Team biographies
As part of the quality assurance process, medical schools and deaneries are assessed by teams of visitors: During 2012/13 the GMC will also pilot a review of small specialties as part of its Thematic QA approach.
London visit teams for 2012
New school and programme review teams
Small specialty review teams
North east London team
Team Leader: 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.
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.
Russell Peek
Russell Peek is a Consultant Paediatrician in Gloucestershire and a Training Programme Director with the Severn Deanery Postgraduate School of Paediatrics.
Russell graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1997, before undertaking postgraduate training in Paediatrics in Scotland and the Southwest of England. During his training he developed particular interests in neonatal medicine and in medical education. He is nearing completion of a Master’s programme in Medical Education with the University of Bristol, with a research interest in inter-professional learning from critical incidents.
He joined the Severn School of Paediatrics at a challenging time, as Modernising Medical Careers led to significant changes in postgraduate training. As training programme director he has been involved in continuous development of the regional training programme, in assessment and support of trainees and in evaluation and quality assurance of training posts.
Carolyn Evans
Appointed Consultant anaesthetist Bradford 1989. Between 1991 – 2002 College Tutor, Programme Director Leeds/Bradford SpR School of Anaesthesia and Chair of Anaesthetic Speciality Training Committee.
Royal College of Anaesthetists Regional Advisor Yorkshire 2002-2008. Yorkshire LTFT Anaesthetic Advisor 1998-2008.
Appointed Royal College of Anaesthetists Less Than Full Time Training Advisor 2009-2013. Awarded Humphrey Davey Medal by RCoA 2011 for work undertaken over many years at regional and national level in support of LTFT in anaesthesia.
PMETB Partner 2005-2010; GMC Affiliate since 2010
Current areas of interest: promoting LTFT within the specialty and trying to address the “Return to Work” vacuum for trainees and permanent staff, full time and LTFT, returning to clinical practice after a career break – how to manage a successful RTW and meet patient safety concerns.
Roger Barton
Professor of Clinical Medicine at University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Roger qualified with honours and trained in Newcastle, Edinburgh and London, before becoming a consultant gastroenterologist and Reader in Medicine at Newcastle University. He was awarded a chair of clinical medicine in 2000. Currently, he is Chair of the Board of Studies for Newcastle. He is Director of Education for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust. He completed a certificate of medical education in 1997, a diploma in 2003, and his Masters with merit in 2005.
He was a subject specialist reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) assessment of UK medical schools, and international review chairman for the World Bank-sponsored QAA Quality in Education project in Indonesia over 5 years. He is senior advisor to the Royal College of Physicians on the national and international Physicians as Educators programme, and has just been appointed Associate Director (Education) to the RCP. He is a subject specialist advisor to the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Medicine, and has advised UK medical schools on all aspects of curriculum, teaching and learning. He was appointed as an Educational Visitor to the General Medical Council in 2003.
He is Education Advisor to the National Endoscopy Training Programme, currently devising a national assessment for colonoscopy. He chairs the multi-college/specialist society Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Accreditation Panel. He is a member of the MRCP(UK) Clinical Examining Board. He is one of the 5 principal leads for the Universities Medical Assessment Partnership project. He is the external examiner to the University College London / RCP Certificate & Diploma in Education programme.
Areas of Expertise: Educational theory, curriculum design, teaching skills, assessment, fitness to practice.
Ghazia Saleemi
Ghazia graduated from the University of Dundee in 2000 and having spent time in the Yorkshire, Severn and North West deaneries, commenced her specialist training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Mersey deanery. She has experienced the training programmes in four deaneries, which has been enlightening as to the differences between regions and she hopes to use this when working for the GMC.
Currently, Ghazia is an active member of the trainees committee, organises the regional teaching programme and attends the School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology board meetings. She is involved in delivering the teaching and training of medial students, junior doctors and midwives either practically or lecture based, in particular the mandatory skill drills.
In the future, she hopes to further her interest in education and use my experience whilst she undertakes this post with the GMC to improve education and training in her speciality.
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.
Jane Nicholson
Jane Nicholson practised as a psychiatric social worker before qualifying as an adult psychotherapist and a career in NHS mental health services. She contributed to the psychotherapy training of psychiatrists in Greater Manchester.
Jane Nicholson sits on the Mental Health Tribunal, a judicial body which determines the necessity for continued detention of patients with a mental disorder. She is a member of the GMC Registration Panel and the advisory committee for Clinical Excellence Awards.
Appointed in 2004 to the independent Appeals Panel for PMETB, Jane Nicholson later transferred to be a GMC Associate. She has been a member of six GMC deanery visit teams including a triggered visit and a pilot combined QAFP/Specialty training visit. She has sat on quality assurance and certification panels. During 2011/12, she was a member of the GMC thematic review team for the small specialty of psychotherapy.
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North central London team
Team Leader: Steve Heys
Co-Director of the Institute of Medical Sciences and Head of the Division of Applied Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, at the University of Aberdeen.
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 and has been a consultant surgeon since 1992.
He has played a key role in medical education locally and an external examiner at universities in the UK. He has a specific interest in all aspects of undergraduate education and its interface with the changes in postgraduate training.
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 204 papers and 29 book chapters. He has been 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.
He has worked with the QABME programme for 12 years and has been team leader with PMETB and the GMC for Postgraduate Deanery visits several times previously.
Simon Carley
Simon is an Emergency Physician based in Manchester. He works in both adult and paediatric emergency medicine.
Simon has worked with the GMC since 2010 as an education associate. He has directed the foundation program at Central Manchester since 2008. He has designed and delivered a range of educational interventions in emergency medicine, developing the first UK Masters program in emergency medicine at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has research and education interests in major incident management, human factors, emergency diagnostics and evidence based emergency medicine. He has published over 100 papers, books and book chapters.
Stewart Irvine
Stewart 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.
Stewart 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.
