Professor Tom Solomon FRCP

Academic vice president, Royal College of Physicians

Professor Tom Solomon CBE is director of The Pandemic Institute, academic vice president of the Royal College of Physicians, vice president (international) of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, and chair of neurological science at the University of Liverpool and Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, where he is also consultant neurologist. Tom studied medicine at Oxford, investigates emerging pathogens, particularly those affecting the brain, and heads the multi-disciplinary Liverpool Brain Infections Group which works to reduce the global burden of neurological infections. He was at the forefront of the UK response to Ebola, Zika and COVID-19. Tom is an adviser to the UK government and WHO, appears regularly on BBC television and radio, and is a passionate science communicator, wining a Guinness World Record for his Sci-Art ‘World’s Biggest Brain’ project, and another for running the fastest marathon dressed as a doctor.

Dr Birju Bartoli

Chief executive, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Birju Bartoli was announced as chief executive of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in December 2023 and formally took up post in January 2024.
 
Birju has worked in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for over 20 years in a number of different operational and corporate roles before becoming chief executive.
 
She is a scientist by background and has significant experience of working alongside clinicians to develop services that result in both improved clinical outcomes and efficiencies. The drive for continuous improvement across all services, informed by real-time patient and staff experience is a key factor that drives the board and all parts of the organisation.
 
She is a strong advocate of both the patient and staff voice when looking at improving services. She is committed to ensuring that all staff, whatever their background, have the opportunity to develop personally and professionally and are made to feel part of the Northumbria family.

Dr Louise Savic

Dr Patrick Yong

Dr Lucy Mackillop FRCP

Consultant obstetric physician, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Lucy Mackillop is a consultant obstetric physician at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford. She’s also fellow of both the RCP and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Lucy is president of the UK’s MacDonald Obstetric Medicine Society and chief medical officer – data and research at Optum UK.

Lucy trained in general, renal and obstetric medicine in Oxford, London and Sydney before taking up her consultant post in 2008.

Lucy has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, national and international guidelines, book chapters and e-learning resources on a wide variety of medical conditions in pregnancy. She is chair for the Joint Committee for Obstetric Medicine with the RCP and is a member of the programme board for the RCP’s diploma in obstetric medicine.

Her research interests include the role of remote monitoring solutions in women with medical problems in pregnancy, with a particular emphasis of the intersection between primary and secondary care.

Dr Amanda Hill

Acute medicine SpR, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Amanda Hill is an acute medicine registrar in the Severn Deanery and co-AIM trainee representative for the region. She trained in obstetric medicine at Southmead Hospital, North Bristol Trust (the host site for the South West Maternal Medicine Network) and attained the RCP diploma in obstetric medicine. Amanda serves as the trainee representative for the Joint Committee for Obstetric Medicine. Her professional interests include medical education, quality improvement, and women’s health.

Dr Hannah Irvine

Dr Fran Neuberger FRCP

Consultant acute and obstetric physician, North Bristol NHS Trust

Dr Charlotte Frise FRCP

Consultant obstetric physician, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr Charlotte Frise is a consultant in obstetric medicine at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, with a background in acute and general medicine. She is lead obstetric physician for the North West London Maternal Medicine Network and editor-in-chief for the journal Obstetric Medicine.

Dr Aisling Courtney

Dr Rommel Ravanan FRCP

Deputy medical director, NHS Blood and Transplant

Dr Rommel Ravanan is a deputy medical director (his portfolio includes research and development and innovation) within the organ and tissue donation and transplantation directorate at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) and a consultant nephrologist at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. Rommel’s research interests include transplant epidemiology and high immunological risk transplantation. He has an interest and expertise in medical leadership and has held progressively responsible posts at NHSBT and North Bristol NHS Trust.

Dr Shouvik Haldar FRCP

Consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Shouvik Haldar is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. Shouvik is a researcher in the field of atrial fibrillation and digital health. He is passionate about medical education and has been shaping national cardiology education for the past decade through his roles at the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS). He is vice president of education at the BCS.

Dr Muram El-Nayir

Cardiology registrar and clinical research fellow, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Muram El-Nayir is a cardiology registrar in higher specialty training at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, with a subspecialty interest in arrhythmia and complex devices. Muram holds a range of national and regional roles, including resident doctor representative on the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) Programme Committee, which organises the annual BCS Conference, and BCS Women in Cardiology representative for Oxford and Thames Valley. She chairs the Oxford and Thames Valley Resident Physician Committee and represents higher medicine on the deanery’s Training Advisory Committee. Muram is completing a doctor of medicine degree at the University of Oxford, with her research focusing on the prevention of heart failure in the long term.

