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Eric is professor of gene therapy and respiratory medicine at Imperial College London and an honorary consultant physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Over the last 15 years he has coordinated the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium, which brings together all the key centres in the UK (Edinburgh and Oxford Universities and Imperial College, London) in a programme to deliver gene therapy for these patients. Based on the cystic fibrosis programme, the consortium is now also applying the underpinning gene delivery technology to a number of other diseases. He is the lead for Cluster B of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN), coordinating portfolio studies in respiratory, ear nose and throat (ENT), gastroenterology, hepatology and infection.
Dr Amanda Begley is director of innovation and implementation at UCLPartners. Her focus is to build partnerships and expertise to deliver innovation at scale and pace for patient and population benefit.
She is co-founder and national director for the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), which is delivered as a partnership between NHS England and the country's 15 Academic Health Science Networks, hosted at UCLPartners.
Amanda is a fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation (CASMI), and a non-executive director on the Royal College of General Practitioners Innovation and Research Board.
Following her PhD, Amanda joined the NHS as an assistant and trainee clinical psychologist. She has worked as a commissioner and senior manager across primary, community and secondary care, and as head of innovation at London's Strategic Health Authority. While at UCLPartners, Amanda completed a fellowship at GSK and was recently named in the NHS 70 Women Leader Awards, presented by the NHS London Leadership Academy.
PDF slides: Real-world insight from the NHS innovation accelerator
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wokvXnIv5Q4
AI and digital health panel discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9j0H1Kmzvo
Ben Bridgewater is chief executive of Health Innovation Manchester, an academic health science system that brings together health, academia and industry. The mission is to accelerate innovation into practice at pace and scale, so to transform the lives of Greater Manchester's 2.8 million citizens.
He is a leading expert on health informatics, national clinical audit, clinical governance, healthcare transparency, patient experience measurement and digital transformation in healthcare, publishing numerous high profile academic outputs and delivering innovative IT tools for disseminating clinical outcomes to professionals and the public.
Prior to joining Health Innovation Manchester, Ben worked for global technology company DXC Technology as the director of the Healthcare and Life Sciences global build advisory team. Until January 2016, he was a cardiac surgeon at the University Hospital of South Manchester for nearly 18 years. Ben also provided clinical leadership for the UK national cardiac audit programme, as well as leading analyses that provides UK hospital and cardiac surgery mortality rates to the public. The programme is world-leading and associated with a 50% reduction in risk-adjusted mortality over 10 years.
Dame Jane is a consultant rheumatologist and professor of medical education. She is the immediate past president of the RCP and was vice chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC),dDirector of UCL Medical School, MD of MRCPUK and academic vice president of the RCP.
She won the medicine and healthcare category 2012 of Women in the City Woman of Achievement Award; was named on the HSJ inaugural list of 50 inspirational women in healthcare in 2013; was named in the science and medicine category for people of influence Debrett's 500 in 2015, 2016 and 2017; and was named on the HSJ top 100 list from 2014 to 2017.
PDF slides: The increasing role of women in medicine
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqyKq0qlDmI
Charlie Davie is managing director of UCLPartners and is a consultant neurologist at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Charlie has played an integral leadership role in UCLPartners since 2009, when he was the stroke lead during the reconfiguration of services and establishment of hyper acute stroke units in London. Charlie subsequently became programme director for neurosciences, before taking on the role of managing director of the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) in 2014. During this time, Charlie has taken the AHSN from strength-to-strength and provided strategic direction for high-profile initiatives including: NHS Test Beds, Accelerated Access Review, NHS Innovation Accelerator and DigitalHealth.London.
Charlie has held a number of national advisory roles, most recently as a member of the Accelerated Access Collaborative Steering Group. Charlie has been an editor of the European Journal of Neurology for over 12 years and has published extensively in several areas of clinical neuroscience. He has previously been a substantive senior lecturer in neuroscience at UCL (1999–2004), and guest lectured at Harvard Business School on value-based healthcare delivery with Michael Porter.
Charlie has over 30 years' continuous clinical service in the NHS and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Sir Robert Francis QC is a barrister practising at Serjeants' Inn Chambers, a recorder and sits as a deputy High Court judge. He specialises in medical law. He acts for claimants and defendants in clinical negligence claims. He has extensive experience in healthcare professional disciplinary cases, and making decisions for those unable to do so themselves. He has chaired a number of inquiries including the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry and the 'Freedom to speak up' review. He is a chairman of Healthwatch England, and a non-executive director of the Care Quality Commission. He is a trustee of the Point of Care Foundation, president of the Patients Association and patron of the Florence Nightingale Foundation. He is an affiliate of the Doubleday Centre for Patient Experience, Manchester University. He has been awarded honorary fellowships of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Pathologists. He was knighted for services to healthcare and patients.
Professor Andrew Goddard is the president of the RCP, and a consultant physician and gastroenterologist at Royal Derby Hospital.
After gaining an MD from Cambridge University, Professor Goddard trained in Nottingham and was appointed as a consultant physician and gastroenterologist in Derby in 2001. His main clinical and research interests are bowel cancer screening, H. pylori, iron deficiency anaemia and inflammatory bowel disease. He is chair of the British Society of Gastroenterology gastroduodenal section.
He was director of the RCP's Medical Workforce Unit for 5 years until being appointed RCP registrar in 2014. In this role, he oversaw professional and clinical affairs, both in the UK and internationally. His main policy areas were workforce, healthcare funding, the future of general medicine, the medical registrar and 'keeping medicine brilliant'. In 2018 he was elected the 121st RCP president, the youngest for 400 years and first from the East Midlands.
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rN_ZmjLbTw
Matt Hancock MP was appointed secretary of state for health and social care on 9 July 2018.
He was secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport from 8 January 2018 to 9 July 2018. He was previously minister of state for digital from July 2016 to January 2018.
Matt Hancock is the MP for West Suffolk, having been elected in the 2010 general election. From 2010 Matt served as a backbencher on the Public Accounts Committee and the Standards and Privileges Committee. Matt entered government in September 2012 and has served in a number of ministerial roles, including for skills and business, and as paymaster general. He oversaw the expansion of apprenticeships, and championed the digital transformation of government.
From July 2016 he served at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) as minister of state for digital and was responsible for broadband, broadcasting, creative industries, cyber and the tech industry.
Before entering politics, Matt worked for his family business, as an economist at the Bank of England, and as chief of staff to the shadow chancellor of the exchequer. He holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
Matt is married to Martha and has three young children. He is the first MP in modern times to win a horse race, having raced to victory at the Newmarket July Course in August 2012. He is an avid cricketer and plays for the Lords & Commons Cricket team. Matthew once played the most northerly game of cricket on record, and succumbed to frostbite en route to the Pole. He retains all his fingers.
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEoGEfKeup8&t=1s
Jamal-Hanjani
Mariam Jamal-Hanjani is a senior clinical lecturer and consultant medical oncologist at the UCL Cancer Institute in London. She completed her undergraduate degrees in physics and medicine at UCL followed by her clinical training in London. In 2012 she was awarded a Cancer Research UK Clinical Research fellowship for her PhD studies in chromosomal instability and intratumour heterogeneity. In 2016 she was awarded an National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) clinical lectureship to continue her research in lung translational oncology. She has been involved in establishing, and is the principle investigator for, the multi-centre Cancer Research UK TRACERx (TRAcking cancer evolution through therapy [Rx]) and post-mortem PEACE (post-humous evaluation of advanced cancer environment) studies. Her research interests include tumour evolution, determining the impact of intratumour heterogeneity on therapeutic response and clinical outcome, and utilising the tumour neoantigen repertoire to develop adoptive T-cell therapies.
Dame Clare Marx is Chair of the GMC.
Clare joins a growing body of women leaders in healthcare. She became a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at St Mary's and St Charles' in 1990 before moving to work at Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust in 1993 for the next 20 years, becoming Associate Medical Director for appraisal and revalidation in 2013.
Clare chaired the Trauma and Orthopaedic Specialist Advisory Committee for the Royal College of Surgeons and co-authored the first competency-based curriculum in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery. She received a CBE for services to medicine in 2007 and was elected President of the British Orthopaedic Association the following year. In 2009 she was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and chaired the Invited Review Mechanism from 2011-14 before being elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2014-17), the first woman in the history of the College to hold this role. Clare was also the Chair of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management until the end of 2018.
She is the first woman to hold the Chair since the GMC was established 160 years ago.
PDF slides: Doctors and regulations
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KKwsXl4qRc
Orod
Osanlou
Dr Orod Osanlou is an ST7 in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, and general internal medicine. He works at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, where he is also a sub-investigator for phase I clinical trials.
He was the first person to complete the RCP chief registrar programme in leadership and management, and has completed the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson MSc in Medical Leadership ran by the NHS Leadership Academy.
Orod has a keen interest in medical education, has a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education, is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool.
He is a part-time PhD student in pharmacology and health economics, and has publications in the areas of pharmacology, internal medicine and medical leadership.
