Dr Hilary Williams FRCP

Clinical vice president, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Hilary Williams was elected clinical vice president of the RCP in 2025. She is a consultant in medical oncology at Velindre Cancer Centre in south Wales.

Hilary trained in Sheffield before completing a PhD in Edinburgh in immunology and oncogenic viruses and then worked as a registrar in south-west England. She became RCP regional adviser for south-east Wales in 2018 before becoming an elected councillor in 2022. Prior to election as CVP, Hilary was RCP vice president for Wales.

She is an active founder member of the UK Acute Oncology Society, the national Wales Cancer Network lead for acute oncology, and a mentor for the RCP Emerging Women Leaders Programme.

As the health service faces the combined challenges of a waiting list backlog and widening health inequalities, Hilary wants to work on behalf of RCP fellows and members to campaign for more NHS staff, higher standards of care and better patient experience.

Professor Vicky Coyle FRCP

Professor of medical oncology, Queen's University Belfast

Vicky Coyle is a clinical professor in Queen’s University Belfast and consultant medical oncologist in Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. She leads the Belfast Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, and has a clinical and research focus on colorectal cancer and early-phase clinical trials. She also has an interest in translational and discovery research in cancer, focusing on mechanisms of treatment response and resistance to standard of care therapies to identify strategies to improve outcomes for patients with cancer. She chairs the Executive Committee of the NIHR Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration, which is building a community of practice and providing a coordinated framework for research into nutrition and cancer.

Dr Allie Shipp

Consultant medical oncologist, Velindre University NHS Trust

Dr Allie Shipp is a consultant medical oncologist based in Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff. She treats melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers and has specialist interests in acute oncology and immunotherapy toxicity. She has previously been clinical lead for acute oncology in south-west Wales and now co-runs the south-east Wales Immunotherapy Toxicity Service.

 

Dr Andrew John Lansdown FRCP

Consultant endocrinologist, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Dr Lansdown has been a consultant physician and endocrinologist at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff since 2016. He has served as clinical committee member with the Society for Endocrinology and has sat on the RCP New Consultants and Joint Specialty Endocrinology and Diabetes Committees. He also serves on the RCP Wales exec group, is RCP regional adviser for South Wales central and has recently taken up the role of secretary for the Welsh Endocrine and Diabetes Society. In addition, he is an honorary senior lecturer with Cardiff University School of Medicine, involved in the undergraduate teaching programme and examinations.
 
He completed a research MD in polycystic ovary syndrome, particularly focusing on the cardiometabolic risks associated with the syndrome and central nervous system control of blood pressure and insulin resistance. He has published papers in various aspects of diabetes and endocrinology, and has co-authored a textbook and book chapters in the field. He was also an author for the UK Oncology Nursing Society guidelines for patients with endocrine complications related to immunotherapy.
 
He has ongoing research interests in aspects of pituitary, thyroid and adrenal disease.

Dr Kate Young

Consultant medical oncologist, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Kate Young is a consultant medical oncologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital, specialising in renal and skin cancers alongside acute oncology. Kate studied at Cambridge University and undertook her clinical training at Imperial College London, qualifying in 2004. She trained as a resident doctor in London and completed specialist training in medical oncology at the Royal Marsden, where she was appointed a consultant in 2020. Kate completed an MD(Res) at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and her research interests include survivorship and toxicities associated with immunotherapies. Kate chairs the consultant group for the UK Acute Oncology Society, sits on the board for the Association of Cancer Physicians, and is a trustee of and leads the clinical support pillar for the Immuno-Oncology Clinical Network.

Dr Sunit Raja

Consultant in respiratory and general internal medicine, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Raja graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine with a further degree in healthcare management. He undertook his early clinical training in the North-West Thames Deanery and subsequently completed specialty training in the Oxford deanery. He was appointed Chief Registrar at Royal Berkshire Hospital in 2018. After completion of training, he was appointed as a consultant in respiratory and general internal medicine at Royal Berkshire Hospital in 2021.

Dr Tamara Griffiths FRCP

President, British Association of Dermatologists

Dr Tamara Griffiths is a senior consultant dermatologist at the Dermatology Centre, Salford Royal Hospital NHS Trust, and is current president of the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD). She is honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, a world-leading centre for dermatological research, and also an American board-certified dermatologist. Her clinical team was awarded BMJ Dermatology Team of the Year in 2018, and in 2021 she was recognised by the BAD as clinician of the year.

