Speakers

Dr Amie Burbridge

Dr Amie Burbridge is a consultant acute and internal medicine physician, who has a master’s in medical education. She is a member of the education faculty at the Royal College of Physicians and is the head of quality at West Midlands Deanery School of Medicine. Amie’s area of interest focuses on teaching clinical reasoning and cognitive biases and promoting good communication to enhance the trainee-trainer relationship. Amie is passionate about medical podcasting as an alternative way to educate. Amie is the presenter of the very popular EFIM Podcast The Home of Medicine.

Dr Sephie Goodsir

Dr Sephie Goodsir is an ST7 in acute internal medicine with a deep passion for medical education. Having completed a postgraduate certificate in medical education, she is dedicated to fostering the next generation of healthcare professionals through teaching medical students and actively contributing to educational initiatives. Sephie has also successfully completed the Chief Registrar Programme, where she honed her leadership skills and gained invaluable experience in managing clinical teams and improving patient care. Throughout her career, she has answered a diverse range of bleeps, from the unexpected invasion of errant pigeons to major incidents of total IT failures and structural collapses, she has enjoyed many a varied and unusual on call shift and looks forward to passing on these skills to the next generation of medical registrars.

Dr Alex Kew

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Dr Emily Holdsworth

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

Dr Anthony Martinelli

Dr Anthony Martinelli is a registrar in respiratory medicine, based in Cambridge. He joined the Resident Doctor Committee in 2022 and is aiming to advocate for trainees, focusing on practical issues such as the cost of training and the educational experience of medical specialist registrars. Having recently completed a PhD in cell biology, he has taken up a post as a clinical lecturer and is also keen to promote academic medicine as part of his role.

Dr Ingrid Horitzauer

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Dr Tim Cooksley

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Dr Petra Hanson

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Dr Anish Kuzhiyanjal

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Professor Julia Sinclair

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Dr Sean Ninan

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Dr Ben Lovell

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Dr Ben Chadwick

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Dr Muha Hassan

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Dr Jhiamluka Solano

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Dr Sarah Birkhoezler

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Dr Catherine Rowan

Catherine Rowan is a specialty registrar in respiratory and general internal medicine. She has worked in West Yorkshire since graduating from Bristol Medical School in 2012. She has also experienced life as a medical registrar in Christchurch, New Zealand. Catherine is enthusiastic about medical education, having previously held the role of RCP associate college tutor in mid-Yorkshire. During the pandemic she collaborated with the Northern deanery to produce a virtual respiratory SCE teaching programme. She has represented doctors locally at each stage of her training and is currently the general internal medicine representative for Yorkshire. Catherine joined the Resident Doctor Committee in May 2021. She was elected deputy chair in July 2023. Catherine is a mum of two and has been working less than full time since December 2019.

Dr Rizwan Khan

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Dr Viola Asimba

Dr. Viola Asimba is a CESR Registrar in acute internal medicine with a special interest in acute oncology at Nottingham University Hospitals. She has a particular focus on acute oncology, where she attempts to bridge the care for patients transitioning from acute medical issues to oncological treatments. Dr. Asimba has been actively involved in numerous projects aimed at enhancing resident doctors' education and training. She is deeply committed to teaching and mentorship and has a passion for educating the next generation of doctors. Her leadership roles include serving as the East Midlands Core Medical Training (CMT) Lead (2018-19) and, more recently, as Chief Registrar at Nottingham University Hospitals 2023-2024. A passionate champion for diversity and equality, Dr. Asimba works to create equal opportunities for junior doctors, particularly those from the Black/Black heritage community. Her advocacy extends to ensuring a more equitable and inclusive environment for junior doctors.

Dr Catherine Byrne

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Dr Mariyam Adam

Dr Mariyam Adam is a ST5 registrar in renal and general internal medicine working at Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Dr Adam is RCP chief registrar for Royal Liverpool Hospital from 2023-2024 and involved in patient flow improvement and improving junior doctor involvement in audit and quality improvement.

Dr Rohan Mehra

Dr Rohan Mehra is an infectious diseases and microbiology SPR based in KSS. Rohan is passionate about medical education and the use of multimedia such as podcasts to promote education. Rohan has undertaken a diploma in conflict and catastrophe medicine and is an ardent believer in non-technical skills training to enhance team environment and functioning and is developing workshops to promote this within the RCP.

Dr Rob Galloway

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Dr Lucy Pollock

Dr Lucy Pollock trained at Cambridge and Barts and worked in the east end, Camden and Lambeth. She’s grateful to an early boss who said he hoped she wouldn’t be offended if he suggested she should become a geriatrician. Lucy moved to Somerset in 1997 and is proud to have contributed to a tiny part of the Medicine for Older People syllabus for Bristol University Medical School, which she confidently believes to be the most comprehensive, effective and popular undergraduate training in geriatric medicine in the world. She wrote The Book About Getting Older, published by Penguin in 2021, and her second book, The Golden Rule, will be released this July.

Dr Zara Wrightson

Dr Ryan Mullally

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Dr Narendra Reddy

Dr Narendra Reddy is a consultant endocrinologist, head of service, and an honorary senior lecturer in University Hospitals of Leicester. He completed endocrinology specialist training in Oxford and undertook 'Endocrine determinants of brown fat' research for an MD from the University of Warwick. Narendra’s areas of interest are adrenal, pituitary and electrolyte disorders. He has authored multiple publications in leading journals and is a co-author of the national guideline for pituitary apoplexy management. Narendra has written book chapters; notably is an editor of the endocrinology chapter of Kumar and Clarke’s textbook of medicine. He is currently East Midlands lead for the Clinical Research Network (NIHR) of metabolism and endocrinology portfolio, and is involved in the management and conduction of clinical research studies. Narendra is part of the Society for Endocrinology Clinical Committee and is on advisory panel for Parathyroid UK.

Dr Toby Delahooke

Dr Toby Delahooke has been a consultant hepatologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary since 2006. He originally graduated from the University of Edinburgh and completed his gastroenterology and hepatology specialty training principally in the Liver Transplant Unit of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Toby’s MD thesis was based around the natural history of HCV infection. He has participated in delivering postgraduate education throughout his career, initially as a training programme director in gastro/hep and then as an assistant programme director in the east Midlands. His current interests are in screening for liver fibrosis in the community and local liver mortality trends.

Dr Tom Hayton

Dr Charlotte Jones

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