Team biographies
As part of the quality assurance process, medical schools and deaneries are assessed by teams of visitors: During 2011 the GMC will also pilot a review of small specialties as part of its Thematic QA approach.
Birmingham Medical School team
Team Leader: Professor Stewart Petersen
Head of Medical Education at Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Professor Stewart Petersen graduated from the University of Cambridge, and undertook postgraduate education and a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He joined the then new medical school at Leicester in 1976 to teach clinical physiology. He combined the teaching of physiology with research into the physiological development of circadian rhythms of body temperature in human infants until the 1990s, when he led the introduction of a new medical curriculum at Leicester in response to ‘Tomorrow’s Doctors’.
Appointed Professor of Medical Education, he now leads the Department of Medical & Social care Education, with responsibility for all undergraduate medical education, the training of social workers, and a range of post graduate and continual professional development courses.
Professor Steven Heys
Professor of Surgical Oncology and honorary consultant surgeon in the University of Aberdeen and NHS Grampian, with a special interest in the treatment of breast cancer. He graduated in 1981 and obtained an MD and PhD at the Rowett Research Institute, investigating aspects of nutrition and metabolism, particularly focussing on malignant disease.
He currently co-ordinates Phase III of the medical curriculum in the school of Medicine and is an external examiner at universities in the UK. He has a specific interest in all aspects of undergraduate education and its interface with the change sin postgraduate training.
He leads the Cancer Research Programme and the Translational Medicine programme at the University of Aberdeen and his own interests include the role of nutrition in carcinogenesis, and mechanisms of chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer. Current research programmes include collaborations both nationally and internationally and have resulted in 180 papers and 25 book chapters.
He is a council member of the Association of Breast Surgery at the British Association of Surgical Oncology (BAS0), representing Scotland. In addition, he represents the Association of Breast Surgery at the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), is specialist advisor to UICC, is a referee for national and international journals and grant-awarding charities and is sub-editor of the World Journal of Surgical Oncology.
Professor Maurice Savage
Maurice Savage is Professor of Paediatrics at Queen’s University Belfast and is a Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. His research interests include hypertension and the genesis of cardiovascular disease in childhood. He is Director of the Centre for Medical Education at Queen’s University with overall responsibility for all aspects of the undergraduate course in medicine.
In the past he has participated in teaching quality assessment teams and visited several schools on behalf of the General Medical Council. He has also been invited by the General Medical Council in Ireland to participate in inspection of medical schools there. Professor Savage has particular interests in curriculum design and development, in the area of assessment, management of curricular delivery and of course in paediatrics. He has been a participant in the Harvard Macy Institute course for Leaders in Medical Education.
Due to his responsibility in the Queen’s Medical School he has a broad grasp of the issues and problems in delivering a quality course in a new clinical environment created by changes in the National Health Service and in particular the new consultant contract.
Dr Tim Lancaster
Tim Lancaster is Director of Clinical Studies and Reader in primary health care at Oxford University. He read English before training in medicine at Guy's Hospital, undertaking postgraduate training in London and the United States. He was a research and teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School, where he trained in clinical epidemiology and medical education. Since 1992, he has combined general practice in a city centre practice in Oxford with research and teaching in the Department of Primary Health Care at Oxford University. He is the co-ordinating editor of the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Review Group. His educational interests include assessment, evidence-based practice and application of case-based learning and small group methods to large group settings.
Ms Katie Kemp
Katie gained a 2.1 BSc honours degree in Biomedical Science from Sheffield University in 2008. After her studies she spent 12 months working at the Norfolk and Norwich University NHS Trust in two jobs; health care assistant and phlebotomist, where she gained valuable experience of working within an NHS trust.
Having always wanted to pursue a career in medicine Katie successfully applied to Swansea College of Medicine GEM course starting in 2009. She spent much of 2010-2011 immersed in the Swansea College of Medicine QA process, due to her position as academic representative of the cohort. As a result of this experience she gained much knowledge concerning the requirements and skills needed to be a QA team member.
Her unique position as a graduate entry medical student at a college whose course is currently being developed in line with Tomorrow's Doctors 2009 has given her a working knowledge of this process. Katie has a passion for medical education and ensuring quality in all aspects of its development and delivery.
Dr Suzanne Shale
Dr. Suzanne Shale teaches, conducts research, and provides independent advice in the fields of medical ethics and patient experience. She is the author of Moral Leadership in Medicine: Building Ethical Healthcare Organizations (Cambridge UP 2011, forthcoming); director of learning and teaching in the Health Experiences Research Group, University of Oxford; and a senior tutor in medical ethics in the School of Medicine, King's College London. She chairs the College of Emergency Medicine Lay Advisory Group, is a member of the National Social Care Research Ethics Committee, and is a panellist for the Royal College of Surgeons Invited Review Mechanism.
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Cardiff Medical School team
Team Leader: Professor Anne Garden
Director, Centre for Medical Education, Lancaster University
Anne Garden graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1973. Having completed her postgraduate training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in hospitals around the North of Scotland by obtaining the MRCOG in 1979, Anne spent a formative year as Senior Registrar in Cape Town, South Africa before returning to the UK in 1981. A brief spell in Glasgow, a Senior Registrar post in Edinburgh and a year as a Research Fellow in Toronto Canada filled in the years before being appointed Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Liverpool in January 1987. She became a Fellow of the RCOG in 1994.
Anne's interest in Medical Education developed in this post particularly in the late 1990s when she was heavily involved developing and delivering the new undergraduate MBChB programme, initially as Phase 2 Director before being appointed Director of Medical Studies in January 2001, Professor of Medical Education in 2003, and Head of School of Medical Education in 2004. She became a member of the Institute of Teaching and Learning in 2001. In 2006, she took up her current post with a remit of developing undergraduate and postgraduate medical education at Lancaster University.
Anne was a Subject Specialist Reviewer for Medicine for the Quality Assurance Agency from 1998 - 2000. She is external examiner at Trinity College Dublin, Barts and for the Graduate Entry Programme at St George's Medical School.
She successfully bid for £4.5million from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to set a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for developing Professionalism in Medical Students at the University of Liverpool.
