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.

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.

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 Jess Morley

de Vries-Sherif associate research scientist and associate director of research, Digital Ethics Centre, Yale University

Dr Jess Morley is de Vries-Sherif associate research scientist and associate director of Research at the Digital Ethics Center, Yale University. She holds a BA, MSc and PhD from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the ethics and governance of health data and AI, and she has previously served as a technology adviser at NHSX and as lead researcher for the Goldacre Review. She sits on the NHS England AI Advisory Board and the UK National Data Guardian’s panel, and is an associate editor at BMJ Digital Health & AI.

Dr Felicity Perrin

Consultant respiratory physician, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Felicity Perrin is a consultant respiratory physician at King’s College Hospital, London, and lead for the TB/NTM services at King’s and at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. She is also a clinician in the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit at King’s College Hospital. Felicity trained largely in London, worked for 9 months in Malawi and did a research degree in TB. She is the current chair of the British Thoracic Society TB and NTM Specialist Advisory Group.

Dr Martin Dedicoat FRCP

Infectious diseases consultant, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Martin Dedicoat is a consultant infectious diseases physician in Birmingham, having completed his training in Birmingham and South Africa. He is the clinical lead for the Birmingham and Solihull Tuberculosis service and works half time in the UKHSA National TB Unit. Martin is current chair of the British Thoracic Society MDRTB clinical advice service, helping to organise monthly MDT's for people with complex tuberculosis infection across the UK.

Dr Pranab Haldar

Clinical senior lecturer and honorary consultant respiratory physician, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Dr Pranabashis Haldar is a consultant physician and senior lecturer in respiratory medicine in Leicester, UK. He is a member of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) MDR-TB Steering Group and clinical advisory service, and the BTS TB and NTM Advisory Group. In Leicester, he leads one of the largest rapid access tuberculosis (TB) services in England, providing a centralised pathway for accelerated investigation and diagnosis of patients with suspected TB. Pranabashis is academic lead for clinical TB research at the Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. His academic work focuses primarily on the heterogeneity of latent TB infection and determinants of progression to TB. This work has included the development of novel blood transcriptional signatures for TB diagnosis and monitoring treatment response, ongoing development of a bacteriophage-based TB diagnostic and phenotypic stratification of latent TB infection using PET-CT. In this talk, Pranabashis will review the importance of latent TB infection screening for TB control.

Ms Sarah Murphy

Lead tuberculosis nurse, UK Health Security Agency

Sarah Murphy is the lead tuberculosis (TB) Nurse in the UKHSA TB Unit, bringing two decades of clinical, public health and strategic experience to TB care, prevention and control in England. She has worked in both high and low incidence TB areas and cared for children and adults across the full spectrum of TB, including multidrug resistant disease, complex social needs and large scale contact screening investigations. Sarah is passionate about delivering high-quality, person-centred care for individuals, families and communities affected by TB. She champions multidisciplinary approaches to tackling TB from clinical, public health and health inequalities perspectives, emphasising the central role of TB nurses in coordinating the MDT and advocating for patients.

Dr Bhavna Pandya FRCP

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.

Dr Sacha Moore

WCAT specialty registrar in nephrology, University Hospital of Wales

Dr Sacha Moore is a specialty registrar in nephrology and general internal medicine on the Wales clinical academic training scheme in Cardiff. His clinical interests include chronic kidney disease (CKD) management, particularly CKD mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD), and cardiorenal disease. He also has an interest in acute kidney injury (AKI) management, having been lead author of the All-Wales AKI Guideline. Sacha's research focuses on vascular calcification as a driver of cardiovascular disease in people living with CKD, and he is currently out-of-programme undertaking a Wellcome Trust-funded GW4CAT-HP doctoral fellowship investigating mechanisms driving osteogenic transdifferentation of vascular smooth muscle cells in chronic kidney disease. Sacha is keen to promote and support clinical academic careers, which drives his work as a resident doctor committee representative on the RCP Research and Academic Medicine Committee. He is also passionate about ensuring access to research opportunities for resident doctors across the country through chairing NEPHwork, the UK Kidney Association-supported trainee-led research collaborative.

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

Associate professor, University of Leicester

Dr Rupert Major is a clinical associate professor and consultant nephrologist specialising in chronic kidney disease, risk prediction and integrated care. He trained at the University of Leicester, qualifying in medicine in 2009, and completed specialist renal training in the East Midlands. Rupert holds a PhD in cardiovascular risk prediction in people with kidney disease and has played a key role in the development and validation of the kidney failure risk equation (KFRE), recommended by NICE and used internationally. He leads national KFRE implementation, is UK Kidney Association national co-lead for integrated CKD care and directs LUCID, an internationally recognised integrated care programme focused on equity, early intervention, medicines optimisation, and improved outcomes.

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

Consultant pharmacist and clinical and operational lead, South West Wales Renal Medicines Service

Owain Brooks is lead pharmacist for kidney services across south-west Wales and provides strategic leadership for the region’s renal medicines service, ensuring high standards of care. He champions patient-centred and innovative approaches to healthcare and, as an independent prescriber delivers specialist, tailored treatment for people living with kidney disease. Owain maintains a broad portfolio spanning service improvement, research and pharmacy-led innovation. In recent years, he has overseen the development of multimedia education resources designed to help people living with kidney disease to better understand their condition and treatment options. Owain is a fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Business Administration to deepen his understanding of organisational structures and complex adaptive systems, such as the NHS, to improve patient care.