Orod has guest edited an edition of the Future Healthcare Journal, and set up the first RCP trainees conference in 2018, both of which had a focus on medical leadership, training and holistic support for junior doctors.
He has represented junior doctors on a local, regional and national level, and has previously sat on RCP London Council, helping to improve the training and working lives of junior doctors.
PDF slides: The chief registrar programme – 3 years in
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDTzziXWl2k
Powis
Stephen Powis is the national medical director of NHS England and professor of renal medicine at University College London.
Previously he was medical director (and latterly group chief medical officer) of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust from 2006 to 2018. Professor Powis was also a member of the governing body of Merton Clinical Commissioning Group for 5 years and a director of Healthcare Services Laboratories LLP. He is a past chairman of the Association of UK Universities (AUKUH) Medical Directors Group, and has been a member of numerous national committees and working groups, including the Department of Health Strategic Education Funding Expert Group. He is a past non-executive director of the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, including a period of 8 months as acting chairman.
He is a past chairman of the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB) specialty advisory committee (SAC) for renal medicine and a former board member of Medical Education England. He was director of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education for UCLPartners from 2010–13. He is a past treasurer and trustee of the British Transplantation Society and a former member of the UK transplant kidney and pancreas advisory group. He has also served as a member of the Renal Association Executive Committee. He was editor of the journal Nephron Clinical Practice from 2003 to 2008. In 2017 he became the inaugural editor-in-chief of the journal BMJ Leader. He has been a trustee of several charities, including the Royal Free Charity and the Healthcare Management Trust.
Dr Richardson is currently an Alzheimer's Society clinical research fellow completing a PhD at Newcastle University exploring the impact of delirium on cognitive trajectories. Dr Richardson completed her undergraduate medical training at Newcastle University including an intercalated MRes in Medical and Molecular Biosciences. She became an National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) academic clinical fellow in 2012 during which she completed a master's in Clinical Research. She started her specialist training in older people's medicine in the northern deanery in 2015 before taking 3 years out of programme to complete her PhD. Dr Richardson also holds an honorary clinical contract with Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
PDF slides: Quincentennial lecture: Delirium
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Ssf_ejXlM
Walker-Bone
Karen trained as an academic rheumatologist with a special interest in occupation and musculoskeletal pain in Southampton. Karen is based at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit in Southampton where she is professor and honorary consultant in occupational rheumatology and director of the Arthritis Research UK/MRC Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work. She leads the multidisciplinary centre and coordinates a programme of work to find cost-effective ways to reduce the burden of disability for work caused by musculoskeletal disorders. She was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine in 2013.
Speakers and chairs
David Adams is pro-vice chancellor, head of the College of Medical and Dental Sciences and the dean of Medicine at the University of Birmingham. The College has over 1,500 staff and brings together healthcare-related research and education including medicine, dentistry, nursing, physiotherapy and biomedical sciences.
David is also Director of Birmingham Health Partners, a strategic alliance between the University, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together clinical, scientific and academic excellence across an integrated medical and life sciences campus, and Director of the NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre.
David's clinical interests are transplant hepatology and autoimmune liver disease. Laboratory research interests are focused on mechanisms of immune-mediated liver disease. After initial training in hepatology in Birmingham he continued his immunology training with Dr Stephen Shaw at the Experimental Immunology Branch of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA, before being appointed to the chair of hepatology in Birmingham in 1997. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Hepatology. He served on the scientific committee and governing board of the European Association for Study of the Liver between 2004–2007 and its Ethics Committee 2010–2015. David was a councillor for the European Society for Organ Transplantation between 2004–2008. He was made a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000.
David has a long-standing interest in understanding how leukocyte-endothelial interactions regulate the recruitment of effector cells in chronic liver disease and his group have defined molecular mechanisms used by hepatic endothelium to control the entry of leukocytes from the blood. They have recently begun to use this information to develop new therapy for liver disease by targeting pathways involved in the recruitment of damaging effector cells or by promoting the recruitment of therapeutic cells including dendritic cells, stem cells and regulatory T cells that may be used to manipulate immune responses in patients in vivo.
PDF slides: Liver dieases associated with inflammatory bowel disease
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRiomN_JgA
Dr Anderson is a consultant neurologist and the clinical lead for the refractory headache service at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. She qualified in medicine from the University of Edinburgh and trained in clinical neurology in Southampton, Cambridge, Norwich and London. Dr Anderson's specialist interests focus on the management of cranio-cervical pain and movement disorders with specific interest in the primary refractory headache disorders (chronic migraine, vestibular migraine and the trigeminal autonomic cephalagias).
She retains an honorary position in the Headache Group in the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, but works principally between Addenbrooke's and Princess Alexandra Hospital. She sits on the advisory group for headache and pain for the Association of British Neurologists.
PDF slides: Headaches in the emergency room
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVs0xVHHWF8
Ashall-Payne
Previously a Speech and Language Therapist with almost 20 years NHS experience, Liz is passionate about the opportunities that technology – particularly apps – offers to improve health and care efficiencies and outcomes. She founded ORCHA – the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Application – in 2015, to offer guidance to developers to help raise app quality, as well as helping the public and professionals to confidently find and apply apps that could genuinely improve patient and organisational outcomes.
John Atherton's medical education was at Cambridge then Oxford University. After postgraduate training in medicine and gastroenterology, he trained in gastroenterology research with Professors Chris Hawkey and Robin Spiller in the UK, and in infectious disease research with Professors Martin Blaser and Timothy Cover in Vanderbilt University, USA. He settled in the University of Nottingham in 1995 and became a full professor in 2001. In this role John continues to practice clinical gastroenterology as an NHS consultant, through patient clinics and endoscopy lists, specialising in upper GI diseases. He teaches medical students and specialised masters students. His main research interests are in the virulence of the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori, in the pathogenesis of peptic ulceration and gastric adenocarcinoma, and in the role of H. pylori in modulating other diseases. He supervises both laboratory and clinical research and particularly enjoys supervising PhD students. He has held both Medical Research Council (MRC) clinician scientist and senior fellowships and was awarded the Sir Francis Avery Jones Research Medal by the British Society of Gastroenterology.
John was founding director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Unit in the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre. From 2009 to 2013 he was head of the School of Clinical Sciences in the University of Nottingham then from 2013 to 2015 dean of the School of Medicine. Since 2015 he has been pro-vice chancellor and dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Outside Nottingham, John is the secretary-general of United European Gastroenterology, the body representing gastroenterologists and others interested in digestive diseases in Europe, and also serves on the UK Medical Schools Council Executive as treasurer.
PDF slides: Helicobater pylori and gastritis treatment
Professor Simon Barton is clinical co-chair of the Blood and Infection programme and Care Board at NHS England. He is a consultant physician and divisional medical director at Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, where he has worked since 1989 .
He is a past president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, and the UK specialty representative to the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). His research interest is in therapy for herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection and interactions of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) with HIV infection.
PDF slides: MEDFASH Lecture Sexually transmitted infections: 'Past, present and future'
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5pjk3z0aOU
Hussain is a respiratory and general internal medical registrar from the Kent, Surrey, and Sussex Region, and is currently working as an education fellow at the Royal College of Physicians.
He has an interest in interprofessional learning in the workplace, and the recruitment and retention of NHS staff, and feels very lucky to be involved in RCP project work with regards to both (Never too busy to learn and flexible portfolio training).
PDF slides: How to incorporate on-the-job training
Batterham
Dr Rachel Batterham is professor of obesity, diabetes and endocrinology at University College London (UCL). She holds a prestigious National Institute of Health (NIHR) Research Professorship (2016–2021). She established and leads the University College London Hospital (UCLH) Bariatric Centre for Weight Management and Metabolic Surgery. She leads the UCL Centre for Obesity Research within the Department of Medicine and is the director for the UCLH/UCL NIHR Biomedical Research Centre obesity research theme.
Professor Batterham's laboratory research is focused on increasing our understanding of body weight regulation and developing new therapies for the treatment of patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes. She has received several international awards including the Royal Society of Medicine Steven's Lecture (2018), Andre Mayer award from the World Obesity Federation (2016), the Diabetes UK Rank Fund Nutrition Prize (2015), the Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society (2014), and the Linacre Medical from the Royal College of Physicians (2010).
Professor Batterham has made significant clinical contributions to defining the management of obese patients through her membership of the NICE Obesity Guideline Development Group and Royal College of Physicians Advisory Group on Health and Weight. Professor Batterham is currently a NICE clinical expert (2016–2021), scientific chair for the International Federation for Surgery for Obesity and Metabolic Diseases (IFSO) European Chapter (since 2015), a trustee for the Association for the Study of Obesity (since 2016), and council member for the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (since 2016).
Dr Chris
Dr Booth is a consultant in Intensive Care Medicine with a special interest in Neuro-Critical Care and currently works at Salford Royal Hospital. He is the regional clinical lead for Organ Donation in the North West.