Dr Jennifer Rossington

Interventional cardiologist, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Dr Jennifer Rossington is a consultant interventional cardiologist working at Leeds General Infirmary as a high-volume operator, with a specialist interest in complex coronary intervention. Further roles within the department include clinical lead, regional Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) and local Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) lead, and representative/chair on several regional working groups. She has a keen focus on pathway development, particularly with regards to chest pain, and has worked on a number of local guidelines/improvement projects for utilisation in both the inpatient and outpatient setting.

Jenny has a strong passion for positive representation of women within cardiology, and this has resulted in the development of the Women in Cardiac Specialities annual event that she runs in the West Yorkshire region. This emphasis in education has culminated in appointment to the chair of the BCS Education Committee.

Dr Matt Ginks FRCP

Consultant cardiologist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Matt Ginks is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, part of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Matt is involved in the treatment of patients with all forms of arrhythmia problems, including ablation and device therapy. His research and clinical interests are centred around catheter ablation of complex cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation (AF) and ventricular tachycardia. He is an active member of the British Heart Rhythm Society and the European Society of Cardiology. He has published over 75 peer reviewed papers. He is one of the editors of the Oxford Handbook of Cardiac electrophysiology and catheter ablation, and the cardiac arrhythmia section of the Oxford textbook of medicine.

Professor Stephen Wheatcroft

Dr Ee Ling Heng

Consultant cardiologist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Ee Ling Heng is a consultant cardiologist specialising in adult congenital heart disease and structural intervention. Based in London, she sees patients at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals – part of the Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

Ei Ling completed her medical degree and an intercalated Bachelor's degree in healthcare management at Imperial College London in 2006. She was awarded a research training fellowship from the British Heart Foundation and earned a PhD for her research on ‘improved outcome prediction in tetralogy of Fallot.’ She completed her specialist cardiology training within the London deanery. Following this, Ei Ling undertook a fellowship in adult congenital heart disease and structural intervention at Toronto General Hospital in Canada.

Ei Ling’s expertise lies in adult congenital heart disease, with a particular focus on interventional procedures related to both congenital and structural heart conditions. She also has broad expertise in general cardiology.

In addition to her clinical practice, Ei Ling has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals, including the International Journal of Cardiology, and has contributed to several book chapters, including the Oxford Handbook of Cardiology. She is also actively involved in teaching, guiding both undergraduate and postgraduate students in her areas of expertise.

Dr Angela McBride

Dr Thomas Samuels

NIHR doctoral fellow, University College London

Professor Philip Bejon

Director of Modernising Medical Microbiology Unit, University of Oxford

Professor Philip Bejon is the director of the Modernising Medical Microbiology Unit at the University of Oxford, co-leading with Sarah Walker. He was previously director of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, a collaborative programme formed by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Wellcome Trust and the University of Oxford. He is a clinician with specialist training in infectious disease with an interest in the evaluation of vaccines, including malaria, yellow fever and Ebola vaccines. He has undertaken studies of naturally acquired immunity to malaria and human challenge models, and has an interest in bone infection and osteomyelitis.

Professor Anna Goodman FRCP

Consultant in infectious diseases, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Anna Goodman is a consultant in infectious diseases at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and undertakes part-time research as an honorary clinical professor in infectious diseases at the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London. Anna was awarded a National Institute for Health and Care Research grant to deliver a large-scale innovative therapeutic trial in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia called the 'SNAP trial' in the UK and will be discussing how early results from this trial may impact patient care.

Dr Sarah Logan FRCP

Consultant in infectious diseases, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

Dr Sarah Logan is an infectious diseases consultant based at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust.

She leads the clinical service there, as well as the OPAT (outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy) service. She’s also chair of the Joint Specialist Committee at the RCP for Infectious Diseases.

Dr Sheuli Porkess FRCP

President, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

Dr Mihir Desai

Clinical development director, Moderna

Dr Kirsty Wydenbach

Head of regulatory strategy, Weatherden Ltd.