Anne maintains her clinical work, having a particular interest in Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology and has authored/edited two books on the subspecialty.
Professor David Cottrell
David Cottrell was appointed to the Foundation Chair in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Leeds in 1994. He has a longstanding interest in learning and teaching and substantial experience of the direct delivery of teaching, the training of clinical teachers in teaching skills, the development of student support systems and the planning and implementation of curriculum change.
He became Director of Learning & Teaching at the School of Medicine in Leeds in 1999 with responsibility for all undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching activities and from 2004 - 2005 was Acting Head of the School. During this period he led a major review and reorganisation of the School's learning & teaching activities that included the development and introduction of a new MBChB curriculum and a successful and innovative bid for increased medical student numbers in partnership with the University of Bradford.
Professor Alison Macleod
Professor Alison MacLeod works in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen and is an Honorary Consultant Physician/Nephrologist in NHS Grampian and Director of Research and Development for NHS Grampian. She is an Editor of the Cochrane Renal Review Group and her research interests are evidence based medicine and guidelines in renal medicine and the epidemiology of acute and chronic renal failure.
She chairs the SIGN (Scottish [Royal Colleges] Intercollegiate Guidelines Network) guidelines group on renal failure and is a member of the NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) Anaemia Management in Chronic Kidney Disease group and an international group developing guidelines for kidney disease.
She was a member of the evidential group at the Department of Health (England) that produced the Renal National Service Framework. In the 1990s she was one of the senior team that devised and implemented the new MBChB curriculum based on Tomorrows Doctors in Aberdeen.
Dr Simon Stinchcombe
Dr Simon Stinchcombe has been a Consultant Radiologist for more than 20 years and has a special interest in Musculoskeletal and Trauma Radiology.
Simon has a long-standing interest in Education and Training and is a Lecturer at Huddersfield University and a Visiting Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University as well as being a Clinical Teacher for the University of Nottingham.
Simon was appointed Foundation Programme Director for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2007. He has a particular interest in patient safety and non-clinical skills.
Ms Kate Bowman
Kate Bowman began her medical degree in St Andrews, and is now in the 4th year of the MBChB course at the University of Manchester. Since coming to Manchester, Kate has become involved with Fastbleep, an exciting new social enterprise. As Events Director she manages a programme of national student events and is currently organizing FastForward – a competition open to students from every faculty in the UK, hoping to discover ideas for innovation and enterprise in healthcare.
Kate is also passionate about equality and diversity in medical education and is actively involved in Fastbleep’s widening participation scheme as an activity leader at school sessions and one-to-one mentor to medical school applicants.
Mr Philip Brown
Philip is a freelance consultant in the area of medical education and higher education administration, having spent 20 years working within the University of London, most recently as Academic Registrar at St George’s. During his time at St George’s he was closely involved with curriculum development, co-ordinating the development and implementation of the new 5-year course in 1996, and taking a leading role in developing the plans for the innovative 4-year Graduate Entry Programme in 2000. Since 2007 he has provided consultancy to universities and organisations in the UK, Ireland, Australia and Saudi Arabia, including participating in GMC QABME visits around the UK and most recently chairing an accreditation panel for a medical school in Riyadh.
Philip’s experience covers most areas of student and course administration, curriculum development, and quality assurance. He has a particular interest in admissions policy, working with the Australian Council for Educational Research on the introduction, implementation and evaluation of aptitude testing in UK and Ireland medical schools. He also carries forward from his days as an Academic Registrar an interest in the area of student health and conduct, and particularly how medical schools have developed their fitness to practise procedures. He relaxes from medical education activities by flying and acting as an air-traffic controller at his local airfield.
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Keele Medical School team
Team Leader: Professor Julius Weinberg
Vice Chancellor of Kingston University
Julius Weinberg has been Vice Chancellor of Kingston University, London since April 2011. Previously he was at City University, London as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research (1999 – 2007); Director of the Institute of Health Sciences (2002 – 2007) and Deputy Vice Chancellor from 2007. He qualified in Medicine from Oxford in 1979 and completed specialist training in Infectious Disease, General Medicine, and Public Health Medicine. He has worked within the NHS, as a Consultant/Lecturer in Zimbabwe and for the World Health Organization.
He was a Consultant and Head of Epidemiology Programmes for the UK Public Health Laboratory Service, with particular interest in developing international infection surveillance programmes. He was scientific secretary to the Standing Medical Advisory Committee report into antimicrobial resistance and has been expert advisor to two House of Lords Science and Engineering Select Committee Inquiries into Infectious Disease Services in the UK and Pandemic Influenza.
He has an interest in health informatics and is responsible for developing the National electronic Library for Infection. He was a non-executive director of the North East London Strategic Health Authority. QABME related areas of interest include: inter-professional education, the changing nature of the professions, equipping doctors for new ways of working and public health.
Dr Nick Bishop
Nick Bishop is a part time consultant clinical radiologist, working mainly in interventional radiology. He is based at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.
He was Medical Director of Brighton Healthcare NHS Trust for six years helping to establish the Brighton & Sussex Medical School. He moved to United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust as Medical Director, coinciding with the start of the Bristol Inquiry into Paediatric Heart Surgery.
In 2003 Nick was appointed Assistant Medical Director to the Commission for Health Improvement. After the creation of the Healthcare Commission in 2004 his role became that of Senior Medical Advisor, a role and title that he retains with the Care Quality Commission formed in April 2009.
Nick has been involved in medical management and leadership training and was on the Board of the British Association of Medical Managers for many years including two years as its Chairman before time expiry. He has been a GMC Associate involved in QABME visits since they started. Nick is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Better Managed Health and Social Care, Cass Business School at City University. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians earlier this year.
Professor David Croisdale-Appleby
David is active in policy formulation in health and social care. He is Honorary Professor at the Wolfson Research Institute; Honorary Professor at the School of Medicine and Health at the University of Durham and Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Durham Business School. He is also a Member of the University Council and Chairman of Ustinov College and of the Life Sciences Ethical Review Committee.