Professor Claire Shovlin FRCP

Professor of practice, clinical and molecular medicine, Imperial College London

Dr Oliver Robinson

Associate professor in molecular epidemiology, Imperial College School of Public Health

Dr Oliver Robinson is associate professor in molecular epidemiology at the MRC Centre for Environment and Health and the Ageing Epidemiology (AGE) Research Unit at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London. His research interests lie in the field of molecular and environmental epidemiology, biological ageing and health inequalities. As a Future Leaders Fellow, funded by UK Research and Innovation, he is developing novel biomarkers of ageing across multiple populations, using omics technologies. The work may shed light on common pathological mechanisms underlying multiple non-communicable diseases. As co-investigator on the Gates Ventures-funded Chariot Pro Longitudinal Study, he is investigating risk factors and prognostic markers of cognitive ageing and dementia risk. Oliver is co-investigator for the Horizon project ENDOMIX (https://endomix.eu/), which investigates immune-mediated effects of environmental chemicals, and principal investigator for the MRC-funded MACAW project, which studies the role of air pollution in cognitive ageing and dementia risk.

Professor David Weinkove

Professor, Department of Biosciences, Durham University

David Weinkove is a professor at the Department of Biosciences at Durham University. He is also chair of the British Society for Research on Ageing and co-founder of the company Magnitude Biosciences. David has studied ageing for over 25 years and his research is primarily on how bacteria can accelerate ageing. He works with the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny nematode worm. He found that the inhibiting bacterial folate synthesis in the E. coli that worms feed on makes the worms live and stay healthier for longer. David is collaborating with clinicians to explore whether something similar happens in human and how it is affected by folic acid supplementation. He promotes the use of the basic biology of ageing to help prevent disease and maintain human health.

Regius Rose Ann Kenny FRCP

Professor of medical gerontology, Trinity College Dublin

Rose Anne Kenny is Regius Professor of Physic (Medicine) and holds the chair of medical gerontology at Trinity College Dublin. Rose is the founding principal investigator of The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing (TILDA) and director of the Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) at St James’s Hospital, where she is also director of a large national falls and syncope and autonomic function laboratory. She is director of the new WHO Collaborating Centre for Longitudinal Studies on Ageing and the Life Course. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, London and Ireland, a fellow of Trinity College Dublin, a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, honorary fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine Ireland, and was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She has received a number of international awards and has published widely, authoring over 700 publications, including her recently published book Age proof – the new science of living a longer and healthier life, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2022. In 2020, she was elected president of the Irish Gerontological Society. In 2022 she was nominated 24th Regius Professor of Physic at TCD (1637) – the first female nominee.

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 Alice Cole

Clinical education fellow, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Alice Cole is a rheumatology and general internal medicine resident doctor based in Northeast London. She is currently completing a year-long clinical education fellowship at the Royal College of Physicians alongside a postgraduate certificate in medical education. Alice has organised sport and exercise medicine regional resident doctor teaching and hosted an RCP Medicine podcast discussing the use of motivational interviewing within the specialty.

Dr Carys Webster

Specialty registrar in sport and exercise medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Carys Webster is a specialty registrar in sport and exercise medicine in Oxford. She graduated from the University of Leicester in 2014 and worked in hospitals across London, initially specialising in anaesthetics and intensive care. Her passion for preventative medicine and interest in female athlete health led her to complete a Masters degree in Sport and Exercise Medicine at QMUL in 2022, and she moved to Oxford in 2023 to take up a role in this specialty. As part of Carys’ NHS role, she is involved in developing the Moving Medicine website and the Physical Activity Clinical Champion Programme.

Dr Jean Wong

Consultant in sports and exercise medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Jean Wong is a consultant in sports and exercise medicine and a GP in the East Midlands, as well as a trustee of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine. She is passionate about promoting physical activity in healthcare and is the project lead for the Moving Medicine Coachbot, an AI-enabled motivational interviewing chatbot designed to support increased physical activity in people with long-term conditions. Jean served as a physical activity clinical champion in the Midlands for 10 years and has long advocated for integrating physical activity into routine clinical care. As a GP partner, she led her practice to become a Royal College of General Practitioners Parkrun Practice in 2015. She also contributes to education and training in physical activity medicine, including teaching on the BASEM exercise medicine course.

Dr Vincent Ninh

Specialty registrar in sport and exercise medicine and general practitioner, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Raj Amarnani

Consultant in sport, exercise and musculoskeletal medicine, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Raj Amarnani is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine at University College London Hospitals 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.

Nathan Burley

Conference and communications chair, British Association of Sexual Health and HIV

Nathan Burley is conference and communications chair for the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV. He is a pharmacist in public health protection and sexual health services in Glasgow, a visiting lecturer at the University of Strathclyde and fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Dr Alex Langrish

Specialty registrar in genitourinary medicine and internal medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Alex Langrish is a specialty registrar in genitourinary medicine and internal medicine training in Yorkshire. As an undergraduate, he developed a teaching toolkit for pre-exposure prophylaxis for healthcare workers and third-sector workers in Brighton, as well as assisting with a project to develop and deliver a package of sexual risk reduction interventions for patients attending sexual health services. Nathan was awarded the Oral Undergraduate Prize at the 2017 joint BASHH-SSSTDI conference and has been a member of the HIV Trainee Association Committee since 2021. He is delivering an oral abstract at the BASHH-BHIVA joint conference in April 2026 based on the experience of delivering doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis at Leeds Sexual Health.