Her leadership roles in education and training include chair of the JRCPTB’s Dermatology Specialist Advisory Committee. As inaugural education vice president for the BAD, she founded the British College of Dermatology in 2021. She is medical programme director for the University of Manchester MSc in skin ageing and aesthetic medicine, developed in 2013 and now recognised as the gold standard in the UK and internationally. She is section editor for Rook’s textbook of dermatology, and her Br J Dermatol submission on skin ageing is the highest cited for 2024.

She carries cross-industry authority in the non-surgical cosmetic sector, acting as adviser to the Department of Health’s Review of the Regulation of Cosmetic Interventions, led by Sir Bruce Keogh. She is a founding member and trustee of the Cosmetic Practice Standards Authority, which launched in partnership with the Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners in 2018, and together drove forward the change in primary legislation to safeguard patients with mandatory regulation for non-surgical cosmetic practice.

Dr Domniki Iatropoulou

Dermatology ST4 trainee, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Domniki Iatropoulou is a dermatology registrar in the Severn Deanery, currently working as ST4 resident doctor in dermatology at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. She completed her medical degree at the University of Ioannina, Greece, and holds MRCP(UK). Alongside her clinical training, Dr Iatropoulou has a strong interest in medical education and completed a postgraduate certificate in medical education at St George’s, University of London, where she also worked as a clinical teaching fellow. As national British Association of Dermatologists trainee co-representative, she enjoys supporting initiatives that enhance education and collaboration across the UK.

Dr Satveer Mahil FRCP

Consultant dermatologist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Satveer Mahil is a consultant dermatologist at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and a reader at King’s College London. She graduated from the University of Cambridge and completed integrated academic training (NIHR academic clinical fellowship and NIHR clinical lectureship) in dermatology at St John’s Institute of Dermatology. During her MRC-funded PhD, she used genetic information to gain novel insights into the mechanistic basis of different forms of psoriasis and define new therapeutic targets. After her PhD, she was awarded an MRC clinical academic research partnership award, and she currently holds an NIHR advanced fellowship. Her translational research seeks to optimise outcomes for individuals with inflammatory skin diseases including psoriasis and eczema. She is director of St John’s DermAcademy (dermatology education academy).

Dr Philip Laws

Dermatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Phil Laws is a consultant dermatologist with an interest in inflammatory dermatoses working at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. He originally trained in Manchester before completing a medical dermatology fellowship in Toronto, Canada. Phil undertakes research in psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and connective tissue disease. He jointly leads a psoriasis service and a connective tissue disease service working in close collaboration with rheumatology.

Professor Michael Ardern-Jones FRCP

Professor of dermatology, University of Southampton

Professor Michael Ardern-Jones has an academic interest in cutaneous inflammatory disease and is internationally recognised for his expertise in this area. His research encompasses artificial lab-grown skin models and skin biopsies from patients, as well as interventional and observational clinical trials. He leads the NHS service for eczema, skin allergy and drug hypersensitivity reactions. His research team comprises MSc students, PhD students, postdoctoral scientists, fellows, nurses and technicians. He is the immediate past academic vice president of the British Association of Dermatologists and chairs the UK–Irish Atopic Eczema Systemic Therapy Register (A-STAR). He represents the UK on various European task force projects and advises NICE. He is the NIHR south-east central dermatology research lead and has previously served as president of the British Society for Medical Dermatology, British Society for Investigative Dermatology, and the Skin Investigation Society.

Professor Thida Win

Consultant respiratory and general physician, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Professor Thida Win completed her specialist training in general and respiratory medicine in 2002. She currently works as a respiratory and general medicine consultant and medical examiner at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. Thida is specialist adviser for CQC, national IFR member, and programme director for East and North Herts NHS Trust MD Programme at University of Hertfordshire. She has more than 30 years’ experience as a doctor and remains interested in all aspects of clinical medicine, research and medical education.


Thida is involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision. She is a PACE examiner, RCP General Internal Medicine Advisory Committee member and regional adviser for Royal the RCP. She has 5,965 citations on publication (h index 32, i10 index47) and nearly 2 million grant income as PI/ collaborator.

For her commitment to education and research, Thida was appointed as an honorary professor of clinical medicine at the University of Buckingham in 2013, honorary reader at University College London in 2014, and visiting professor at University of Hertfordshire in 2020.

Rebecca Coles

Clinical nurse specialist for UGI/CUP, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Rebecca Coles is a nurse at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, where she has worked for 17 years.

For 10 years this has been ward based in orthopaedics/minor surgery. Rebecca progressed to a band 6 on a gastro/bowel surgery ward and, for the last 7 years, has been a band 7 clinical nurse specialist working in oncology, working in upper gastrointestinal cancers/cancer (UGI) of unknown primary work and the non-specific symptoms pathway (NSSP). Since the dissolvement of the NSSP service, she now works in UGI/CUP.
 

