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Visitor teams: King’s College London School of Medicine

As part of the quality assurance process, medical schools are assessed by teams of visitors.

Below are details about the visitors who visited King’s College London School of Medicine during the 2007/8 cycle of visits.

Team leader: Prof Tony Weetman

Tony Weetman has been the Sir Arthur Hall Professor of Medicine at the University of Sheffield and Consultant Endocrinologist at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust since 1991. He became Dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in 1999.

After graduating from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1977, he trained with Professor Reg Hall at the Welsh National School of Medicine, Dr Tony Fauci at the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA and Professor Sir Keith Peters at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London and the University of Cambridge. His main research interests are the immunoregulation and genetics of autoimmune endocrine disorders, especially those involving the thyroid.

He is a Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (Council member 2002-5), a former editor of Clinical Endocrinology, The British Medical Bulletin and Clinical and Experimental Immunology , and has served as an Associate Editor of Endocrine Reviews . He received the Merck Prize of the European Thyroid Association in 2002 and gave the Bradshaw and Clinical Endocrinology Trust Lectures in 2006.

He is currently President of the British Thyroid Association, a member of the Executive Committee of the European Thyroid Association and represents Universities UK on ACCEA. As well as being a member of the Education Committee of the GMC, he chairs the Education Sub-Committee of the Council of Heads of Medical Schools, and is team leader of one of the first two QABME visiting teams to be established by the GMC.

Prof Stewart Petersen

Head of Medical Education, 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.

Dr Roger Bloor

Following a permanent commission career in the RAF Medical Branch Roger Bloor returned to the NHS in his native North Staffordshire as a consultant with special responsibility for Drugs and Alcohol. North Staffordshire had no Addiction service s at that time , and over the last 20 years he has over the last 16 years been the lead consultant in developing such services.

As Medical Director of North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust since 1994 Roger has wide experience in Medical Management . , He was an elected member of the BMA Medical Directors ' and Clinical Directors ' Subcommittee from 1996 - 2002 and has served on regional committees as a Medical Director representing colleagues in the West Midlands.

Roger is currently a Senior Lecturer in Addiction Psychiatry at Keele University Medical School and chairs the Clinical Campus Staffing Group. He is a member of the University Primary Care Health Sciences Research Institute and also an associate member of the Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine. Roger has an active research programme ranging from NHS service evaluation through addiction research to work with Selective Ion Tube Mass Spectrometry.

Prof Alison MacLeod

Professor Alison MacLeod works in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen and is an Honorary Consultant Physician/Nephrologist in NHS Grampian and Director of Research and Development for NHS Grampian. She is an Editor of the Cochrane Renal Review Group and her research interests are evidence based medicine and guidelines in renal medicine and the epidemiology of acute and chronic renal failure.

She Chairs the SIGN (Scottish [Royal Colleges] Intercollegiate Guidelines Network) guidelines group on renal failure and is a member of the NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) Anaemia Management in Chronic Kidney Disease group and an international group developing guidelines for kidney disease.

She was a member of the evidential group at the Department of Health (England) that produced the Renal National Service Framework. In the 1990s she was one of the senior team that devised and implemented the new MBChB curriculum based on "Tomorrows Doctors" in Aberdeen. Currently she is a member of the GMC visiting team to the University of East Anglia.

Dr Mairi Scott

Dr Mairi Scott is currently Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Scotland. She worked as a GP in an inner city practice in Glasgow for more than 20 years where she was also a trainer for 13 years, and a Senior Tutor in the Medical School of the University of Glasgow for 9 years. She is now Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee where she is responsible for the Communication Skills course. In conjunction with these roles she maintains a range of teaching, presentation and publication work that reflects her strong commitment to learning and development and to the improvement of clinical practice. As well as working for the RCGP, she also represents General Practice on many working groups within the NHS in Scotland and the Scottish Executive including the Delivering for Health Implementation Board.

Mairi is committed to ensuring that medical schools and postgraduate training provide the educational opportunities that allow students and young doctors to become skilled, competent and committed professionals able to care for their patients to the highest possible standards.

She lives in St Andrews, Fife, with the youngest three of her five children.

