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Visitor teams: Hull and York Medical School

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

Below are details about the visitors who visited Hull and York Medical School during the 2007/8 cycle of visits.

Team Leader: Professor Michael Farthing

Michael Farthing graduated from University College, London and University College Hospital Medical School. Following training posts in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, he was appointed Wellcome Research Fellow and Honorary Lecturer in Gastroenterology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Between 1980 and 1983, he was a Wellcome Tropical Lecturer and held overseas posts as visiting lecturer/Assistant Professor in India, Boston and Costa Rica. In 1983 he returned to the UK as a Wellcome Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant Physician in the Department of Gastroenterology at St Bartholomew's Hospital and in 1990 was appointed to a personal professorship and Head of Department.

In 1995 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Bart's and the London. In 2000 he moved to the Faculty of Medicine in Glasgow as the first externally appointed Executive Dean and in 2003 returned to London to take up the post of Principal and Professor of Medicine St George's, University of London.

He became a member of the GMC Education Committee and the Undergraduate Board in 2001 and has chaired the Education Committee's Research Board since 2004.

Professor Farthing has served on a variety of other national and international bodies. He has been a non-executive director of several Boards including the East London and City Health Authority (1998), the Greater Glasgow NHS Board (2001) and in 2003 he was appointed to the South West London Strategic Health Authority. He has been Honorary Consultant in Gastroenterology to the Army since 1991.

Professor Farthing contributed to the management of a number of professional organisations including the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland, the European Association of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy (President 1998-2001) and the United European Gastroenterology Federation (member of Council, Chair of the Scientific Committee). He is a member of the Editorial Boards of a number of national and international Gastroenterology journals.

He served as Honorary Secretary to the British Society of Gastroenterology (1990-94) and was awarded the British Society of Gastroenterology Research Medal in 1987. He was appointed editor of the Society's journal, Gut in 1996.

Major research interests include the pathogenesis of intestinal infection and inflammation, the mechanisms and control of intestinal secretion and the relationship between brain and gut function.

Dr Richard Boyd

Richard Boyd is a University Lecturer in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford. He is Medical Tutor at Brasenose College. He trained in Science and in Medicine (Oxford, University College London) and has been a registered medical practitioner since 1970.

He is currently Deputy Head of the Medical Sciences Division of University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is on the Editorial Board of Surgery and of Physiological Genomics. He has broad interests in the relationship between Science and Medicine.

Professor Lindsey Davies

Professor Davies is the Department of Health for England’s National Director of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness.

She is one of the most senior doctors in the Department of Health and has national responsibilities for policy development and implementation.

A qualified doctor, Lindsey has had a varied and distinguished career in health service and public health management and development in the NHS and the civil service, since first becoming a board level director in the NHS in 1985.

She holds a Special Professorship in Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology at Nottingham University.

Professor Richard Hobbs

Richard Hobbs is currently Professor and Head of Primary Care and General Practice at the School of Medicine, University of Birmingham (1991-). He served as Associate Dean for Finance and Strategic Planning (1994-98) and for External Affairs (2000-2005). Professor Hobbs sits on many scientific and research funding boards, including currently the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Diagnosis of Heart Failure Research Group (1998-); the Advisory Council to the Medical Research Council (2004-); the Secondary Prevention Panel for the British Heart Foundation (Chairman) (2000-) and the NHS R&D HTA Commissioning Board (2003-).

He has also consulted on NHS policy including advisory roles for National Service Frameworks for CHD and for Heart Failure and for several NICE assessments. His medical society work has included Council of the British Cardiac Society, Chairmanship of both the European Primary Care Cardiovascular Society and the British Primary Care Cardiovascular Society; and founding board member of the British Society of Heart Failure.

His research interests major on cardiovascular epidemiology, vascular risk, and heart failure and his publications include 25 chapters, 9 edited books, and over 250 original papers in peer reviewed journals. In addition to his other daily activities, Professor Hobbs continues to provide clinical care in inner city general practice.

Dr Tim Lancaster

Tim Lancaster is Director of Clinical Studies and Reader in primary health care at Oxford University. He read English before training in medicine at Guy's Hospital, undertaking postgraduate training in London and the United States.

He was a research and teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School, where he trained in clinical epidemiology and medical education. Since 1992, he has combined general practice in a city centre practice in Oxford with research and teaching in the Department of Primary Health Care at Oxford University.

