1:00 - 1:25pm
Welcome
Dr Shruthi Konda will open this year’s conference by summarising the outcome of our college tutor survey. We’ll also be joined by RCP president, Dr Mumtaz Patel to discuss how the RCP can support you in your role.
Dr Shruthi Konda FRCP
Dr Shruthi Konda is the RCP’s Linacre fellow, a role focused on the development and leadership of the RCP’s network of college tutors and associate college tutors. She is responsible for linking their work to that of other regional roles, the RCP’s Trainees Committee and New Consultants Committee representatives, and advocates and champions college tutors’ work within the wider medical workforce. Shruthi is a consultant respiratory physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital. She graduated from Imperial College London in 2007 and continued with her postgraduate training in respiratory and general medicine at Imperial College, St George’s and the Royal Brompton hospitals. She also has a bachelor’s degree with honours in management and medical sciences from Imperial College Business School, and a postgraduate certificate in medical education. Alongside her role as a consultant physician, Shruthi is an MRCP PACES examiner and has hosted examinations herself on behalf of the RCP. A dedicated educator, she has worked as foundation training programme director and as an RCP tutor, overseeing around 130 postgraduate medical trainees at a time. Shruthi is committed to getting the foundations of training right, so that we can produce competent, engaged and enthusiastic doctors who can meet the challenges of tomorrow. Dr Konda is also passionate about issues surrounding diversity and inclusion.
Dr Shruthi Konda FRCP
RCP Linacre Fellow
Dr Mumtaz Patel FRCP
Dr Mumtaz Patel is a consultant nephrologist based in Manchester, who brings a range of experience and skills to the role.
She is currently postgraduate associate dean for NHS England, is a director for conduct and progress at the School of Medicine at the University of Liverpool and has previously been RCP senior censor, vice president for education and training and vice president, global. Mumtaz has also worked as an RCP regional adviser for training, and clinical lead for quality management for the JRCPTB.
After completing her medicine degree at University of Manchester in 1996, Mumtaz went on to pursue a career in renal medicine. She completed her foundation training at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and obtained her MRCP in 2000. She did her renal specialist training in Yorkshire and gained her PhD from the University of Manchester in the genetics of lupus nephritis in 2006. She was appointed as a consultant nephrologist at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2007.
Mumtaz has established a strong track record in education, training, assessment and research. She obtained her Masters in Medical Education in 2014 and leads on national research around assessment, differential attainment, professionalism. She has published and presented widely at national and international
Dr Mumtaz Patel FRCP
RCP president
1:25pm - Streaming break – please choose your next session
1:30 - 2:45pm
Generation now
This session will explore the expectations of the CT role and offer some top tips for supporting resident doctors and LEDs.
The content in this session is tailored towards supporting college tutors and will run alongside Generation next. Both sessions can be viewed on-demand after the live broadcast.
Dr Tulika Porwal
Bio coming soon.
Dr Andrew Lansdown FRCP
Dr Andrew Lansdown has been a consultant physician and endocrinologist at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff since 2016. He has been a clinical committee member with the Society for Endocrinology and served on the RCP New Consultants Committee and Joint Specialty Committee for Endocrinology and Diabetes. He was associate college tutor from 2012 to 2024, college tutor from 2019 to 2023, and lead college tutor for Wales until 2023. Andrew also serves on the RCP Wales executive group, is the RCP regional adviser for South Wales central, and has recently taken up the role of secretary for the Welsh Endocrine and Diabetes Society. In addition, he is an honorary senior lecturer with Cardiff University School of Medicine, where he is involved in the undergraduate teaching programme and examinations.
Dr Andrew Lansdown FRCP
Consultant physician & endocrinologist
Dr Nadia Al-Chalabi
Starting as an RCP associate college tutor and SAC trainee rep for acute medicine in London, Dr Nadia Al-Chalabi became college tutor and then regional training programme director. She helps guide some 165 resident doctors from IMT1to 3.
Nadia’s clinical role is as consultant in acute medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, which means she has daily contact with resident doctors, particularly IMTs, gaining key insights into their lives.
Dr Nadia Al-Chalabi
Regional training programme director for internal medicine training (IMT) doctors in SE London; pan London lead for IMT simulation
Dr Nanda Kishore Nalla
Bio coming soon.
1:30 - 2:45pm
Generation next
Consider how to make the most of your ACT role and influence change. This session also aims to provide associate college tutors with an introduction to educational research.
This session will run alongside Generation now. Both sessions can be viewed on-demand after the live broadcast.
Dr Nicola Maddox
Bio coming soon.
Dr Jonathan Pincott
Dr Jonathan Pincott is a respiratory registrar living and working in Brighton. He was a chief registrar in 2023–24 at Royal Sussex County Hospital and involved in a number of change projects, some more successful than others.
Dr Jonathan Pincott
Respiratory and general internal medicine SpR
Professor Gabrielle Finn
Bio coming soon.