Dr Claire Pritchard

Consultant genitourinary medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Claire Pritchard is a GUM consultant working in Manchester who is passionate about providing high-quality and innovative care to people living with HIV and sexual health conditions. Claire recently presented a case series at the BASHH/BHIVA conference on the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir and lenacapvir in people with limited anti-retroviral options.

Dr Alex Maxwell

Consultant in genito-urinary medicine and HIV, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Dr Alex Maxwell is a genito urinary medicine and HIV consultant at the Sandyford Initiative in Glasgow. She is the consultant lead for the Adult Inclusion team that delivers sexual health care, including community outreach, to marginalised and underserved populations.

Dr Mo Al-Aloul

Dr Mo Al-Aloul is an independent consultant respiratory physician in Manchester. He previously worked at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, where he led pleural services, venous thromboembolism pathways, and clinical audit, and contributed to the lung cancer multidisciplinary team. Prior to this he served as lead lung transplant Physician at the Northwest Lung Centre, Manchester, managing complex end-stage respiratory disease and transplantation. Nationally, he chaired the NHS Blood and Transplant Lung Allocation Working Party, leading the development and implementation of the UK lung allocation scheme. He has also contributed to national policy as a member of the NICE COPD guideline committee and held a senior digital leadership role as Deputy Chief Informatics Officer, supporting large-scale electronic patient record deployment.

His academic and educational portfolio includes an MD from the University of Liverpool, Honorary Senior Lectureship, and a former role as Associate Hospital Dean at the University of Manchester. He has a strong research track record with peer reviewed publications in Thorax, JAMA, the European Respiratory Journal and the Journal of Heart and Lung transplantation, alongside leadership roles in NIHR-funded and multicentre studies in lung transplantation and pleural disease. He has delivered teaching and invited lectures nationally and internationally for over two decades, with a sustained focus on respiratory training, service development, and multidisciplinary care.

Dr Max Thoburn

Resident doctor committee deputy chair and West Midlands representative, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Max Thoburn is a registrar in infectious diseases and general internal medicine, based in the West Midlands. His interests are focused on health policy and its effect on both working conditions and healthcare inequalities at a local and national level.

Dr Ben Chadwick FRCP

Deputy registrar, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Chadwick is a consultant physician in Acute Medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, and was appointed to the role in 2008. A fellow of the RCP since 2015, Ben completed his undergraduate training at Southampton University before becoming one of the first registrars to train in Acute Medicine in the Wessex Deanery in 2004. Ben is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton, where he works as the Programme Lead for the graduate entry medicine course (BM4). In addition to his role with undergraduate medical education, Ben has always had a keen interest in postgraduate medical education. He acted as the Training Programme Director for Acute Internal Medicine (AIM) in Wessex Deanery from 2009 to 2018, and chaired the Specialist Advisory Committee for AIM from 2016 to 2022. During this time he was responsible for the development of the 2022 AIM curriculum, including introducing point of care ultrasound as core part of the curriculum, with time for this protected for training. Since demitting as the chair of the AIM SAC in 2022 Ben has taken up the role of the RCP college tutor in Southampton responsible for ST4+ trainees. In this role he has developed well received regional training days in General Internal Medicine, and also simulation training within the Trust. Since 2023 Ben has also acted as the joint Regional Advisor for the Wessex region. Ben was elected as one of two England Regional Advisor representatives to the RCP council, and has been a member of the Council since January 2024. In this role he has been involved in producing guidance on supervision and employment of Physician Associates in the medical specialties.

Dr Mike Jones

Executive medical director, The Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK

Dr Mike Jones is a consultant physician in acute medicine at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. He was previously based in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh from 2006–12. He was also consultant physician and deputy medical director in NHS Tayside from 1992–2006. His first consultant appointment was in 1992 as a renal physician. He was formerly director of training for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) having previously also been vice president. Mike is a past president of the Society for Acute Medicine and a founder member. He was central to guiding acute medicine to specialty status and inaugural chair of its Specialist Advisory Committee. He is national clinical lead for acute and general medicine in the Getting It Right First Time Programme.

Dr Stephen Joseph

Resident doctor committee co-chair, Royal College of Physicians

Stephen joined the Resident Doctor Committee in 2024 as a representative for North Central and East London and was elected co-chair in 2025. He currently works as a registrar in respiratory and general internal medicine in East London. Stephen graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2015, and has represented doctors locally and regionally throughout his postgraduate training in Hertfordshire and London. He has a keen interest in education and training, having completed a master’s in clinical education and spent a year as an education fellow at NHS England. Stephen is committed to applying his academic and professional experience to ensure that policies and training initiatives are made with the needs of resident doctors in mind. Stephen is always happy to hear from doctors about their suggestions or concerns regarding postgraduate training.

Dr Anthony Martinelli

Senior clinical fellow, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Anthony Martinelli is a respiratory physician and scientist with interests in COPD, iron biology, and infection. As co-chair of the RCP Resident Doctor Committee from 2024–25 and vice chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Resident Doctors’ Committee in 2025, Anthony contributed to the phase 1 diagnostic report of the Medical Training Review. He is particularly keen to ensure that reform of academic training forms part of the next stage of the report, and currently sits on an RCP short term working group focused on this topic.

