Professor Tom Solomon FRCP

Academic vice president, Royal College of Physicians

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

Dr Birju Bartoli

Chief executive, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Birju Bartoli was announced as chief executive of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in December 2023 and formally took up post in January 2024.
 
Birju has worked in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for over 20 years in a number of different operational and corporate roles before becoming chief executive.
 
She is a scientist by background and has significant experience of working alongside clinicians to develop services that result in both improved clinical outcomes and efficiencies. The drive for continuous improvement across all services, informed by real-time patient and staff experience is a key factor that drives the board and all parts of the organisation.
 
She is a strong advocate of both the patient and staff voice when looking at improving services. She is committed to ensuring that all staff, whatever their background, have the opportunity to develop personally and professionally and are made to feel part of the Northumbria family.

Dr Louise Savic

Consultant anaesthetist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Louise Savic is a consultant anaesthetist with a clinical and research interest in drug allergy and perioperative anaphylaxis. She is currently a doctoral fellow with the NIHR, investigating drug allergy in surgical patients. Working closely with the Association of Anaesthetists, British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Clinical Immunology Professional Network, she leads the UK Perioperative Allergy Network – a cross-specialty working party for improving allergy care among surgical patients, including the implementation of routine penicillin allergy delabelling.

Dr Patrick Yong FRCP

Dr Emily Zinser

Consultant immunologist, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Kosta Stoenchev

Dr Lucy Mackillop FRCP

Consultant obstetric physician, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Lucy Mackillop is a consultant obstetric physician at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford. She’s also fellow of both the RCP and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Lucy is president of the UK’s MacDonald Obstetric Medicine Society and chief medical officer – data and research at Optum UK.

Lucy trained in general, renal and obstetric medicine in Oxford, London and Sydney before taking up her consultant post in 2008.

Lucy has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, national and international guidelines, book chapters and e-learning resources on a wide variety of medical conditions in pregnancy. She is chair for the Joint Committee for Obstetric Medicine with the RCP and is a member of the programme board for the RCP’s diploma in obstetric medicine.

Her research interests include the role of remote monitoring solutions in women with medical problems in pregnancy, with a particular emphasis of the intersection between primary and secondary care.

Dr Amanda Hill

Acute medicine SpR, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Amanda Hill is an acute medicine registrar in the Severn Deanery and co-AIM trainee representative for the region. She trained in obstetric medicine at Southmead Hospital, North Bristol Trust (the host site for the South West Maternal Medicine Network) and attained the RCP diploma in obstetric medicine. Amanda serves as the trainee representative for the Joint Committee for Obstetric Medicine. Her professional interests include medical education, quality improvement, and women’s health.

Dr Hannah Irvine

Rheumatology specialist registrar, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

Dr Hannah Irvine is a rheumatology registrar at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, and a qualified obstetric physician, having completed the obstetric medicine credential at the Women’s Centre, Oxford. Her clinical practice includes the management of medical complications in pregnancy, both pre-existing and those arising during pregnancy.

Hannah’s interests include autoimmune disease and multidisciplinary care for women with complex medical conditions to optimise maternal and fetal outcomes.

Dr Fran Neuberger FRCP

Consultant acute and obstetric physician, North Bristol NHS Trust

Dr Fran Neuberger qualified from the University of Bristol in 2005. She undertook her acute medical training in the South West and took time out of programme to train in obstetric medicine in London. Fran works as an acute and obstetric physician at Southmead Hospital in Bristol and is obstetric physician lead for the South West Maternal Medicine Network, which is an accredited training centre for the RCP diploma in obstetric medicine. She works closely with obstetric teams to deliver care for pregnant women with pre-existing medical conditions and those who develop medical complications in pregnancy.

Dr Charlotte Frise FRCP

Consultant obstetric physician, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr Charlotte Frise is a consultant in obstetric medicine at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, with a background in acute and general medicine. She is lead obstetric physician for the North West London Maternal Medicine Network and editor-in-chief for the journal Obstetric Medicine.

Dr Richard Baker FRCP

Dr Aisling Courtney

Transplant nephrologist, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Dr Aisling Courtney is a consultant transplant nephrologist and honorary senior lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. She is the clinical lead for transplantation at Belfast City Hospital and president of the Northern Ireland Kidney Patients’ Association.

Northern Ireland is persistently leading nationally and internationally in living donor transplantation, with a living donor rate consistently greater than 30 donors per million population. In 2019, on behalf of the Belfast Transplant Team, Aisling accepted the inaugural UK Award for Excellence in Transplantation from the British Transplantation Society.

Aisling was chair of the Strategy Implementation Group for the UK Living Donor Kidney Transplant Strategy 2020. Her national contribution continues in her active membership of several advisory bodies. Aisling is also a member of the living donor working group of the European Platform on Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of Organ Transplantation.
Aisling has a long history of clinical research in transplantation and has authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr Rommel Ravanan FRCP

Deputy medical director, NHS Blood and Transplant

Dr Rommel Ravanan is a deputy medical director (his portfolio includes research and development and innovation) within the organ and tissue donation and transplantation directorate at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) and a consultant nephrologist at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. Rommel’s research interests include transplant epidemiology and high immunological risk transplantation. He has an interest and expertise in medical leadership and has held progressively responsible posts at NHSBT and North Bristol NHS Trust.