From 2012, Stewart has acted as Director of Medicine for NHS Education for Scotland – a special health board responsible for the education and training needs of all staff groups within NHS Scotland. With respect to postgraduate medical education, the 4 Scottish postgraduate deaneries are an integral part of the Medical Directorate of NES. Prior to this, from 2008, was Deputy Director with 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.
Lindsey Pope
Lindsey brings a combination of undergraduate and postgraduate educational experience. She is a Clinical University Teacher at Glasgow University and Lead for Communication Skills and 3rd Year Clinical Practice in the Community. Lindsey is also a GP principal and trainer, as well as a MRCGP Examiner.
Lindsey is a member of the Scottish Educational Research Strategy Group and National Undergraduate Palliative Care Curriculum Group. She is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Health Professions Education and completed the Masters component in July 2011.
Lindsey is actively involved in research and completed an ASME research studentship on Changing forms of professional responsibility: exploring workplace pedagogies in transitions. Other areas of research interest (past and present) incluse: the benefits of longitudinal GP placements, combining undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in a GP setting, and patient safety.
Deborah Murdoch-Eaton
Professor Deborah Murdoch-Eaton joined the School of Medicine in Leeds in 1991 as a lecturer, became Senior Lecturer in 1995 in a new joint clinical and medical education post. She was awarded a personal chair in Medical Education in 2002. She has been actively involved over the last 20 years in not only developing, steering and managing course components, but also in wider strategic managerial, knowledge transfer and research educational activities. Her key areas of interest are around developing student’s skills to achieve their potential, the role of feedback in learning, and global health.
She is currently Director of Student Education, with strategic responsibility for all undergraduate, intercalated and Taught postgraduate learning and teaching provision.
She has led on a wide range of medical educational areas, and played an active role locally and internationally in undergraduate medical programme redesigns. The breadth and depth of her educational expertise has enabled her to develop a national and international profile and undertake medical educational consultancy, particularly in low/ middle income countries.
Róisín Finn
Dr Róisín Finn graduated with a BMBS Distinction from Peninsula Medical School in 2010. Having completed the Academic (Research) Foundation Programme in Exeter, she is now a Speciality Training Registrar (StR) in Neurosurgery in the Northern Deanery.
She regularly participates in undergraduate teaching and holds a holds an Honorary University Fellowship with Exeter University. In her spare time, she is completing the final year of a part-time masters of surgical science (MSc) from the University of Edinburgh
She has been involved with GMC QABME since 2007. Committed and enthusiastic by nature, she ran the local junior doctor body quality improvement consortium whilst a foundation trainee.
Leigh Wilson
Leigh Wilson has completed the fourth year of his medical degree at Newcastle University and is now undertaking an intercalated Masters studying Clinical Education. He has been involved in quality assurance processes since 2010 as a student representative on the university’s Board of Medical Studies. He is a member of his medical school’s Assessment Working Group and part of a group reviewing the format of appraisals and portfolios for Newcastle MBBS students.
Leigh undertook a project surveying Newcastle medical students’ opinions of student representation; this is an area in which he takes particular interest. He has acted as MBBS course representative to the Newcastle students’ union (2011-12) and has led a conference workshop on improving representation through student engagement. Leigh is an active student member of the BMA, attending the Medical Students’ Conference annually since 2010 and representing Newcastle students’ views as their Intra-school Committee Chair (2011-12).
David Croisdale-Appleby
David is actively involved in policy formulation in health and social care, particularly on the integration of healthcare 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.
David has had a broad range of healthcare and social care involvement including Chairman of an NHS Hospitals Trust (which includes the National Spinal Injury Centre at Stoke Mandeville); Deputy Chairman of a Mental Health Trust; Chairman of a number of Learning Disability organizations, a Board Member of the NHS Confederation; a member of a Multi-centre Medical Research Ethics Committee, a founder member of the National Social Care Research Ethics Committee, a panelist at the Health Professions Council, and a longstanding GMC and PMETB Visitor for Medical Education. He is involved in the regulation of professionals involved in healthcare with the Primary Health Tribunal Service (formerly the FHSAA), an advisor to the MRC, and is Chairman of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners.
David is Chairman of Skills for Care, the sector skills council for Adult Social Care in England, and Chairman of Skills for Care and Development, the UK-wide sector skills council for adult and children’s social care and social work. At the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) David was Chair of the Programme Development Group for Long-term Sickness and Incapacity, which published its National Guidance in 2009, and is currently Chair of the Topic Expert Group for Care of People with Dementia, due to publish its Guidance in 2013. He has chaired a number of international conferences on social care. A prominent campaigner for social justice, David has recently been appointed as the Honorary Ambassador for the United Kingdom for the Nelson Mandela Legacy Project, the creation of the first specialist Paediatric Hospital to serve the children of South Africa and the Southern Africa Development Community
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North west London team
Team Leader: Anne Garden
Anne Garden is Head of Lancaster Medical School at Lancaster University.
Anne initially trained as an Obstetrician Gynaecologist developing a sub-specialist interest in Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, authoring two books on the subject.
She has had a major interest in Medical Education for 20 years, initially in conjunction with her clinical role but going on to become Director of Medical Studies and subsequently Head of the School of Medical Education at the University of Liverpool, where her interest in developing professionalism led to a successful bid for a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Anne moved to Lancaster in 2006 to set up the Medical School.
She was a sub-specialist reviewer for Medicine with the QAA from 1998-2000; a Team Leader for QABME from 2004-2010 and an external examiner at several Medical Schools. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Education and of the Higher Education Academy.
Jill Edwards
Jill is a GP in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire and has a special interest in medical education. As a clinical tutor she taught communication skills at the University of Oxford and currently runs a communication survival course for postgraduate students in Dermatology at Cardiff University. She is an Associate GP Dean in the Oxford Deanery with responsibility for GP training in Oxfordshire. For the past five years she has worked for the RCGP as Medical Director for Quality Management and Training Standards. She is a quality assurance visitor for the GMC for both specialty training and the foundation programme.