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

Dr Amrita D'Souza is founder and former conference director of ‘Hot topics in global health’ hosted by the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital postgraduate team. After IMT2, she completed a Masters in Tropical Health and Infectious Disease Research with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Amrita’s 6-month field-based research project was based in Lima, Peru, with the Innovation for Health and Development (IFHAD) team led by the late Prof Carlton Evans (Imperial College London). IFHAD is a charity that works with 32 impoverished communities surrounding Lima, including in shantytowns. Following this, she completed a clinical observership at Yenepoya Medical College (Karnataka, India) in infectious diseases/microbiology, the directorate of extension and outreach activities, and medical education and simulation. Interested in addressing healthcare inequalities within the NHS, Amrita co-founded and is project lead for the medical communication chart (MCC) project at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The MCCs have been co-developed with patients at each stage and are aimed at reducing language barriers on daily medical ward rounds that affect healthcare access, patient safety and patient experience. These MCCs are free to access and available 24/7 for use nationally at https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/professionals/medical-communication-charts. Amrita is currently working as a clinical fellow in infectious diseases and medical microbiology at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff and hopes to start ST3 combined infection training in September 2026.

Professor Philippa Matthews FRCP

Professor of infectious diseases, University College London

Professor Philippa Matthews is a professor of infectious diseases at University College London and leads a research group at the Francis Crick Institute. Having trained in infectious diseases and microbiology in Nottingham, London, Liverpool and Oxford, she has also spent time working and collaborating in Malawi, South Africa, Kenya and Uganda. Philippa’s research focus is on the global public health threat associated with hepatitis B virus infection and she leads a translational clinical programme that seeks to unify laboratory approaches, study of real-world clinical cohorts, implementation science and public health interventions through multidisciplinary approaches. Her clinical practice is based in central London where she is part of a team providing care for people living with chronic blood borne virus infection. Philippa is clinical co-lead for the Health Informatics Collaborative for viral hepatitis and liver disease, and co-chairs the UK National Strategic Group for Viral Hepatitis (NSGVH).

Dr Hilal Al Saffar FRCP

International adviser for Iraq, Royal College of Physicians

Professor Hilal Bahjet Shawki Al Saffar is a consultant cardiologist at Majeed Private Hospital, Baghdad. He was head of the Medical Education Unit at the College of Medicine, University of Baghdad for 10 years and was in charge of curriculum reform and development with American and UK universities. Hilal supervised training programmes in India, the UK and Germany for the Ministry of Health Iraq and is currently the international adviser for Iraq for the RCP, having founded the RCP Iraq Network. Alongside his consultant cardiology post, Hilal is vice president of the National Council for Accreditation Medical Colleges in Iraq (NCAMC), head of the Scientific Committee, Iraqi Red Crescent Society, and a medical education adviser, College of Medicine, Alkafeel University.

Dr Waheed Arian

Founder, Teleheal and Arian Wellbeing

Dr Waheed Arian was born in Afghanistan and went on to study at Cambridge and Harvard universities. He is now an emergency doctor in the NHS, author of best-selling memoir, In the wars, and founder of the pioneering telemedicine charity Arian Teleheal, which works directly with clinicians on the ground in low-resource and war-torn countries. Waheed is the CEO of Arian Wellbeing, an innovative digital mental health initiative that provides culturally and language appropriate comprehensive mental health support to organisational staff and communities, including hard to reach diverse communities in the UK and globally, in partnership with government, healthcare, non-profit and for-profit organisations. As an adviser, he helps governments and global organisations such as the UN, WHO and others with the development of their healthcare and education systems that can address inequalities. Waheed is an NHS innovation mentor and was appointed in 2019 to the WHO Roster of Digital Health Experts. He is recognised as a UNESCO global hope hero and a UN global goals goalkeeper for promoting sustainable development goals. He has been a signatory to the WHO World report on the health of refugees and migrants. Waheed was named UK doctor of the year in 2021 and chosen by The Times as a person of the year. In 2022 he was given the world citizen award from Turkish Radio and Television. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2023 and was awarded honorary fellowship by Cambridge University in 2024, as well as an honorary doctor of science from Chester University for his pioneering services in medicine.

Dr Adam de Belder FRCP

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 FRCP

Former medical director for invited reviews, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Peter Belfield was a consultant geriatrician at Leeds General Infirmary in 1987. Peter has held a number of local, regional and national clinical leadership roles. From 1998 to 2009 he held deputy medical director roles (both operational and corporate) at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. From 2007 to 2009 he was chair of the British Geriatric Society Policy Committee and deputy medical director of the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians (RCP) Training Board. From 2009 to 2013 he was trust medical director at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. During semi-retirement, from 2013 to 2017, he was a secondary care doctor for Leeds West Clinical Commissioning Group. From 2013 to 2023 he was trustee and from 2017, chair of St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds, delivering excellent end of life care that was rated ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission in 2016 and 2022. From 2014 to 2022 he was medical director of the Invited Service Reviews and a college officer at the RCP. He completed over 40 reviews. In early 2023, he was interim college registrar at the RCP following the death of a colleague. Since 2022 he has been chair of the RCP Governance Committee of Invited Reviews. In 2023 he was awarded an MBE for services to patient care and for patient safety.

Dr Emma-Kate Reed FRCP

Deputy medical director invited review team, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Emma-Kate Reed is a consultant geriatrician at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. She trained in Bristol and completed her specialist training in the Severn Deanery. Emma-Kate is a deputy medical director at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, and her current portfolio includes urgent and emergency care and patient safety and governance. She has held previous senior leadership roles, including clinical chair for the Division of Medicine and deputy medical director at UHBW. She has an interest in patient safety and medical education. She was appointed as a deputy medical director for RCP invited reviews in June 2023.

