Professor Mumtaz Patel PRCP

President, Royal College of Physicians

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

Professor Tom Solomon FRCP

Academic vice president, Royal College of Physicians

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

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 Lennard Lee FRCP

Consultant medical oncologist, University of Oxford

Dr Lennard Lee is a practising medical oncologist specialising in prostate cancer and an associate professor at the University of Oxford. He is passionate about accelerating the development of cancer vaccines and new approaches to establishing immunity against cancer, and is internationally recognised for his work applying artificial intelligence to cancer research. He has led major national programmes across the NHS and UK Government and serves on the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s National College of Experts and as a National AI Research Resource Ambassador. He currently leads the UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist and Supercomputing Programme, bringing together sovereign AI supercomputers, autonomous AI scientists, genomics, immunology and robotics to accelerate the discovery and development of next-generation cancer therapies. His work has received national recognition from the Government Office for Science and the Royal College of Physicians.

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.

Dame Elizabeth Anionwu

Dr Louise Buchanan FRCP

Consultant cardiologist, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Louise Buchanan is a consultant cardiologist and medical director professional standards at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. She is also currently the vice president for education at the British Cardiovascular Society and is involved in the Women in Cardiology Committee, promoting women as professionals in cardiology.

Louise was previously treasurer for the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (EAPCI), following a term as chair of the EAPCI Women Committee. Her research interests have focussed on the differences between men and women in heart disease with an aim to reduce inequalities in diagnosis and treatment. She has completed the Women Transforming Leadership Programme at the University of Oxford.

Dr Josephine Mansell

Dr Alan Bagnall

Dr Lavanya Athithan

Consultant cardiologist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Dr Lavanya Athithan is a consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. She subspecialises in multimodality cardiac imaging and heart failure. She is the clinical lead for cardiac amyloidosis and has set up the Cardio-Oncology Service at University Hospitals of Leicester.

Lavanya is part of the BSH Education Committee and is passionate about teaching and education. She completed her PhD at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre in the field of diabetic cardiomyopathy and heart failure on a BHF Clinical Research Training Fellowship. She continues to be actively involved in clinical research as an honorary senior lecturer with the University of Leicester.

Dr Charles Pearman

Consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Charles Pearman graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2005 and began his training in cardiology in Merseyside. After being awarded a British Heart Foundation research fellowship, he attained his PhD in cellular cardiac electrophysiology from The University of Manchester. This led to a clinical lectureship from the National Institute for Health Research in 2015, during which he published several first author papers in high impact journals. He completed his training in clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, followed by a fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology and inherited arrhythmia syndromes at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

He has been a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2022. He treats the full range of heart rhythm disorders including catheter ablations and implantation of pacemakers including conduction system pacing, defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronisation devices, as well as inherited arrhythmia syndromes.

Dr Pearman's ongoing research interests include conduction system pacing, channelopathies, and atrial fibrillation.

Professor Ketan Dhatariya FRCP

Professor of translational and clinical 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 250 peer reviewed publications and has published over 25 book chapters on inpatient diabetes, peri-operative diabetes care and the diabetic foot.

Dr Ruth Casey

Dr Shivani Misra

Dr Aaisha Saqib FRCP

Consultant physician in diabetes, endocrine and internal medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Aaisha Saqib is a consultant in diabetes, endocrinology and general internal medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT), London. She has been a committee member of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) since June 2024 and currently serves as honorary meetings secretary. She previously held the role of Royal College of Physicians (RCP) chief registrar (2019-2020) and has also served on the national committee of the Young Diabetologists' and Endocrinologists' Forum (YDEF).

Dr Saqib co-developed the ABCD Diabetes Update course and has a strong interest in quality improvement and healthcare leadership. She is the acute and general medicine directorate lead for quality improvement at GSTT and service lead for general internal medicine. She has led several trust-wide initiatives to improve staff wellbeing, patient care, and patient safety, with her work published in peer-reviewed journals.  In recognition of her leadership, she was awarded the RCP Lily Leadership Award in 2021.

Her clinical interests include early-onset type 2 diabetes, diabetes complications, acute diabetes care, and perioperative diabetes management.

