Dr Anne Kinderlerer FRCP

Digital health clinical lead, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Anne Kinderlerer is a consultant rheumatologist, associate medical director (patient safety) and clinical director for discharge and integrated care at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Anne leads on the RCP’s digital health strategy which guides and supports members and fellows to grasp the opportunities presented by digital health to improve patient care and outcomes.

In her clinical leadership roles, Anne’s focus over much of the past decade has been on working with others to improve systems and processes so that they work for patients and make it easier for staff to do the right thing. Anne has a particular interest in how to build more usable systems that reduce burnout and increase safety.

Anne has trained extensively in improvement methodologies including completion of the Flow Coaching Academy Programme in 2017 which brings together people, data and patient stories to improve complex care pathways. She subsequently trained as a Flow Coaching Academy coach and was a clinical coach for the first Sepsis Big Room.

Professor Alastair Denniston

Professor of regulatory science and innovation, University of Birmingham

Professor Alastair Denniston is chair of the UK’s National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare, an National Institute for Health and Care Research senior investigator, professor in regulatory science and innovation at the University of Birmingham, and a clinician at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He is director of the UK’s Centre of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation in AI and Digital Health, is a member of the UK government’s Regulatory Horizons Council and is non-executive director to the UK’s Health Research Authority. He is passionate about supporting innovation in advanced digital and AI health technologies, to accelerate the development of products that are effective, safe and equitable – and which make a difference to people in the ‘real world’.

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 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.

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

Professor Ben Goldacre

Professor of evidence based medicine, University of Oxford

Ben Goldcare is Bennett professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, and director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Recent projects include OpenPrescribing.net and OpenSAFELY.org – an open source secure data platform that has delivered high impact research analyses across 58 million patients’ GP records, developed in close collaboration with electronic health record system suppliers TPP and Optum (formerly EMIS). Ben is also a best-selling writer of popular science books, and author of the Goldacre review, Better, broader, safer uses of health data, for the Department of Health and Social Care, published in April 2022.

Professor Tom Solomon FRCP

Academic vice president, Royal College of Physicians

Professor Tom Solomon CBE is director of The Pandemic Institute, academic vice president of the Royal College of Physicians, vice president (international) of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, and chair of neurological science at the University of Liverpool and Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, where he is also consultant neurologist. Tom studied medicine at Oxford, investigates emerging pathogens, particularly those affecting the brain, and heads the multi-disciplinary Liverpool Brain Infections Group which works to reduce the global burden of neurological infections. He was at the forefront of the UK response to Ebola, Zika and COVID-19. Tom is an adviser to the UK government and WHO, appears regularly on BBC television and radio, and is a passionate science communicator, wining a Guinness World Record for his Sci-Art ‘World’s Biggest Brain’ project, and another for running the fastest marathon dressed as a doctor.

Professor Mumtaz Patel PRCP

President, Royal College of Physicians

Professor Mumtaz Patel is a consultant nephrologist based in Manchester, UK. She is a postgraduate associate dean for NHS England and is currently president of 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.

Dr Minal Bakhai

Dr Emma Rowlandson

Dr Elizabeth Macphie

Dr Kathy McLean

Dr Rebecca Brown

Professor Ponnusamy Saravanan FRCP

Professor and honorary consultant physician in diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism, University of Warwick

Professor Saravanan is a professor and honorary consultant physician in diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick and George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton. He serves as a non-executive director for Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. He is the current editor-in-chief for the RCP’s journal Clinical Medicine and joint editor-in-chief for the specialty journal Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity. He is the founder-director of the international Doctoral Training Programme, which focuses on research capacity-building activities in low- and middle-income countries. He splits his time equally between clinical and research activity. For the past 18 years, Professor Saravanan’s main research focus is understanding the mechanisms and ethnic variations in ‘programming of obesity and cardiometabolic disorders’ as well as ‘precision medicine’. He has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles and won several national and international awards. He passionately believes in ‘primordial prevention’ of metabolic disorders and approaches this by focusing on the health of young women and gestational diabetes. To address this, he has set up early pregnancy cohorts across the world. His team won the prestigious NHS Innovation award in 2015 for individualised diabetes management for South Asians in the UK. He is instrumental in fast-track adoption of newer therapies and technologies in diabetes locally, regionally and nationally. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was instrumental in writing the new RCOG UK screening guidelines for GDM based on his work, which were adopted widely in the UK. He reviews grants and is a board member for funding bodies nationally and internationally.

Dr Lyn Ferguson

Dr Harini Sathanapally

Doctoral fellow and GP, University of Leicester

Dr Harini Sathanapally is a GP and Wellcome funded doctoral fellow at the University of Leicester. Her research interests include improving the care of people living with multiple long term conditions, breathlessness presentations and ethnic inequalities in healthcare.