Professor Darren Green

Consultant Nephrologist, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Darren Green is a consultant Nephrologist with a clinical and academic specialist interest in multimorbidity cardiovascular medicine and associated multidisciplinary care. He is most widely recognised for expertise in integrated management of people living with both renal disorders and heart failure. He is an Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester and Visiting Professor of Life Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has acted in an advisory capacity to bodies including NICE and KDIGO, is a member of the UK Kidney Association AKI SIG, and co-founded the Society for Acute Medicine AKI working group.

Dr Vishnu Menon

Senior Clinical Lead, Accurx

Dr Vishnu Menon is a doctor and senior clinical lead at Accurx, helping NHS clinical teams redesign care through better communication, triage, and smarter use of technology – including the latest in AI-powered clinical tools.

Dr Shouvik Haldar FRCP

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

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

Dr Muram El-Nayir

Cardiology registrar and clinical research fellow, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Muram El-Nayir is a cardiology registrar in higher specialty training at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, with a subspecialty interest in arrhythmia and complex devices. Muram holds a range of national and regional roles, including resident doctor representative on the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) Programme Committee, which organises the annual BCS Conference, and BCS Women in Cardiology representative for Oxford and Thames Valley. She chairs the Oxford and Thames Valley Resident Physician Committee and represents higher medicine on the deanery’s Training Advisory Committee. Muram is completing a doctor of medicine degree at the University of Oxford, with her research focusing on the prevention of heart failure in the long term.

Dr Jennifer Rossington

Interventional cardiologist, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Dr Jennifer Rossington is a consultant interventional cardiologist working at Leeds General Infirmary as a high-volume operator, with a specialist interest in complex coronary intervention. Further roles within the department include clinical lead, regional Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) and local Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) lead, and representative/chair on several regional working groups. She has a keen focus on pathway development, particularly with regards to chest pain, and has worked on a number of local guidelines/improvement projects for utilisation in both the inpatient and outpatient setting.

Jenny has a strong passion for positive representation of women within cardiology, and this has resulted in the development of the Women in Cardiac Specialities annual event that she runs in the West Yorkshire region. This emphasis in education has culminated in appointment to the chair of the BCS Education Committee.

Dr Matt Ginks FRCP

Consultant cardiologist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Matt Ginks is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, part of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Matt is involved in the treatment of patients with all forms of arrhythmia problems, including ablation and device therapy. His research and clinical interests are centred around catheter ablation of complex cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation (AF) and ventricular tachycardia. He is an active member of the British Heart Rhythm Society and the European Society of Cardiology. He has published over 75 peer reviewed papers. He is one of the editors of the Oxford Handbook of Cardiac electrophysiology and catheter ablation, and the cardiac arrhythmia section of the Oxford textbook of medicine.

Professor Stephen Wheatcroft FRCP

Professor of cardiometabolic medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Steve Wheatcroft is professor of cardiometabolic medicine at the University of Leeds and consultant cardiologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He divides his time between discovery/translational scientific research and clinical cardiology (coronary intervention). Steve leads a vascular biology research group in Leeds focused on the effects of diabetes and insulin resistance on the cardiovascular system. Working at one of the UK’s highest-volume heart attack centres, his clinical interests are in coronary artery disease, coronary artery intervention, acute coronary syndromes and cardiovascular risk reduction. Together with colleagues in diabetes and clinical pharmacy, he delivers a cardiometabolic clinic focusing on people with recent myocardial infarction who have diabetes. Steve is chair of CaReMe-UK, a collaboration between the British Cardiovascular Society, Association of British Clinical Diabetologists, British Society for Heart Failure, UK Kidney Association, Primary Care Cardiovascular Society and Primary Care Diabetes & Obesity Society.

Dr Ee Ling Heng

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

Dr Ee Ling Heng is a consultant cardiologist specialising in adult congenital heart disease and structural intervention. Based in London, she sees patients at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals – part of the Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

Ei Ling completed her medical degree and an intercalated Bachelor's degree in healthcare management at Imperial College London in 2006. She was awarded a research training fellowship from the British Heart Foundation and earned a PhD for her research on ‘improved outcome prediction in tetralogy of Fallot.’ She completed her specialist cardiology training within the London deanery. Following this, Ei Ling undertook a fellowship in adult congenital heart disease and structural intervention at Toronto General Hospital in Canada.

Ei Ling’s expertise lies in adult congenital heart disease, with a particular focus on interventional procedures related to both congenital and structural heart conditions. She also has broad expertise in general cardiology.

In addition to her clinical practice, Ei Ling has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals, including the International Journal of Cardiology, and has contributed to several book chapters, including the Oxford Handbook of Cardiology. She is also actively involved in teaching, guiding both undergraduate and postgraduate students in her areas of expertise.

Dr Sarah Logan FRCP

Consultant in infectious diseases, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

Dr Sarah Logan is an infectious diseases consultant based at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust.

She leads the clinical service there, as well as the OPAT (outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy) service. She’s also chair of the Joint Specialist Committee at the RCP for Infectious Diseases.