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Dr Deepak Jain FRCP

Consultant physician, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Dr Deepak Jain has been a consultant physician in general internal medicine and elderly medicine at East and North Herts NHS Trust since 1997. He has a master’s in senior leadership.

Deepak was always keen on quick assessment and management of patients and started two one-stop clinics in 2000 – a heart function clinic and one-stop multidisciplinary falls prevention clinic. On the same philosophy, he  joined the non-specific symptom pathway team, where they aim to investigate the patient presenting with non-specific symptoms in a timely manner.

Deepak is actively involved in teaching, training and managing education. He has served as clinical tutor, college tutor and regional adviser for the RCP. He has also been an examiner for PACES for the last 13 years and developed Lister Hospital as a popular PACES centre. Deepak has also served as foundation training programme director.

Dr Amit Arora FRCP

Consultant geriatrician, University Hospitals of North Midlands and Midland Partnership Foundation Trust

Dr Amit Arora has been a consultant geriatrician in the North Midlands since 2004. He is currently the president elect of the British Geriatrics Society and a clinical director for the emergency care improvement support team of NHS England. He is a member of many national committees, advisory bodies and working groups at NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care.

Amit has chaired the quality review service for people living with dementia and frailty, advising commissioners and provider organisations nationally. 

He is also the clinical lead for the National Institute for Health and Care Research RDN: Ageing for West Midlands.

He has a keen interest in national and international health policy and quality for the ageing population and has contributed internationally. 

He has over 100 publications, including invited book chapters, editorials, reviews and college reports.

In 2016, he coined the term deconditioning syndrome as a medical entity and developed the ‘National deconditioning awareness and prevention campaign: Sit Up Get Dressed Keep Moving’ and deconditioning is now internationally recognised as an avoidable harm, especially in older people.

In 2018 he established the National Frailty Academy, which provides free frailty training to all grades of health and social care staff.

In 2022–23, he conceptualised and led the national mission to recondition the nation, commonly known as the Reconditioning Games; which awarded 1,500 medals across the 31 integrated care systems and 100 organisations across the country and established a network of over 500 reconditioning ambassadors.

He has won multiple awards from the Health Service Journal, BMJ, Skills for Health and the Royal College of Physicians for his work over the years.

Dr Inderpal Singh FRCP

Consultant geriatrician, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Dr Inderpal Singh is a consultant geriatrician at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and honorary senior lecturer at Cardiff University. His qualifications include MBBS, MD, MRCP (UK), MSc (ageing, health and disease), and FRCP.

Inderpal is the national clinical lead for bone health in Wales. He provides strategic leadership in bone health policy and service development, driving improvements in fracture prevention and osteoporosis care. He is spearheading the national implementation of Welsh government quality statement on bone health and osteoporosis, including universal fracture liaison services throughout Wales.

Professor Andrew Clegg FRCP

Professor of geriatric medicine, University of Leeds | Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Andrew Clegg is NIHR research professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Leeds and Bradford Royal Infirmary. He leads a large portfolio of ageing-related research, with a focus on frailty as an especially problematic expression of multimorbidity in later life, and medicines optimisation.
 
Andy is co-director of Health Data Research UK North and has a leadership role in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration, the NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, and the Cross-NIHR Collaboration on Multiple Long-Term Conditions. His health data science work includes leading the development and implementation of multi-award winning and NICE-recommended electronic frailty index (eFI), with major impact on UK and international health policy. His leadership of eFI2 as the updated version has set a new international standard for frailty identification using routine data.

Dr Henry Wood

Consultant haematologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Henry Wood is chair of the British Society for Haematology education committee. He is a consultant haematologist at King’s College Hospital in London, with roles in the haematological malignancy diagnostic service and myeloid clinical team.

Dr Catherine Booth

Consultant haematologist, NHS Blood and Transplant

Dr Catherine Booth is a consultant in haematology and transfusion medicine and took up a joint post between NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) and Barts Health NHS Trust in November 2019. Catherine’s NHSBT role includes patient blood management and red cell immunology. This combines well with working at a trust that is the highest user of blood products in the country, and that deals with the challenges of managing transfusion in patients with haemoglobinopathies, major trauma, cardiac surgery and stem cell transplants. Her particular interests include the education of haematology trainees, clinicians from all specialties and allied health professionals, as well as patient and public engagement and information.

Dr Chloe Merrion

Haematology registrar, Whittington Health NHS Trust

Dr Chloe Merrion is a haematology specialist registrar with an interest in red cell disorders, currently completing a PhD examining ageing and inflammation in haemoglobinopathies. 