Dr Kirsty Wydenbach is a regulatory expert and pharmaceutical physician, and since 2022 has been head of regulatory strategy at Weatherden, a global integrated clinical consultancy experienced in de-risking drug development. Kirsty also currently chairs the Clinical Trial Science and Regulations Expert Group of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, is a visiting senior lecturer for King’s College London, and sits on the Drug Development Advisory Board at Simbec-Orion.

Prior to joining Weatherden, she has over 13 years of experience as an expert medical assessor at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) within the Clinical Trials Unit, having a particular interest in advanced therapy medicinal products and first-in-human studies.

Other work has included collaboration with industry groups and global regulators regarding adaptive and novel trial designs, including co-authoring several publications. She led the MHRA work on novel trial design for the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy as well as through the MHRA Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway.
Kirsty also oversaw the clinical trials work for COVID-19 and provided regulatory expertise on vaccines both within MHRA but also as part of the Government Vaccine Taskforce.

Dr Felix Jackson

Chair of the New Technologies Expert Group, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

Dr Felix Jackson is the founder and medical director of medDigital and medCrowd. Felix is a doctor and entrepreneur developing digital technology for health and care. He trained as an anaesthetist, leaving clinical practice to start medDigital and medCrowd.

He is a fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine where he is chair of the New Technologies Expert Group at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine. He is also a visiting lecturer at King’s College London on the medical affairs MSc.

He is particularly enjoying being part of how digital is transforming health and care for the better.

Dr Emma Harvey

Vice president, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

Dr Emma Harvey is a freelance pharmaceutical physician and vice president of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (FPM), of which she is also a fellow. She qualified in medicine from University College London and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, and joined pharma after obtaining MRCP(UK).

A self-confessed medical affairs maven, Emma has worked in pharma since 1999, across a range of therapeutic areas, from big pharma to small biotech. She has built and led teams for many years, both nationally and globally, leading pre- and peri-launch projects integrating commercial, medical affairs, regulatory, clinical development, pharmacovigilance and market access expertise to develop and implement strategic plans. She has worked with patient experts and patient advocacy groups to support their education on novel medicines, to enable them to better educate their members and supporters, as well as to support engagement with reimbursement authorities. She established the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Forum at FPM, and has spoken at conferences on the needs and challenges for ensuring that clinical trials have the appropriate patient populations.

She enjoys educating clinicians, scientists and other interested parties on the highly regulated environment in which pharma has to operate, to try and dispel many of the myths that still exist around how pharma conducts research and development.

Professor Kevin Fong

Professor of public engagement and innovation, University College London

Professor Kevin Fong is consultant anaesthetist at University College London Hospital, professor of public engagement and innovation in the Department of Science, Technology, Education and Public Policy (STEaPP) at University College London and chief medical officer at UCLPartners. Dually accredited in anaesthesia and critical care medicine, he flies as a helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) doctor with Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex and has previously worked with NASA’s human space flight operations teams at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
 
In March 2020, Kevin was seconded to NHS England (NHSE) as national clinical adviser in emergency preparedness resilience and response for the COVID-19 incident. During this time, he worked across several key elements of the operational response, including NHSE’s Severe Covid Response Cell, the Joint Biosecurity Centre Alert Level Update team, UKHSA’s Joint Modelling Team and with the National Strategic Incident team at NHSE. He set up peer support and rapid review teams at NHSE to engage with, support and gather information from frontline clinical teams; information and insight that, in turn, informed the national pandemic strategy. These roles and experiences have led to his interest in high-risk, high-reliability teams; how we should build and lead modern teams, how they succeed and why they sometimes fail.

Professor Mumtaz Patel PRCP

President, Royal College of Physicians

Professor Mumtaz Patel is a consultant nephrologist based in Manchester, UK. She is a postgraduate associate dean for NHS England and is currently president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), London. She was elected as senior censor vice president for education and rraining for the RCP in 2023 having completed her successful 3-year term as global vice president (2020-2023). She graduated with honours in 1996, from the University of Manchester. She obtained MRCP (UK) in 2000 and a PhD in 2006 exploring the genetics of lupus nephritis. She was appointed consultant nephrologist at Manchester University Hospitals in 2007. She has held various educational roles including renal training programme director, RCP regional advisor, clinical lead for quality, JRCPTB. She attained FRCP in 2011 and was awarded MSc in medical education with distinction in 2014. Her educational research interests include assessment, doctors in difficulty, differential attainment and fairness in medical education. She has published widely in medical education and presented at national/international conferences.