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 FRCP

Consultant gastroenterologist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Richard Thomson is graduated from Cambridge and undertook clinical training in London and Australia. He has broad interests in medicine, from the ‘hard’ – PhD in immunology, Bowel Cancer Screening Programme endoscopist, to the ‘soft’ – humanistic pedagogy, mind-body interaction and Balint. In peri-retirement Richard’s clinical role has focused on triage. Northumbria runs a single point of access model that handles ~1,000 requests a month and delivers the best elective referral to treatment in England. This work has stimulated him more than he had anticipated – as a theatre for clinical reasoning and communication and a vantage point from which to see the state of the nation’s health. From here it is impossible to ignore the impact of environment, lifestyle and mental wellbeing on physical health, or wonder how the future expert is best trained and deployed to meet the challenge.

Professor Matthew Sadlier

Consultant liaison psychiatrist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

Professor Matthew Sadlier is a consultant liaison psychiatrist and associate professor of psychiatry in University College Dublin. Matthew has a strong interest in the effects of screens, social media and AI on mental health and cognitive function. He is an active member of Health Professionals for Safer Screens and has been involved in numerous campaigns in relation to screen use both in Ireland and UK. He is the current president of the Irish Medical Organisation.

Dr Theresa Barnes FRCP

Consultant rheumatologist, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Kath McCullough FRCP

Consultant diabetes and endocrinology, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Kath McCullough is a consultant in diabetes and endocrinology with a specialist interest in bariatric medicine at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals and the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. Kath has a long-standing interest in weight management and completed her PhD on GLP-1 analogues in obesity at Imperial College London. She is currently the national specialty advisor for obesity for NHS England and the special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians.

Dr Clare Hambling FRCP

National clinical director for diabetes and obesity, NHS England

Dr Clare Hambling is the national clinical director for diabetes and obesity at NHS England, providing clinical leadership for national programmes across prevention, treatment and care. She is a practising GP with over 25 years’ experience in primary care and has led system and national service transformation in diabetes, obesity and population health. Clare has held senior leadership roles within CCGs, STPs and ICSs and is a former chair of the Primary Care Diabetes & Obesity Society. She has contributed extensively to national guideline development, audit and research, with a strong focus on translating evidence into real world practice, addressing health inequalities and improving outcomes at scale. She regularly lectures nationally and internationally on diabetes, obesity and integrated care.

Dr Anita Banerjee FRCP

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

Dr Anita Banerjee is an honorary reader in obstetric medicine at King’s College London, and clinical academic programme education and training lead. She is a trustee for Action on Preeclampsia (APEC) and is on the steering committee for mMOET. Her main interests are social health inequalities, education, high risk pregnancies and cardio-metabolic health. Anita is president of the UK Maternity Cardiac Society and a censor for the RCP.

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.

Suzanna Hopwood

Member, RCP Patient and Carer Network

Suzanna Hopwood has been a member of the RCP Patient and Carer Network (PCN) for nearly 10 years, contributing a lay perspective based on both observed and lived experience of delivery of healthcare and policy in general as well as from the perspective of a woman with a trans history. Suzanna is currently a lay examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, work which she considers to be important in the context of clinical training.

Claire Jowett

Member, RCP Patient and Carer Network

Richard Triffitt

Member, RCP Patient and Carer Network

Richard Triffitt has been an active member of the RCP's Patient and Carer Network for over 10 years. He and his family have first-hand experience of paediatrics, hospital treatment and care – particularly in kidney failure, two transplants with one donation, severe cardiac attack and heart failure, aortic valve surgery, treatment in Emergency Department, ENT, and allergy diagnosis and management.

Dr Richard Gilpin

Consultant in geriatric and general medicine, Wye Valley NHS Trust

Dr Richard Gilpin is a consultant in geriatric and general medicine at Hereford County Hospital. He is clinical lead for frailty and the royal college tutor. He leads the front door frailty team, working at the interface of acute and community care to provide practical, patient-centred medicine for older adults. He has recently been principal investigator for the POPS-Sup trial, exploring the role of geriatric medicine in supporting frail patients undergoing surgery, and continues to lead interventions aimed at improving outcomes for this population. Richard is a strong advocate for general medicine as a varied, rewarding and sustainable career, particularly in hospitals like Hereford, where close-knit teams and continuity of care are invaluable parts of the job.

Dr Aisyah Johari

General internal medicine specialist registrar, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Dr Aisyah Johari is currently a specialist registrar ST6 in general internal medicine based in University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. She graduated from University of Leicester in 2015 followed by foundation and internal medical training across Merseyside and East Midlands. Aisyah has research experience in diabetes and contributes actively to medical education in simulation skills and as an examiner at Leicester Medical School. Her interest as a GIM specialist is in managing complex patients with multiple health conditions, providing holistic care and bridging the gap between primary and secondary care services.

Dr Ali Abbas

GIM standalone ST6 registrar, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust

Dr Ali Abbas is a specialty registrar (ST6) in standalone general internal medicine (GIM), currently based at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He is FAMUS-accredited in lung, abdominal and DVT ultrasound, and is pursuing accreditation in focused echocardiography, reflecting his commitment to advanced bedside diagnostics. Alongside his clinical work, he is actively involved in local teaching and training. Ali has a strong interest in cardiometabolic medicine, including hypertension, type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease and hypercholesterolaemia, with the aim of developing this into a future-focused specialist pathway within general medicine. As a panellist at Medicine 2026, he represents the first generation of standalone GIM doctors and offers insight into how training must evolve to meet the demands of modern acute and general internal medicine.