Keith Myerson
Keith Myerson is an anaesthetist and is a former spokesman and council member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He has held several national roles in relation to assessment, and was an examiner for the final FRCA exam. He has a long standing interesting in improving the quality of assessment in medical education and co-authored the Association of Medical Royal College's 2009 publication 'Improving Assessment'. He is also a founder member of the Society for Education in Anaesthesia (SEAUK). Keith has recently retired from clinical practice to pursue his interest in sailing.
Helen Sweetland
Helen is a consultant surgeon and an educational supervisor for junior medical staff in training. She has had extensive involvement in undergraduate medical education for >15 years. Helen is currently the Vice Dean for Medical Education so has responsibility for the overall management of the undergraduate programme in the School of Medicine, Cardiff University. She has managed assessments, dealt with quality issues, including GMC QABME returns and a QIF visit, and dealt with many student problems.
She is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, has been an external examiner for several medical schools and contributed to the undergraduate and postgraduate educational literature. She has been a member of the GMC PLAB Part2 Panel (2006-09).
Kyle Gibson
Kyle graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School in June 2010 and is due to complete Academic Foundation Training in the South-East Scotland Deanery in July 2012. He will begin training in ACCS Anaesthetics in August 2012 during which he will further develop his interests in Intensive Care Medicine and Medical Education.
During his time as an undergraduate, Kyle was convenor of the University of Edinburgh Medical School’s Council and also co-founded an undergraduate society aimed at promoting academic medicine, which continues to host a successful annual research conference for medical students. In 2006/2007 Kyle completed an intercalated degree in Pharmacology with Industrial Experience; this stimulated interest in Clinical Pharmacology and Kyle subsequently led a regional foundation doctor teaching programme to teach final year students a series of prescribing tutorials.
Kate Bowman
Kate Bowman began her medical degree in St Andrews, and is now in her final 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 events including FastForward – a national student competition and conference 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.
Jeffrey Serf
Jeff Serf was, until September 2011, the Associate Dean in the University of Wolverhampton’s School of Education with responsibility for Quality Assurance and Enhancement, and played a significant role in the University’s quality assurance procedures. He was engaged regularly in matters relating to the professional conduct of students and staff across the University. He was also responsible for the School of Education’s Category A Initial Teacher Education (ITE) provision, leading a team of over 50 academics. He has extensive experience as an Ofsted Additional Inspector of ITE, as well as expertise in curriculum design, assessment processes and procedures and effective learning and teaching. His current research interests include education for democratic citizenship and global learning. He has published extensively in these areas, as well as in matters relating to ITE in general.
Natalie McMillan
Natalie McMillan is the Assistant Director of HR at York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Natalie has an extensive background in HR within the NHS. Since joining York Hospital in 2005, Natalie has overseen the development of the HR service provided to medical staff including the implementation of an enhanced recruitment process. Natalie has a key role working in partnership with the BMA at the Trust.
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South east London team
Team Leader: Sam Leinster
Dean of the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice at the University of East Anglia from 2001-2011.
Professor Sam Leinster was the Inaugural Dean of the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice at the University of East Anglia from 2001-2011, which is one of the new medical schools established in response to the perceived need to train more doctors in England. His major interests are curriculum planning and assessment.
Prior to taking up this post 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.
Celia Duff
Dr Celia Duff is a consultant in public health medicine with a long involvement in medical education. Currently the training programme director for higher training in public health medicine in the East of England she is a past Assistant Academic Registrar for the Faculty of Public Health and Director of Clinical Studies at Clare College, Cambridge. Celia was responsible for the development and delivery of the 2007 public health curriculum and the national implementation of Modernising medical Careers. Her work pioneered inclusion of public health both in the Foundation Curriculum at that time and in the development of F2 posts in public health. As a Fellow of Clare College, Celia’s involvement with undergraduate medicine spans medical student selection, public health teaching and career guidance.
Celia’s public health career spans twenty seven years during which she also has significant humanitarian experience with deployment to Macedonia in 1999 to support the evacuation of refugees from Kosovo and to Iraq to support the reconstruction of health services in 2003.
Celia’s current areas of specialist interest include recruitment and selection methodology.
Ian Barker
Ian Barker is a retired consultant paediatric anaesthetist from Sheffield. In addition to his clinical duties he was training programme director for North Trent for 6 years and subsequently Royal College of Anaesthetists Regional Advisor for a similar period. Ian was an examiner for the FRCA for 10 years, and was one of the authors of the current curriculum for anaesthesia training in the UK.
Since retirement he continues to teach and undertake practice exams. He’s joined the GMC’s RCAT team and assesses anaesthetic applications for CESR.
Peter Coventry
Peter Coventry is Director of Curriculum at the School of Medicine, Keele University and a part-time GP in Shropshire. Having been appointed as Senior Lecturer in Medical Education in 2006, he initially co-led the development and then implementation in 2007 of the first year of the new Keele undergraduate course as well as contributing to the recruitment and support of a network of GP placements. In 2008 he became responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of the whole curriculum; this included leading Keele through the QABME accreditation process.
Rebecca Dobson
Rebecca graduated from Leicester Medical School in 2005 and has undertaken her post-graduate training in the Mersey Deanery. She is a ST5 Cardiology Registrar, and is out-of-programme at present as she has a 2-year post with the University of Liverpool as a Clinical Research Fellow, working towards an MD qualification in the field of cardiac imaging. She has worked with a variety of GMC visiting teams.
Ahmed Osman
Ahmed is a current 4th year medical student at the University of Bristol with a first-class degree in Physiological Sciences. He has an active interest in medical education and the crossover between this field and technology; publishing several papers in this area in recent years. He has played an active role in curriculum development at Bristol, sitting on the student board and participating in the creation of a new ‘vertical theme’ of the Bristol course in Quality Improvement. His career aspirations are based on medical education and quality improvement that, in line with his GMC role, he hopes to gain further experience in.