Dr Thomas Samuels

NIHR doctoral fellow, University College London

Dr Thomas Samuels is an infectious disease and general internal medicine registrar currently undertaking a PhD at University College London, focusing on the use of transcriptomic biomarkers and state-of-the-art predictive modelling techniques to improve the diagnosis and treatment of viral acute respiratory infections.

Professor Philip Bejon

Director, Modernising Medical Microbiology Unit, University of Oxford

Professor Philip Bejon is the director of the Modernising Medical Microbiology Unit at the University of Oxford, co-leading with Sarah Walker. He was previously director of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, a collaborative programme formed by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Wellcome Trust and the University of Oxford. He is a clinician with specialist training in infectious disease with an interest in the evaluation of vaccines, including malaria, yellow fever and Ebola vaccines. He has undertaken studies of naturally acquired immunity to malaria and human challenge models, and has an interest in bone infection and osteomyelitis.

Professor Anna Goodman FRCP

Consultant in infectious diseases, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Anna Goodman is a consultant in infectious diseases at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and undertakes part-time research as an honorary clinical professor in infectious diseases at the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London. Anna was awarded a National Institute for Health and Care Research grant to deliver a large-scale innovative therapeutic trial in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia called the 'SNAP trial' in the UK and will be discussing how early results from this trial may impact patient care.

Professor Hanif Esmail

Professor of infectious diseases, University College London

Professor Hanif Esmail is a clinical academic specialising in tuberculosis (TB) and infectious diseases at University College London (UCL), with a dual appointment at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit and the Institute for Global Health. He is co-director of the UCL Centre for Global Tuberculosis Research and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis Research and Innovation. He leads translational research and clinical trials aimed at improving TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
 
Hanif is clinical lead of PARADIGM4TB, a global adaptive platform trial evaluating multiple novel drug combinations to shorten and improve treatment for pulmonary TB. This trial is a flagship study within UNITE4TB, Europe’s largest public-private partnership for TB drug development. He is also chief investigator of the RADIO-TB trial, a multi-country phase 3 study evaluating optimal treatment strategies for individuals with radiographic evidence of TB but negative bacteriological tests. The trial employs innovative design to determine the shortest effective treatment regimen and assess the impact of early intervention and novel diagnostics on outcomes and transmission.
 
In addition to his research, Hanif plays a key role in clinical service delivery, managing patients with complex infectious diseases at University College Hospital and those with TB and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections through the North Central London TB Service at Whittington Hospital. He is actively involved in mentoring early-career researchers and serves as the NIHR lead for clinical academic trainees in infectious diseases at UCL.

Dr Sheuli Porkess FRCP

President, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

Dr Sheuli Porkess is a doctor and life sciences leader who works at the intersection of medicine, innovative technology and societal impact. With experience spanning clinical development, medical affairs and health policy, Sheuli brings strategic insight and cross-sector experience to health challenges, advancing innovative technologies into real-world use. From cutting-edge medicines to digital health solutions, her work influences national and international policy. Sheuli’s current areas of focus are digital health, AI, ethics, prevention, drug development and sustainability.

She has a portfolio of roles, including president and chair of the Board of Trustees at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, director at Actaros, chief medical officer at Reinventing Health, director at PM Life Sciences Consulting and visiting lecturer at King's College London, as well as a number of advisory roles, including the Royal Society of Medicine Digital Health Council. Previous roles include the executive director for research, medicine and innovation at The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, and medical leadership roles in health tech and pharma companies.

Dr Mihir Desai

Clinical development director, Moderna

Dr Mihir Desai is clinical development director at Moderna, leading their pivotal older adult RSV study and revaccination studies. He trained as an anaesthetist before moving into industry in late 2020 and now serves as a consultant pharmaceutical physician. Mihir has also held medical affairs roles across both therapeutics and vaccines, with experience spanning local country responsibilities to global clinical development. He is passionate about advancing innovative medicines and vaccines that address unmet needs and improve patient outcomes.

Dr Kirsty Wydenbach

Head of regulatory strategy, Weatherden Ltd.

Dr Kirsty Wydenbach is a regulatory expert and pharmaceutical physician, and since 2022 has been head of regulatory strategy at Weatherden, a global integrated clinical consultancy experienced in de-risking drug development. Kirsty also currently chairs the Clinical Trial Science and Regulations Expert Group of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, is a visiting senior lecturer for King’s College London, and sits on the Drug Development Advisory Board at Simbec-Orion.

Prior to joining Weatherden, she has over 13 years of experience as an expert medical assessor at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) within the Clinical Trials Unit, having a particular interest in advanced therapy medicinal products and first-in-human studies.

Other work has included collaboration with industry groups and global regulators regarding adaptive and novel trial designs, including co-authoring several publications. She led the MHRA work on novel trial design for the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy as well as through the MHRA Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway.
Kirsty also oversaw the clinical trials work for COVID-19 and provided regulatory expertise on vaccines both within MHRA but also as part of the Government Vaccine Taskforce.

Dr Felix Jackson

Chair, New Technologies Expert Group, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

Dr Felix Jackson is the 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 start medDigital and medCrowd.

