Dr Ananthakrishnan Raghuram
Dr Raghuram has been a Consultant in General and Respiratory Medicine since 2002 in City Hospital in Birmingham and since 2007 at Gloucestershire. He did his general medical and respiratory training on the prestigious North Western rotation. He was trained in bronchoscopy at the Northwest Lung centre in Manchester and at Salford Royal Hospitals including techniques in interventional bronchoscopy. He trained in the use of endobronchial ultrasound and has a high diagnostic rate for lung cancer using this technique. Dr Raghuram’s research was in small airways diseases. He trained in Critical Care in Aberdeen. This resulted in a lasting interest in managing patients with narrowed airways and respiratory failure and enhanced his interest in managing patients with unexplained breathlessness and persistent cough. Dr Raghuram is a member of the Southwest Interstitial lung disease group managing this complex group of patients with conditions such as sarcoidosis and pulmonary fibrosis. Dr Raghuram has an enduring interest in teaching and has a Masters in Healthcare education from Bristol University. He is the head of the postgraduate school of medicine at Health education England in Severn and chairs and hosts the MRCP PACES examination. He has been a Regional Advisor, a past Censor and a Linacre Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians of London with responsibilities for College tutors and Associate college tutors in the country. He has contributed to the development of the new Internal Medicine curriculum as part of the changes in Shape of Training.
Dr Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas
Dr Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases with an interest in primary and secondary immunodeficiencies and transplantation, currently working at Cambridge University Hospitals in Cambridge, UK. She is board-certified in infectious diseases and internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London (FRCP), a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and an associate lecturer of the University of Cambridge. She has a Master’s in Public Health and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and has additionally completed postgraduate studies in Medical Education and Medical Genomics. She is a member of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Taskforce against Emerging Infectious diseases (EITaF) and the ESCMID guidelines subcommittee. She is a collaborator of the RECOVERY Covid-19 trial, the ISARIC4C consortium and the CoronaNerve group. She is currently leading a study of SARS-CoV-2 evolution in patients with weak immune systems. Mainly, though, she is a mentor for students and trainees, a mother and wife and a big fan of the NHS
Dr Olwen Williams
Dr Olwen Williams OBE was elected RCP vice president for Wales in September 2019. She began her 3-year term on 1 January 2020. She is a consultant physician in genitourinary/HIV medicine at Glan Clwyd Hospital, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in Wales. During Olwen’s tenure as Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board’s chief of staff, she obtained an in-depth understanding of the complexities and challenges of delivering whole-system change across planned, unplanned and community care within the context of targets and financial constraints.
As clinical lead for one of the RCP Future Hospital development site projects, she supported the introduction of telemedicine virtual clinics. In her clinical work, Olwen has striven to ensure the vulnerable have access to high-quality healthcare, establishing services for sexual assault referrals, prison sexual health and virtual outpatients. She has worked closely with the Welsh government throughout her career and advised on development of the Welsh sexual health strategy, HIV delivery and issues regarding sexual assault and domestic violence.
Physicians working with socially excluded people need a voice on Council, she believes, especially at times when some services are under local authority control. She is currently president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV and a member of the RCP Joint Specialty Committee for Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) and co-wrote the specialty’s chapter for the Medical Care website. Olwen is also a member of the RCP Wales strategic committee and the RCP Quality Improvement faculty. In 2005 Olwen received an OBE for services to medicine.
Session 3: Infectious diseases
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Dr Ananthakrishnan Raghuram
Consultant in General and Respiratory Medicine, Cheltenham General Hospital and RCP Linacre fellow.
Dr Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas
Consultant in infectious diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Olwen Williams
Consultant in sexual health and HIV medicine, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and vice president for Wales, Royal College of Physicians