Paula Burton
Paula left full-time employment as a Vice Principal of an urban college of further education in 1997. From 1998 and for several years she worked as a self-employed educational consultant. From this time she also began working as an Associate/Additional inspector for the Adult learning and Training Inspectorate (now Ofsted). Currently she accepts inspection commissions via SERCO Inspection Services, inspecting primarily in the areas of Health and Social Care and Child Care.
Paula was a Non-Executive Director in the NHS from 2000 to 2012. Initially this was with Shropshire Health Authority and latterly with Shropshire County Primary Care Trust. Following the recent organisational changes, she acts as a Locality Support Lay Member on the Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Committee and Chair of the Patient and Public Engagement Committee.
In March 2012 she was appointed as a Lay Chair Panellist on Fitness to Practice Panels for the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Paula has been a Justice of the Peace since 1998. She chairs in both the adult and youth courts.
Zubair Qureshi
Zubair is a Consultant Physician in General Medicine, Diabetes and Endocrinology at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is also the Undergraduate Tutor and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Manchester Medical School. His main areas of interest in clinical medicine include: diabetes and endocrinology in pre-conception and pregnancy; diabetes and endocrinology in young adults and also acute diabetes and endocrinology. Zubair is the lead consultant for diabetes at his Acute Trust. He plays a leading role in the overall policy development and care of diabetes in the mid Cheshire area.
Zubair has always been very keen and actively involved in teaching undergraduates and trainee doctors in his career. Over the last 5 years, he has led the undergraduate department at his Acute Trust. He takes a very active part in teaching medical students. He is also an educational supervisor for the trainee doctors in his department. Zubair has accreditation as a Physician Educator and is an associate of the Higher Education Academy. He has been a co-author on the Medical Masterclass education resource of the Royal College of Physicians, London since 2000. He has co-authored textbooks, CD-ROMs and contributed to the Medical Masterclass website.
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South west London team
Team Leader: Sam Leinster
Dean of the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice at the University of East Anglia from 2001-2011.
Professor Sam Leinster was the Inaugural Dean of the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice at the University of East Anglia from 2001-2011, which is one of the new medical schools established in response to the perceived need to train more doctors in England. His major interests are curriculum planning and assessment.
Prior to taking up this post 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.
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.
Jo Mountfield
Jo Mountfield is a Consultant Obstetrician and Director of Education at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. As a Consultant Obstetrician she works in a team with special interest in teenage pregnancies, and substance abuse and maintains a full on call commitment. Her trust education role involves leading the development management and delivery of education across the Trust for all staff groups. The trust has a fully integrated educational structure which Jo helped develop.
She has a well-established interest in education and training and completed a master’s degree in education prior to her appointment as a Consultant in 2001. Prior to taking up the post of Director of Education in 2006 she had primarily been involved in medical education, both locally and nationally within Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She has also worked in a number of roles within the Wessex Deanery and currently is the Head of school for Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Sexual Health.
Martin Rowan-Robinson
Martin is currently a Senior Partner in a Derby city centre Practice serving a multiethnic population with high levels of deprivation, mental illness alcohol and drug problems. He is one of two Partners who take lead responsibility for services for patients with alcohol or drug problems. He is one of four lead clinicians for a local cluster of Practices covering a population of over 100,000 and has a specific interest in supporting the frail elderly in the community and avoiding inappropriate admissions whenever possible.
Martin is also a Fellow of the Royal College of GPs and was Provost of the Trent Faculty of the RCGP until September 2009.
Until 2008 Martin was also the Director of Graduate Entry Medicine at Nottingham University based in Derby, where his main areas of responsibility were:
- Clinical and communication Skills for the first 18 months of the Nottingham Graduate Entry programme
- PPD for first 18 months of the Nottingham Graduate Entry programme
- Community placements for Nottingham students based in Derby
- Expanding community based learning for Nottingham students based in Derby
- QA and recruitment for primary care in Southern Derbyshire
- Member of SIFT allocation committee
James Read
James Read is an Academic F2 doctor working in the South West Peninsula Deanery. His current post includes both general medicine and a role in medical education, teaching medical students, junior doctors and allied healthcare professionals. He has previously been a student visitor with the GMC on 3 previous visit cycles.
James has a strong interest in medical education and currently Chairs the Early Careers Group of the Academy of Medical Educators. He is also the previous Chairman of the Peninsula Medical Student Parliament. At present he is studying for a postgraduate certificate in clinical education and will begin a post in Core Medical Training in Plymouth from August.
George Smith
George Smith is a graduate entry student at Warwick Medical School. He has a BSc in Biological Sciences and 4 years NHS experience in nutrition & implementing clinical IT systems for organisations across the UK. The latter gave him project management, business change and risk management experience. He is currently undertaking research in the field of sleep medicine and investigating a relationship between sleep duration and body mass index. A commentary on this has been provided for publication in a text book of epidemiology later in 2012. Being a keen mountaineer he is looking forward to his elective in Nepal in 2013.
Katie Carter
Katie worked in senior positions in further and higher education in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From 1997 to 2005 she was Chief Executive of the UK healthcare regulator, the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice, a body that set standards for and quality-assured GP training. She then became the first Director of Quality & Standards for the PMETB. Since 2006 Katie has been self-employed and has worked for a number of postgraduate medical deaneries and medical royal colleges and the Legal Complaints Service of the Law Society. She is a GMC Associate and a member of the GMC’s Registration Panel. In addition to her work in healthcare, since 2007, Katie has been an Assistant Adjudicator for the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education.
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Keele Medical School team
Team Leader: Julius Weinberg
Vice Chancellor of Kingston University.
Professor 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.
Nick Bishop
Dr 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.
David Croisdale-Appleby
Professor Croisdate-Appleby 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.
Hannah Donnelly
Dr 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.
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.