PDF slides: Taking organ donation beyond 2020
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIXT_YFAB4c
Booton
Dr Booton graduated from the University of Leeds and completed higher specialist training in the north-west of England and a thoracic oncology fellowship at The Christie Hospital & Paterson Institute for Cancer Research with Professor Nick Thatcher, receiving his PhD in 2006. He was appointed in 2008 as consultant respiratory and thoracic oncology physician, and is currently lead lung cancer clinician and clinical director for thoracic oncology at the Manchester Thoracic Oncology Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital. He was inaugural early detection theme lead for Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence. He is a member of the faculty of the British Thoracic Oncology Group, UK and Ireland representative for the International Association for Study of Lung Cancer, and member of the NHS Expert Advisory Group for targeted lung cancer screening.
PDF slides: Innovations in lung cancer management
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhSRSmqwhvc
Dr Ian Bullock is chief executive officer for the Royal College of Physicians.
Ian has expertise in evidence-based healthcare, research and development (including quality improvement), critical care clinical practice, and clinical and higher education.
Ian's career focus is on 'making a difference', using education and research to improve the quality of patient care and experience. Ian is executive lead for education at the Resuscitation Council (UK), a fellow of the Health Foundation (Quality Improvement and Leadership), an associate fellow of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the School of Health and Social Studies at the University of Warwick, and has also fulfilled advisory roles at the Department of Health.
Sean Cross is involved in the following professional roles: managing director, Maudsley Learning; Maudlsey Hospital consultant liaison psychiatrist, Maudsley and King's College Hospitals; clinical director, Mind and Body Programme, King's Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre; director, Maudsley Simulation, Maudsley Hospital.
Cross has a degree in BSc(Hons) in Molecular Biology, MBChB in Medicine and Surgery, a MSt in International Relations and a MD(Res) doctorate in Cultural Psychiatry. He is also a member of the MRCPsych Royal College of Psychiatrists. He completed his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Edinburgh in 2000, his masters degree from the University of Cambridge in 2007 and his doctoral research degree at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, in 2015. He undertook his postgraduate clinical training in Edinburgh, Sydney and London.
Cross is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry with subspecialist accreditations in liaison and rehabilitation psychiatry. He was awarded national trainer of the year in 2012 by the RCPsych, and runs projects on service development around mental and physical healthcare.
PDF slides: Mental health of those with physical illness
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjKsVLxA5sQ
John has extensive experience in service redesign and quality improvement. He is Deputy Medical Director (Transformation) at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, where he works across the health economy leading service improvement. He is clinical lead for the Trust as a Future Hospital development site. He has been Divisional Director and Chief of Medicine at the Trust where he has worked since 2012, initially sharing the role of Associate Medical Director with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
As Consultant Physician in Bolton from 1994 he led the development and delivery of integrated diabetes care. He was Clinical Director for Medicine at Bolton Hospitals 1997-2000. In 2005/6 he spent 12 months at Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Harvard University, Boston, USA studying Quality Improvement and Integrated care. As Medical Director of NHS Bolton from 2006-2011 he led clinical quality and service redesign resulting in more integrated care delivery in a number of specialities, and a programme of continuous improvement based on IHI's Triple Aim.
He has worked more widely on Long Term Conditions and Quality Improvement making significant contributions to Year of Care (DoH), Teams without Walls (Royal Colleges), Healthier Horizons and Joined up Care for people with Long Term Conditions (NHS North West), Triple Aim (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) and Safer Clinical Systems (Health Foundation). He has played a major role in the development of Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) as Clinical lead, faculty and Non-Executive Board member.
John was appointed as Clinical Lead for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Royal College of Physicians in 2017. He is a Health Foundation/ IHI fellow and Q fellow.
Dr Tina Dutt is a consultant haematologist and honorary clinical lecturer at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
During her medical training she completed a BSc (Hons) in pharmacology and later obtained a PhD supported by multiple awards including a prestigious Medical Research Council (MRC) clinical fellowship, British Heart Foundation grant and Bayer clinical scholarship.
Dr Dutt has created a national profile in pioneering the acute management of thrombotic microangiopathies (TMAs). After presenting a compelling vision for change locally she has successfully led major service innovation culminating in the first regional centre in the north of England for patients with the life-threatening condition thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura (TTP). The service delivers urgent, specialist, patient-centred care where the excellent quality of care is evidenced by a patient survival close to 100% since setup in July 2013.
Dr Dutt is also clinical trials lead at her centre and has received national awards from the RCP, British Society for Heamatology (BSH) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) recognising her commitment to providing clinical research opportunities in particular for patients with rare and chronic disease.
Currently, Dr Dutt is dedicated to ensuring that TMA patients have access to high-quality specialist care and prompt life-saving treatment. This includes establishing a robust national framework for managing this patient group together with NHS England specialist commissioners based on improved outcomes and patient experience.
PDF slides: Thrombotic microangiopathies (TTP and aHUS)
PDF slides: Haematology (with Dr Rebecca Shaw)
Jackie Elliott was appointed as a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Diabetes at the University of Sheffield in 2013. Her current research interests include complex interventions to examine the best way in which to deliver education to different patient groups, for example to those with Type 1 diabetes (DAFNE – Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating), young people (WICKED – Working with Insulin, Carbs, Ketones and Exercise in Diabetes), and how best to integrate technology. Another project is to develop methods of economically evaluating self-management (HASMiD – Health and Self-Management in Diabetes). She is proud to be part of a clinical team that has won awards for their newly diagnosed Type 1 pathway, and for improving outcomes in the transition clinic. She is the diabetes clinical lead in Sheffield and runs MDT specialist clinics for pump users, adolescents, university students, cystic fibrosis related diabetes, and also a specialist hypoglycaemia unawareness clinic.
Zoë joined the JRCPTB in 2013 as Curriculum and Assessment Manager and is responsible for coordinating curriculum and assessment reviews and submissions to the GMC for approval of changes to current frameworks. She has a background in medical education administration and previously worked for the Royal College of Surgeons. Zoë has a BSc degree in Speech Sciences from UCL and postgraduate qualifications in business administration and project management.
Dr Ian Forrest is a consultant respiratory physician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. He established the Newcastle Interstitial Lung Disease service in 2006 which has since grown into one of the largest specialised services in the UK. As clinical interstitial lung disease lead, he has an active interest in clinical research but also remains committed to both general respiratory medicine and general internal medicine. He is the training programme director for respiratory medicine in the northern region. He has previously served as an associate clinical sub-dean at Newcastle University and chair of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Education and Training committee.
PDF slides: Interstitial lung disease
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HXxvpCvNEg
Garthwaite
Dr Garthwaite graduated from the University of Leeds Medical School in 1997. After completing nephrology and general medical training in the Yorkshire Region she was appointed consultant nephrologist in Leeds in 2008, where she leads the haemodialysis service, and junior doctor training and supervision.
Her interests include empowering patients to share in decision making and to take responsibility for their health; teaching patients on haemodialysis to participate in their own treatment through the initiative of 'Shared haemodialysis care'.
Having completed a higher degree in medical education she has responsibility for trainee supervision in the trust and is the training programme director for renal in Yorkshire and the Humber. She has a passion for supporting trainees, through teaching, training and coaching and enjoys teaching both undergraduate and postgraduates.
Outside work she is a keen musician; a reluctant runner; but most importantly, and enjoyably, a mum of four children.
PDF slides: Hypertension: Investigation and treatment
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i619ASAwggg
Gask
Linda Gask MSc PhD FRCPsych FRCGP (hon)
Linda Gask has now retired from clinical practice after working for more than 30 years as a psychiatrist in the NHS and in recent years with a social enterprise providing primary care-based mental health services in Salford. She is also an academic, affiliated to the Centre for Primary Care at the University of Manchester where she is now emerita professor of primary care psychiatry. Her research and teaching interests are the management of depression, anxiety and other mental health problems in primary care for which she has an international reputation. In 2000-2001 she spent a year in the USA as a Harkness Fellow in healthcare policy and practice. She co-founded the STORM suicide prevention initiative, which has now been disseminated internationally. Linda has served on the board of the World Psychiatric Association, chaired the Section of Education and has worked as an adviser to the World Health Organization.
Her memoir: The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression was published in 2015.
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCZPuQY54ys
Following accreditation in Respiratory and General Medicine and a doctorate on breathlessness, Rob pioneered HIV & non-cancer palliative care from 1987 and has worked in all clinical palliative care settings since then in teaching hospitals, DGHs and NHS and voluntary hospices. Currently he is Medical Director at St Christopher's Hospice, and continues with some NHS sessions. He handed on Presidency of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland in 2017. He has sat on RCP working parties reporting on aspects of palliative and end of life care and Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness and their Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine. He advises various Government Departments on EoL matters, including as the independent, clinical expert to the LCP Review led by Lady Neuberger in 2012. He continues to sits on various other ethics committees. He is a clinical academic, rather than an experimental researcher and before gaining his personal chair at the Cicely Saunders Institute, KCL, he was Hon. Senior Lecturer in Bioethics at UCL. He has something over a hundred and thirty publications reflecting the different elements of his career.