He is a fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine where he is chair of the New Technologies Expert Group at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine. He is also a visiting lecturer at King’s College London on the medical affairs MSc.

He is particularly enjoying being part of how digital is transforming health and care for the better.

Dr Emma Harvey

Vice president, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

Dr Emma Harvey is a freelance pharmaceutical physician and vice president of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (FPM), of which she is also a fellow. She qualified in medicine from University College London and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, and joined pharma after obtaining MRCP(UK).

A self-confessed medical affairs maven, Emma has worked in pharma since 1999, across a range of therapeutic areas, from big pharma to small biotech. She has built and led teams for many years, both nationally and globally, leading pre- and peri-launch projects integrating commercial, medical affairs, regulatory, clinical development, pharmacovigilance and market access expertise to develop and implement strategic plans. She has worked with patient experts and patient advocacy groups to support their education on novel medicines, to enable them to better educate their members and supporters, as well as to support engagement with reimbursement authorities. She established the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Forum at FPM, and has spoken at conferences on the needs and challenges for ensuring that clinical trials have the appropriate patient populations.

She enjoys educating clinicians, scientists and other interested parties on the highly regulated environment in which pharma has to operate, to try and dispel many of the myths that still exist around how pharma conducts research and development.

Professor Kevin Fong

Professor of public engagement and innovation, University College London

Professor Kevin Fong is consultant anaesthetist at University College London Hospital, professor of public engagement and innovation in the Department of Science, Technology, Education and Public Policy (STEaPP) at University College London and chief medical officer at UCLPartners. Dually accredited in anaesthesia and critical care medicine, he flies as a helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) doctor with Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex and has previously worked with NASA’s human space flight operations teams at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
 
In March 2020, Kevin was seconded to NHS England (NHSE) as national clinical adviser in emergency preparedness resilience and response for the COVID-19 incident. During this time, he worked across several key elements of the operational response, including NHSE’s Severe Covid Response Cell, the Joint Biosecurity Centre Alert Level Update team, UKHSA’s Joint Modelling Team and with the National Strategic Incident team at NHSE. He set up peer support and rapid review teams at NHSE to engage with, support and gather information from frontline clinical teams; information and insight that, in turn, informed the national pandemic strategy. These roles and experiences have led to his interest in high-risk, high-reliability teams; how we should build and lead modern teams, how they succeed and why they sometimes fail.

Dr Max Thoburn

ST6 infectious diseases and general internal medicine, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

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

Professor Mumtaz Patel PRCP

President, Royal College of Physicians

Professor Mumtaz Patel is a consultant nephrologist based in Manchester, UK. She is a postgraduate associate dean for NHS England and is currently president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), London. She was elected as senior censor vice president for education and training for the RCP in 2023 having completed her successful 3-year term as global vice president (2020-2023). She graduated with honours in 1996, from the University of Manchester. She obtained MRCP (UK) in 2000 and a PhD in 2006 exploring the genetics of lupus nephritis. She was appointed consultant nephrologist at Manchester University Hospitals in 2007. She has held various educational roles including renal training programme director, RCP regional advisor, clinical lead for quality, JRCPTB. She attained FRCP in 2011 and was awarded MSc in medical education with distinction in 2014. Her educational research interests include assessment, doctors in difficulty, differential attainment and fairness in medical education. She has published widely in medical education and presented at national/international conferences.

Dr Rizwan Rajak FRCP

Consultant rheumatologist, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Dr Rizwan Rajak is a consultant rheumatologist. He graduated with honours at Cardiff Medical School in 2005 and subsequently undertook his specialist training in the University Hospital of Wales. Rizwan worked as a consultant at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath, where he undertook further specialisation in musculoskeletal ultrasound and metabolic bone disease.

He is currently the clinical lead for osteoporosis and bone health, and rheumatology musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSK US) in the Croydon Health Service NHS Trust. With the former, Rizwan has developed an integrated bone health service with colleagues from multiple medical and surgical specialties. With the latter, he has developed a diagnostic service and also set up a regional network with other centres in standardising scanning practice and training. As part of this service, he has been training other doctors in the use of MSK US for several years.

Rizwan has an extensive background in teaching, having been the lead clinical tutor for rheumatology at the University Hospital of Wales, and an honorary clinical teacher at Cardiff University. He is currently the programme lead for rheumatology at the University of South Wales, has overseen the educational and examination material of the diploma and master’s courses, and is the lead tutor for MSc students.

Rizwan is deputy chair of the British Society of Rheumatology Education Committee, as well as RCP co-college tutor. He is also the Specialty Certificate Examination editor for rheumatology for Study PRN. To expand his skills base, Rizwan undertook a master’s in medical law at Cardiff law school. He is the Medicines Management chair and Medicines Safety Group chair at Croydon Health Services, overseeing the governance of medicine use in the trust. He is also an appraiser and a medical examiner for Croydon Health Services.

Dr Chris Wincup

Consultant rheumatologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Chris Wincup is a consultant rheumatologist based at King’s College Hospital, London. He has extensive experience in the management of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), with a background in both clinical and translational research in addition to significant clinical trial experience. He is an author of EULAR 2023 guidelines for the management of SLE.