Chris Stephens
Dr 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
David Taylor
Dr 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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Lancaster/Liverpool Medical School team
Team Leader: Paul O'Neil
University appointed governor for the South Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor O’Neill was the first Professor of Medical Education at the University of Manchester and is a consultant physician with special interests in geriatric and stroke medicine. He was the Head of Manchester Medical School and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences (2007-10). Paul is the University appointed governor for the South Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He received a National Teaching Fellowship in 2001 and was the chair of the Universities Medical Assessment Partnership and now serves on the board on the Medical Schools Council Assessment Alliance. Internationally, Paul has been a member of Faculty for the Harvard-Macy medical educators programme and has acted as an education consultant in Europe and North America. More recently, he has led the option appraisal and then the work devising a new selection system for the Foundation Programme in the UK. He is also a member of the Health Science Programme Board and Foundation Programme Board.
Judy McKimm
Judy’s current role is Professor and Dean in Medical Education, College of Medicine, Swansea University and prior to that worked in New Zealand for four years, at the University of Auckland latterly as Pro-Dean, Health and Social Care, Unitec Institute of Technology. Judy initially trained as a nurse and has an academic background in social and health sciences, in education and management. She was Director of Undergraduate Medicine at Imperial College London until 2004 and led the curriculum development and implementation of the new undergraduate medical programme at Imperial. She has worked on international health workforce and education reform projects for DfID, AusAID, the World Bank and WHO in Central Asia, Portugal, Greece, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Australia and the Pacific. She has been a reviewer and accreditor for the GMC, QAA, the Higher Education Academy and the Academy of Medical Educators for many years and is a member of ASME Executive and AoME Council. She is Director of ASME’s Educational Leadership programme, writes and publishes widely and runs clinical leadership and educational development workshops internationally. Until September 2005, she was an Academy Senior Adviser, responsible for developing and implementing the accreditation of professional development programmes and the development of professional standards for teachers in HE.
Will Owen
Will Owen is currently in the 3rd year of the graduate-entry medical course at Oxford Medical School, having completed a degree in Physiological Sciences at Oxford University in 2009. He is currently a Lecturer in Medicine at Jesus College, Oxford, teaching phsyiology and pharmacology to undergraduate medical students at the College. He is also the president of the Graduate-entry Medical Society, and sits on the graduate-entry medical education committee.
Sue Hobbs
Sue is a Registered General Nurse and has broad clinical experience in medical nursing, critical care, neurosciences and theatre nursing in the UK and the USA before diversifying her career into international recruitment and hospital commissioning. Her career path has also included teaching at both undergraduate and post graduate level. In 1983 Sue was appointed as a senior clinical manager at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, and in 1988 as Assistant Unit General Manager and Director of Nursing at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Between 1993 until 1997 Sue was the Director of Professional Practice at Plymouth Community Services NHS Trust. In 1997 she was appointed as the Chief Nurse for the University of Wales Healthcare NHS Trust in Cardiff. Sue has more recently gained six years experience as a non executive director for NHS Professionals.
Her current portfolio includes Chair/Trustee for three charities, one of which is St Loye’s, Exeter which specialises in providing residential and programmed training for adults with an acquired physical disability. Sue also works as an associate for IMD Consulting, and as an Associate with the Education Committee of the General Medical Council. Sue is married, lives in Devon and enjoys sailing.
Stephen Ball
Dr Ball qualified in 1981 and undertook vocational training which was completed in 1986.
Stephen has been GP Trainer and Course Organiser and General Practice Associate Dean with the South Yorkshire and South Humber Deanery, prior to its amalgamation with Yorkshire. He also undertook duties from the secondary care side of the Deanery, becoming an Associate Dean and for a while Acting Deputy Dean.
He was involved in one of the initial pilots to develop a Foundation Programme and was responsible with colleagues for setting up a number of systems relevant to this. Stephen was particularly interested in generic education and educational supervision. For many years he has been interested in the assessment of competence having been an RCGP Examiner and taking oversight of doctors who are experiencing difficulty in training in South Yorkshire.
Stephen continues to work part time as a GP.
Matt Kirkman
Dr Kirkman is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) in neurosurgery based in the London Deanery. He has been a GMC Education Associate since his first year as a foundation doctor, when he was an Academic Foundation Trainee in the North Western Deanery. His undergraduate training was at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MBBS) and Imperial College London (BSc). Matthew has a broad interest in education having completed a Postgraduate Certificate in the subject and currently completing the MEd degree in Surgical Education at Imperial College London.
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St George's (London) Medical School team
Team Leader: Sam Leinster
Dean of the School of Medicine,Health Policy and Practice at the University of East Anglia from 2001-2011.
Professor Leinster was the Inaugural Dean of the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice at the University of East Anglia from 2001-2011, which is one of the new medical schools established in response to the perceived need to train more doctors in England. His major interests are curriculum planning and assessment.
Prior to taking up this post 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.
Martin Rowan-Robinson
Dr Rowan-Robinson is currently a Senior Partner in a Derby city centre Practice serving a multiethnic population with high levels of deprivation, mental illness alcohol and drug problems. He is one of two Partners who take lead responsibility for services for patients with alcohol or drug problems. He is one of four lead clinicians for a local cluster of Practices covering a population of over 100,000 and has a specific interest in supporting the frail elderly in the community and avoiding inappropriate admissions whenever possible.
Martin is also a Fellow of the Royal College of GPs and was Provost of the Trent Faculty of the RCGP until September 2009.
Until 2008 Martin was also the Director of Graduate Entry Medicine at Nottingham University based in Derby, where his main areas of responsibility were:
- Clinical and communication Skills for the first 18 months of the Nottingham Graduate Entry programme
- PPD for first 18 months of the Nottingham Graduate Entry programme
- Community placements for Nottingham students based in Derby
- Expanding community based learning for Nottingham students based in Derby
- QA and recruitment for primary care in Southern Derbyshire
- Member of SIFT allocation committee
George Smith
George Smith is a second year graduate entry student at Warwick Medical School. He has a BSc in Biological Sciences and 4 years NHS experience implementing clinical IT systems to hospitals across the UK. He is a keen mountaineer and wishes to be an expedition Doctor in the future.