PDF slides: Managing change when vision is involved
Alastair is a consultant in Acute Medicine at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Since 2018 he has chaired the RCP New Consultants Committee and represents the committee at RCP Council. Special interests include simulation-based education, point of care ultrasound and sepsis. He is Deputy Director of Simulation for the School of Medicine at the University of Liverpool where he is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer. He is a firm believer in the use of point of care ultrasound to enhance early diagnosis and procedural safety and helped develop the FAMUS curriculum and training program, shortlisted for a 2019 BMJ award. He is currently co-organising the RCP New Consultant Conference taking place in Liverpool on 13th June 2019.
Gleaves
Michael Gleaves is Deputy Director of the Hartree Centre, which was created to accelerate the adoption of High Performance Computing, Big Data and Cognitive Computing (AI) by UK industry and organisations. The Hartree Centre was opened by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on February 1st 2013 and is part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council campus at Daresbury Laboratory. Hartree has completed over 260 applied research and innovation projects ranging from Computer Aided Formulation (Unilever), Disease Map Visualisation (GSK) to Alder Hey Cognitive Hospital (NHS). Co-located at the Hartree Centre with the STFC team is capability in IBM research, Virtual Engineering Centre (University of Liverpool) and Atos team. Prior the working at the Hartree Centre, Michael was project lead for data and metadata capture systems for STFC large facilities and held positions in area of research, development and sales at Unilever and Dionex.
Dido became chair of NHS Improvement on 30 October 2017. She is a non-executive director on the Court of The Bank of England and chair of the bank's Remuneration Committee. She was chief executive of TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC from 2010 to May 2017. Prior to TalkTalk, Dido was Sainsbury's convenience director, having been appointed to Sainsbury's operating board in March 2008. Dido joined Sainsbury's from Tesco PLC where she held a variety of senior roles both in the UK and with international businesses.
Prior to this, she worked at Kingfisher PLC and Thomas Cook Limited where she gained considerable retail experience. She has also served on the boards of The British Land Company PLC and Cheltenham Racecourse. She is a trustee of Doteveryone and a member of the UK National Holocaust Foundation Board.
In August 2014 Dido was offered a peerage and sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative peer. She was appointed to the Economic Affairs Committee of the Lords in July 2017. Dido is married to politician John Penrose, has two children and in what spare time she has left is a jockey and racehorse owner.
PDF slides: Developing a people plan for the NHS
Rowan H Harwood is an academic consultant geriatrician, currently professor of palliative and end-of-life care at the University of Nottingham. He has wide clinical and research interests including delirium, dementia, stroke, continence, rehabilitation, end-of-life care, falls and clinical ethics. He spent 10 years as a stroke physician. In 2009, he embarked on a programme to develop and evaluate better ways to manage cognitively impaired older people in general hospitals, and other dementia-related research. Establishing an appropriate and acceptable paradigm for end-of-life care amongst older people with frailty or dementia is his next challenge.
PDF slides: Challenges and opportunities in dementia
Dr Toby Hillman is a Consultant Respiratory Physician base at University College London Hospitals. He has had a career-long interest in the delivery of healthcare, and in the environmental impact of healthcare activity. Dr Hillman was Clinical Lead for the RCP Sustainability Programme, and helped to produce high impact reports into the effects of climate change on health in the UK, and on the organisation of Outpatient care, that formed the basis of recommendations in the NHS Long Term Plan. His clinical interest is in Pleural Disease.
Professor Beverley Hunt is professor of thrombosis and haemostasis at King's College London; a consultant in the departments of haematology and pathology at Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust; and clinical lead in haematological sciences at Viapath
She has a large clinical practice, specialising in thrombosis and haemostasis, especially in inherited and acquired thrombophilias, obstetric haematology and acquired bleeding disorders. She is a national and international expert in thrombosis and acquired bleeding disorders. In England, she works frequently with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), and is on their expert panel and is involved in rewriting the NICE thromboprophylaxis guidelines.
Her work is recognised internationally and she is honorary president of VTE Ireland, and the ambassador for the antipidean organisation HOW (Haematologists in Obstetric & Womens health). She sits on the editorial board of the British Journal for Haematology, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Lupus, and Seminars in Thrombosis & Hemostasis. She is a chair in the International Society of Thrombosis and Heamostasis (ISTH) perioperative haemostasis group.
She runs a research group with over 300 peer-reviewed publications to her name, and won the BMJ Research paper of the year in 2011 with the CRASH-2 team.
She is founder and now medical director of the thrombosis charity 'Lifeblood: the thrombosis charity', now Thrombosis UK which was Health Charity of the Year 2010 for its campaigning to improve patient care in the UK. She is part of a global team organising the global 'World Thrombosis Day'.
PDF slides: Global burden of thrombotic disease
John Hurst is professor of respiratory medicine at University College London. He has a clinical and research interest in exacerbations of COPD. He qualified from the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1997 and has worked at UCL since 2007. His clinical work is based at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, and in the Barnet and Camden community respiratory services. He is COPD audit lead for the Royal College of Physicians National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme (NACAP). He has national and international roles with the American and British Thoracic, and European Respiratory Societies, and from January 2019 will be editor-in-Chief of the European Respiratory Monograph.
PDF slides: COPD: State of the art
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ5rEb6bSL4
Founder and Medical Director of medDigital and medCrowd.
Felix is a doctor and entrepreneur developing digital technology for health and care. He trained as an Anaesthetist leaving clinical practice to found medDigital.
After joining DigitalHealth.London's Accelerator, he launched medCrowd in 2017. medCrowd is the instant messenger for health and care that keeps everyone in touch while protecting confidential information to the required standards.
He is particularly enjoying being part of how digital is transforming health and care for the better.
PDF slides: Instant messaging in healthcare
Margaret Johnson has been holder of MRC, Wellcome and NIHR grants throughout her career. She has also worked with the pharmaceutical industry and been Principal Investigator on in excess of 150 phase 2/3 registrational studies. The latter brings in an annual income of approximately £400,000, which is used to fund clinical research fellows and research nurses. Over the past 15 years this has generated funds of £7 million. She currently has 7 studies open for recruitment, 23 studies being followed up, 2 new studies in set up and 3 new studies for which feasibility forms have been completed. She has published 520 papers in peer reviewed journals and supervised 8 PHD/MD theses. She has 2 current PHD students. Johnson has been an invited speaker at major national and international conferences over the past 20 years. She also lectured in the US, Canada, France, Spain, Italy and the UK over the past two years. She has a lifetime H-Index of 71 and a 5 year H-Index of 14.
Dr Jones is a consultant neurologist at the Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences, Salford Royal Foundation Trust, UK. He is also an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester.
His clinical interests are general and acute neurology with sub-specialisation in cognitive neurology; he runs a tertiary clinic at the cerebral function unit for early onset and atypical dementia taking referrals from throughout the north-west of the UK and beyond.
His research interests are in the clinical, genetic and pathological classification of focal dementia syndromes. He has also been principle investigator for a number of clinical trials in dementia and brain infection.
His teaching interests lie in both undergraduate and postgraduate education. He is academic lead for year 4 of the MBChB programme in Manchester and has been co-directing the Manchester MRCP course since 2006.
Dr Mike Jones is head of training and development for the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB)
Dr Mike Jones was appointed as the head of training and development in November 2018 and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the role, having previously been the chair of the JRCPTB Acute (Internal) Medicine Specialty Advisory Committee and has been involved in the development of the new Internal Medicine Stage 1 curriculum. He is also the former president of the Society for Acute Internal Medicine, and the dean and vice president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Most recently he has been the director of training and standards for the Edinburgh College.
Dr Jones is currently a consultant physician and clinical director at the University Hospital of North Durham.
Binita
Dr Binita Kane is a consultant respiratory physician at Manchester University Foundation Trust (MFT) and has an interest in airways disease, quality improvement (QI) and leadership. She is currently the lead for respiratory integrated care at MFT, the Greater Manchester COPD health innovation programme and the North West Severe Asthma Network. She is a member of the RCP QI faculty and the National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme (NACAP) board.
PDF slides: Quality improvement and sustainability
Dr Luke Kane is a GP working in a central London GP surgery. He volunteers for the NGO Doctors of the World where he is part of a team providing quality primary care alongside practical support to excluded people including asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, people of no fixed abode and sex workers. During the 2013-2016 Ebola crisis, he volunteered in an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone as part of the UK response. He is also an expedition medic having recently taken a group of young people to the Peruvian Amazon with youth development charity British Exploring Society. He was the ship's medic on the Channel 4 show "Mutiny" where he and eight other men sailed over 4000-miles across the Pacific Ocean in a 23-foot open boat.
Clive is a solicitor and accredited mediator and has worked at a number of commercial law firms in the City of London since he qualified in 1985. In 2015 he completed an LLM in comparative dispute resolution. He has worked pro bono with NHS and other whistleblowers since 2009 and is currently undertaking research into NHS whistleblowing at Queen Mary University of London postgraduate law school.