He is the co-ordinating editor of the CochraneTobacco Addiction Review Group. His educational interests include assessment, evidence-based practice and application of case-based learning and small group methods to large group settings.

Professor Peter McCrorie

Peter McCrorie was born in Greenock, Scotland, and studied Biochemistry at Glasgow University. He obtained a PhD in Biochemistry at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and moved to The London Hospital Medical School to take up a post as a Research Assistant in Haematology and subsequently as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry. He became Curriculum Co-ordinator for the new course which started at St Bartholomew's and The Royal London in 1990.

Funding through the Enterprise in Higher Education Scheme facilitated the introduction of significant curriculum innovations - clinical and communication skills teaching and assessment, community-oriented medical education, medical informatics and work-based projects - and, arising from this, he became the Director of the Medical and Dental Education Network (MADEN). He soon became Head of the Centre for Medical and Dental Education and took a full role in the planning of the 1999 curriculum at St Bartholomew's and The Royal London. He left just before the curriculum was introduced, to take up the post of Director of the 4-year MBBS Graduate Entry Programme at St George's Hospital Medical School. He was granted a personal chair in Medical Education in 2002 and is now Head of the Department of Medical and Healthcare Education.

Peter McCrorie also works on a consultancy basis for the General Medical Council. He is a trainer and Lay Assessor for the GMC Performance Procedures, is a member of the PLAB OSCE Panel and is a trained GMC Visitor. He is also a member of the Training Team for the National Clinical Assessment Service. For the Royal College of Surgeons, he is a member of the Quality Assurance Team reviewing the new Intercollegiate MRCS examinations and also the MFDS clinical and oral examinations. He has been involved in the training of general practitioners and other clinicians at a postgraduate level in Russia, Romania, Macedonia and Brunei. He is leading a St George's team working with the Universiti Brunei Darussalam to help establish a 3 year Bachelor in Health Science degree, which will form a basis for entry to the clinical courses run by specific partner medical schools in the UK, Australia and Canada.

He has been an External/Visiting Examiner for Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College School of Medicine, University of Liverpool, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University and Trinity College Dublin. He is currently External Examiner for the University of East Anglia School of Medicine and Visiting Examiner at St Bartholomew's and The Royal London.

His research interests lie in curriculum development, assessment, graduate entry, self directed and problem based learning, community oriented medical education, interprofessional learning and staff development.

Dr Gemma Mullen

Before graduating from Manchester Medical School in 2005 Dr Gemma Mullen was elected President of the Medical Students Representative Council. She was responsible for outlining the requirement of the student body, assisting with curriculum development and student welfare issues.

Gemma's F1 year was based in RUH Bath and her F2 jobs are at UCLH. She aspires to an ST post in Anaesthetics.
Outside of work, Gemma is an avid skier having represented Manchester University at a National level.

Gemma has been the student visitor on the Hull-York team since 2002 and has presented 'The Student Perspective' at QABME workshops.

Professor Robert Peveler

Prof Peveler is Professor of Liaison Psychiatry and Head of the Mental Health Group at the University of Southampton, where he has worked for fifteen years. 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 a book on planning specialist services in liaison psychiatry.

Professor Janice Rymer

Janice Rymer is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at King's College School of Medicine at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals. 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, 7 first author textbooks and 2 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 Generl Practiotioners. She has been an OSCE chairman for the RCOG and ran the RCOG Part II courses for the last 3 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 and on the PMETb Appeals Committee. She is currently the Continuing Professional Development Officer for the RCOG.

Professor Marc Winslet

Career

Professor of Surgery, Head of Department and Chairman of Division of Surgery and Interventional Science at UCL
Qualified in 1981
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England and Edinburgh; 1985
Master of Surgery (London 1987)
Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgery 1988
Senior Lecturer, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine; 1991
Appointed Head of Department; 1997
Personal Chair in 1996
Clinical (lead) - Oesophagogastric and Colorectal Surgery
Present and Past Member of Council
Examiner for Royal College of Surgeons for England and Ireland and Intercollegiate Board

Written Work:

Author for Association of Surgeons Great Britain & Ireland
Author for Association of Coloproctology Great Britain and Ireland
Author for Upper GI Surgery
British author for Surgical Oncology
Co-editor Colorectal Disease

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Ms Raisha Nurani

Raisha Nurani is currently a third year medical student at St Georges, University of London. She is actively involved in organisations such as Medsin and has a particular interest in educating and building awareness of health inequalities in both local and global communities.

In her spare time, Raisha volunteers at a student helpline service.