Dr Damian Day
Damian Day is Head of Education & Quality Assurance at the General Pharmaceutical Council, the national regulator for pharmacy; prior to that he worked for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in a similar role. He is responsible for education & training standards setting in pharmacy, the accreditation of five-year MPharm degrees (including overseas delivery of GB degrees), pharmacist Pre-registration training, non-medical prescribing courses, the GPhC’s national Registration Assessment, CPD and revalidation. He is also responsible for the accreditation of pharmacy technician and pharmacy support staff qualifications.
Mr Day has an interest in transnational education and has worked recently on accreditation/regulatory projects for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lithuania, Serbia and Croatia. He is an academic auditor for the Higher Education & Training Awards Council in the Republic of Ireland and a lay member of the Solicitors Regulatory Authority’s Education and Training Committee. He was one of the national validators for the United Kingdom’s Framework for Higher Education Qualifications.
Previously, Mr Day worked as a university academic. He has been an institutional auditor and subject reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), the regulator for higher education, and has worked on projects for agencies such as the EU and UNESCO. He has been an external examiner at City University and remains an examiner for the International Baccalaureate.
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Newcastle Medical School (Malaysia campus) team
Team Leader: Peter McCrorie
Head of Department, St George's Hospital Medical School
Professor 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.
Richard Hays
Professor 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.
Robert Peveler
Professor 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.
Janice Rymer
Professor 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.
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.
Peter McCarthy
MA (Education), PGCE, Registered Ofsted Inspector and accredited School Improvement Partner.
Main areas of expertise; Teaching and learning, assessment, mathematics, leadership and management, Ofsted school inspection, school self-evaluation and improvement and target setting.
Experience includes; Education adviser, Primary Strategy Manager, Ofsted Inspector, Local Authority Adviser for School Improvement and Numeracy Consultant in a wide range of urban and rural schools, school Governor, Teacher in KS1 and 2, QCA Test Development Group and KS1 National Tests Auditor.
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Swansea Medical School team
Team Leader: Sean Hilton
Professor of General Practice and Primary Careat St George's, University of London.
Professor 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.
Richard Hays
Professor 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.
Caroline Boggis
Professor 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.
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.
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.
Chris Fowler
Professor 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.
Chris Hands
Dr 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.
Carol Lamyman-Davies
Carol Lamyman-Davies is Director of the Board of Community Health Councils in Wales, and possesses an MSc in Management of Education. She directs and manages the work of the statutory health watchdogs, the Community Health Councils. These have overall lay responsibility for scrutinising and monitoring all NHS services in Wales.
Carol is the lay member on the Swansea College of Medicine visiting team, providing a Welsh perspective. Specialising in media relations, she undertakes interviews in both English and Welsh languages.
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Southampton/Kassel Team
Team Leader: 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.
Shehla Baig
Shehla is the (SGUL) academic lead for the MBBS 4 Nicosia franchise and leads on curriculum development for the early years of the Graduate Programme at SGUL. She has experience in reviewing curriculum content, tailoring staff development, mentoring, and quality assurance for the transnational medical education context. The development of systems and processes that facilitate academic liaison, relationship building and shared decision making with University of Nicosia are part of her day to day work.
She was part of small team of clinicians that set up the first Graduate Entry Programme MBBS in September 2000 at St George’s. From design, development, implementation, teaching, PBL tutoring, staff development and post launch review, she was involved in all areas of this PBL curriculum and its assessment. She has worked as the lead academic for curriculum review (2008), PBL, Head of Year, developing early years clinical placements and community-based education for the Graduate Programme.
She brings a hands-on perspective to quality management based on delivering in all areas of the early years undergraduate curriculum. She is a practising General Practitioner with broad clinical content expertise. She has a strong interest in how basic, clinical, social science and ethics inform clinical practice, curriculum integration and experiential learning methods.
Steve Capey
Steve’s current role is the assessment director for the graduate entry medicine programme at Swansea University’s college of medicine. Prior to that he was involved in the development of the Keele University medical curriculum and acted as the one of the leads for the third year of the course. Steve initially trained as a pharmacologist at the University of Wales College of Medicine and completed his doctorate in the area of cardiovascular disease; recently he has been involved in curriculum design and medical education research into assessments. He is a member of AoME, ASME and AMEE and has presented his research findings at numerous national and international meetings.
Obadah Ghannam
Obadah is currently a fifth year medical student studying at Imperial College, London, and has previously studied a BSc in Management at Imperial College. He works with an organisation called the Muslim Healthcare Student Network, which aims to provide a known source of guidance for Islamic medical ethics. Through this organisation, he has worked with the NHS Blood and Transplant to help empower Muslim patients to make more informed choices on the issue of organ donation from an Islamic perspective. He has worked with the GMC since 2011, where he shadowed the quality assurance team on a visit to Warwick university.
Jeffrey Serf
Jeff Serf was, until September 2011, the Associate Dean in the University of Wolverhampton’s School of Education with responsibility for Quality Assurance and Enhancement, and played a significant role in the University’s quality assurance procedures. He was engaged regularly in matters relating to the professional conduct of students and staff across the University. He was also responsible for the School of Education’s Category A Initial Teacher Education (ITE) provision, leading a team of over 50 academics. He has extensive experience as an Ofsted Additional Inspector of ITE, as well as expertise in curriculum design, assessment processes and procedures and effective learning and teaching. His current research interests include education for democratic citizenship and global learning. He has published extensively in these areas, as well as in matters relating to ITE in general.
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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Plymouth School of Medicine
Team leader: Peter Coventry
Dr Coventry is Director of Curriculum at the School of Medicine, Keele University and a part-time GP in Shropshire. Having been appointed as Senior Lecturer in Medical Education in 2006, he initially co-led the development and then implementation in 2007 of the first year of the new Keele undergraduate course as well as contributing to the recruitment and support of a network of GP placements. In 2008 he became responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of the whole curriculum; this included leading Keele through the QABME accreditation process.
