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.

Professor Mumtaz Patel PRCP

Professor 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 Tulika Porwal FRCP

Dr Tulika Porwal is an SAS doctor working in medicine in Royal Glamorgan Hospital. She was the first SAS doctor to be appointed as a college tutor and PACES examiner in Wales. Tulika is also an appraiser for her health board and clinical supervisor for clinical fellows.

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 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 Nanda Kishore Nalla FRCP

Dr Nanda Kishore Nalla trained in acute medicine in East Midlands, part of the initial cohort nationally to be trained in acute medicine specialty. He has a special interest in medical education and has completed a master’s in medical education with a bursary from Health Education England. His current roles are associate director of medical education for the LED Programme and co-training programme director for AIM (East Midlands). He is a PACES examiner and co-host of the PACES exam in Nottingham. He was an AIM SCE board member until February 2025, and is a portfolio pathway assessor for AIM (acute internal medicine).

Dr Nicola Maddox

Dr Nicola Maddox undertook her undergraduate medical degree at the Peninsula Medical School and intercalated in biosciences at the University of Exeter. She completed internal medical training in 2022 and is now an ST5 in medical microbiology in the south west of England. She has obtained MRCP and the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Nicola was an RCP associate college tutor from 2021 to 2024, and represents the Peninsula region on the RCP Resident Doctor Committee. She has just been appointed as an RCP chief registrar at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. She enjoys working with the RCP and is delighted to be able to promote education and training in the south-west region.

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.

Professor Gabrielle Finn

Gabrielle Finn is professor of medical education at the University of Manchester and chair of the Association for the Study of Medical Education. She is associate editor for two journals and an active researcher, currently exploring topics such as remediation, gender discrimination, and fitness to practise.

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.

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.

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 Muha Hassan

Muha is an IMT3 doctor at Warwick Hospital. The regional SOP initiative which she joins us to discuss was started during IMT2, where she was a local ACT at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham as well as a regional trainee representative for the West Midlands Postgraduate School of Medicine. In these roles, she actively supported trainees and contributed to initiatives aimed at improving postgraduate training.

Dr Hannah Parker

Hannah is a locally employed registrar in geriatric and general medicine at Musgrove Park Hospital, in Taunton, Somerset. She has been an Associate College Tutor for the last 2 years with a keen interest in medical education, especially simulation.

Dr Dominic Mears

Dominic is a third-year internal medicine training doctor at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. He trained at the University of Birmingham and stayed in the West Midlands for foundation training, also spending a year as a clinical teaching fellow and obtaining a PGCert in medical education. Dominic has worked as an associate college tutor for the last 2 years and has been involved in several successful projects aimed at improving the experience of training.

Dr Ben Chadwick FRCP

Dr Nicola Maddox

Speakers

Dr Shruthi Konda FRCP

RCP Linacre Fellow

Professor Mumtaz Patel PRCP

Consultant Nephrologist, Manchester University Foundation Hospitals, NHS Trust Honorary Professor, University of Manchester and Liverpool

Dr Tulika Porwal FRCP

SAS doctor working in medicine

Dr Andrew Lansdown FRCP

Consultant physician & endocrinologist

Dr Nadia Al-Chalabi

Consultant in acute medicine

Dr Nanda Kishore Nalla FRCP

Consultant in acute medicine

Dr Nicola Maddox

ST5 in medical microbiology

Dr Jonathan Pincott

Respiratory and general internal medicine specialist registrar

Professor Gabrielle Finn

Professor of medical education

Dr Ben Chadwick FRCP

RCP deputy registrar

Professor Rob Galloway

Consultant in emergency medicine

Dr Matt Pavitt

Consultant in respiratory medicine

Dr Muha Hassan

IMT3

Dr Hannah Parker

Locally employed registrar in geriatric and general medicine

Dr Dominic Mears

IMT3

Dr Ben Chadwick FRCP

RCP deputy registrar

Dr Nicola Maddox

ST5 in medical microbiology