PDF slides: Whistleblowing
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5TW6bS-75Q
Dr Lee qualified from Edinburgh University in 1991, and completed her subsequent MD thesis in 2000, during her specialist registrar training on the west of Scotland programme. She gained her substantive consultant post within Northumbria in 2002 and set up the Northumbria cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) service in 2003, progressively developing the modality over 15 years. She gained level 3 accreditation in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) from the EuroCMR in 2013, and has British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (BSCI) accreditation in cardiac computed tomography (CT). Dr Lee was fundamental in the creation in 2013 of the regional sub-specialty interest forum called the North East CMR Imaging group (NECMR). The NECMR holds regular open access meetings for education and governance in CMR, and runs very successful registrar and consultant courses in CMR. Dr Lee also holds honorary clinical senior lecturer status within the Newcastle University Medical School.
PDF slides: Cardiac MRI for the non-cardiologist – additive or irrelevant?
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPiI9c-Hk1E
Leng
Gillian Leng is the deputy chief executive at NICE and a visiting professor at King's College London. Gillian trained in medicine at Leeds, and studied for an MD at Edinburgh University. She was involved in the Cochrane Collaboration as it became established, and still contributes as an editor. She worked as a consultant in public health medicine before moving to NICE in 2001. At NICE, Gillian led the set up of several major programmes, including the clinical guidelines programme, implementation, social care, quality standards and indicators, and the NHS Evidence portal. Gillian chairs the national 'Shared decision making collaborative' and sits on several national boards. She is actively involved in research into quality improvement, and is a trustee at the Royal Society of Medicine and the Guidelines International Network.
Professor Lip, MD, is Price-Evans chair of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Liverpool, UK – and director of the Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science at the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital. He is also distinguished professor at Aalborg University, Denmark; and adjunct professor, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
Half of his time is spent as a clinical cardiologist, including outpatient clinics (leading large atrial fibrillation and hypertension specialist services) and acute cardiology.
Professor Lip has had a major interest into the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation (AF), as well as the pathophysiology of thromboembolism in this arrhythmia. Furthermore, he has been researching stroke and bleeding risk factors, and improvements in clinical risk stratification. The CHA2DS2-VASc and HAS-BLED scores – for assessing stroke and bleeding risk, respectively – were first proposed and independently validated following his research, and are now incorporated into international guidelines. In 2014, Professor Lip was ranked by Expertscape as one of the world's leading experts in the understanding and treatment of AF.
Professor Lip was on the writing committee for various international guidelines, including the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Antithrombotic therapy guidelines for atrial fibrillation, as well as various guidelines and/or position statements from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) or European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA). Specifically, he was also on the writing committees of the 2010 ESC Guidelines on Atrial fibrillation, the 2012 ESC Focused update guidelines on atrial fibrillation, the 2012 ESC Guidelines on heart failure, and the 2014 NICE guidelines on AF. He was deputy editor ('content expert') for the 9th ACCP guidelines on antithrombotic therapy for AF (2012), and chair of the new 2018 ACCP guidelines on antithrombotic therapy for AF.
Professor Lip has acted as senior section editor for major international textbooks and at senior editorial level for major international journals, including Thrombosis & Haemostasis (editor-in-chief, clinical studies); Europace (associate editor); and Circulation (guest editor).
PDF slides: Atrial fibrilation management: Easy as ABC…
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRzEBEgniI
Llewelyn
Dr Gareth Llewelyn is RCP vice president for Wales and consultant neurologist at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. Based at the Royal Gwent hospital in Newport, Gareth developed an acute neurology service across the Health Board as well as establishing the unit as a Neurology centre providing a range of specialist services. At the University Hospital in Cardiff he leads the tertiary peripheral nerve service. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University School of Medicine and senior examiner for the European Board of Neurology. Gareth is former chair of the RCP Joint Clinical Neurosciences Committee and of the Association of British Neurologists' Services and Standards Committee. He is immediate past president of the British Peripheral Nerve Society. Gareth was instrumental in developing the neurological conditions delivery plan for Wales that was launched in 2014 and was the first national clinical lead for neurosciences.
Dr Kate Lovett studied Medicine at the universities of St Andrews and Manchester. Having been awarded a distinction in psychiatry at finals, Kate trained as a psychiatrist in the northwest obtaining the MRCPsych in 1995. She completed an MSc in clinical psychiatry in 1997 researching the role of ovarian steroids in postnatal depression. Kate trained both full time and flexibly, completing specialist training in 2001. She has worked for the Devon Partnership Trust as a consultant psychiatrist in general adult psychiatry since 2001 as an inpatient and crisis consultant. She was an associate medical director between 2008 and 2010 and has been in her current role as a community psychiatrist for the past 5 years.
Kate has a longstanding interest in training and education. She has been undergraduate psychiatry lead for Peninsula Medical School and training programme director for adult psychiatry. Kate completed a Postgraduate Certificate of Clinical Education with distinction in 2008. She served on the Education, Training and Standards Committee at the Royal College of Psychiatrists between 2010 and 2014, and on the South West Division between 2010 and 2016. Kate was appointed as CASC (Clinical Assessment of Skills and Competencies) examiner in 2008 and became a lead examiner in 2014. She was head of the School of Psychiatry for the Peninsula Deanery for four and a half years until 2016 when she gave up this role having been elected dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. In that role she has lead work on recruitment and retention in the mental health workforce and been a driving force behind the #ChoosePsychiatry campaign. Her drive to develop systems that support compassionate care and recovery fuels her educational leadership and is underpinned by values of equity and fairness.
Dr Deb Lowe is a consultant stroke physician and geriatrician at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and is the national clinical lead for stroke with the NHS Improvement 'Getting it right first time' (GIRFT) programme.
She graduated from Liverpool Medical School in 1997 and did her postgraduate medical training within the Merseyside and Cheshire region. She completed a research fellows post at Aintree University Teaching Hospital and has an interest in patient empowerment and education.
Since 2008 she has been a clinical service lead for stroke, elderly care and rehabilitation, and more recently clinical director for the Division of Medicine.
Deb has been clinical lead for stroke within the Strategic Clinical Networks and Senate since 2014, and has led peer support service reviews across the region over the last few years and has comprehensive knowledge of stroke services across country. She was appointed in November 2017 as national stroke lead with GIRFT and within this role she is keen to promote a culture of effective clinical engagement and leadership, accurate performance monitoring and the use of high quality data to drive sustainable quality improvement.
She delivers education both within primary and secondary care to improve knowledge and understanding of stroke, and most importantly the management of atrial fibrillation and other modifiable risk factors.
PDF slides: Stroke: what's new in 2019?
Sheona
Professor Sheona Macleod is the deputy medical director for Medical Education Reform; postgraduate dean in the east Midlands; chair of Health Education England's (HEE) deans; and chair of the UK Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans (COPMED).
She is an honorary professor of the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester, and the recruitment adviser in HEE.
Sheona graduated, and trained in Glasgow, before moving to Derbyshire, where she was a GP for 26 years. She has also worked as the occupational health adviser to a number of regional industries, as clinical assistant in the local community hospital, and as a medical officer for Her Majesty's Prison service.
She has been involved in healthcare education since moving to Derbyshire, and was appointed as GP Dean in 2009, and as Postgraduate Dean in September 2012. She was also the regional Director of Education and Quality from 2013 to 2014.
Sheona chairs a number of national working groups and committees, including the HEE working group on Enhancing Junior Doctors Working Lives.
PDF slides: Improving junior doctors' lives
Dr Mandal qualified in medicine at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' medical school, following graduation she specialised in respiratory medicine after completing her medical rotation, she completed her postgraduate training in London. Having undertaken a period of research, Dr Mandal received a PhD from King's College London, for her work in the Lane Fox unit in the investigation and management of ventilatory failure. Dr Mandal presents at international conferences and has published in several internationally peer reviewed journals, demonstrating the use of novel diagnostic techniques in ventilatory failure and recently published the NERO trial demonstrating the respiratory, cardiovascular and exercise capacity benefits of targeted weight loss in obesity hypoventilation syndrome. She has also been involved in the development on international guidance for bronchoscopy and advanced bronchoscopy with the British Thoracic Society. She is now the lead Consultant Physician in Sleep and Ventilation at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, focussing on the management of sleep disordered breathing, the service covers a large geographical area treating range of patients with often complex needs including those with progressive neurological disorders and ventilatory failure. She has set up a joint respiratory and palliative advanced respiratory care clinic for patients with chronic respiratory conditions requiring input from both specialties. She is also the clinical lead for lung function services across the trust and has introduced innovative diagnostic pathways. She continues her pursuit of academic interests in sleep and ventilation medicine and is supervising several PhD students as well as actively improving patient care through quality improvement projects.
PDF slides: Non-invasive ventilation on the acute take
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z75Dq_TalPY
I am an ST5 Gastroenterology/GIM registrar in the West Midlands. I qualified from Warwick Medical School in 2010 and have been based in the West Midlands for the duration of my training. I have completed a period of programme conducting research into the non-invasive detection of colorectal cancer via urine analysis. This has led to the award of an MD. My main interests are IBD and endoscopy.