Abdul (Ahad) Wahid
Mr Wahid is a fifth and penultimate year medical student at Imperial College London with a first class honours BSc in Healthcare Management from Imperial Business School.
He has a strong interest in quality assurance and has held various related positions within his medical school. His passion for medical education prompted him to lead a six month group project on Innovation, and question ‘whether medical school encourages innovation thinking’. He is currently in the process of publishing this paper and recently presented at the prestigious AMEE conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Jean McKendree
Dr McKendree joined Hull York Medical School in 2003 before the school opened. As Associate Dean for Assessment and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education, her current primary areas of responsibility are assessment strategies, eLearning, postgraduate training in teaching and learning, and educational research. She received her first degree in Neuropsychology from Trinity University and her MSc and PhD in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Jean's research involves applying cognitive science principles to educational areas including educational technology, organisational change, the role of discussion in learning, graphical representations for reasoning in and across disciplines, reflection and metacognition, effectiveness of assessments, and critical thinking skills as well as research methodologies including quantitative analysis and qualitative methods including dialogue analysis, cognitive task analysis, repertory grid, and textual analysis.
Janice Rymer
Dr Rymer is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at King's College School of Medicine at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals. She qualified with MB ChB 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, seven first author textbooks and two other textbooks. She is in charge of the Reproductive and Sexual Health undergraduate curriculum for King's College, London, and runs a DRCOG course twice a year for trainee General Practitioners. She has been an OSCE chairman for the RCOG and ran the RCOG Part II courses for the last three years.
Other extramural positions include Member of the RCOG Council 1997-2005 and Member of the British Menopause Society Council 1986-1992. She is currently on the General Medical Council team for assessing new medical schools. She is currently the Continuing Professional Development Officer for the RCOG.
David Croisdale-Appleby
Professor Croisdale-Appleby is actively involved in policy formulation in health and social care, particularly on the integration of healthcare 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.
David has had a broad range of healthcare and social care involvement including Chairman of an NHS Hospitals Trust (which includes the National Spinal Injury Centre at Stoke Mandeville); Deputy Chairman of a Mental Health Trust; Chairman of a number of Learning Disability organisations, a Board Member of the NHS Confederation; a member of a Multi-centre Medical Research Ethics Committee, a founder member of the National Social Care Research Ethics Committee, a panelist at the Health Professions Council, and a longstanding GMC and PMETB Visitor for Medical Education. He is involved in the regulation of professionals involved in healthcare with the Primary Health Tribunal Service (formerly the FHSAA), an advisor to the MRC, and is Chairman of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners.
David is Chairman of Skills for Care, the sector skills council for Adult Social Care in England, and Chairman of Skills for Care and Development, the UK-wide sector skills council for adult and children’s social care and social work. At the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) David was Chair of the Programme Development Group for Long-term Sickness and Incapacity, which published its National Guidance in 2009, and is currently Chair of the Topic Expert Group for Care of People with Dementia, due to publish its Guidance in 2013. He has chaired a number of international conferences on social care. A prominent campaigner for social justice, David has recently been appointed as the Honorary Ambassador for the United Kingdom for the Nelson Mandela Legacy Project, the creation of the first specialist Paediatric Hospital to serve the children of South Africa and the Southern Africa Development Community.
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Exeter Medical School team
Team Leader: Roger Barton
Professor Barton qualified with honours and trained in Newcastle, Edinburgh and London as a general physician and gastroenterologist. He was appointed to a Readership in Medicine at Newcastle University and Northumbria Healthcare in 1994, and awarded a Chair of Clinical Medicine in 2000. Currently, Roger is Chair of the Board of Studies for Newcastle, Dean of International Medical Education with responsibility for the MB.BS programme in Newcastle and Malaysia, and Director of Education for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. He completed a certificate of medical education in 1997, a diploma in 2003, and his Masters with merit in 2005.
Roger was a subject specialist reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) assessment of UK medical schools, and international review chairman for the World Bank-sponsored QAA Quality in Education project in Indonesia over 5 years. He is senior advisor to the Royal College of Physicians on international Doctors as Educators programme, and Associate Director (Education) to the RCP since 2007, working with the RCP on faculty development and educational consultancy internationally. He is a subject specialist advisor to the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Medicine, and has advised UK medical schools on all aspects of curriculum, teaching and learning. He was appointed as an Educational Visitor to the General Medical Council in 2003.
Roger was Education Advisor to the National Endoscopy Training Programme and chaired the UK Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, developing an accreditation system for all endoscopy units, and assessment and certification of competence for endoscopists. He chairs the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Accreditation Panel, and was a member of the MRCP(UK) Clinical Examining Board. Roger has been external examiner for several UK medical schools.
Areas of Expertise: Teaching clinical and complex procedural skills, teacher standards, assessment, fitness to practise.
Jaimie Henry
Mr Henry is a medical student currently in his final year at Imperial College London. He has a keen interest in emergency medicine and pre-hospital care as well as medical education, including public engagement with the medical and surgical specialties. He is also an ardent follower of medical ethics and law issues, and has particular interest in the area of consent, and is the student representative to the Council of Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine. Outside of medicine he is a keen volunteer with St John Ambulance, and works with children with additional physical and behavioural needs for a local authority.
Jean McKendree
Dr McKendree joined Hull York Medical School in 2003 before the school opened. As Associate Dean for Assessment and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education, her current primary areas of responsibility are assessment strategies, eLearning, postgraduate training in teaching and learning, and educational research. She received her first degree in Neuropsychology from Trinity University and her MSc and PhD in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Jean's research involves applying cognitive science principles to educational areas including educational technology, organisational change, the role of discussion in learning, graphical representations for reasoning in and across disciplines, reflection and metacognition, effectiveness of assessments, and critical thinking skills as well as research methodologies including quantitative analysis and qualitative methods including dialogue analysis, cognitive task analysis, repertory grid, and textual analysis.