Dr Maryam Subhan

Consultant haematologist, University College London Hospital

Dr Subhan is a haemostasis and thrombosis consultant at UCLH. She completed her haematology training in the North London rotation and undertook research in TTP, studying potential risk factors that could predispose to the disease and/or its relapse.

Emily Linnemann

Executive director, Association of British Neurologists

Dr Khalid Ali

Consultant neurologist, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Dr Khalid Ali is a consultant neurologist based in South Wales. He graduated from Baghdad University in 1999 with first class honours and trained in neurology in Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Southampton. He also completed his stroke clinical fellowship in South Wales. Khalid is the RCP tutor for The Grange University Hospital and the lead college tutor for Wales.

Professor Camille Carroll

Professor of clinical neuroscience, Newcastle University

Professor Camille Carroll is a professor of clinical neuroscience at Newcastle University. Her research is focused on disease modification and the use of digital health technologies for monitoring and personalised care in Parkinson’s. Camille is co-chief investigator of the Edmond J Safra ACT-PD multi-arm, multi-stage platform trial for disease modifying interventions in Parkinson’s and has led the development of a national web-based research registry for Parkinson’s disease. She co-chairs the international Linked Clinical Trials Committee, prioritising repurposed drugs for disease modification trials in Parkinson’s. She is the joint clinical director of the Parkinson’s Excellence Network in the UK. Additionally, she is co-chair of the international Movement Disorders Society Patient and Carer Committee, deputy chair of the Parkinson's Disease Clinical Studies Group, and member of the EAN/MDS-ES Parkinson's Disease Guidelines Task Force and Association of British Neurologists Movement Disorders Advisory Group.

Dr Rick Seah FRCP

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

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

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

Rick completed 12 years in postgraduate training and is a GMC-accredited SEM specialist. He is also an experienced musculoskeletal sonographer.

He is current chair of the RCP SEM Committee, as well as College of Sport, Exercise and Musculoskeletal Medicine (CSEM) co-opted council member. Rick is also an RCP Medical Specialties Board member. He was previously an elected FSEM(UK) council member (2020–24) and chair of the FSEM(UK) Communications Committee. 

Dr Rebecca Robinson FRCP

Consultant sport and exercise medicine, UK Sports Institute

Dr Rebecca Robinson is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine, having trained at Newcastle University and practiced in hospital medicine. Rebecca specialises in rehabilitation after cancer and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cumbria. Her clinical work spans elite athletes to people with reduced exercise capacity due to significant illness. She currently practises at Orthteam Manchester and Marylebone Health Group London while working with the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and the NHS to embed exercise medicine within the health service.

Dr Alethea McHardy

Consultant in sport and exercise medicine, Ministry of Defence

Dr Alethea McHardy is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine and clinical lead at the Regional Rehabilitation Unit for Scotland, Ministry of Defence (MoD). Alethea has worked for the MoD for over 10 years. She is an examiner for the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and sat on council until 2024.

In 2024 she commenced a PhD investigating the health outcomes in ex-servicewomen (musculoskeletal, reproductive, breast and ovarian cancer). She is passionate about shaping policy through evidence-based research and sits on the UK Armed Forces and Veterans Cross Party Working Group embedded in the Scottish government. In February 2025 she was awarded a prestigious PhD fellowship by the Colt Foundation. She will be presenting after speaking at the Canadian Institute for Military Veterans Health Forum in Ottawa, Canada, in October 2025.

Dr David Brooks FRCP

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

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

Professor Fliss Murtagh FRCP

Professor of palliative care, University of Hull

Professor Fliss Murtagh is an NIHR senior investigator. She is a physician by background, having worked for almost 10 years as a general practitioner, and is approaching 20 years as a palliative medicine consultant. Fliss now works as a professor of palliative care at Hull York Medical School at the University of Hull and is a visiting professor of palliative care at the Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London. She leads the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre at the University of Hull – a group of about 40 researchers and one of the larger palliative care research groups in the UK.

Fliss is experienced in providing palliative care to a wide range of people with far advanced disease and their families, and has published extensively (Scopus-indexed publications 234, Scopus H-Index 49) on palliative and end-of-life care needs, especially for older people and those with advanced kidney disease. She is also experienced in research methods: cohort studies and cross-sectional surveys, psychometrics, implementation and use of outcomes, especially the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (www.pos-pal.org). Fliss’ publications are available at http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1289-3726.