Dr Arani Nitkunan

Dr Nicola Giffin FRCP

Consultant neurologist, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Nicola Griffin has been a consultant neurologist at the Royal United Hospital in Bath since 2003 and is currently clinical lead of an expanding inpatient and outpatient district general hospital department. She gained expertise in her specialist interest in primary headache disorders as a clinical research fellow for Professor Peter Goadsby in the Headache Group at Queen Square . She has been a committee member for the British Association for the Study of Headache and previous chair of the Association of British Neurologists (ABN) Headache and Pain Advisory Group. She was also meetings secretary for the ABN 2022–2025.

Dr Heather Angus-Leppan

Dr Anthony Pereira FRCP

Consultant neurologist, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Shouvik Haldar FRCP

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

Dr Shouvik Haldar is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. Shouvik is a researcher in the field of atrial fibrillation and digital health. He is passionate about medical education and has been shaping national cardiology education for the past decade through his roles at the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS). He is vice president of education at the BCS.

Dr Rebecca Jayasinghe

Dr Ian Loke

Consultant cardiologist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Dr Ian Loke is a consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester and has more than 15 years’ clinical experience in cardiology. He is the local trust lead for the heart failure service and has been so for over a decade. Ian has a keen interest in evolving the provision of patient care, highlighted by his establishment of the heart failure unit in Glenfield Hospital, with both a dedicated inpatient ward and a 72-hour access heart failure clinic. This has led to major improvements in patient care since its inception. He is actively involved in clinical trials involving both novel drugs as well as implantable cardiac devices. His commitment to advancing care is further evidenced by his continued involvement in educational initiatives across primary and secondary care. He is a regular speaker at regional and national meetings. In addition to his active participation in clinical research and education, Ian has co-authored a number of articles with a focus on the screening and diagnosis of patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure, culminating in a thesis awarded with distinction. The value of his research has seen him present his findings at key medical congresses, including the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Dr Catherine Labinjoh

Dr Mihir Kelshiker

Becky Hyland

Heart failure nurse consultant, HCRG Care Group

Dr David Brooks FRCP

Macmillan consultant in palliative medicine, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

David Brooks has been Macmillan consultant in palliative medicine in Chesterfield Royal Hospital for 25 years. He is the chair of the RCP’s Joint Specialty Committee for Palliative Medicine and a past president of the Association for Palliative Medicine. He is also a member of the Palliative Medicine Specialty Certificate Examination Standard Setting Group.

Dr Sophia Ellis

Dr Paul Howard

Consultant in palliative medicine, Mountbatten Hospice

Dr Paul Howard is a consultant in palliative medicine at Mountbatten Hospice and St Mary’s Hospital on the Isle of Wight. He has a strong interest in palliative therapeutics, particularly adapting medication approaches to make them suitable for delivery in people’s own homes. He leads the hospice medicines safety and optimisation team and sits on the local medicines optimisation committee. He is an editor-in-chief for the Palliative Care Formulary, focusing particularly on palliative neuropharmacology. He also supports the wider development of therapeutics research, e.g. through Data Safety Monitoring Committee work.

Dr Emily Holdsworth

Palliative medicine ST7, St Gemma's Hospice

Dr Samantha Lund FRCP

Medical director Royal, Trinity Hospice

Dr Samantha Lund is a consultant in palliative medicine and the medical director at Royal Trinity Hospice, London. She is a visiting senior lecturer within the Cicely Saunders Institute (Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care) at King’s College London. Sam undertook her palliative medicine training across London and Surrey, earning a master’s degree with distinction in the ethics of cancer and palliative care. Her professional interests focus on understanding the barriers to accessing palliative and hospice care and increasing research activity in the hospice setting. Within ethics, Sam’s interests include the ethical challenges of advanced care planning and how best to engage a wider audience, including non-clinicians, in recognising, understanding and meeting the ethical challenges in everyday healthcare.

Dr Ragit Varia FRCP

Consultant acute medicine, Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Ragit Varia is a consultant in acute medicine at Whiston Hospital in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He is the trust fluid and acute kidney injury lead, as well as the same day emergency care (SDEC) lead. Ragit has the role of medical lead for the Urgent Cancer Care Programme with the Cheshire & Merseyside Cancer Alliance, leading on their cancer SDEC. He is also a content lead for the RCP Medical Care – Driving Change Programme, as well as the current president elect of the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) council.

Dr Tom Knight

Dr Molly Bradbury

IMT3, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Molly Bradbury is a current IMT3 trainee in the south-west of England, aiming to pursue a future career in gastroenterology. She has a special interest in caring for patients with complex lives, as well as research experience in the area of inclusion health, health inequality and addiction.

Dr Vicky Price

Consultant, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Domenico Girelli

Dr Jonathan Massie

Clinical fellow in transfusion medicine, NHS Blood and Transplant