Dr Gina Radford

Dr Gina Radford is Regional Director of Public Health at the Department of Health East of England, a post she has held since January 2000. As well as leading the Regional Public Health Group, co-located with the Government Office for the East of England, Gina has a national portfolio which includes overseeing the Department of Health's Shipman Programme, leading for the Department on Sustainable Development and linking on behalf of the Government with the Western Pacific Regional Office of the World Health Organisation.

Before this appointment Gina was head of the national Public Health Development Unit within the Department of Health. Her responsibilities there included the establishment of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), the development of the Government's 'Our Healthier Nation' White Paper, the development of the public health function and communicable disease/infection control in the NHS.

Having qualified at the Royal Free Hospital in London, she did a 3 year vocational training scheme in Guildford, Surrey, before joining the South West Thames Regional Public Health Medicine Training Scheme. Following her training, Gina was appointed Consultant in Public Health Medicine in South West Surrey before moving to South and West Devon Health Authority as Director of Public Health.

Dr Jennie Johnson

Jennie Johnston graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 2004 and is now serving as a Medical Officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Whilst at University Jennie became heavily involved in medical politics, curriculum design and post-graduate medical training and following a number of other representative roles, she was elected as a Council Member of the British Medical Association (BMA) and Chairman of the UK Medical Students Committee (2001-2003). Responsibilities within this role included working closely with the Council of Heads of Medical Schools (CHMS); leading the collaboration with the General Medical Council (GMC) on the review of Student Health and Conduct and Tomorrows Doctors and presenting evidence to MPs and cross-party parliamentary select committees for education and finance. Jennie was also appointed to the BMA’s working group on Modernising Medical Careers andworked on a number of professional activity committees including the Board of Medical Education and the BMA’s Medical Ethics Committee

The 2007/8 cycle will be Jen’s fifth year as a visitor for the GMC, having contributed to the Quality Assurance of Basic Medical Education visits at Liverpool, RFUCMS, Leicester and Cambridge medical schools. For the last two years she has also worked as a visitor for the Quality Assurance of the Foundation Programme.

Jennie is a keen sportswoman and enjoys making the most of the wonderful opportunities for mountaineering, skiing and climbing in Scotland and France. She is married to Dave, an Engineering Officer also in the Army.

Ms Sue Leggate

Sue Leggate was trained as an economist, and started her career editing the Overseas Trade Bulletin at the Confederation of British Industry. She then moved to Consumers’ Association, where she worked as a researcher, and then editor of Motoring Which? She subsequently edited Holiday Which?, and then the main magazine, Which?, itself. During this time she represented British consumers on several EC committees, and at the European Court in Luxembourg.

Since leaving Consumers’ Association in 1996, Sue Leggate has been involved in a lay capacity in a variety of roles, several of them within the NHS. She was Vice-Chair of North Essex Health Authority, Chair of one of the first wave of Primary Care Trusts, a lay member of the General Medical Council (and of its Governance Working group that steered through many of the changes in the GMC’s structure), and a non-executive director of the National Patient Safety Agency.

She is currently on the board of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence, and a member of the team of GMC Visitors to the University of East Anglia.

When not working, she is a very keen golfer, and a member of the committee of Essex County Ladies Golf Association.

Ms Rosin Finn

Róisín Finn is a 3rd year BMBS undergraduate at Peninsula Medical School. She is the lead editor of the medical school magazine, and both the events officer and the locality lead for the surgical society. She has a special interest in support services for students who are struggling academically, and is involved in organising teaching sessions for students who wish to improve their grades.

Mr Alex McNeil

Alexander started his medical education in 2005 at the Hull York Medical School. During this time he became very involved with programmes to include school children into the work of medicine from giving talks and tours on many interview days and open days to participating in workshops giving demonstrations for primary and secondary school children.

Alexander also has a keen interest in working with children especially those with special needs of whom he has been a carer of for several years and is currently a senior worker at a local care charity where he also runs a scheme for young adults aged 18+.

2007/2008 saw Alexander undertake an intercalated degree year at the University of York in the biology and health science department. Here he is developing a review of the literature on autism aetiology to date and also setting up a pilot case control study on the aetiology of autism in conjunction with the well established and experienced epidemiology and genetics department in the University of York and the Lime Tree’s child psychiatry centre in York.