Dr Alessandro Prete

Professor Neil Gittoes FRCP

Consultant and honorary professor of endocrinology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Neil Gittoes is consultant and honorary professor of endocrinology at the University of Birmingham. He leads the metabolic bone diseases unit in Birmingham, and several national work streams through the Royal Osteoporosis Society as chair and as national lead for Specialised Endocrinology. Neil is also member of the National Osteoporosis Guideline Group (NOGG) and works with NICE on treatments for osteoporosis and calcium disorders.  He was member and co-chair of the International Taskforce and European PARAT programme on parathyroid disorders. He is section lead for the European Rare Calcium and Bone Group and co-author of the European Guideline on Managing Hypoparathyroidism (2025).

Neil was honoured by the Royal College of Physicians and appointed Goulstonian lecturer in recognition of his contributions to clinical research. He has published more than 170 papers, reviews, and book chapters across the field of endocrinology, with a particular focus on bone and mineral metabolism. His clinical research focuses on models of fracture prevention, rare causes of fracture susceptibility, and disorders of calcium homeostasis.

Dr Cara Saxon

Dr Cate Goldwater Breheny

FY1 doctor, Student and Trainee Association of Sexual Health and HIV

Dr Cate Goldwater Breheny is the chair of the Student and Trainee Association for Sexual Health and HIV (STASHH), which represents and supports medical students and pre-specialty doctors from FY1 to IMT3 within the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH). STASHH has been active since 2021 and runs a local ambassador programme, mentoring, and monthly webinars and podcasts for interested junior clinicians alongside advocating for early career voices within BASHH and sexual health.

Cate is a FY1 doctor at West Middlesex Hospital in North West London and an aspiring sexual health physician.

Dr Soonita Oomeer

Consultant in genitourinary medicine, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Soonita Oomeer completed genitourinary medicine (GUM) and HIV specialist registrar training at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London. She has been a GUM and HIV consultant since 2016 at St Ann’s Sexual Health Clinic, Haringey and Marlborough GUM clinic at the Royal Free Hospital and currently works at Archway Sexual Health Centre, part of Central North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) as an integrated sexual health consultant.

Dr Oomeer is the syphilis lead for CNWL Sexual Health services within North Central London. Dr Oomeer is a member of the NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy (IDPS) Congenital Syphilis Clinical Expert Review Panel. She is also a member of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) Bacterial Special Interest Group.

Dr Lindsay Henderson

Consultant in genitourinary and internal medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Dr Lindsay Henderson is a consultant physician based in Glasgow. She was among the first in the UK to be dual accredited in genitourinary and internal medicine. Dr Henderson now works between Sandyford Sexual Health Services and Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. She is the HIV-PrEP local lead, and her main areas of interest are HIV transmission elimination and improving equitable access to sexual health services.

Dr Vicky Price FRCP

Consultant, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Vicky Anne Price is the current president of the Society for Acute Medicine. She works as a consultant at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and also teaches simulation and communication skills at the University of Liverpool. Vicky has an interest in end-of-life care and patient-centred medicine.

Dr Ailie Young

Consultant acute physician, NHS Fife

Dr Ailie Young is a consultant acute physician working in a busy district general hospital in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland. She has a specialist skill in obstetric medicine and a keen interest in service improvement and quality improvement. This is her first time at a conference in RCP London and would like to thank the hosts for the invitation to speak.

Dr Andrew Workman

Consultant in acute and intensive care medicine, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Dr Andrew Workman is a consultant in acute medicine and intensive care medicine. Andrew’s clinical interests are medical education and ultrasonography. He is the SAMbassador for Wales and the promotion and recruitment lead for the Welsh Acute Physicians' Society. Outside of the hospital Drew is passionate about gardening, cars and enforcing these pastimes on his children.

Dr Arani Nitkunan FRCP

Consultant neurologist, Croydon University Hospital

Dr Arani Nitkunan studied at Newnham College, Cambridge and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London graduating in 1999. Arani was awarded a PhD for stroke research at St George’s Hospital, London in 2007.