2:45pm - Streaming break
2:55 - 4:25pm
All the world is a stage
We’ll open this session by celebrating the achievements of several ACTs across the regions, see our abstract competition page here. This session will also showcase a successful simulation training programme and consider the role of human factors in healthcare.
Dr Ben Chadwick FRCP
Ben has been an acute medicine consultant in Southampton since 2008, having trained in acute medicine in the Wessex region. He was previously the training programme director (TPD) for acute medicine training and has chaired the Acute Internal Medicine Specialist Advisory Committee (AIM SAC) where he was responsible for the planning of the new AIM curriculum. A fellow of the RCP since 2015, Ben has held the role of RCP regional adviser for the Wessex region since 2023 and has recently been appointed as the RCP deputy registrar.
Dr Ben Chadwick FRCP
RCP deputy registrar
Professor Rob Galloway
Professor Rob Galloway is a consultant in emergency medicine and dual trained in intensive care with his medical interests in improving patient outcomes through changing ‘systems of care’. This encompasses the use of human factors and developing expertise in risk taking, to novel approaches to patient pathways, to reforming how we treat our colleagues, with new rostering systems which values our staff. His impact on changing NHS practices resulted in him being made a member of the Order of Saint John and named as a top ten NHS ‘wildcard influencer’ by the Health Service Journal – but since then he has had very little influence. Professor Galloway’s passion is education, running human factors and patient safety courses inside and outside of University Hospital Sussex NHS Trust and leading for undergraduate A&E teaching at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. He has had several roles outside of the NHS – being the medical director of the Brighton marathon for 10 years and is the medical adviser to Brighton and Hove Albion FC. He works in the media writing a column every 2 weeks in the health section of the Daily Mail and frequently speaks on TV and radio about health-related matters. He wrote a book, under a pseudonym, Dr Nick Edwards, about working in A&E which has sold over 500,000 copies; In stitches: the highs and lows of life as an A&E doctor. He used to have a social life, hobbies such as mountain walking and a personality. But he is now happily married with five kids and is more likely to be found watching ‘Peppa Pig’ and being a taxi service, than socialising or walking up a mountain. He can be contacted at drrobgalloway@gmail.com or on X: @drrobgalloway.
Professor Rob Galloway
consultant in emergency medicine, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust
4:25pm - Streaming break
4:35 - 5:15pm
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
Our panel discuss personal and organisational experiences of failure and consider how to learn from our mistakes.
Dr Matt Pavitt
Dr Matt Pavitt is a consultant in respiratory medicine at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust in Brighton, working hard to improve breathlessness and airways disease. Matt undertook a postgraduate PhD at the National Heart and Lung Institute (Imperial College), investigating exercise in COPD. He can regularly be found discussing respiratory physiology and convincing people to have cardiopulmonary exercise tests.
Dr Matt Pavitt
consultant in respiratory medicine
Dr Shruthi Konda FRCP
Dr Shruthi Konda is the RCP’s Linacre fellow, a role focused on the development and leadership of the RCP’s network of college tutors and associate college tutors. She is responsible for linking their work to that of other regional roles, the RCP’s Trainees Committee and New Consultants Committee representatives, and advocates and champions college tutors’ work within the wider medical workforce. Shruthi is a consultant respiratory physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital. She graduated from Imperial College London in 2007 and continued with her postgraduate training in respiratory and general medicine at Imperial College, St George’s and the Royal Brompton hospitals. She also has a bachelor’s degree with honours in management and medical sciences from Imperial College Business School, and a postgraduate certificate in medical education. Alongside her role as a consultant physician, Shruthi is an MRCP PACES examiner and has hosted examinations herself on behalf of the RCP. A dedicated educator, she has worked as foundation training programme director and as an RCP tutor, overseeing around 130 postgraduate medical trainees at a time. Shruthi is committed to getting the foundations of training right, so that we can produce competent, engaged and enthusiastic doctors who can meet the challenges of tomorrow. Dr Konda is also passionate about issues surrounding diversity and inclusion.
Dr Shruthi Konda FRCP
RCP Linacre Fellow
Dr Ben Chadwick FRCP
Ben has been an acute medicine consultant in Southampton since 2008, having trained in acute medicine in the Wessex region. He was previously the training programme director (TPD) for acute medicine training and has chaired the Acute Internal Medicine Specialist Advisory Committee (AIM SAC) where he was responsible for the planning of the new AIM curriculum. A fellow of the RCP since 2015, Ben has held the role of RCP regional adviser for the Wessex region since 2023 and has recently been appointed as the RCP deputy registrar.
Dr Ben Chadwick FRCP
RCP deputy registrar
Dr Tulika Porwal
Bio coming soon.
Dr Nicola Maddox
Bio coming soon.
Please note that any presentations shown at this event have been produced by the individual speakers. As such they are not owned by, and do not necessarily represent the views of, the RCP.