Dr Rizwan Rajak FRCP

Consultant rheumatologist, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Dr Rizwan Rajak is a consultant rheumatologist. He graduated with honours at Cardiff Medical School in 2005 and subsequently undertook his specialist training in the University Hospital of Wales. Rizwan worked as a consultant at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath, where he undertook further specialisation in musculoskeletal ultrasound and metabolic bone disease.

He is currently the clinical lead for osteoporosis and bone health, and rheumatology musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSK US) in the Croydon Health Service NHS Trust. With the former, Rizwan has developed an integrated bone health service with colleagues from multiple medical and surgical specialties. With the latter, he has developed a diagnostic service and also set up a regional network with other centres in standardising scanning practice and training. As part of this service, he has been training other doctors in the use of MSK US for several years.

Rizwan has an extensive background in teaching, having been the lead clinical tutor for rheumatology at the University Hospital of Wales, and an honorary clinical teacher at Cardiff University. He is currently the programme lead for rheumatology at the University of South Wales, has overseen the educational and examination material of the diploma and master’s courses, and is the lead tutor for MSc students.

Rizwan is deputy chair of the British Society of Rheumatology Education Committee, as well as RCP co-college tutor. He is also the Specialty Certificate Examination editor for rheumatology for Study PRN. To expand his skills base, Rizwan undertook a master’s in medical law at Cardiff law school. He is the Medicines Management chair and Medicines Safety Group chair at Croydon Health Services, overseeing the governance of medicine use in the trust. He is also an appraiser and a medical examiner for Croydon Health Services.

Dr Chris Wincup

Consultant rheumatologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Chris Wincup is a consultant rheumatologist based at King’s College Hospital, London. He has extensive experience in the management of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), with a background in both clinical and translational research in addition to significant clinical trial experience. He is an author of EULAR 2023 guidelines for the management of SLE.

Chris has previously been awarded the University College London Deans' research award, Versus Arthritis outstanding fellow prize and Royal Society of Medicine Kovac's traveling fellowship award (supporting a placement at the Lupus Unit, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago). He is a member of the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group (BILAG) and the chief investigator of the PERSONAL-SLE study, which seeks to identify biomarkers to predict outcomes of lupus. Chris’ main research interests include cell-based therapies, immunometabolism and precision medicine in SLE.

Dr Rachel Jones

Dr Vanessa Quick

Consultant rheumatologist, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Kristien Boelaert FRCP

Professor of endocrinology, University of Birmingham

Professor Kristien Boelaert is a professor of endocrinology at the University of Birmingham and a consultant endocrinologist at University Hospitals Birmingham. Kristien is an active researcher in the field of thyroid diseases. She has published more than 200 papers and has received more than £10 million in research grant funding. She was the clinical lead for the NICE guidelines on thyroid diseases and leads the national consensus statements on management of thyroid cancer. Kristien is a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Green-Top and the American Thyroid Association guideline panels on thyroid diseases in pregnancy. She is senior editor for the journal of the Endocrine Society and serves on the editorial boards of several endocrine journals including Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. Kristien is president of the British Thyroid Association, president elect and clinical committee chair for the Society for Endocrinology, co-chair of ATA 2025 Programme Organising Committee and member of the ATA board of directors.

Professor Annice Mukherjee

Consultant physician and endocrinologist, Spire Manchester Hospital

Professor Annice Mukherjee is a consultant endocrinologist based in Manchester and visiting professor at Coventry University. Annice completed an MSc at King's College London, MD at the University of Manchester, and was appointed as a consultant at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust in 2007. She has published widely in high-impact scientific journals.

She is the steering group chair and PI for the newly launched Society for Endocrinology (SfE) women's health real-world data registry and prospective national study; Patient reported outcomes for menopause management interventions study (PROMMIS).

Annice is committed to addressing women's health inequalities and menopause misinformation. She holds leadership roles and collaborations with the SfE, British Menopause Society, Diabetes UK, British Thyroid Foundation, UCL and Imperial College London, among others.

Annice has a strong profile in the UK media regarding menopause, women's health inequalities and misinformation. Annice is the author of the best-selling book The complete guide to the menopause and was named in the Financial Times list of Women of 2022 for her work on menopause.