David has had a broad range of health and social care involvement including Chairman of a Hospitals Trust (which includes the National Spinal Injury Centre at Stoke Mandeville); Deputy Chairman of a Mental Health Trust; a Board Member of the NHS Confederation; a Member of the Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee for the South East, and a GMC and PMETB Visitor for Medical Education. He is involved in the regulation of professionals involved in healthcare with the FHSAA and the Health Professions Council, and is Deputy Chairman of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners. He is Chairman of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Programme Development Group for Long-term Sickness and Incapacity.
Dr Hannah Donnelly
Dr Hannah Donnelly is a Foundation Year One Doctor at Frenchay Hopsital, Bristol. She trained at Sheffield Medical School and enjoyed the early clinical exposure and patient involvement of the course, such as using patients to teach about chronic disease. She also has a BSc in Biomedical Science obtained at The University of Sheffield. Dr Donnelly has been a QABME visitor for 4 years in the Keele Team, and is looking forward to seeing how her new vantage point of a FY1 Doctor will affect her insight into quality assurance of basic medical education, particularly when looking at final year preparedness to practice.
Professor Gillian Needham
As Regional Postgraduate Dean for the North of Scotland, Professor Gillian Needham is responsible for leading a deanery team and quality managing the training of all doctors-in-training across the 5 Health Boards of Grampian, Highland, Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles. She is specialist registered as a Clinical Radiologist and practise full time in her NES role. Programme design for a region with a high proportion of rural and remote placements has allowed the opportunity to offer many innovative rotations across some of the most beautiful and challenging geography in the UK. Her team is distributed with bases in Inverness (the Centre for Health Sciences, Raigmore Campus) and Aberdeen (Forest Grove House, Foresterhill Health Campus) ensuring trainee doctors have excellent access to the deanery support they need.
Gillian has led a multi-professional work stream for NHS Scotland to develop support for remote and rural healthcare education. Focussing on relevant support, content and technological innovations for access the RRHEAL (Remote and Rural Healthcare Educational Alliance) is now established with a permanent base and staff in the Centre for Health Sciences, Inverness. Gillian and her team have successfully integrated teleEducation into their normal service of education provision and has built upon that technological strength as they have led developments such as the Leadership and Management Programme (LaMP) for NES.
Dr Chris Stephens
Dr Chris Stephens, MA Ed MBA, FRCGP FHEA FCMI FAcMEd is Associate Dean (Education & Student Experience) in the Faculty of Medicine University of Southampton.
In 1990, Dr Stephens became a GP trainer in a large urban training practice in Southampton where he still works part time and in 1994 was appointed as a part time senior lecturer in Primary Medical Care at the University of Southampton.
In 2000 he was appointed to the full time post of Director of Education within the School of Medicine and in 2003 became Deputy Head of School. He led the Southampton medical school student expansion from an intake of 150 students in 1998 to 246 in 2004, helped develop an innovative widening access project to Medicine "New Pathways”, the four year graduate programme, the introduction of the BMedSc and Master in MMedSc degrees as well as the Interprofessional Education across Southampton and Portsmouth Universities. In 2006 he was awarded the title University Director of Education.
He has undertaken a number of consultancies working with medical schools in Brunei, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan where he worked with the senior teams of their six medical schools developing their educational leadership capacity. In 2003 he was appointed as a GMC visitor and is part of a team assessing the quality of undergraduate medical education. He has taken part in eight QABME GMC reviews of different medical schools as well as accreditation of Foundation programmes of two NHS deaneries. Since 2004 he has been a member of the General Chiropractic Council and has chaired the validation panels for the three UK Chiropractic Schools.
In his current role as Associate Dean for the Faculty of Medicine he has responsibility for leading the development and implementation of Faculty educational strategy, student recruitment, educational innovation, educational quality assurance and enhancing student experience
Dr David Taylor
David Taylor is Senior Tutor and Deputy Director of Medical Studies at Liverpool Medical School.
David originally trained as a physiologist, and obtained his PhD in Neuroscience from University College London and the National Institute for Medical Research, before a post-doctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research in Bad Nauheim. Although he was originally a senior lecturer in physiology at Liverpool, he became increasingly involved in the reform of medical curricula, and the education research that underpins such things.
David has been involved with the QABME process as an associate since the visits started and brings his experience as an educationalist to the team. He is particularly interested in pastoral care, professionalism, and how people become part of a community of practice. David is currently studying for an EdD in Higher Education.
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Newcastle Medical School (Malaysia campus) team
Team Leader: Professor Peter McCrorie
Head of Department, St George's Hospital Medical School
Peter McCrorie was born in Greenock, Scotland, and studied Biochemistry at Glasgow University. He obtained a PhD in Biochemistry at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and moved to The London Hospital Medical School to take up a post as a Research Assistant in Haematology and subsequently as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry. He became Curriculum Co-ordinator for the new course which started at St Bartholomew's and The Royal London in 1990. Funding through the Enterprise in Higher Education Scheme facilitated the introduction of significant curriculum innovations - clinical and communication skills teaching and assessment, community-oriented medical education, medical informatics and work-based projects - and, arising from this, he became the Director of the Medical and Dental Education Network (MADEN). He soon became Head of the Centre for Medical and Dental Education and took a full role in the planning of the 1999 curriculum at St Bartholomew's and The Royal London. He left just before the curriculum was introduced, to take up the post of Director of the 4-year MBBS Graduate Entry Programme at St George's Hospital Medical School. He was granted a personal chair in Medical Education in 2002 and is now Head of the Department of Medical and Healthcare Education.
Peter McCrorie also works on a consultancy basis for the General Medical Council. He is a trainer and Lay Assessor for the GMC Performance Procedures, is a member of the PLAB OSCE Panel and is a trained GMC Visitor. He is also a member of the Training Team for the National Clinical Assessment Service. For the Royal College of Surgeons, he is a member of the Quality Assurance Team reviewing the new Intercollegiate MRCS examinations and also the MFDS clinical and oral examinations. He has been involved in the training of general practitioners and other clinicians at a postgraduate level in Russia, Romania, Macedonia and Brunei. He is leading a St George's team working with the Universiti Brunei Darussalam to help establish a 3 year Bachelor in Health Science degree, which will form a basis for entry to the clinical courses run by specific partner medical schools in the UK, Australia and Canada.