Chris has previously been awarded the University College London Deans' research award, Versus Arthritis outstanding fellow prize and Royal Society of Medicine Kovac's traveling fellowship award (supporting a placement at the Lupus Unit, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago). He is a member of the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group (BILAG) and the chief investigator of the PERSONAL-SLE study, which seeks to identify biomarkers to predict outcomes of lupus. Chris’ main research interests include cell-based therapies, immunometabolism and precision medicine in SLE. 

Dr Rachel Jones

Dr Vanessa Quick

Consultant rheumatologist, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Vanessa Quick has over 20 years’ specialist interest in giant cell arteritis (GCA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). She leads her trust's ultrasound-driven GCA fast-track pathway and teaches vascular ultrasound for GCA diagnosis across the UK and internationally. In 2019, she won the BSR Paul Bacon Award for vasculitis for work demonstrating that her pathway reduced GCA-related sight loss, improved the security of GCA diagnosis, and reduced temporal artery biopsy rates. She is a member of the BSR GCA guideline working group, the eastern England rare autoimmune diseases (ENRAD) GCA panel, the BSR national audit GCA steering group, and the international GCA-PMR study group. Her research portfolio includes leadership of TOC STOP, the largest UK service evaluation of GCA patients following tocilizumab cessation, involving 40 NHS trusts. She is a trustee of the patient charity PMRGCAuk, with a keen interest in education, dissemination and patient engagement.

Professor Kristien Boelaert FRCP

Professor of endocrinology, University of Birmingham

Professor Kristien Boelaert is a professor of endocrinology at the University of Birmingham and a consultant endocrinologist at University Hospitals Birmingham. Kristien is an active researcher in the field of thyroid diseases. She has published more than 200 papers and has received more than £10 million in research grant funding. She was the clinical lead for the NICE guidelines on thyroid diseases and leads the national consensus statements on management of thyroid cancer. Kristien is a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Green-Top and the American Thyroid Association guideline panels on thyroid diseases in pregnancy. She is senior editor for the journal of the Endocrine Society and serves on the editorial boards of several endocrine journals including Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. Kristien is president of the British Thyroid Association, president elect and clinical committee chair for the Society for Endocrinology, co-chair of ATA 2025 Programme Organising Committee and member of the ATA board of directors.

Professor Annice Mukherjee

Consultant physician and endocrinologist, Spire Manchester Hospital

Professor Annice Mukherjee is a consultant endocrinologist based in Manchester and visiting professor at Coventry University. Annice completed an MSc at King's College London, MD at the University of Manchester, and was appointed as a consultant at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust in 2007. She has published widely in high-impact scientific journals.

She is the steering group chair and PI for the newly launched Society for Endocrinology (SfE) women's health real-world data registry and prospective national study; Patient reported outcomes for menopause management interventions study (PROMMIS).

Annice is committed to addressing women's health inequalities and menopause misinformation. She holds leadership roles and collaborations with the SfE, British Menopause Society, Diabetes UK, British Thyroid Foundation, UCL and Imperial College London, among others.

Annice has a strong profile in the UK media regarding menopause, women's health inequalities and misinformation. Annice is the author of the best-selling book The complete guide to the menopause and was named in the Financial Times list of Women of 2022 for her work on menopause.

Dr Alistair Lumb FRCP

Consultant in diabetes, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Alistair Lumb is a consultant in diabetes at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is chair of the Diabetes Technology Network-UK (DTN-UK) and a member of the ExTOD (Exercise in Type One Diabetes) Steering Committee. His clinical interests also include inpatient diabetes and transplantation.

Professor Ketan Dhatariya FRCP

Consultant in diabetes and endocrinology, honorary professor of medicine, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Ketan Dhatariya graduated from the University of London in 1991. During his diabetes and endocrinology training he was also a part-time GP and then took some time out of his training to spend a year doing ITU and anaesthetics.

After finishing his training in 2001, Ketan began a research fellowship at Mayo Clinic. He was appointed as a consultant in diabetes, endocrinology and general medicine at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in 2004, and honorary professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia in 2019. 

Ketan has several national roles in the UK. He is the chair of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists, the Joint British Diabetes Societies Inpatient Care Group, the Examining Board for the UK specialist clinical exam in diabetes and endocrinology, and the 2027 International Working Group for the Diabetic Foot Guideline Writing Group for Wound Healing. As well as this, he is the section co-editor for diabetes for www.endotext.org.
 
Ketan has over 240 peer reviewed publications and has published over 25 book chapters on inpatient diabetes, peri-operative diabetes care and the diabetic foot.

Dr Ragit Varia FRCP

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

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

Dr Carron Meney

ST6 acute medicine, NHS Tayside

Dr Carron Meney is currently a resident doctor in senior acute medicine in the east of Scotland, after graduating from the University of Glasgow and spending her early training years working in the west of Scotland. She’s passionate about medical education and ensuring that people feel valued at work. This year, she’s also completing a diploma in medical education as well as trying her hand at research.

Carron is also a current AIM fellow, so if you want to know more about a career in acute medicine, she loves talking about it.