Dr Áine Corry

IMT2, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency and Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Dr Áine Corry graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 2020, completing placements in Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany as part of Erasmus, and undertook her foundation training in Northern Ireland. During her foundation training Áine was a regional trainee representative on the NIMDTA Foundation and Trainee Forums, and was involved with undergraduate medical teaching, including developing a local teaching programme for medical students. After foundation training, she spent a few months locuming before leaving the UK to gain experience working in Perth, Western Australia. This provided great insight into a different healthcare system, including better working conditions and work-life balance. She is now an internal medical training doctor in Northern Ireland and is passionate about improving working conditions working in Northern Ireland and across the UK. Áine joined the RCP Resident Doctor Committee at the end of 2024 and is keen to advocate for resident doctors to improve working conditions, education and training opportunities.

Dr Nicholas Hicks

Senior strategy adviser, Department of Health and Social Care

Dr Nicholas Hicks qualified as a doctor in 1982 and trained in general practice and public health. Currently, he is on secondment from Green Templeton College, University of Oxford to the DHSC System Strategy Unit, supporting the development and implementation of the 10 Year Health Plan. Nicholas’s career has included time as a practising GP, as a director of Public Health, PCT chief executive, a Harkness Fellow and several attachments policy making in the Department of Health where he was the lead author of the Coronary Heart Disease National Service Framework, then the doctor in the department’s Strategy Unit and a major contributor to the NHS plan’s health inequalities policies.

Dr Emma Rowlandson FRCP

Consultant in acute medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Emma Rowlandson is a consultant in acute medicine at West Middlesex Hospital and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Emma obtained her CCT in acute medicine in 2012 and completed her MBA in 2024, focusing on collaboration across the Hounslow health and social care system. She is the Pan-London lead for stage 1 IMT and has held multiple educational leadership roles, including RCP tutor, local and regional IMT training programme director, and supervisor for London’s wellbeing and flourishing fellowships. She also helped secure funding for the new RCP wellbeing research fellowship and has co-authored work on clinician wellbeing. As lead of the Society for Acute Medicine’s Wellbeing Committee, she champions initiatives that support clinicians to thrive and strengthen acute medicine as a sustainable, fulfilling specialty. Emma has held several senior clinical leadership posts, including service director for ambulatory emergency care and acute medicine, clinical director for medical specialties, and clinical director for strategy, integration and partnerships. Her focus is on collaborative service design, improving patient experience, reducing health inequalities and developing neighbourhood care models across Hounslow.

Dr Elizabeth MacPhie FRCP

Consultant rheumatologist, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Lizzy MacPhie is a consultant rheumatologist in Preston and clinical lead for the integrated musculoskeletal service. Lizzy works in a community-based service and has been involved with the tender and then mobilisation of a new integrated service, which has been a unique opportunity to be heavily involved with service redesign. She has held the roles of chair of the Clinical Affairs Committee and chair of the Standards, Audit and Guidelines Working Group at the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR). She is a founder member of the BSR QI Special Interest Group. She has developed a particular interest in quality improvement through her work with service redesign and is an advocate of sharing good practice. In 2023 she was appointed the ICB clinical and care professional lead for Central and West Lancashire.

Dr Kathy McLean

Dr Rebecca Brown

Clinical lead for child health and neighbourhood transformation, Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Dr Rebecca Brown is a GP based in York with specialist interests in child health, neighbourhood health and urgent care innovation. She has developed GP-led paediatric services in partnership with secondary care, enabling greater clinical acuity to be managed safely in community settings. Rebecca’s work focuses on shifting care from hospital to neighbourhood models, with an emphasis on reducing inequalities and addressing the impact of deprivation on health outcomes. She has particular expertise in coordinating care for children with complex needs, drawing on her experience in paediatric palliative medicine and hospice care to support families and integrate services around the child. Her leadership approach emphasises collaboration across primary, secondary, community and voluntary sectors, with a strong commitment to co-production and patient-centred innovation. Rebecca worked within the NHS England North East and Yorkshire regional team as clinical lead for CYP asthma, representing the region nationally and co-founding the National Leadership Forum to enable collaboration and shared learning. She has been a principal investigator for national and international trials, including HARMONIE, a trial on RSV vaccines, and has presented nationally on child health and service transformation.

Professor Ponnusamy Saravanan FRCP

Professor of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Professor Ponnusamy Saravanan (Sara) is a professor and honorary consultant physician specialising in diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, and George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton. He serves as a non-executive director on the Coventry and Warwickshire Mental Health Trust Board and recently concluded his role as diabetes lead for the NIHR West Midlands Research Delivery Network. Sara is the editor-in-chief of the Royal College of Physicians' journal, Clinical Medicine and joint editor-in-chief for Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity. Sara was the NHS Innovation Award winner for personalised diabetes management for South Asians in 2015. He is a driving force in shaping new guidelines (Thyroid hormone replacement, 2011; GDM screening during Covid-19 pandemic 2021) and rapid adoption of new therapies and technologies at local, regional, national and international levels. He established early pregnancy cohorts worldwide (UK, India, Kenya, Malaysia and Thailand) to address gaps in evidence in the field of programming of obesity and cardiometabolic disorders. Sara has authored over 170 peer-reviewed publications and earned several national and international accolades.