PDF slides: Gastroenterology (with Prof Chuka Nwokolo)
Dr McKenna has been a Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist in Trafford since 1989. He was appointed as Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1994 and has been an examiner for the PACES examination for over 15 years. He is the senior physician in Trafford and continues to manage an acute medical ward and have a full share in the acute on-call rota on the medical admissions unit. He is head of the rheumatology dept in Trafford which has been recognised by the British Society for Rheumatology as offering 'Outstanding Best Practice'. He has over 30 years' experience of research in clinical pharmacology and has over 150 publications including abstracts, original papers, book and book chapters. He has undertaken most clinical managerial posts in the NHS including latterly that of operational Medical Director. He has held several positions with both Arthritis Research UK (formerly ARC) and the BSR and most recently was treasurer of the BSR. He has had a lengthy involvement with NICE as the BSR expert for the appraisals of biologic drugs in rheumatoid arthritis, as clinical lead for the recent revision of the RA guideline and also as member then Chair of the NICE appeal panel.
PDF slides: Rheumatoid arthritis guideline
Dr Alastair Miller, deputy medical director, Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB).
Dr Alastair Miller was a consultant physician in the Tropical & Infectious Disease Unit at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, and an honorary fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from 2005 until May 2014. Dr Miller has a particular interest in medical education. He chaired the Specialist Advisory Committee on Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine for 6 years. He is on the faculty of the Doctors as Educators programme and external examiner for the Leadership and Management programme at Edge Hill University. He has been an MRCP clinical examiner for over 10 years and has also been an examiner for the theory paper and for the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H). He has been deputy medical director of JRCPTB since August 2013.
PDF slides: Internal medicine curriculum (with Zoe Fleet and Mike Jones)
Min Kon
Professor Onn Min Kon is a respiratory physician and head of service for tuberculosis at Imperial College London Healthcare NHS Trust. He is also professor of clinical respiratory medicine at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London. He is the chair of the UK National MDRTB Clinical Advice Service and of the British Thoracic Society Joint Tuberculosis Committee. He is a member of the National TB Programme.
After he completed his medical degree in London, he trained in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine in north-west London with placements at the Royal Brompton Hospital and St Mary's Hospital. He was a clinical research fellow at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London.
He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, including publications in Nature Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. He has also authored several book chapters, editorials and reviews.
His research interests include the clinical and immune diagnosis of tuberculosis, and the delivery of care and management of the disease. He also participates in research evaluating the effects of infection on airways disease. Professor Kon organises the annual London Advanced TB course.
Dr Mooney qualified from Nottingham University Medical School in 1988, trained at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, and was a MRC Training Fellow and Wellcome Clinician Scientist before becoming a Consultant Nephrologist at St James's University Hospital in Leeds in 1999. He has a full time NHS contract though he continues a research programme studying scientific, clinical and health science aspects of progressive chronic kidney disease. He has been invited to speak at multiple national and international meetings, invited speaker at innumerable regional and national UK meetings and is co-organiser of UK Kidney Week 2019. He was Lead Clinician for the NICE guideline on Renal Replacement Therapy. He has also co-written guidelines for the European Renal Best Practice Group of the European Renal Association, and also for the UK Renal Association. He has in addition held a UK Arts Council project grant to produce theatre work and won awards for his dancing, but whatever he is doing, he would always rather be at home with his family.
Mukherjee
Rahul is a Specialist Registrar in Cardiology at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital. He has followed the Integrated Academic Training Pathway throughout his clinical career and is passionate about research. Rahul was appointed to an Academic Foundation program in Cardiology at King's College Hospital, London in 2011 followed by a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine in 2013 at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital. Since 2016, he has been working towards a PhD in cardiac electrophysiology which has been funded by the Wellcome Trust and a Fellowship in Translational Medicine from the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. His research incorporates an inter-disciplinary approach combining cardiac imaging, computational modelling and cardiac electrophysiology and involves close collaborations with industry. His work has led to publications in leading specialty journals: Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Europace, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology and Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. He is an Associate Editor of Clinical Medicine and is a reviewer for the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology.
PDF slides: Is research for me?
Nelson-Piercy
Catherine Nelson-Piercy is a consultant obstetric physician at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals Trust and Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London. In 2010 she was awarded the title of professor of obstetric medicine at King's College London. Her undergraduate studies were at King's College, Cambridge University and St Bartholomew's Hospital. She trained as a physician, and was taught obstetric medicine by Professor Michael de Swiet.
Professor Nelson-Piercy is past president of the International Society of Obstetric Medicine (ISOM). She is founding co-editor in chief of the journal 'Obstetric Medicine: the medicine of pregnancy.'
Professor Nelson-Piercy has been involved in the development of several evidence-based national guidelines notably for Contraception in women with heart disease', British Thoracic Society (BTS) / Scottish International Guidelines Network (SIGN) Asthma in pregnancy and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG's) green top guidelines on Reducing the risk of thromboembolism during pregnancy, birth and the puerperium and Management of nausea vomiting of pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum. She has over 200 publications and has edited five books and written the successful Handbook of Obstetric Medicine, now in its fifth edition. She is also one of the central physician assessors for the UK Confidential maternal deaths enquiry.
PDF slides: Medical obstetric complications
Dr David Nicholl is clinical lead for neurology at Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust and RCP tutor at University Hospital Birmingham. He is honorary secretary to the Association of British Neurologists and was on the Board of Trustees of the RCP until December 2018. He is passionate about medical education and clinical neurology: he has organised the 'Birmingham movement disorders' course since 2004 and set up the 'Brief neuro' exam on YouTube to help improve the quality of neurological assessment (with over half a million views).
Ninan
Sean Ninan is a consultant in Geriatric Medicine at Leeds Teaching Hospitals with interests in community geriatrics and quality improvement. He is dementia lead for Leeds Teaching Hospitals. As a clinical leadership fellow, he set up in house Quality Improvement Training at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and is a gold trainer for the Improvement Academy and Q fellow.
Chuka
Nwokolo
Professor Chuka Nwokolo took up the post of RCP treasurer on 1 November 2016, after 6 months as deputy treasurer. As treasurer, he has oversight of finance and resource issues, and leads on the RCP strategic theme of building on our heritage and investing in our future.
Chuka is a consultant gastroenterologist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and an honorary professor of gastroenterology at Warwick Medical School. He is the UK's representative on the European Board of Gastroenterology.
Over the past decade, Chuka has been a member of various RCP committees including Council, the Finance and Resources Board (and its predecessor the Finance and General Processes Board), and those covering the organisation of gastroenterology services and training.
He has also been an active member of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG), both as a Council member and as treasurer of the BSG between 2003–8. He was president of the Midlands Gastroenterological Society in 2015.
O'Donoghue
Professor Donal O'Donoghue is the registrar of the RCP, consultant renal physician at Salford Royal Hospital and professor of renal medicine at the University of Manchester.
Donal qualified in physiology and medicine from Manchester, and trained in internal medicine and nephrology in the east Midlands and north-west of England, Paris (as a Medical Research Council travelling fellow), France, and in Edinburgh, Scotland.
In Manchester, he led the reorganisation of renal services and established the first managed clinical network in England. Donal was inaugural president of the multiprofessional British Renal Society. Between 2006 and 2013 he led the implementation of the Renal National Service Framework as national director of kidney care at the Department of Health. Donal was president of the Renal Association from 2016 until 2018 and was awarded an OBE for services to kidney patients in 2018.
Donal is passionate about professionalism in medicine, innovation and quality improvement in health and care. At the RCP Donal's responsibilities include clinical and professional affairs, and he takes a lead role in matters relating to membership, governance, regional activity, global programmes and relationships with the NHS.
In addition to clinical duties in Salford, Donal remains active in training and research. He chairs the Greater Manchester, Lancashire and South Cumbria Senate and is medical director of Health Innovation Manchester. He is chair of the patient support charity Kidney Care UK.
In July 2016 Professor David Oliver was elected clinical vice president of the Royal College of Physicians, working in the Care Quality Improvement Department.
David is currently seconded to the King's Fund as visiting fellow, alongside his clinical job as an NHS consultant in geriatrics and general internal medicine at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, where he was also lead clinician and clinical director. While at the King's Fund, he co-authored the report Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population and worked with numerous health economies advising on integrated services for older people, and co-organised conferences, workshops and blogs regularly.
He is immediate past president of the British Geriatrics Society having also been its honorary secretary. He is also visiting professor of medicine for older people at City, University of London.
A hospital doctor since 1989, David was a consultant and clinical director at South London NHS Trust from 1998 to 2004 and was the Department of Health national clinical director for older people from 2009 to 2013. He has just finished 3 years as specialist clinical adviser for the NHS Emergency Care Improvement Partnership, visiting and working with over 30 acute hospitals and healthcare systems.
David writes a weekly freelance column, 'Acute perspective' in the BMJ, which was shortlisted for the 2017 PPA columnist of the year award. He has written for several other professional and general publications, and has published more than 120 research papers, reviews, book chapters and editorials.