Dr Nicholas Smallwood

Consultant in acute medicine, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Nicholas Smallwood is a consultant acute physician in Basingstoke and member of the Society for Acute Medicine Council. He has a keen interest in medical education, point-of-care ultrasound and integrating enhanced care services within the acute medical unit. He sat on the working group that developed the inaugural cross-specialty enhanced care guidance in 2020, and then co-chaired the committee who published enhanced care guidance for acute medicine in 2022.

Dr Radha Selvaratnam

Consultant physician, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Selvaratnam is an acute medicine consultant and the clinical lead for the Acute Oncology Service (AOS) at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, as well as AOS chair for the Southeast London Cancer Alliance. Radha trained at Bart’s and The Royal London, graduating in 2000; she has a strong focus on the development and integration of ambulatory pathways within acute oncology. Her work centres on improving early cancer diagnosis and streamlining care for patients with metastatic disease of unknown origin through innovative, patient-centred acute oncology models. She has contributed to the UK Oncology Nursing Society Acute Oncology Initial Management Guidelines and was instrumental in initiating the national audit of UK acute oncology service provision for SAMBA 22. Dr Selvaratnam also represents the Society for Acute Medicine Acute Oncology subgroup and serves as a board member of the UK Acute Oncology Society.

Dr Sarah Ibitoye

Acute and perioperative medicine consultant, North Bristol NHS Trust

Dr Sarah Ibitoye is a consultant in acute medicine and perioperative medicine. Dr Ibitoye was one of the first acute physicians to train in perioperative medicine, and hopes to encourage others to take up this area of expertise. She has conducted research on geriatric trauma and resuscitation of people living with frailty. She currently works in North Bristol, where she divides her time between working in a well-established acute medical unit (AMU) and providing medical support in one of the most progressive geriatric trauma services in the UK.

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 Sarah Marsh

Dr Rebecca Smart

Dr Susannah Leaver FRCP

Professor Natalie Pattison

Professor of clinical nursing, University of Hertfordshire | East and North Herts NHS Trust

Professor Natalie Pattison is a clinical academic who has worked clinically in cancer, critical care and critical care outreach. She is a professor of clinical nursing, with a joint appointment across the University of Hertfordshire and East and North Herts NHS Trust (ENHT). Natalie also holds a researcher in residence (ICU) position at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She is the clinical lead for the Critical Care Recovery Service at ENHT, combining this with a research role.

Natalie’s research interests focus on her clinical area of critical care and critically ill ward patients, end of life in critical care, disability in critical care, and workforce in critical care. She is widely published in critical care, with over 150 publications, and she holds several research grants. Natalie is chair of the National Outreach Forum, past-chair of both the UK Critical Care Research Group, and immediate past-chair of UK Critical Care Nursing Alliance.

Dr Harriet Gordon FRCP

Consultant gastroenterologist, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust

Dr Harriet Gordon has been a consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist in Winchester since 2000. She currently leads the alcohol teams at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Harriet’s research was at the Royal Free Hospital in alcohol misuse, and she has since been involved in projects and audit relating to alcoholic liver disease with Wessex AHSN and the Wessex Alcohol Group. She has been instrumental in setting up liver services in Hampshire for the   identification of liver disease in the community.  She was an author with the Lancet Commission 2021, looking at the early detection of liver disease.

Harriet has also been involved at the RCP as director of the Medical Workforce Unit and has continued to address the medical workforce crisis as chair of the RCP Flexibility and Wellbeing Group and the AoMRC Flexible Careers Committee, and then as an RCP censor.  She set up the RCP Emerging Women Leaders Programme in 2018. Harriet has also been involved with the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) as an elected member of BSG council, a BSG trustee, and president elect.

Dr Giovanna McGinty

Gastroenterology ST7, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Giovanna McGinty is a gastroenterology registrar (ST7) in the Severn Deanery. She has completed the majority of her postgraduate training in the Severn Deanery and has completed out of programmes in advanced endoscopy (ERCP and EUS) and leadership (via the RCP Chief Registrar Programme). She has an interest in hepatology and is currently the deputy chair for the Trainee Collaborative for Research and Audit in Hepatology UK (ToRcH-UK). Giovanna has a significant amount of quality improvement experience, and she’s trained as an official coach in QI methodology.

Professor Ewan Forrest

Consultant hepatologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Professor Ewan Forrest is a consultant physician and hepatologist at Glasgow Royal Infirmary since 2003. He is an honorary professor at the University of Glasgow since 2019 and clinical research fellow in the department of medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Professor Forrest is a specialist in alcohol-related liver disease, and in particular the management of alcohol-related hepatitis. He is co-developer of the Glasgow Alcoholic Hepatitis Score and the Glasgow Modified Alcohol Withdrawal Score.
Former chair of the BASL Special Interest Group in alcohol-related liver disease, he is currently alcohol lead for the British Society of Gastroenterology and clinical lead for Hepatology NHS Research Scotland.

Ewan is chair of the Alcohol Harms Group at Glasgow Alcohol Drugs Partnership.