He has been an External/Visiting Examiner for Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College School of Medicine, University of Liverpool, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University and Trinity College Dublin. He is currently External Examiner for the University of East Anglia School of Medicine and Visiting Examiner at St Bartholomew's and The Royal London.
His research interests lie in curriculum development, assessment, graduate entry, self directed and problem based learning, community oriented medical education, interprofessional learning and staff development.
Professor Richard Hays
Richard Hays is Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of Health Sciences and Medicine at Bond University, Australia. He is a general practitioner with a strong interest in medical education, having attained both a PhD in education and an MD (Higher Doctorate) in medical education, in addition to medical qualifications.
He was trained in Australia, graduating from the University of Queensland in 1976. Since then he has been a clinician in both rural and urban general practice, an academic GP at Chair level with broad responsibilities in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, and Foundation Dean of the first of the recent wave of new medical schools in Australia. He then moved to the UK to guide the development of a new independent medical school at Keele University, North Staffordshire. He has a strong research record, predominantly in medical education and health services research areas, and he has been on the editorial boards of several research journals relevant to that expertise. His publication record includes 7 books, 12 book chapters, and more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles.
He has also an experienced visitor of medical schools in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and North America, for informal exchanges, advising on the development of new medical programmes, or as a member of formal medical school accreditation teams. In 2001, based on a record of innovation in medical education, he was awarded the Centenary medal for services to Australia in health education.
Dr Gillian King
Gillian King studied Zoology at the University of Oxford where she also received a doctorate in vertebrate palaeontology. Her field of research involved studying fossils from southern hemisphere continents and she has travelled extensively in the field and to visit museum collections. She has worked as an academic teacher and researcher in the University of Oxford and the South African Museum, Cape Town. She has considerable experience of working in museum environments, including curation, exhibit design and museum education. In the University of Cambridge she worked first as a Faculty administrator and then in the central University administration with responsibility for supporting quality assurance and educational practice and policy.
Gillian joined QAA as Deputy Director (Audit) within the Reviews Group in August 2007 but has had connections with QAA since 2000 when she acted as Secretary of a Subject Benchmark panel. She has also served as an audit secretary for Institutional audit. Gillian's current responsibilities include planning, co-ordinating and managing all operational activities for institutional audit and collaborative provision audit in England and Northern Ireland and overseas audit for the UK.
Dr Raisha Nurani
Raisha Nurani is currently a Foundation Year 1 Doctor in the North West Deanery, after graduating from St George's University of London in 2011. Raisha has a keen interest in Medical Education, and is currently pursuing an Academic Programme which allows her to be involved in research and teaching. She has also won an award from the Higher Education Academy for her work on innovations within Medical Education.
In her spare time Raisha works with her local community in empowering women, and is a member of the Medical Womens' Federation.
Professor Robert Peveler
Prof Peveler is Professor of Liaison Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Southampton, where he has worked for nineteen years. He is Senior Independent Director, and an honorary consultant psychiatrist at Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He previously held posts as Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Clinical Lecturer in Oxford, where he trained in medicine and psychiatry.
He undertakes clinical work in liaison psychiatry in general hospital and general practice settings, and teaches and researches on the relationship between psychological problems and physical illness, and the management of medically unexplained symptoms.
He has a particular interest in self-care in chronic disease and adherence to treatment. He has published many papers and chapters in this field, and co-edited books on planning specialist services in liaison psychiatry, and primary care mental health.
Professor Janice Rymer
Janice Rymer is Dean of Undergraduate Medicine and Professor of Gynaecology at King’s College London School of Medicine. She qualified with MBCHB in 1981 from the University of Auckland and became a member of the RCOG in 1987 and fellow of the RANZCOG in 1990. She was awarded her MD thesis from the University of Auckland in 1994. She was made a fellow of the RCOG in 2005. Her areas of special interest are Minimal Access Surgery, Ovarian Failure, Female Genital Mutilation and Medical Education.
She has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, and 14 textbooks.
Other extramural positions include Member of the RCOG Council 1997-2005, 2010- and Member of the British Menopause Society Council 1986-1992, 2010- . She is currently on the General Medical Council team for assessing new medical schools and on the PMETB Appeals Committee. She was the Continuing Professional Development Officer for the RCOG and is now Recruitment Officer.
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Swansea Medical School team
Team Leader: Professor Sean Hilton
Professor of General Practice and Primary Care, St George's, University of London
Sean Hilton is a Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at St. George's, University of London. He is Head of the Division of Population Health Sciences and Education at St. George's and Director, International Relations. He was formerly Deputy Principal 2008-2010, Vice-Principal Teaching and Learning from 2004-07, and Dean of Undergraduate Medicine from 1997-2002. He was responsible for the introduction of new curricula for new 5-years (1996) and 4-years (2000) MB.BS courses at St. George's.
He was a member of the GMC's QABME team assessing the new Peninsula Medical School from 2000-2008, and is team leader for the QABME Team for the new College of Medicine at Swansea University (2008-present).
He is President of the Academy for Medical Educators 2011-2014, and has particular interest in the area of professionalism and professional development in medical education. He was previously a member of the QAA's Subject Benchmarking Group for Medicine; a member of the Council and Executive of the Association for Study of Medical Education (ASME), and a member of the Royal College of Physicians' Working Party on Medical Professionalism 2004-07.
Deputy: Professor Richard Hays
Richard Hays is Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of Health Sciences and Medicine at Bond University, Australia. He is a general practitioner with a strong interest in medical education, having attained both a PhD in education and an MD (Higher Doctorate) in medical education, in addition to medical qualifications.
He was trained in Australia, graduating from the University of Queensland in 1976. Since then he has been a clinician in both rural and urban general practice, an academic GP at Chair level with broad responsibilities in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, and Foundation Dean of the first of the recent wave of new medical schools in Australia. He then moved to the UK to guide the development of a new independent medical school at Keele University, North Staffordshire. He has a strong research record, predominantly in medical education and health services research areas, and he has been on the editorial boards of several research journals relevant to that expertise. His publication record includes 7 books, 12 book chapters, and more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles.
He has also an experienced visitor of medical schools in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and North America, for informal exchanges, advising on the development of new medical programmes, or as a member of formal medical school accreditation teams. In 2001, based on a record of innovation in medical education, he was awarded the Centenary medal for services to Australia in health education.