Dr Alistair Lumb

Professor Ketan Dhatariya

Dr Ragit Varia FRCP

Consultant acute medicine, Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Carron Meney

ST6 acute medicine, NHS Tayside

Dr Carron Meney is currently a resident doctor in senior acute medicine in the east of Scotland, after graduating from the University of Glasgow and spending her early training years working in the west of Scotland. She’s passionate about medical education and ensuring that people feel valued at work. This year, she’s also completing a diploma in medical education as well as trying her hand at research.

Carron is also a current AIM fellow, so if you want to know more about a career in acute medicine, she loves talking about it.

Dr Nick Smallwood

Consultant in acute medicine, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Nicholas Smallwood is a consultant acute physician in Basingstoke and member of the Society for Acute Medicine Council. He has a keen interest in medical education, point-of-care ultrasound and integrating enhanced care services within the acute medical unit. He sat on the working group that developed the inaugural cross-specialty enhanced care guidance in 2020, and then co-chaired the committee who published enhanced care guidance for acute medicine in 2022.

Dr Radha Selvaratnam 

Dr Sarah Ibitoye

Acute and perioperative medicine consultant, North Bristol NHS Trust

Dr Sarah Ibitoye is a consultant in acute medicine and perioperative medicine. Dr Ibitoye was one of the first acute physicians to train in perioperative medicine, and hopes to encourage others to take up this area of expertise. She has conducted research on geriatric trauma and resuscitation of people living with frailty. She currently works in North Bristol, where she divides her time between working in a well-established acute medical unit (AMU) and providing medical support in one of the most progressive geriatric trauma services in the UK.

Dr Vicky Coyle

Dr Hilary Williams FRCP

Dr Allie Shipp

Dr Sarah Marsh

Dr Joel Meyer

Dr Susannah Leaver

Professor Natalie Pattison

Dr Harriet Gordon FRCP

Consultant gastroenterologist, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust

Dr Harriet Gordon has been a consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist in Winchester since 2000. She currently leads the alcohol teams at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Harriet’s research was at the Royal Free Hospital in alcohol misuse, and she has since been involved in projects and audit relating to alcoholic liver disease with Wessex AHSN and the Wessex Alcohol Group. She has been instrumental in setting up liver services in Hampshire for the   identification of liver disease in the community.  She was an author with the Lancet Commission 2021, looking at the early detection of liver disease.

Harriet has also been involved at the RCP as director of the Medical Workforce Unit and has continued to address the medical workforce crisis as chair of the RCP Flexibility and Wellbeing Group and the AoMRC Flexible Careers Committee, and then as an RCP censor.  She set up the RCP Emerging Women Leaders Programme in 2018. Harriet has also been involved with the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) as an elected member of BSG council, a BSG trustee, and president elect.

Dr Giovanna McGinty

Gastroenterology ST7, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Giovanna McGinty is a gastroenterology registrar (ST7) in the Severn Deanery. She has completed the majority of her postgraduate training in the Severn Deanery and has completed out of programmes in advanced endoscopy (ERCP and EUS) and leadership (via the RCP Chief Registrar Programme). She has an interest in hepatology and is currently the deputy chair for the Trainee Collaborative for Research and Audit in Hepatology UK (ToRcH-UK). Giovanna has a significant amount of quality improvement experience, and she’s trained as an official coach in QI methodology.

Professor Ewan Forrest

Consultant hepatologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Professor Ewan Forrest is a consultant physician and hepatologist at Glasgow Royal Infirmary since 2003. He is an honorary professor at the University of Glasgow since 2019 and clinical research fellow in the department of medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Professor Forrest is a specialist in alcohol-related liver disease, and in particular the management of alcohol-related hepatitis. He is co-developer of the Glasgow Alcoholic Hepatitis Score and the Glasgow Modified Alcohol Withdrawal Score.
Former chair of the BASL Special Interest Group in alcohol-related liver disease, he is currently alcohol lead for the British Society of Gastroenterology and clinical lead for Hepatology NHS Research Scotland.

Ewan is chair of the Alcohol Harms Group at Glasgow Alcohol Drugs Partnership.

Dr Matt Armstrong

Dr Jeremy Shanika Nayagam

Hepatology consultant, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Shanika Nayagam is a hepatology consultant at the Institute of Liver Studies at King’s College Hospital. He has clinical and research subspecialty interests in young adults with liver disease, genetic liver disease and autoimmune liver disease. He sits on the Adolescents and Young Persons section of the British Society of Gastroenterology.