In addition to his medical qualifications and research doctorate, David has master's degrees in health leadership, healthcare ethics and law, and postgraduate diplomas in health service management and medical education. He was recently named in the Health Service Journal's top 100 clinical leaders and top 50 integrated care leaders lists. He tweets as @mancunianmedic.
David is the deputy director of education at the Royal College of Physicians.
His areas of expertise include faculty development, leadership and teaching in clinical and non-clinical settings. His role at the Royal College of Physicians involves the management, delivery and development of a large number of educational programmes, designed to meet the needs of healthcare practitioners both nationally and internationally.
PDF slides: Wellbeing of practitioners (with Dr Emma Vaux)
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgUrCANRZiQ
Doctor Hermione Price is a consultant diabetologist at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.
Prior to joining Southern Health, Hermione spent a year as a Department of Health fellow working with the national clinical director for diabetes, the diabetes policy team and NHS Diabetes (now part of NHS Improvement) .
Hermione chaired the Diabetes Forum (Wessex Cardiovascular Strategic Clinical Network) for many years and has recently been appointed as the joint specialty lead for diabetes at the Wessex Clinical Research Network.
Hermione was awarded her DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2010 for her thesis entitled "The impact of personalised cardiovascular disease risk factor information on physical activity in adults at increased risk of cardiovascular disease".
Hermione is an honorary senior clinical lecturer with the University of Southampton and is currently supervising two clinical fellows undertaking PhDs and a master's student. Her research interests are focused around the interface between diabetes and serious mental illness, and the delivery of diabetes care at scale. Hermione also has a clinical interest in the management of diabetes and obesity in people with serious mental illness. She provides an in-reach service to a medium secure hospital, joint clinics with psychiatry colleagues and has co-authored the national guidelines concerning the management of diabetes in people with serious mental illness.
Hermione has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and is frequently invited to speak at national and international meetings particularly on the subject of diabetes and mental illness.
PDF slides: Physical health of those with mental illness
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz4Jn3RMP6s
Proffitt
Dr Amy Proffitt completed her medical degree at the University of Oxford, before training in Haematology and finally finding her passion for Palliative Medicine. Amy is enthusiastic about bringing changes to the speciality and fulfills this through her roles as Vice President for the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland. She has an interest in ethics and communication and innovation, shown through her work as the Quality Improvement Representative on the Joint Specialty Committee for Palliative Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians, and the Ambition Partnership Representative on the NHS England End of Life Programme Board. Amy has also authored or co-authored publications relating to assisted dying and palliative care.
PDF slides: Palliative care – walking an old path in new shoes
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTi7AzWYNY0
Ananthakrishnan
Dr Ananthakrishnan Raghuram has been a consultant in general and respiratory medicine since 2002. He did his general medical and respiratory training on the prestigious north-western rotation and now works at Cheltenham General Hospital.
'Raghu' is a consultant thoracic physician in Gloucestershire and was appointed as the RCP Linacre fellow with responsibilities for supporting RCP and associate college tutors. Alongside this, he is currently the RCP regional adviser and head of school of medicine in the Severn region, and previously held the role of RCP censor.
As a chief examiner and host for MRCP PACES, Dr Raghuram sits on the MRCP Part II exam board and is on the implementation committee developing the new internal medicine curriculum for the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB).
Dr Keith Ridge is chief pharmaceutical officer at NHS England where he is head of profession for the pharmacy professions and the principal adviser on pharmacy and medicines use.
His role supports NHS Improvement, the Department of Health, broader Government and Health Education England.
Keith is the senior responsible officer for reducing inappropriate prescribing of antimicrobials in the UK antimicrobial resistance (AMR) strategy, and leads on issues such as medicines optimisation, digital medicines, clinical pharmacy in primary care, pharmacy educational reform and transforming pharmacy practice in line with the NHS Long Term Plan.
Since becoming chief pharmaceutical officer at the Department of Health in 2006, Keith has led major changes to pharmacy including the establishment of a new pharmacy professional regulator, the General Pharmaceutical Council, the ongoing delivery of 2,000 clinical pharmacists as part of the General Practice Forward View, and the establishment of the national Medicines Value and Medicines Safety programmes. In late 2018, he was asked by the secretary of state for health and social care to lead a review into polypharmacy and over-prescribing.
He is a visiting professor at the Imperial College Medical School.
PDF slides: Antimicrobial resistance: raising awareness
Dr Reuben Roy is a Renal ST3 presently working in Salford Royal Foundation Trust. Dr Roy is dual training with Intensive Care Medicine in the North Western Deanery. He has worked in both the North West and West Midlands as part of his training thus far.
PDF slides: Renal
Roycroft
Matthew is a less-than-full-time trainee working in geriatric medicine, with special interests in medical education and leadership development. Alongside his clinical work he co-chairs the RCP Trainees Committee, is an honorary lecturer at the University of Sheffield leading an MSc module on Health, Healthcare and Research in Older People, and is a member of Health Education Yorkshire and the Humber's Leadership Faculty teaching healthcare professionals basic leadership skills. He's recently returned to training having worked for a year in Health Education England developing Core Medical Training in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Dr Rebecca Shaw is a clinical research fellow at the University of Liverpool and is the North West representative for HaemSTAR (a UK wide network of Trainee Haematologists working to promote non-malignant haematology research, supported by NIHR). She also holds an honorary clinical contract with the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
She graduated with honours from the University of Birmingham in 2011 and did her postgraduate medical training in the Merseyside region with further year practicing in Brisbane; she commenced her specialist training in Haematology in the North West in 2016.
She has a keen interest in medical education and has won local teaching awards as well as continuing to be an educational and research supervisor for the Undergraduate Medicine programme at the University of Liverpool. She won a regional prize in Quality Improvement and subsequently presented at the National RCP QI Showcase in London. She was recently selected for the national Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Leaders Programme promoting education and research in the field.
Rebecca is co-investigator for a large number of malignant and non-malignant national clinical trials in the region and has also presented her work at a number of national and international Haematology conferences.
Dr Jonathan Sheffield OBE, chief executive
Jonathan Sheffield has been chief executive officer of the National Institute for Health Research, Clinical Research Network since 2010. The Clinical Research Network delivers clinical research studies throughout the NHS in England covering primary, secondary and tertiary care.
A passionate advocate for clinical research, Jonathan's ambition is to focus not only on traditional pharma and medical technology research but how digital tools can accelerate delivery of life-changing treatments whilst improving engagement with patients, researchers, the life sciences industry and the wider NHS.
PDF slides: Integrating research into clinical care
Professor Tom Solomon is chair of neurological science at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Infection and Global Health and the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, and director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections. After qualifying in medicine at Oxford University, his research training included 3 years at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam, and 2 years at the University of Texas Medical Brain, Galveston, USA.
He heads the multidisciplinary Liverpool Brain Infections Group. With nearly £30 million in research funding, the group works to reduce the UK and global burden of neurological disease in adults and children caused by infections, with major programmes on Japanese encephalitis in Asia, and Zika and Chikungunya in Latin America.
Tom is a keen teacher, running the annual 'Neurological infectious diseases' course in Liverpool, and an enthusiastic science communicator; his popular science book Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine was published in 2016. He tweets @RunningMadProf
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-soBHtr7P4
Professor Robert Storey is professor of cardiology at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, where he has headed a thrombosis research group since 2002 and is director of the Cardiovascular Research Unit. In addition, Prof Storey is academic director and honorary consultant cardiologist for the Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery Directorate, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He has a special interest in the management of ischaemic heart disease, including acute coronary syndromes and coronary intervention.
He served as a member of the executive committees for the DISPERSE2, PLATO and PEGASUS-TIMI 54 studies, leading the platelet function sub-studies for these trials, and of the steering committees for the TRA-CER, EPICOR and ATLANTIC studies. He is currently a member of the steering committees for the COMPLETE, RAPID CTCA, SENIOR RITA, AUGUSTUS and CLEAR SYNERGY studies. He was chair of the working group on thrombosis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) from 2012–2014 and has been a task force member for several ESC guidelines on non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes (2011 and 2015) and dyslipidaemias (2011).
PDF slides: Acute coronary syndromes
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCMEgGXnZ14
Sumaya
Dr Wael Sumaya is a NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology. Wael joined the University of Sheffield in 2010 as an NIHR-funded Academic Clinical Fellow. During this time, he developed a keen interest in atherothrombosis and subsequently he was awarded a BHF-funded fellowship to study fibrin clot properties in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). During his PhD, he identified impaired fibrinolysis and a predictor of worse outcomes Following ACS. As a clinician, he enjoy performing percutaneous coronary intervention to treat patients presenting with ACS and as a researcher, he look for ways to optimise therapy and improve outcomes.
PDF slides: Cardiology
Cheng-Hock
Professor Cheng-Hock Toh was elected academic vice president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in July 2018.
Cheng-Hock is professor of haematology at the University of Liverpool and honorary consultant haematologist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He is president of the British Society for Haematology and national haematology lead of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network.
He has trained in Sheffield, Manchester and Newcastle as well as at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and Queen's University, Canada. His translational research programme on understanding blood changes during sepsis and critical illness has led to patented discoveries and guidelines to improve standards in patient care.