Professor Caroline Boggis
Caroline Boggis graduated from St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, in 1978. She undertook formal postgraduate training in radiology in Manchester becoming a fellow of the RCR in 1985. With her consultant appointment she was involved in setting up the Breast Screening Service for Greater Manchester.
Caroline’s interest in undergraduate medical education evolved from active participation in postgraduate radiology education and membership of the RCR Education Board. In 1998 she took on the responsibility of Hospital Dean for South Manchester Trust with active involvement in all aspects of the students’ undergraduate experience. During this time she obtained a PG Cert in Teaching and learning in Higher Education becoming a member then fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
In 2004 Caroline moved to the Manchester Medical School as Associate Director for the Curriculum and for Student Support. After a period as Programme Director for the MBChB she is now the School’s Lead for Quality Assurance. She has been active in quality assurance for her specialty and in education both internally and externally. She has been an external examiner for QML and for St George’s Medical School Graduate Entry Programme. She is involved in medical education research and has successfully obtained funding. Her work in education has been recognised by the RCP with the award of an honorary MRCP as a physician educator and by Manchester University with an Honorary Chair in Medical Education.
Professor Lindsey Davies
Professor Davies is the President of the UK Faculty of Public Health.
After qualifying in medicine at Nottingham University, Lindsey worked for seven years in community paediatrics before training in Public Health. She subsequently became Director of Public Health for Southern Derbyshire and for Nottingham before moving to the Department of Health’s NHS Executive as Head of Public Health. She became Regional Director of Public Health/Regional Medical Director for the Trent region (later the East Midlands region) and remained in that post until 2006 when she moved to the Department of Health in London as the National Director of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, leading the UK’s preparations for a flu pandemic. In early 2010, she spent six months as the interim RDPH for London and the Health Advisor to the Mayor
She holds a Special Professorship in Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology at Nottingham University.
Mr Nicholas Deakin
Nicholas Deakin is a 4th year medical student at the University of Bristol. He has supplemented this with an MA in Medical Ethics and Law, focusing on the ethical basis for NHS health policy.
He was Co-Chairman of the BMA Medical Students’ Committee from 2009-10, representing students on BMA Council, at the Department of Health, MEE, the GMC Undergraduate Advisory Board, the Medical Schools Council, the JDC and as the National Officer for Medical Education at the International Federation of Medical Student Associations (IFMSA). He has continued involvement in national work-streams, particularly around moving from medical school to the Foundation Program. This includes Collin’s Foundation for Excellence report, the MSC Transition Group and in developing proposals concerning ‘Improving Selection to the Foundation Program.’ He has also been elected to the BMA’s Medical Ethics Committee and is a contributor to the forthcoming book Medical Ethics Today.
He has active interests in education and recruitment, reflected in roles on the Academy of Medical Educators’ Early Careers Working Group and the RCPsych Recruitment Taskforce. He also passionately advocates widening access to medical school. In Summer 2011, he was the Lead Mentor on the University of Bristol Sutton Trust Summer School, and has delivered numerous outreach programs with the BMA, AimHigher and the University of Bristol as a Student Ambassador.
Professor Chris Fowler
Professor Chris Fowler is Professor of Surgical Education and an honorary consultant urological surgeon at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and Barts and The London NHS Trust. He graduated in 1973 and is Fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSE) and the Royal College of Physicians. He took a Masters in Higher Professional Education at the Institute of Education, University of London in 1999. He is a former Sessional Tutor and inaugural Director of the Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit at the RCSE. He has been a Member of the Court of Examiners for the FRCS and was an Intercollegiate Examiner for the Speciality Examination in Urology. He has pioneered fibrescopic endoscopy in urology and has been active in investigating novel minimally invasive treatments for prostatic disease. He is co-author of a major urological textbook and has contributed more than 50 chapters on urological topics.
He was Dean for Education at Barts and The London SMD from 2001 to 2009 and was responsible for the introduction of the School’s 1999 and Graduate Entrants' Programme curricula. He is currently currently Joint Director of Medical Education between the Trust and the School.
Dr Chris Hands
Chris Hands is a specialist trainee in paediatrics in North London, with interests in health inequalities and the practice of paediatrics in the developing world. He graduated from St George’s, University of London in 2009. He is a trustee of the Klevis Kola Foundation, a refugee children’s organisation in south London, and of the Moroccan Children’s Trust, an organisation supporting children living in poverty in southern Morocco, and he takes an active role in the management of both charities. Chris has worked on quality assurance teams for the GMC since 2007, and has visited Southampton and Swansea medical schools, and the North-Western and West of Scotland deaneries.
Mrs Carol Lamyman-Davies
Carol Lamyman-Davies is Director of the Board of Community Health Councils in Wales but has held senior management positions in all sectors. Community Health Councils are the independent, statutory 'health watchdogs' in Wales, monitoring primary and secondary care, providing help and advice on NHS complaints and work with NHS Trusts and key stakeholders to ensure that the voice of the public is heard in all aspects of health in Wales. Carol directs and manages all aspects of the Board, has responsibility for policy and liaises regularly with the Health Minister and National Assembly for Wales.
Possessing an MSc in Management of Education& Business, Carol is a member of several health regulatory bodies in Wales. A fluent Welsh speaker she works closely with the media in highlighting issues that are of interest to the public and where the voice of the citizen is required. Consulting widely with the public and key stakeholders, Carol assisted with the NHS restructure within Wales. Her interest in becoming a lay member of the QABME stemmed from a desire to utilise her academic knowledge whilst ensuring that a core function of the work of the Board of CHCs in protecting the interests of the public and patients was maintained.
The Board of CHCs has recently played a significant role in the Older People’s Commissioner’s Review into Dignity in Care. Carol and her team will be monitoring closely the way Health Boards across Wales will be implementing the recommendations emanating from the Review.