Dr Coral Hollywood

Dr Antonio de Marvao

Dr Amit Sud

Wellcome trust early career fellow, University of Oxford

Dr Amit Sud completed medical school with honours at the University of Manchester, also obtaining a master’s in research with distinction. Following foundation training in Manchester and core medical training at Guy’s and St Thomas’, he began haematology training on an NIHR academic clinical fellowship at the Royal Marsden. He was awarded a CRUK PhD fellowship at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) with Professor Richard Houlston, and later held a visiting scientist fellowship at the DKFZ Heidelberg. Returning to the ICR and Royal Marsden as an NIHR clinical lecturer, he completed specialist training while receiving the RCP’s Whitney-Wood scholarship and an Academy of Medical Sciences grant. He now holds a Wellcome early career fellowship at the University of Oxford's centre for immuno-oncology, with collaborations at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University in Boston and the Sanger Institute in Cambridge. He received the Royal College of Pathologists Research medal in haematology in 2018.

Dr Tim Quinnell FRCP

Respiratory and sleep physician, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Tim Quinnell has worked at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge since 2004 and has led one of the UK’s largest sleep and ventilation centres since 2021. He specialises in respiratory and non-respiratory sleep disorders, domiciliary non-invasive ventilation and weaning from invasive ventilation. His MD was on genetic and electrophysiological aspects of narcolepsy. He was chief investigator for the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) trial of mandibular advancement devices in obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and now leads an NIHR trial of combination therapy in OSA. He is current chair of the British Thoracic Society Sleep Advisory Group. Tim is actively engaged in providing and developing multidisciplinary sleep medicine education.

Dr Alanna Hare FRCP

Consultant physician, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Allie Hare is a consultant respiratory physician and specialist in sleep and respiratory failure. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and undertook her postgraduate training at Imperial College, London, qualifying in medicine in 2002. She has a master’s in medical education, a PGCert in medical leadership and has been made a fellow of the RCP. She was chair of the BTS Education and Training Committee until 2022 and is the current president of the British Sleep Society and honorary treasurer of the British Thoracic Society. She led the national review of outpatient sleep medicine pathways and in 2025, she was awarded a National Clinical Impact Award in recognition of the national importance of her work in sleep and respiratory medicine.

Her advice on sleep has been featured in British Vogue, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times and on the BBC, among others. She works with a number of corporate organisations, supporting sleep wellbeing, and has advised athletes and sporting organisations, including Formula 1 teams.

Dr Sriram Iyer FRCP

Consultant respiratory and sleep physician, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Sriram Iyer completed his specialist training in respiratory and sleep medicine in Liverpool in 2012, before taking up a consultant post in south Manchester. He was then a visiting sleep consultant at the University of British Columbia Hospital in Vancouver before returning to the UK to lead one of England’s largest NHS sleep services  in Sheffield. He is heavily involved in research and education and is the principal investigator in a number of multi-centre trials.

Dr Chris Turnbull

Respiratory consultant, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Chris Turnbull is a respiratory consultant specialising in sleep-related breathing disorders and a career development fellow at the University of Oxford. Chris works in a leading sleep clinic, caring for nearly 20,000 patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). His research focuses on the cardiovascular and metabolic consequences of OSA and the development of novel therapeutic strategies. Working with the UK Sleep Network, he leads studies from biomarker discovery and translational physiology to practice-changing clinical trials, aiming to deliver innovation that improves patient care.

Dr Gary Dennis FRCP

Consultant neurologist and clinical lead for neurology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Gary Dennis is a consultant neurologist in Sheffield and developed the Sheffield Adult Neurological Sleep Clinic in 2006. As well as running the sleep service, Gary is an epileptologist and currently the clinical lead for neurology in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals for the South Yorkshire region.

Professor Ganesh Subramanian

Dr Angela Nelmes

Professor Indira Natarajan

Dr Michelle Dharmasiri

Dr Jason Philip Appleton

Consultant stroke neurologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Jason Appleton is a consultant stroke neurologist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, honorary assistant professor at the University of Nottingham, and is external engagement lead for the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians. Jason completed his PhD during his tenure as a clinical research fellow at the Stroke Trials Unit, University of Nottingham and continues to collaborate on research projects with colleagues regionally, nationally and internationally.