Professor Matthew Armstrong FRCP

Professor of Hepatology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Matthew Armstrong is a full-time consultant in liver and transplant medicine at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Birmingham. He obtained a Wellcome Trust PhD and the Sheila Sherlock Prize for his studies in therapies in metabolic dysfunction associated steatitic liver disease (MASLD).

Matthew has over 130 peer-reviewed publications and 16 years of investigator experience in clinical trials. He is currently the centre director for liver transplant in Birmingham and the chief investigator of the EXALT trial, with a passion for assessing and improving patient suitability for transplant.

Dr Jeremy Shanika Nayagam

Hepatology consultant, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Shanika Nayagam is a hepatology consultant at the Institute of Liver Studies at King’s College Hospital. He has clinical and research subspecialty interests in young adults with liver disease, genetic liver disease and autoimmune liver disease. He sits on the Adolescents and Young Persons section of the British Society of Gastroenterology.

Dr Coral Hollywood

Consultant hepatologist, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Coral Hollywood qualified in medicine out of the Wessex deanery and took up a dedicated hepatology post in the district general hospitals of Cheltenham and Gloucester in 2011 to develop the service. Since then, she has been an active member of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) committee structure and has been involved in many policies and guidelines helping to shape services nationally, as well as for her local population. She has previously been vice president for hepatology for the BSG and chair of the Liver Committee, and continues to be involved in current projects.

Dr Emma Vaux FRCP

Global vice president, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Emma Vaux OBE is a consultant nephrologist and general physician at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, where she has worked since 2003. She currently serves as clinical director for integrated medicine A and associate medical director for patient safety. In addition, she is the clinical lead for the NHS England (NHSE) South-East Renal Clinical Network’s chronic kidney disease (CKD) workstream and a member of the NHSE Renal Services Clinical Reference Group.

Emma has held several senior roles within the RCP, including senior censor and vice president for education and training from 2017–2020, and chief examiner from 2018–2022. She has been a member of the RCP education faculty since 2009 and continues to serve as an MRCP(UK) PACES examiner.

She led the development of the RCP500 Code of Conduct and is widely recognised for her contributions to medical education. A Generation Q fellow with the Health Foundation and a founding member of the Q Community, Emma is also co-editor of ABC Quality Improvement in Healthcare and an assessor with NHS Resolution.

In recognition of her services to medical education, she was awarded an OBE in 2021.

Dr Antonio de Marvao

Consultant cardiologist and obstetric physician, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Antonio de Marvao is a senior clinical lecturer in the Department of Women and Children’s Health and in the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine and Sciences at King’s College London (KCL). Clinically, he works as a consultant cardiologist, specialising in inherited cardiac conditions (ICC), and as an obstetric physician, with a special interest in maternal cardiology and hypertension in pregnancy. His clinics are at St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospitals.

His research group at KCL aims to understand the genomic and physiological underpinnings of cardiovascular dysfunction in pregnancy, in particular gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia and heart failure, and its impact on maternal and fetal health. The team makes use of genomic data, deep maternal and fetal cardiovascular phenotyping and machine learning analysis of longitudinal population-scale clinical data, to characterise the biological pathways that lead to healthy cardiovascular adaption in pregnancy or to pathological remodelling. This offers the potential for improved risk stratification, personalised management strategies and targeted therapies, not only during pregnancy but during the lifecourse of cardiovascular disease.

Dr Mo Aye FRCP

Associate global director for Asia Pacific, Royal College of Physicians

Dr Aye is a consultant physician in endocrinology at the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and an honorary senior lecturer at Hull York Medical School.

Mo qualified in Yangon, Burma/Myanmar, and his clinical areas of interest include osteoporosis, metabolic bone disease, pituitary diseases, and thyroid disorders.

He is a member of the clinical committee of the Society for Endocrinology and training programme director for endocrinology and diabetes in Yorkshire and the Humber. Dr Aye has been involved with educational activities in the Asia Pacific region since 2017 and has led and delivered courses supporting Burmese trainees. He has also held external roles as a specialist advisor to the Care Quality Commission and the healthcare regulator in England.

Dr Amit Sud

Wellcome Trust early career fellow, University of Oxford

Dr Amit Sud completed medical school with honours at the University of Manchester, also obtaining a master’s in research with distinction. Following foundation training in Manchester and core medical training at Guy’s and St Thomas’, he began haematology training on an NIHR academic clinical fellowship at the Royal Marsden. He was awarded a CRUK PhD fellowship at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) with Professor Richard Houlston, and later held a visiting scientist fellowship at the DKFZ Heidelberg. Returning to the ICR and Royal Marsden as an NIHR clinical lecturer, he completed specialist training while receiving the RCP’s Whitney-Wood scholarship and an Academy of Medical Sciences grant. He now holds a Wellcome early career fellowship at the University of Oxford's centre for immuno-oncology, with collaborations at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University in Boston and the Sanger Institute in Cambridge. He received the Royal College of Pathologists Research medal in haematology in 2018.

