboration with Nottingham and Sheffield Universities. He was appointed as head of the Medical Education Council (MECIQ)/Arab board, member of national council for accreditation medical colleges/Iraq (NCAMC). Currently, he is the head of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society’s Scientific Committee.