Dr Sophie Maltas FRCP

Consultant in palliative medicine, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Sophie Maltas has been a palliative care consultant in Bradford since October 2018. She worked at Marie Curie Hospice Bradford inpatient and outpatient units from 2018–20, then moving to Bradford Community Palliative Care Team, supporting patients at home. In May 2025, she moved to work with the Bradford hospital Palliative Care Team where she remains as clinical lead for palliative care in Bradford and education lead for the hospital Palliative Care Team.

Prior to becoming a consultant, she was a registrar in palliative medicine in West Yorkshire.

Ms Clare Fuller

Advance care planning advocate, educator and coach, Speak For Me

Ms Clare Fuller is a registered nurse with 30 years’ experience in end-of-life care (EoLC). She has worked in hospices, the community and acute sectors as a clinical nurse specialist, and at a national level as a consultant nurse for the Gold Standards Framework. Clare is a CQC specialist adviser for EoLC and a lasting power of attorney consultant. In 2025, Clare was also a commissioner for the Parliamentary Commission on Palliative and End-of-Life Care. Clare is the owner and director of Speak For Me, which helps organisations to improve EoLC and provides professional and public education about palliative and end-of-life care and advance care planning. Clare campaigns for proactive advance care planning and hosts the podcast Conversations about Advance Care Planning.

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Dr Claire Dewsnap FRCP

Consultant genitourinary medicine physician, Sheffield Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust

Dr Claire Dewsnap is a consultant physician in genitourinary medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Claire was the president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) from 2022–24, and currently is the immediate past president for BASHH.

Claire is an author of the BASHH 2025 doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) guidelines and a member of the BASHH Bacterial Special Interest Group.

Stephanie Katiyar

PrEP lead and sexual health pharmacist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Stephanie Katiyar is a pharmacist specialising in pre-exposure prohylaxis (PrEP) and sexual health at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, bringing nearly a decade of expertise in HIV and sexual healthcare. Nationally, she holds the role of HIV Pharmacy Association lead for patient information leaflets and contributes to various committees, including the BHIVA education and training group, BASHH syphilis guideline, and BASHH PrEP working group. Furthermore, she is the founder and co-chair of the Pharmacy PrEP network, PrEP PharmConnect.

Dr Soonita Oomeer

Integrated sexual health consultant, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Soonita Oomeer completed GUM and HIV specialist registrar training at St Mary’s Hospital, Central Middlesex Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital in London.  From 2016, she was a GUM and HIV consultant at St Ann’s Sexual Health Clinic, Haringey and Marlborough GUM clinic at the Royal Free Hospital in London. 

Soonita works at Archway Sexual Health Centre, part of Central Northwest London NHS Trust (CNWL) as an integrated sexual health consultant.  She is the syphilis lead for CNWL Sexual Health services in North Central London.
She is a member of the NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy (IDPS) congenital syphilis clinical expert review panel.

She has been a member of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV

Dr Emily Clarke FRCP

Consultant in genitourinary medicine and HIV, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Emily Clarke is a consultant in genitourinary medicine and HIV in Liverpool. She is chair of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Special Interest Group, and immediate past chair of the BASHH Clinical Standards Unit and of Fast Track Cities Liverpool. Emily’s clinical interests include HSV, HIV in women including pregnancy and menopause, genital dermatology, and long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy (ART). She speaks regularly nationally and internationally on HSV, and HIV during menopause.

Emily believes strongly in the power of guidelines to improve clinical care. Within the field of HSV, she is co-author of the BASHH national guidelines for herpes, of the International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections European guidelines for herpes, and lead author of the BASHH / Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists national guidelines for herpes in pregnancy and the neonate. Other guidelines she has co-authored include the British HIV Association (BHIVA) national guidelines for HIV in pregnancy, and of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) national guidelines for reducing sexually transmitted infections (STIs). She was also the secretary for the BASHH standards for the management of STIs and chair of the BASHH standards for the management of sexual health in UK prisons.

Emily has a keen interest in research. She is the regional lead for sexual health and HIV research in north-west England. Her publications may be viewed under ORCID ID 0000-0001-9340-1417 and centre around her interests in HSV, the impact of guidelines on clinical care, research priority setting, and long-acting injectable ART. She has been principal investigator of 19 trials in HIV, STIs, genital dermatology, contraception, and women’s health.

Dr Ashish Sukthankar

Consultant in genitourinary medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Ashish Sukthankar is a consultant in genitourinary medicine and has been working at the Manchester Royal Infirmary since 1999. He qualified from Mumbai University in 1988 and trained to be a dermatologist in Mumbai and later, as a genitourinary medicine physician in Birmingham. He has served in various leadership positions, both locally within the trust and nationally. He has contributed to the national guidelines on management of syphilis in the UK. His main clinical interests are HIV, genital dermatology, syphilis and sexual dysfunction.