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 Tim Quinnell FRCP

Respiratory and sleep physician, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Tim Quinnell has worked at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge since 2004 and has led one of the UK’s largest sleep and ventilation centres since 2021. He specialises in respiratory and non-respiratory sleep disorders, domiciliary non-invasive ventilation and weaning from invasive ventilation. His MD was on genetic and electrophysiological aspects of narcolepsy. He was chief investigator for the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) trial of mandibular advancement devices in obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and now leads an NIHR trial of combination therapy in OSA. He is current chair of the British Thoracic Society Sleep Advisory Group. Tim is actively engaged in providing and developing multidisciplinary sleep medicine education.

Dr Alanna Hare FRCP

Consultant physician, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Allie Hare is a consultant respiratory physician and specialist in sleep and respiratory failure. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and undertook her postgraduate training at Imperial College, London, qualifying in medicine in 2002. She has a master’s in medical education, a PGCert in medical leadership and has been made a fellow of the RCP. She was chair of the BTS Education and Training Committee until 2022 and is the current president of the British Sleep Society and honorary treasurer of the British Thoracic Society. She led the national review of outpatient sleep medicine pathways and in 2025, she was awarded a National Clinical Impact Award in recognition of the national importance of her work in sleep and respiratory medicine.

Her advice on sleep has been featured in British Vogue, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times and on the BBC, among others. She works with a number of corporate organisations, supporting sleep wellbeing, and has advised athletes and sporting organisations, including Formula 1 teams.

Dr Sriram Iyer FRCP

Consultant respiratory and sleep physician, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Sriram Iyer completed his specialist training in respiratory and sleep medicine in Liverpool in 2012, before taking up a consultant post in south Manchester. He was then a visiting sleep consultant at the University of British Columbia Hospital in Vancouver before returning to the UK to lead one of England’s largest NHS sleep services  in Sheffield. He is heavily involved in research and education and is the principal investigator in a number of multi-centre trials.

Dr Chris Turnbull

Respiratory consultant, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Chris Turnbull is a respiratory consultant specialising in sleep-related breathing disorders and a career development fellow at the University of Oxford. Chris works in a leading sleep clinic, caring for nearly 20,000 patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). His research focuses on the cardiovascular and metabolic consequences of OSA and the development of novel therapeutic strategies. Working with the UK Sleep Network, he leads studies from biomarker discovery and translational physiology to practice-changing clinical trials, aiming to deliver innovation that improves patient care.

Dr Gary Dennis FRCP

Consultant neurologist and clinical lead for neurology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Gary Dennis is a consultant neurologist in Sheffield and developed the Sheffield Adult Neurological Sleep Clinic in 2006. As well as running the sleep service, Gary is an epileptologist and currently the clinical lead for neurology in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals for the South Yorkshire region.

Professor Ganesh Subramanian FRCP

Consultant stroke physician, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Subramanian is a consultant in stroke medicine at Chesterfield, having worked in Manchester and Nottingham prior to this. He is the regional clinical director for stroke in the East Midlands. He has worked for the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians in the past and is currently chair of the RCP’s Joint Stroke Medicine Committee.

He has established AI for use in stroke as well as CT perfusion in the East Midlands. He helped to develop Nottingham into a 24-hour thrombectomy centre.

His other interest in medical education. He is a clinical associate professor at the University of Nottingham. Preceding that, he was an associate postgraduate dean in the East Midlands for over 8 years.

Dr Angela Nelmes

ST7 geriatric, stroke and internal medicine, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Dr Angela Nelmes is a final year trainee in geriatric medicine, stroke medicine and internal medicine in south Wales. She is chair of the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians Trainee Subcommittee.

Dr Indira Natarajan FRCP

Clinical director neurosciences and consultant stroke physician, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

Dr Natarajan has been a stroke consultant for the last 15 years and is the clinical director for neurosciences and a consultant stroke physician based at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, as well as the clinical director for the West Midlands Integrated Stroke Delivery Network.
He has been instrumental in reorganising stroke care across the West Midlands and has led from the forefront in supporting the resurrection of failing stroke services.
He has been involved in pathway development for all aspects of stroke care, from prevention to palliation, and was instrumental in setting up the first 24/7 thrombectomy service in the UK, based at Royal Stoke University Hospital.
His special interest is in stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation and championing the cause of stroke care.

 

Dr Michelle Dharmasiri FRCP

Consultant stroke physician, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Michelle Dharmasiri has been a consultant stroke physician at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust since 2016. She provides leadership and clinical input throughout the stroke pathway and is currently the clinical lead of the department. Her other leadership roles include being chair of the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians (BIASP) Clinical Standards Committee (2019–25) and currently the BIASP workforce co-chair.

Michelle’s most recent educational role is as the training programme director for the Wessex internal medicine resident doctors. She was previously the RCP college tutor for Bournemouth Hospital from 2020–25 and is passionate about medical education and supporting doctors in training.

Dr Jason Philip Appleton

Consultant stroke neurologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Jason Appleton is a consultant stroke neurologist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, honorary assistant professor at the University of Nottingham, and is external engagement lead for the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians. Jason completed his PhD during his tenure as a clinical research fellow at the Stroke Trials Unit, University of Nottingham and continues to collaborate on research projects with colleagues regionally, nationally and internationally.

Dr Tamara Griffiths FRCP

President, British Association of Dermatologists

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.
 

Dr Deena Neriman

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.

Professor Matt Phillips

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.