She was appointed as a consultant neurologist in 2013 with general neurology clinics at Croydon University Hospital and a specialist neuro-ophthalmology clinic at St George’s. Her two sub-specialist areas are stroke and neuro-ophthalmology.  She was appointed clinical lead for neurology at Croydon in 2015 where she has transformed acute neurology and driven the appointment of five nurse specialists.

Since May 2023, she is the chair of the Association of British Neurologists (ABN) Services Committee and hence a member of ABN executive council. She has held the previous ABN role of vice-chair of the newly formed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and was a member of the Quality Committee and Acute Neurology Special Interest Group. She has been secondary care co-chair of the Southwest London Neurological Services Network since 2019 and was a trustee on the Board of the Neurological Alliance.

Dr Ashni Khetarpal

Dr Biba Stanton

Dr Ahmed Abbas

Consultant neurologist and neurophysiologist, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Ahmed Abbas is a dually qualified consultant in the specialties of neurology and clinical neurophysiology. Ahmed works at St George’s Hospital where his practice covers the breadth of neuromuscular disorders, with a particular subspecialist interest in the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral nerve diseases.

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 Eleanor Chandler

Dr Gareth Lock

Dr Paarul Prinja FRCP

Consultant obstetric physician, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Dr Paarul Prinja works at Birmingham Women’s Hospital and the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust as both an acute and obstetric physician. She is also the lead obstetric physician for the West Midlands Maternal Medicine Network based at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Dr Prinja is treasurer for the MacDonald Obstetric Medicine Society and is chair of the Society for Acute Medicine – obstetric medicine special interest group.

She has also trained in intermediate critical care and is proficient in using ultrasound and has accreditation in focussed echocardiography. Simulation training and education of the multi-disciplinary team are her areas of interest, and she teaches locally on ‘ObSIM’ and nationally as course director for “Enhanced maternal care” run by Babylifeline training.

She is one of the co-authors of the RCP acute care toolkit 15 “Managing acute medical problems in pregnancy”. Most recently she co-authored the UK consensus on pregnancy in multiple sclerosis: An update to ‘Association of British Neurologists’ guidance.

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.

Luci Buxton

Dr Patrick Yong FRCP

Consultant immunologist, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Natalya Ellis

Specialty registrar in allergy, clinical and laboratory immunology, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Natalya Ellis is a specialty registrar in allergy, clinical and laboratory immunology at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She was secretariat of the Clinical Education, Training and Workforce Working Group during the development of the National Allergy Strategy (2025-2026). She is currently the trainee representative for Improving Quality in Allergy Services (IQAS) accreditation programme for adult allergy services in the UK.

Professor Adam Fox

Consultant paediatric allergist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Adam Fox reads medicine at Cambridge University and is professor of paediatric allergy at King's College London and consultant paediatric allergist at Evelina London Children's Hospital. At Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, he served nine years as clinical lead for allergy, three years as clinical director for specialist ambulatory services, and five years as deputy medical director (Commercial). He was founding director of the KCL Allergy Academy, a postgraduate programme and BMJ Awards finalist in 2018.

From 2018 to 2021, Adam was president of the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology – the first paediatrician elected to the role. Since 2022 he has chaired the National Allergy Strategy Group, jointly chairs the Department of Health and Social Care's Expert Advisory Group for Allergy, and leads the 2025–35 National Allergy Strategy.

With Professors Gideon Lack and George Du Toit, he established The Allergy Centre of Excellence at Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2021, before opening their own premises in London's prestigious Harley Street Medical District in 2025, offering cutting-edge allergy diagnostics and treatments.

Adam was named Allergy UK's 'Paediatric Allergist of the Year' (2007), received Cambridge University's Raymond Horton Smith Prize for his doctoral thesis on peanut allergy (2012), and featured in The Times' 'Britain's 100 Best Children's Doctors'. He received the William Frankland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Allergy (2015), Department of Health National Clinical Excellence Awards (2016, 2020), and in 2024 became only the second recipient of the BSACI Fellows Award for outstanding contribution to clinical allergy. In 2025, he was awarded an OBE for services to paediatric allergy in the King's Birthday Honours and included in the Tatler Doctors List (2013 and 2026) of the UK's best private medical consultants.