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Wales Deanery team
Team Leader: Ms Elaine Tait
Chief Executive of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Elaine Tait is currently Chief Executive of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. After a varied career in accounting, marketing and technology transfer Elaine joined the Northern Regional Health Authority in a range of policy and planning roles including the development of the first Patients Charter in the early days of patient and public involvement. Operational responsibility in an acute hospital was then followed by a period supporting clinical audit and quality policy at the Scottish Executive Health Department. Elaine has a broad interest in professional standards, has acted as a lay reporter for the Law Society of Scotland and is acting convener of their Regulatory Committee. Elaine lives in rural Perthshire and has two adult daughters.
Mr Graham Cox
Graham Cox is a Consultant ENT/Head and Neck surgeon in Oxford and Aylesbury. He was Vice Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee in ENT until 2007. He assists the National Cancer Action Team on issues relating to Head and Neck Cancer. He sat on the Editorial Board for the NICE Improving Outcomes Guidance in Head and Neck Cancer.
Dr Richard Tubman
Richard Tubman is currently a Consultant Neonatologist at the Royal Maternity Hospital in Belfast and Medical Director of the Northern Ireland Paediatric and Neonatal Transport Service. He is the Head of the School of Paediatrics of the Northern Ireland Postgraduate Medical and Dental Training Agency (NIMDTA, the Northern Ireland Deanery).
Dr Linda Brown
Linda Brown qualified from the University of Leeds in 1976, and completed her postgraduate training in Essex, London and Kent. From 1988-2008 she worked as a consultant in Old Age Psychiatry in York.
She currently works as Second Opinion Approved Doctor for Mental Health Operations at the Care Quality Commission, is a GMC associate and holds various voluntary roles.
Her involvement in medical education has included:
- Trainer of core and higher trainees and mentor of newly appointed consultants
- College tutor
- Core training scheme organiser (North Yorkshire) 1994-1998
- Regional Adviser (Yorkshire) 1998-2003
- Member of RCPsych approval visits to training schemes1988 &1999
- Examiner MRCPsych Part 2 2000-2008
Dr Alex McNeil
Alex completed his undergraduate medical education at Hull York Medical School and graduated in 2011. During this time he became involved with programmes to include primary and secondary school children in medicine. Alex has a keen interest in working with children especially those with special needs of whom he has been a carer of for several years. He has been a senior worker at a local care charity where he ran a scheme for young adults aged 18+.
In 2007/08 Alex completed an intercalated degree at the University of York in the biology and health science department. He developed a review of the literature on autism aetiology and set up a pilot case control study on the aetiology of autism in conjunction with the epidemiology and genetics department and the Lime Tree's child psychiatry centre in York.
In 2010 Alex had a paper published in the British journal of Midwifery titled "Gezellig: a new concept in labour pain management" and completed an elective in Indonesia specializing in perinatal care.
Alex is now working as an F1 in Scarborough Hospital in vascular surgery, paediatrics and elderly medicine and plans to begin a postgraduate degree in medical education next year.
Dr Kate Duffield
Kate Duffield MRCP FRCA is a final year specialty trainee in Anaesthesia in the North East of England. Kate has been involved in the quality assurance of medical education for over a decade, having been a member of the Board of Medical Studies as an undergraduate at Newcastle University (1998-2002), and is former chairman of both the BMA Medical Students Committee (2000-1) and Junior Association for the Study of Medical Education Annual Conference (2002). Kate has been a visitor for the GMC since the beginning of the Quality Assurance of the Foundation Programme pilot in 2005. Clinical interests include the use of simulation as a professional development tool, and the development of quality assurance frameworks for the delivery of peri-operative care.
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Warwick Medical School team
Team Leader: Professor Sam Leinster
Sam Leinster has recently retired from his position as Dean of the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice at the University of East Anglia. His major interests are curriculum planning and assessment.
Prior to his role as UEA he was Professor of Surgery and Director of Medical Studies in the University of Liverpool where he was responsible for the introduction of a problem-based, student-centred curriculum in 1996.
He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1971 where he held a Cadetship in the Royal Air Force. After house jobs in Cornwall and an SHO post in A&E at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, he was Unit Medical Officer in the RAF before being selected for surgical training. On leaving the RAF he began his academic career in Cardiff at the then Welsh National School of Medicine before moving to Liverpool in 1982 as Senior Lecturer in Surgery.
He has a background in surgical oncology with clinical interests in breast cancer, malignant melanoma and soft tissue sarcoma. His research has been on the epidemiology and molecular biology of breast cancer and the psychological correlates of breast disease as well as aspects of medical education.
He was a subject reviewer for the QAA round of medical school inspections in 1998-1999 and was a member of the working group who wrote the QAA Benchmark Statement for Medicine in 2000. He became a member of the PLA Board in 1996 and has been involved in the subsequent reviews of PLAB chairing the Review Subgroup on Scope and Standards in the 2004 review.
He is a team leader for the GMC Quality Assurance of Basic Medical Education programme which is currently undertaking the inspection of medical schools in the UK. He has recently joined the Healthcare Commission's Clinical Standards Advisory Group and the PMETB Examinations Sub-Committee. He was Chair of the Association for the Study of Medical Education from 1998-2004.
Professor Trevor Beedham
Professor Trevor Beedham MBBS (Hons). BDS. FRCOG. Hon. DSc. was a dental surgeon. He is now Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Emeritus to Bart’s and the London NHS Trust and honorary Professor in the School of Medicine & Dentistry. He was also Deputy Medical Director and Associate Dean for Clinical Teaching until 2009. He was a Deanery Regional Advisor & the first Careers Officer at the RCOG. He was a member of the PLAB 1 panel, a Medical School Visitor since 2001 and is an assessor for Registration Appeals. He is Chairman of the Management Committee of the Diploma in The Forensic and Clinical Aspects of Sexual Assault and was Master of the Society of Apothecaries 2009-10. He has been an examiner in obstetrics and gynaecology to universities in the UK and abroad. He is an Honorary Member of the Central Association of OBGYN of the USA and is an approved site visitor for the International Association of Medical Colleges.
Professor David Blaney
Professor David Blaney is Undergraduate Dean of the Hull York Medical School. He qualified from Edinburgh in 1981 and worked as GP in the Scottish Highlands before moving to Edinburgh in 1999 to become Director of Postgraduate GP Education and Assoc. Postgraduate Dean. From 2007 -10 he was CEO of the Association for the Study of Medical Education. He has a Mmed from the University of Dundee and a EdD from the University of Stirling.