Professor Krish Nirantharakumar

Professor of public health and health data science, King's College London

Professor Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar is a professor of public health and health data science at King’s College London. His research focuses on improving prevention and management of diabetes and multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) using large-scale health data and digital technologies. Krish has pioneered automated real-world evidence platforms, including DExtER and digital trial infrastructures, enabling rapid population-level research using electronic health records. His work spans prediction modelling, digital clinical decision support and pragmatic trials to deliver personalised care. Through national and international collaborations, Krish aims to translate data-driven insights into scalable interventions that improve cardiometabolic health and reduce health inequalities.

Dr Lyn Ferguson

Consultant and honorary senior clinical lecturer chemical pathology and metabolic medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and University of Glasgow

Dr Lyn Ferguson is a consultant and honorary senior clinical lecturer in chemical pathology and metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Lyn’s research focuses on how best to manage obesity and related health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, dyslipidaemia, diabetes and inflammatory arthritis.

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 FRCP

Consultant neurologist, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Dr Arani Nitkunan studied at Newnham College, Cambridge and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London graduating in 1999. Arani was awarded a PhD for stroke research at St George’s Hospital, London in 2007. She was appointed as a consultant neurologist in 2013 with general neurology clinics at Croydon University Hospital and a specialist neuro-ophthalmology clinic at St George’s. Her two sub-specialist areas are stroke and neuro-ophthalmology. She was appointed clinical lead for neurology at Croydon in 2015 where she has transformed acute neurology and driven the appointment of five nurse specialists. Since May 2023, she is the chair of the Association of British Neurologists (ABN) Services Committee and hence a member of ABN executive council. She has held the previous ABN role of vice-chair of the newly formed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and was a member of the Quality Committee and Acute Neurology Special Interest Group. She has been secondary care co-chair of the Southwest London Neurological Services Network since 2019 and was a trustee on the board of the Neurological Alliance.

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 FRCP

Consultant neurologist and honorary associate professor, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Heather Angus Leppan is a consultant neurologist, epilepsy lead and director of epilepsy research at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. She is an honorary associate professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Her clinical practice includes general and acute neurology, with interests in epilepsy and headache. Heather is involved in clinical research and leadership, with a focus on improving diagnostic accuracy, patient safety and quality of care. She has contributed to national guidelines and multidisciplinary care pathways and is engaged in medical education across undergraduate and postgraduate settings. She is past president of the Clinical Neurosciences Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and president-elect of the Medical Society of London. She also contributes to professional, advocacy and patient focused organisations in the UK and internationally.

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 Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and an honorary senior clinical lecturer at Imperial College London. His clinical practice focuses on complex arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation and device-based therapies. He trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Medical School and completed advanced electrophysiology fellowships at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals and at Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto. Shouvik has an established portfolio of clinical and translational research in atrial fibrillation, arrhythmia phenotyping and digital health, with a particular focus on post-ablation outcomes, persistent AF mechanisms and wearable-based monitoring strategies. Nationally, he is vice president for education at the British Cardiovascular Society, where he has led major developments in the society’s education strategy and national training programmes. He is also programme director for the UK Heart Rhythm Congress and has played a central role in shaping contemporary cardiovascular education and workforce development.

Dr Rebecca Jayasinghe

Consultant in geriatric medicine, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Rebecca Jayasinghe is a consultant in geriatric and general internal medicine at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust. She graduated from King’s College London in 2011 and undertook her specialty training across Kent, Surrey and Sussex. She has a special interest in cardiovascular medicine in older people and has experience of delivering a cardiogeriatrics liaison service for cardiology patients with frailty, complex multiple health conditions and palliative care needs. As a committee member of the British Geriatrics Society Cardiovascular Special Interest Group, she regularly advocates for older people in the development of national policies by bodies including the Royal College of Physicians and NICE. She enjoys teaching, having developed a number of simulation programmes and produced online educational material. She also co-delivers an annual cardiogeriatrics conference.

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.

Professor Catherine Labinjoh

National clinical advisor realistic medicine, NHS Forth Valley

Professor Catherine Labinjoh is a general cardiologist in NHS Forth Valley. She combines clinical work with her role as the national clinical advisor for realistic medicine in the Scottish government. She is a trustee of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and chair of Care Opinion, a health and social services feedback platform for patients. Catherine is passionate about person-centred, value-based health and care, providing sustainable care and services, delivering outcomes which matter to patients and families.

Professor Dan Lasserson

Professor of acute ambulatory care, University of Warwick and University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Professor Daniel Lasserson is professor of acute ambulatory care at Warwick Medical School, and honorary consultant in integrated acute medicine in the Department of Acute Medicine, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, working across the acute medical unit and the hospital at home service. He was the first president of the UK Hospital at Home Society and undertakes research on Hospital at Home care models, focusing on point of care diagnostics, including ultrasound (POCUS). Dan is one of the NHS England national clinical leads for hospital at home/virtual wards and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Advanced Home Medicine.

Dr Mihir Kelshiker

Becky Hyland

Heart failure nurse consultant, HCRG Care Group

Becky Hyland is a heart failure nurse consultant based in a community heart failure service in Wiltshire. Her role involves providing expert care to patients with suspected and known heart failure closer to home. She has particular interests in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction cardiac amyloidosis and palliative care in heart failure, in addition to advocating for the crucial role specialist nurses have in heart failure management. Becky is chair of the British Society for Heart Failure (BSH) nurse forum, and a councillor on the BSH Board, as well as being a member of the cardiovascular special interest group of the British Geriatric Society.

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 has recently demitted as the chair of the RCP’s Joint Specialty Committee for Palliative Medicine and is 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

ST5 palliative medicine and GIM, St Luke's Hospice

Dr Sophia Ellis is a registrar working in palliative and general medicine, based in London. She is education and training representative for the Association of Palliative Medicine and holds a Royal Society of Medicine Palliative Medicine scholarship.