Jude Tweedie is a cardiology trainee originally based in Belfast. Jude has extensive experience as a trainee in leadership roles including as a Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management National Medical Director fellow, a Royal College of Physicians (London) Clinical Fellow, spearheading a number of key policy and improvement projects. Jude is currently a research fellow at University College London focusing on professionalism, professional identity formation and unprofessional behaviours and is completing an MD in medical education.
Holm Uhlig is professor of paediatric gastroenterology in the Translational Gastroenterology Unit at the University of Oxford, and honorary consultant in paediatric gastroenterology at Children's Hospital Oxford. After medical training in Leipzig (Germany) he received his DPhil in Oxford and subsequently specialised in paediatric gastroenterology in Germany before returning to Oxford in 2010. Holm investigates how genetic defects associated with Mendelian forms of inflammatory bowel disease cause intestinal inflammation, and tries to understand shared functional pathways between different subgroups of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. His research aims to improve diagnostics and translate mechanisms into treatments.
PDF slides: The microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXj6LD9oqC4
Dr Emma Vaux is a consultant nephrologist and general physician at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and senior censor and vice president (education and training) at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP).
As a clinical associate, Emma leads the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' Quality Improvement: Training for Better Outcomes work on embedding quality improvement training into medical training, building on the RCP's Learning to Make a Difference programme which she led for 7 years. Emma also sits on the editorial board for the Future Healthcare Journal and QI4U, and is a Generation Q fellow and Q founding member with The Health Foundation.
After completing her medical degree at the University of London, Emma was awarded a research doctorate from Oxford University. She has completed a postgraduate certificate in teaching and learning in higher and professional education at the University of London, and currently leads an active clinical research programme.
Alongside her clinical work, Emma's other roles include specialty advisor with the Care Quality Commission, National Children and Adult Services (NCAS) case investigator, NCAS lead assessor and clinical lead at the Oxford Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) Patient Safety Collaborative acute kidney injury workstream.
PDF slides: Wellbeing of practitioners (with David Parry)
Professor Bee Wee is national clinical director for end of life care at NHS England and at NHS Improvement (for 2 days and 1 day each week, respectively). In this role, she provides strategic leadership for improving palliative and end-of-life care across England. In 2015, she co-led the development and publication of the Ambitions for palliative and end of life care: A national framework for local action 2015–2020. This framework was jointly developed with 27 partners across health and care, and statutory and voluntary sectors. It was endorsed in the government's response to the Review of choice in end of life care in 2016. She was awarded the Presidential Medal by the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare for her academic, policy and clinical contributions to person-centred healthcare in 2017. She received an honorary doctorate of science from Oxford Brookes University in 2018.
Originally from Malaysia, she trained in medicine, then general practice, in Ireland; worked in Hong Kong; then became consultant/senior lecturer in palliative medicine, and later, deputy director of the Medical School, Southampton University. She moved to Oxford in 2003 as consultant in palliative medicine at Sir Michael Sobell House, fellow of Harris Manchester College and associate director of clinical studies at Oxford University, and head of the Oxford WHO Collaborating Centre for Palliative Care. She is a past president of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland. Her clinical and academic base remains in Oxford. She is now associate professor at Oxford University, visiting professor at University of Worcester, and honorary professor at Sichuan University, China. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, eating and allotment gardening with her husband, Richard.
PDF slides: How leadership can improve palliative care
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgaL6Ypza5E
Wierzbicki
Professor Anthony Wierzbicki is consultant in metabolic medicine/chemical pathology at Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals and honorary Professor in Cardiometabolic Disease at King's College, London. He runs a regional centre for lipid disorders and set up the regional bariatric service. He is clinical lead for blood sciences at Viapath at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals. He is secretary of the national network of specialist lipid laboratories. His research interests are in the role of lipids in atherosclerosis and in peroxisomal diseases. He is a fellow of the American Heart Association and the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (USA). He has authored 300 publications, 19 book chapters and one book. He was a trustee of HEART-UK (United Kingdom Cholesterol charity) and chairman of its medical and scientific committee (2002–2008).
At the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) he has served on the technology appraisal (2006–2009), highly specialised (orphan disease) therapies (2013–2015) and diagnostics appraisal committees (from 2014). He was a member of the familial hypercholesterolaemia guideline group (CG71; 2008–2009); and chair of the lipid modification (CG181; 2012–2014), chronic heart failure (2016–2018), hypertension (from 2017) and now kidney injury guidelines (from 2018). He helped write the international guidelines on familial hypercholesterolaemia (2014) and the American Heart Association scientific consensus statement on familial hypercholesterolemia (2015).
PDF slides: Chronic heart failure guideline
Sarah Wilkinson is CEO of NHS Digital, the executive body of the Department of Health which provides information, data and IT systems for health and social care nationally. Prior to joining NHS Digital, Sarah was CIO at the Home Office, and before that worked in Financial Services where she held CIO roles at Credit Suisse, UBS, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers. Sarah is a Non-Executive Director of NatWest Markets, a member of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee of Kings College London and a member of the advisory boards of the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Dr Olwen Williams OBE is president of the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV.
As a consultant leading Sexual Health and HIV services in North Wales over the past 27 years, she has been passionate about improving services for women, especially those who experience sexual violence and child sexual exploitation. Dr Williams set up the Amethyst Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) along with Sexual Health and HIV Services.
As chief of staff (2009–2015) she was responsible for leading the Royal College of Physicians Future Hospital development site project.
Dr Williams is also a council member of Bangor University and a trustee at the National AIDS Trust (NAT).
She received an OBE for Services to Medicine in Wales in 2005.
PDF slides: Public health and HIV – can we end the AIDS epidemic by 2030?
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uas-0ucKRbA
Bryan Williams is chair of medicine at University College London and director of the National Institutes for Health Research (NIHR) University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre. He is also the director of research for UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is a consultant physician at UCL Hospitals and a NIHR Senior Investigator and a member of the NIHR Strategy Board. He is national co-chairman of the Cardiovascular Specialty Group for the NIHR Comprehensive Research Network. He has recently been appointed onto the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) Hypertension in Adults Guideline Committee (2017). He was previously professor of medicine (1996–2012) and chairman of the division of medicine at the University of Leicester School of Medicine, UK. He graduated from the University of London in 1983 and completed his clinical and research training in London, Leicester, and at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Professor Williams' research and clinical practice is in the field of hypertension in which he is recognised as one of the world's leading authorities. His research in the sphere of human experimental medicine focuses on developing clinically applicable models for the human non-invasive assessment of aortic pressure and haemodynamics, in which he published the most cited and influential paper in the field that is credited with driving an exponential rise in clinical device and technology development. He has received numerous national and international awards and was the recent recipient of the Times Higher Education University award for 'Outstanding Innovation and Technology 2011' for his work on methods for the non-invasive measurement of aortic pressure, and the Sleight Award (2014) by the European Society of Hypertension for his 'outstanding contribution to research, education and clinical practice in the field of hypertension'.
Professor Williams is the past president of the British Hypertension Society (2001–2003) and is chairman of the NICE Hypertension Guidelines Development Group (published in 2011), chairman of the NICE Hypertension National Quality Standards development group (April 2013) and chairman of the NICE Evidence Update for Hypertension report (March 2013). He was previously chairman of the Clinician Scientist Research Grant Awards panels for the Medical Research Council and the Department of Health, and a member of the NIHR Efficacy and Evaluation (EME) board. He is a member of national and international hypertension societies, and a fellow of the American Heart Association, the European Society of Cardiology and the Royal College of Physicians, London.
PDF slides: National Early Warning Score (NEWS) 2
Wilmshurst
Peter is a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. He has investigated and reported research misconduct for more than 30 years. As a result he has had to defend legal threats and libel claims from academic institutions, pharmaceutical and medical device corporations and individual researchers. He was awarded the annual Health Watch Award in 2003 "for courage in challenging misconduct in medical research". He was the first recipient of the BMJ Editors Award in 2012 "for persistence and courage in speaking truth to power."
PDF slides: Research misconduct
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAr9XD5xnBs
Tony is a practicing frontline NHS surgeon, Director of Medical Innovation at Anglia Ruskin University, and has founded 4 Med-Tech start-ups. He has also co-founded the £500m Anglia Ruskin MedTech Campus. In 2014 he was appointed as National Clinical Director for Innovation at NHS England and in February 2016 became the first National Clinical Lead for Innovation. In this role he provides clinical leadership and support in delivering improved health outcomes in England and drives the uptake of proven innovations across the NHS, promotes economic growth through innovation and helps make the NHS the go to place on the planet for medical innovation. In 2015 he founded the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur programme. This has become the world's largest entrepreneurial workforce development programme for clinicians and under the NHS Long Term Plan is set for a major expansion to include intrapreneurs as well as entrepreneurs. In the 2019 New Year's Honours list Tony was awarded the OBE for services to clinical leadership.
Recorded talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMBUuzlZ8YM
Clinical entrepreneurs showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5eZm4iEeGg
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