Miss Angela Carragher
Angela M. Carragher is a Consultant Surgeon and Associate Post Graduate Dean for Foundation Training in Northern Ireland. She graduated from University College Galway Medical School a constituent college of the National University of Ireland in June 1980 and interned in the International Missionary Training Hospital in Drogheda. After posts in Dublin and Toronto she pursued surgical training in Northern Ireland with an Oncology fellowship in MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas and a breast fellowship in Auckland New Zealand.
Angela was awarded Masters degree in medical education in July 2002 from Queens Belfast. She was appointed to NIMDTA to organise and administer Northern Ireland Foundation Programme in March 2005.
Ms Parina Thakerar
Parina Thakerar is a third year medical student at Leeds University. She enjoys all aspects of student life and has a keen interest in the various charitable societies at Leeds. She has also had first hand experience of the widening access and participation scheme between Leeds Medical School and Bradford University as well as experience on the staff-student liaison committee, which has reinforced her belief that students should be fully involved in the curriculum process. Parina’s interests include travelling, acting and reading.
Professor David Croisdale-Appleby
David is active in policy formulation in health and social care. He is Honorary Professor at the Wolfson Research Institute; Honorary Professor at the School of Medicine and Health at the University of Durham and Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Durham Business School. He is also a Member of the University Council and Chairman of Ustinov College and of the Life Sciences Ethical Review Committee.
David has had a broad range of health and social care involvement including Chairman of a Hospitals Trust (which includes the National Spinal Injury Centre at Stoke Mandeville); Deputy Chairman of a Mental Health Trust; a Board Member of the NHS Confederation; a Member of the Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee for the South East, and a GMC and PMETB Visitor for Medical Education. He is involved in the regulation of professionals involved in healthcare with the FHSAA and the Health Professions Council, and is Deputy Chairman of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners. He is Chairman of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Programme Development Group for Long-term Sickness and Incapacity.
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West Midlands Deanery team
Team Leader: Dr Barry Lewis
Director of Postgraduate GP Education, North Western Deanery
Barry is the Director of Postgraduate GP Education at the North Western Deanery and Chair of COGPED
Dr Stewart Irvine
Dr Stewart Irvine graduated from the University of Edinburgh, and completed postgraduate training in obstetrics and gynaecology in Edinburgh and Aberdeen. He held academic training posts in the University of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, followed by a clinical consultant post within the MRC Human Reproductive Sciences unit in Edinburgh, with clinical and research interests in the field of reproductive medicine – particularly issues affecting male reproductive health.
He held posts as RCOG College Tutor and Regional College Advisor, before assuming the responsibility of Associate Postgraduate Dean in South-East Scotland Deanery, responsible for training in the ‘surgical’ specialties.
Since 2008, Stewart has been Deputy Director of Medicine for NHS Education for Scotland – a special health board responsible for the education and training needs of all staff within NHS Scotland. With respect to postgraduate medical education, the 4 Scottish postgraduate deaneries are an integral part of NES. Dr Irvine has particular responsibility for quality management of PGME across Scotland, and for the performance management of the Medical ACT funding used to support undergraduate medical students in clinical placements. He is currently leading a programme of work within NES looking at the Quality Management of the Learning Environment across all professional groups.
Professor Simon Carley
Professor Simon Carley is an emergency medicine consultant and Foundation Training Programme Director in the North Western Deanery.
Ms Sally Williams
Sally Williams is a health policy analyst and health services researcher, with a particular interest in public protection, risk management, quality and safety. Sally is a non-executive director of NHS Cambridgeshire and chair of the PCT’s Quality and Safety Committee. She also represents the public interest in a number of organisations, including the General Medical Council, the London Deanery, the Nursing & Midwifery Council and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Sally has an MA in Health and Community Care from Durham University.
Dr Tom Foley
Tom is a Foundation Doctor in Newcastle and a Clinical Research Associate at Newcastle University. He also holds a BSc in Software Engineering from the University of Durham and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, which focused on economics and public policy analysis.
Before returning to university, Tom had worked as a Management Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and BDO Stoy Hayward. He mainly worked on the economic appraisal and evaluation of public sector projects and on rational change management in the public sector.
Tom has held various roles including Quality Assurance of Basic Medical Education Visitor with the GMC, Co-Chair of the BMA's Medical Student Committee. He has also been a member of the DIUS Gateway to the Professions Group, NHS Bursary Next Stage Review Steering Group, MEE MPET Review Group, MEE Medical Indicators Group, and BAMMbino Board Member.
Dr Jennie Lambert
Jennie graduated from Leeds University Medical School in June 2006 and completed Foundation and Acute Care Common Stem (Emergency Medicine) Training in the Yorkshire and Humber Deanery before becoming a Specialty Trainee in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in the London Deanery.
Throughout her undergraduate education Jennie was heavily involved in student representation and medical curriculum development. Roles, including President of the Leeds Medical Student Council, and positions on numerous Course Management Teams helped her to develop experience in trainee feedback and support, curriculum enhancement and delivery, and in assessment processes.
After graduation Jennie has embraced roles within the West Yorkshire Foundation Programme Management Team and the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Education Directorate. These positions have enabled her to further understand the challenges involved in delivering postgraduate medical education within both foundation and specialty training.
In 2009 Jennie founded the Mid Yorkshire Medical Journal, a clinical governance resource used by the Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust to disseminate trust level audit and research work as well as deliver locally led education on key national topics and initiatives. The journal recognises the hard work frontline practitioners are putting in to improve patient care and empowers them to make trust wide changes. The journal, which aims to be self funding, will be presented at the AMEE conference in August.
Jennie has been a member of QABME visiting teams since 2003 and QAFP visiting teams since 2008.
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Small specialty team - Occupational medicine
Team Leader: Professor Abdol Tavabie
Dean of Postgraduate GP Education, Kent Surry and Sussex Deanery. Professor Tavabie manages the whole of the Department of Posgraduate General Practice, with responsibility for both the GP School and Post Certification GP School providing educational support for GPs. He is also Deputy to the Dean Director and has a number of national roles.