Professor Sinisa Savic

Dr Ravi Sargur

Dr Bhavna Pandya FRCP

Consultant nephrologist and physician, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Bhavna Pandya has been a consultant nephrologist and physician in Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2005 and is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Liverpool. She began as regional chronic kidney disease lead in 2006, following the UK government's initiative regarding chronic kidney disease, and was trust lead for long term conditions. Bhavna is a founding trustee of three charities, including Liverpool Kidney Patients’ Charity. She chaired the Equal Opportunity in Nephrology Committee of Renal Association 2016–19 and was an elected medical and dental staff governor for two terms, as well as being elected as deputy lead governor. Currently, Bhavna leads the Ethnic Minority Staff Network for the trust. She is a trustee of UK Kidney Association and has remained as an education and teaching lead in the department.

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 Peter Hill

Professor James Burton

Professor Debashish Banerjee

Head of department of medicine and consultant nephrologist, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Debasish Banerjee is an NHS consultant in the Renal and Transplantation Unit of St George's Hospital and head of Department of Medicine at City St George's, University of London.

Debasish is renowned globally for his expertise in cardiovascular complications of chronic kidney disease. At St George's Hospital, Debasish pioneered the establishment of specialised kidney failure-heart failure and cardio-kidney-metabolic clinics.

Debasish serves on the International Society of Nephrology Education and Cardiorenal Committees, and the ESC Heart Failure Association Renal Complications Group. He serves on the guideline committees of the BHF, KDIGO and UKKA.

His research, funded by the NIHR, BHF, KRUK and others, focuses on the pathophysiology and management of cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease, including randomised controlled trials. As a member of Kidney Research UK's cardio-renal study group and a reviewer for the MRC, NIHR, BHF and Kidney Research UK, Debasish has significantly influenced research in this field within the UK. A lifelong dedicated educator, Debasish has been recognised with numerous teaching awards.

Dr Muhammad Khurram Nisar FRCP

Consultant rheumatologist and physician, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Muhammad Nisar is a consultant rheumatologist, physician, and director of research and development at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Muhammad is also an elected clinical entrepreneur, deputy chair of BSR Heberden’s committee and chair of SARD-ILD BSR guidelines group.

He is the lead clinician for the award-winning early arthritis service, metabolic bone health delivery, research on advanced therapies, and the inflammatory arthritis-associated lung diseases MDT service. His other main clinical interests include early inflammatory arthritis, including the use of ultrasound, and crystal arthritis.

Muhammad has been involved in more than 90 clinical trials utilising advanced therapies for autoimmune and skeletal conditions. Over the past five years, he has received more than half a million pounds in research grants. He has authored over 200 abstracts, presented at international conferences, and published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

He has also received several awards from prestigious bodies, including the NHS, RCP and BSR.

Dr Judith Bubbear FRCP

Professor James Galloway FRCP

Professor of rheumatology, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Professor James Galloway is professor of rheumatology and epidemiology at King's College London, where he holds the Arthritis UK Endowed Chair, and is an honorary consultant rheumatologist at King's College Hospital.

James is associate dean at the GKT School of Medical Education and head of the Medical School. His research applies epidemiological methods to inflammatory disease, with a longstanding interest in the infection risk associated with immunosuppressive therapy. He is lead methodologist for the National Early Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases Audit, deputy editor of Rheumatology, and chief medical advisor to the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society. He also served as deputy chair of the British Society for Rheumatology's 2025 guideline on conventional synthetic DMARDs.

Dr Ariane Herrick FRCP

Professor of rheumatology, The University of Manchester

Professor Ariane Herrick is professor of rheumatology at the University of Manchester and consultant rheumatologist at NHS Grampian, with honorary appointments at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Aberdeen. Ariane's main clinical and research interests are Raynaud's phenomenon, systemic sclerosis-spectrum disorders, and assessment of the microvasculature (including nailfold capillaroscopy). She is a past president of the Scleroderma Clinical Trials Consortium (SCTC), co-chair of the EULAR study group 'Microcirculation in Rheumatic Diseases', and vice-president of Scleroderma and Raynaud's UK (SRUK).