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 Emily Holdsworth is an ST7 dual trainee in palliative and internal medicine working in West Yorkshire. She currently works at St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds and is also an Associate of Palliative Medicine trainee representative on the Palliative Medicine Specialty Advisory Committee. Emily is particularly interested in acute palliative medicine and has recently undertaken an out of programme experience working in A&E, providing front door palliative care and admission avoidance strategies.

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 Tom Knight

Acute and general internal medicine consultant, University of Manchester

Tom Knight is a doctor working in acute and general internal medicine and an academic clinical lecturer at the University of Manchester. He completed his PhD at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on the use of routinely collected healthcare data to describe and quantify variation in acute care processes and evaluating novel acute care models. He is particularly interested in strengthening communication and collaboration between clinicians and data professionals to improve the design and evaluation of healthcare services.

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 FRCP

Consultant, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Vicky Anne Price is the current president of the Society for Acute Medicine. She works as a consultant at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and also teaches simulation and communication skills at the University of Liverpool.

Vicky has an interest in end-of-life care and patient-centred medicine.

Dr Sue Pavord FRCP

President, British Society for Haematology

Dr Sue Pavord is president of the British Society for Haematology, consultant haematologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and associate senior lecturer in clinical medicine at Oxford University. She is also director of the haematology laboratories at Oxford University Hospitals. Sue’s clinical and academic expertise spans the full breadth of medical haematology, with particular interests in obstetric haematology, anaemia and iron management, haemostasis and thrombosis, immunohematology, and transfusion medicine. A pioneer in obstetric haematology, she has been instrumental in establishing this field as a recognised subspecialty over the past 25 years. Through her research, education, and authorship of national and international guidelines as well as a leading textbook, Sue has shaped practice and advanced standards of care worldwide. She played a pivotal role in defining vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) as a new syndrome associated with COVID-19 vaccination. As chair of the UK Expert Haematology Panel on VITT, she guided national management strategies that significantly reduced morbidity and mortality and prevented further cases. Sue is also a recognised authority in immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), having led the development of national consensus guidance for the management of adults with new and relapsed ITP during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, contributing to the advancement of haematology practice.

Dr Sharath Panamoottil

Haematology ST7, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Sharath Panamoottil is a senior haematology registrar, currently in his final year of specialist training in the Thames Valley Deanery. Originally from Kerala, India, Sharath’s career has bridged international clinical practice and high-level specialist training in the UK. He recently passed his FRCPath haematology examinations. Sharath’s medical journey began in Kerala, India, where he completed his MBBS, followed by a Diploma in General Medicine. He began to focus on complex clinical management, managing acute admissions and conducting research-led inpatient care. As a registrar at the MVR Cancer Centre and Research Institute in Calicut, he undertook clinical management of haematology patients. Having obtained his MRCP (UK) in 2017, he moved to the UK to work for the NHS in the UK. In September 2020, he joined Kent and Canterbury Hospital as a specialty doctor in haematology. In February 2022, he entered the 5-year haematology specialty training programme. Now in the final year of his residency, Sharath has a senior leadership role in his clinical teams. He leads consultant-level ward rounds, conducts specialised haematology clinics, and contributes to wider MDTs. A committed educator, he is frequently involved in the formal and informal teaching of medical students, resident doctors and nursing staff.

Professor Domenico Girelli

Professor of internal medicine, University of Verona

Professor Domenico Girelli is professor of internal medicine and director of the Department of Medicine at the University of Verona. He is a specialist in internal medicine and has a PhD in experimental haematology. Domenico is director of the Complex Clinical Unit of Internal and Urgency Medicine at the University Hospital of Verona (AOUI-VR). His clinical and translational research activities cover a range of topics, primarily focusing on disorders of iron metabolism, anaemias and rare diseases. Formerly national secretary of the Italian Society of Internal Medicine (SIMI), Domenico has also served as a member of the Scientific Committee for Iron and Heme of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the Scientific Program Committee of the European Hematology Association (EHA), and the board of directors of the International Society for the Study of Iron in Biology and Medicine (BIOIRON). He is the president-elect of the BIOIRON Society. His research interests include rare forms of haemochromatosis. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications and is listed in Stanford University’s ‘World’s top 2% scientists’.

Professor Cheng-Hock Toh FRCP

Professor of medical haematology, University of Liverpool

Professor Cheng-Hock Toh CBE is a professor at the University of Liverpool and consultant haematologist at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is chair of the National Blood Transfusion Committee in England and distinguished past positions include being the academic vice-president of the Royal College of Physicians, president of the British Society for Haematology (BSH) and national haematology lead of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network. The British Medical Journal have described Cheng-Hock as a role model and he has received achievement awards from the Royal College of Pathologists, European Society of Hematology and the BSH. For services to haematology and medicine, he was appointed as Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2022.

Dr Jonathan Massie

Clinical fellow in transfusion medicine, NHS Blood and Transplant

Dr Jon Massie is a haematology registrar in the Severn region. He previously worked with the British Society for Haematology as a workforce planning fellow, contributing to national work on defining and understanding the provision of liaison haematology services. Jon is currently undertaking a fellowship with NHS Blood and Transplant and represents transfusion medicine on the Royal College of Pathologists Trainees Advisory Committee. His clinical and professional interests include transfusion medicine, liaison haematology and red cell.