Dr Frank Gallagher
Graduated from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980. Frank has been an Occupational Physician since 1989, and an Accredited Specialist since 1997. He practises independently. Frank is a former Senior Medical Inspector with the UK regulator of health and safety, The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), for whom he worked from 1992 to 2005. Frank is also an Honorary Lecturer in Occupational Medicine at The Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Manchester. He also provides communication skills training to doctors from all specialties. Prior to his career in Occupational Medicine Frank worked as a Principal in General Practice for 5 years in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, from 1984 to 1989.
Dr Christine May Barrett
Christine is currently an Independent NHS Healthcare Workforce Consultant. She previously worked as a Senior Lecturer (Post Qualifying and Post Graduate Nursing) in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton. Christine commenced nurse training in 1969 in Salisbury, Wiltshire and subsequently qualified as a teacher and completed a PhD. She held a variety of senior posts in the NHS, Independent Sector of Care and Higher Education as a Nurse Manager/Leader and Senior lecturer/ Researcher. Her national profile, in dermatological nursing, included editorship of the Dermatological Nursing journal for six years and Chair of the BDNG Scientific Committee.
Dr Nicholas P France
Nick is a Pharmaceutical Medicine Trainee and Senior Medical Advisor at GlaxoSmithKline focussing on the Neurosciences and Rare Disease pipeline. He has a clinical background in Paediatrics and Intensive Care Medicine and is a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child health. He has been involved with Quality Assurance with the GMC since 2005.
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Small specialty team - Psychotherapy
Team Leader: Professor Neil Jackson
Neil Jackson first entered general practice in 1974 and retired from active medical clinical practice in 1999 after 25 years as a full-time principal. He is a former GP Trainer, Course Organiser, Associate Regional Advisor in General Practice and Postgraduate Dean for General Practice in the former North Thames Deanery (1995 – 2001). In 2001 he was appointed Postgraduate Dean for General Practice in the London Deanery and in 2003 Honorary Professor of Medical Education at Queen Mary (Barts and the London Hospitals) University of London.
He is a former MRCGP Examiner and the author/editor of various books, book chapters, peer reviewed papers and articles on general practice/primary care/education and training issues. For the past several years he has worked as Visiting Family Medicine and Primary Care Consultant in countries of the former Russian Federation, including Georgia and Uzbekistan and more recently Japan and Poland. He is currently a GMC Associate and past PMETB partner with Leader Visitor status. He also chairs the RCGP Quality Management and Training Standards Committee and is Vice Chair of the RCGP Postgraduate Training Board. Both past and present he has been a member of various regional, national and UK postgraduate medical education and training committees/organisations.
Jane Nicholson
Jane Nicholson trained in psychiatric social work before qualifying as an adult psychotherapist and a career in NHS mental health services. From 1988 to 2008 she contributed to the psychotherapy training of trainee psychiatrists in Greater Manchester. Jane Nicholson sits as a lay member on the Mental Health Tribunal, the fitness to practise panel of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the advisory committee on Clinical Excellence Awards. Initially appointed to the independent Appeals Panel for PMETB in 2004, she later transferred to become a GMC Associate. She has been a member of GMC deanery visit teams and quality assurance panels.
Dr Maria Slade
Maria Slade began Histopathology Specialist Training in August 2011 within the Yorkshire Deanery. This followed completion of Foundation training in the Northern Deanery, during which she worked in the South Tees NHS Trust. Prior to graduation from Warwick Medical School in 2009, Maria completed a BSc at Bristol University’s Department of Pathology and Microbiology. In 2007, Maria joined the GMC’s Quality Assurance of Basic Medical Education group as a student visitor and, once qualified, worked with the Quality Assurance of the Foundation Programme teams.
Small specialty team - Paediatric cardiology
Team Leader: Graham Saunders
Graham has worked in NHS management posts for the whole of his professional career. After posts in Sunderland, Durham and Leeds he was appointed in 1982 as District Administrator and subsequently District General Manager of Harrogate Health Authority. He became Chief Executive of Harrogate Health Care Trust at its inception in 1992.
Graham was appointed Chief Executive of the West Yorkshire Workforce Development Confederation in July 2001. He retired from this post in September 2005 and worked as a Policy Advisor with NHS Employers and as an independent consultant with a particular interest in medical workforce issues and the wider field of Education and Development until 2010. He has been a PMETB Partner and a GMC Associate since 2009.
Prof. Jennifer Adgey
Jennifer has worked in the NHS for over 40years - 35 years as a Consultant Cardiologist (retired from NHS 2007) and 18 years as Honorary Professor Cardiology, Queen’s University Belfast.
Jennifer is currently Consultant Cardiologist (Hon), Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and Professor of Cardiology (Hon), Queen’s University, Belfast and is actively engaged in Cardiology Research. Her main fields of research are Early Diagnosis of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes and earlier management of Sudden Death.
Since 2007 Jennifer has acted as a Certification, Visits and Quality Adviser for PMETB/GMC, and has chaired the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) from 2007 –2010. In 2007 Jennifer was awarded DSc (Hon) by the University of Ulster for her contribution to the Bio-Medical Sciences and Bio-Engineering and in 2002 the CBE for services to Cardiology.
Dr. Richard Turnock
Richard was appointed as a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Alder Hey in 1993 having trained there and at Great Ormond Street.
In the past Richard has been both the Clinical Director of Surgery and Medical Director at Alder Hey. He was the Mersey Deanery Head of School of Surgery for 4 years, and examined for the Intercollegiate Boards in Paediatric Surgery for 10 years. Richard’s present roles include the NW regional Speciality Adviser for Paediatric Surgery and Chair of the NW Training Consortium, President elect of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, and remains a GMC (PMETB) external visitor.
Dr. Rosalind Blackwood
Ros is a final year Specialist Registrar in Public Health, currently based at NHS Solutions for Public Health, Oxford.
Ros completed her undergraduate training in Oxford and London, and following a variety of junior clinical posts, worked for a public sector research and consultancy undertaking local and national health services research projects as well as being a lead analyst for the former Commission for Health Improvement's clinical governance reviews. Ros has been a PMETB partner (trainee) and a GMC Associate since April 2008.
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