Geoff Wykurz
Mr Wykurz is a freelance educationalist with a background in community-oriented medical education and an interest in the role of patients as active teachers.
From 1990-1996 he led the Community Module at Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, moving to the University of Westminster in 1997 to lead the MA in Community Development and subsequently became Head of Department of Community & Collaborative Practice in 2004. Geoff holds a Masters in Health Professions Education from the University of Maastricht.
Since 2007 Geoff has developed a freelance consultancy that embraces medical education, evaluation and facilitation. This has included leading a programme for the London Deanery to enhance the quality of clinical teaching through observation of work-based teaching across a range of specialties and the facilitation of courses on educational supervision and developing clinical teaching. He has undertaken evaluation projects for the NHS Executive, Department of Health and the King’s Fund.
Lindsey Pope
Dr Pope brings a combination of undergraduate and postgraduate educational experience. She is a Clinical University Teacher at Glasgow University and Lead for Communication Skills and 3rd Year Clinical Practice in the Community. Lindsey is also a GP principal and trainer, as well as a MRCGP Examiner.
Lindsey is a member of the Scottish Educational Research Strategy Group and National Undergraduate Palliative Care Curriculum Group. She is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Health Professions Education and completed the Masters component in July 2011.
Lindsey is actively involved in research and completed an ASME research studentship on Changing forms of professional responsibility: exploring workplace pedagogies in transitions. Other areas of research interest (past and present) incluse: the benefits of longitudinal GP placements, combining undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in a GP setting, and patient safety.
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Small specialty team - Occupational medicine
Team Leader: 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.
Frank Gallagher
Graduated from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980. Dr Gallagher 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.
Christine May Barrett
Dr Barrett 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.
Nicholas P France
Dr France 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: Neil Jackson
Professor 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.
Maria Slade
Dr 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.
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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.
Jennifer Adgey
Professor Adgey 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.
Richard Turnock
Dr Turnock 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.
Rosalind Blackwood
Dr Blackwood 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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Small specialty team - Oral Maxillofacial surgery
Team leader: Stuart Macpherson
Professor Stuart G Macpherson has been involved in medical education for more than 30 years, in administration and as a general surgeon specialising in kidney transplants. He was a board member at PMETB since 2003 and was appointed Chair of the Board in 2008, managing the merger of PMETB with the GMC.
His previous roles have included the Postgraduate Dean of Medicine and Professor of Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Edinburgh where he was in post for nine years. Before this role, he was the Associate Postgraduate Dean for the West of Scotland Postgraduate Medical Education Board and before this, Associate Undergraduate Dean with responsibility for Admissions, for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Glasgow.
Andrew Beggs
Dr Beggs is currently a Clinical Lecturer in General Surgery (ACL/ST5) in the West Midlands Deanery, with a sub specialty interest in coloprotology. His research is based on molecular determinants of response in colorectal cancer.
Rosie Lusznat
Dr Lusznat has been a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry since 1989 but has recently retired from NHS clinical practice. She was both a clinical and educational supervisor in her clinical service and has held a number of senior managerial roles including Locality Lead Clinician and Medical Director.
In her educational role Rosie was Programme Director for Psychiatry Wessex Deanery from 1996 to 1999 prior to her appointment to the post of Associate Dean for Educational Development, Wessex Deanery in 2000. Her current responsibilities include: Professional Support Unit Lead for doctors who find themselves in difficulty, and educational development of trainees and their educators in all specialties.
Rosie is also a National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS) Assessor for Old Age Psychiatry. In 2005 she gained the MA in Education at the University of Winchester.
Suzanne Shale
Dr 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 University Press 2011); senior researcher 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 is a fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford. As a consultant she works regularly with the Royal College of Surgeons of England, looking at aspects of performance review and patient safety. Former clients include the Kent Surrey and Sussex Deanery, and several university teaching hospitals.
Recent voluntary activity includes a period as chair of the College of Emergency Medicine Lay Advisory Group, membership of the National Social Care Research Ethics Committee, chair of the mental health charity Umbrella, and bereavement counselling at Trinity Hospice, Clapham.
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Small specialty team - Academic
Team leader: Steve Heys
Professor Steven D Heys is Professor of Surgical Oncology and an 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.
Jennifer Adgey
Professor Adgey 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.
Anita Wale
I graduated from Brighton and Sussex Medical School in July 2009 and completed an Academic Foundation Programme in Brighton, with a four month academic attachment in Nuclear Medicine. In May 2011 I won the British Nuclear Medicine Society Young Investigator’s Prize for research I conducted regarding the investigation of thyroid cancer. I have since presented work at national and international conferences.
I am currently an ST1 Academic Clinical Fellow in Clinical Radiology in London, carrying out research at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
I have been involved in medical education and medical student recruitment since medical school and have shortlisted and interviewed for undergraduate admission to Brighton and Sussex Medical School. I was part of the QAFP team for Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery in October 2010.
Julie Browne
Julie Browne is External Relations Manager at the Wales Deanery, Cardiff University. She originally trained as a secondary school English teacher before working in academic publishing at the National Museum of Wales, the University of Plymouth and subsequently at Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. She was Managing Editor of Medical Education and The Clinical Teacher for seven years and during that time became increasingly involved in the development of ethical and publication standards in medical education research. She led the consultation process and wrote the Consensus Statement on Ethical Standards in Medical Education Publication on behalf of 22 international editors. She also coordinated the work of the international advisory panel that advised the Tooke Inquiry on MMC’s assessment systems.
She was the first Executive Officer of the Academy of Medical Educators (AoME) and managed the consultation and development processes that led to the publication and implementation of its Professional Standards for Medical Educators. She is an elected member of the AoME Council and an Assessor for its professional recognition scheme. Her published works include a number of papers, editorials and chapters, and she is co-author of a recently published book on identity, power and location in medical education. She has a particular interest in the role that standards play in raising the quality of medical education for the benefit of patients.
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