Dr Satveer Mahil

Dr Tamara Griffiths

Managing Psoriasis: past, present and future

Dr Philip Laws

Dermatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Phil Laws is a consultant dermatologist with an interest in inflammatory dermatoses working at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. He originally trained in Manchester before completing a medical dermatology fellowship in Toronto, Canada. Phil undertakes research in psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and connective tissue disease. He jointly leads a psoriasis service and a connective tissue disease service working in close collaboration with rheumatology.

Professor Mike Ardern

Dr Amit Arora FRCP

Consultant geriatrician, University Hospitals of North Midlands and Midland Partnership Foundation Trust

Dr Amit Arora has been a consultant geriatrician in the North Midlands since 2004. He is currently the president elect of the British Geriatrics Society and a clinical director for the emergency care improvement support team of NHS England. He is a member of many national committees, advisory bodies and working groups at NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care.

Amit has chaired the quality review service for people living with dementia and frailty, advising commissioners and provider organisations nationally. 

He is also the clinical lead for the National Institute for Health and Care Research RDN: Ageing for West Midlands.

He has a keen interest in national and international health policy and quality for the ageing population and has contributed internationally. 

He has over 100 publications, including invited book chapters, editorials, reviews and college reports.

In 2016, he coined the term deconditioning syndrome as a medical entity and developed the ‘National deconditioning awareness and prevention campaign: Sit Up Get Dressed Keep Moving’ and deconditioning is now internationally recognised as an avoidable harm, especially in older people.

In 2018 he established the National Frailty Academy, which provides free frailty training to all grades of health and social care staff.

In 2022–23, he conceptualised and led the national mission to recondition the nation, commonly known as the Reconditioning Games; which awarded 1,500 medals across the 31 integrated care systems and 100 organisations across the country and established a network of over 500 reconditioning ambassadors.

He has won multiple awards from the Health Service Journal, BMJ, Skills for Health and the Royal College of Physicians for his work over the years.

Dr Amit Arora FRCP

Consultant geriatrician, University Hospitals of North Midlands and Midland Partnership Foundation Trust

Professor Alasdair MacLullich

Dr Manju Paul

Consultant dermatologist, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

Dr Manju Paul is a consultant dermatologist and specialty lead for dermatology at the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, where she has been based since 2016. Manju’s areas of interest are medical dermatology, skin cancers, cutaneous allergy and genital dermatology. She enjoys teaching postgraduates as well as medical students from Keele Medical School. She has publications and has presented at national and international meetings. She is a member of the British Association of Dermatologists.

She graduated from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. She undertook higher training in dermatology at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, obtaining an MD Dermatology in 2003. Her thesis was on the clinicopathological study of cutaneous lymphoma.

She moved to the UK in 2004 and later completed her dermatology training in the West Midlands.

Dr Inderpal Singh FRCP

Consultant geriatrician, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Dr Inderpal Singh is a consultant geriatrician at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and honorary senior lecturer at Cardiff University. His qualifications include MBBS, MD, MRCP (UK), MSc (ageing, health and disease), and FRCP.

Inderpal is the national clinical lead for bone health in Wales. He provides strategic leadership in bone health policy and service development, driving improvements in fracture prevention and osteoporosis care. He is spearheading the national implementation of Welsh government quality statement on bone health and osteoporosis, including universal fracture liaison services throughout Wales.

Professor Andrew Clegg

Professor Thida Win

Rebecca Coles

Clinical curse specialist for UGI/CUP, East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Dr Deepack Jain

Dr Gash Mbizo

Dr Khalid Ali

Consultant neurologist, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Professor Camille Carroll

Professor of clinical neuroscience, Newcastle University

Professor Camille Carroll is a professor of clinical neuroscience at Newcastle University. Her research is focused on disease modification and the use of digital health technologies for monitoring and personalised care in Parkinson’s. Camille is co-chief investigator of the Edmond J Safra ACT-PD multi-arm, multi-stage platform trial for disease modifying interventions in Parkinson’s and has led the development of a national web-based research registry for Parkinson’s disease. She co-chairs the international Linked Clinical Trials Committee, prioritising repurposed drugs for disease modification trials in Parkinson’s. She is the joint clinical director of the Parkinson’s Excellence Network in the UK. Additionally, she is co-chair of the international Movement Disorders Society Patient and Carer Committee, deputy chair of the Parkinson's Disease Clinical Studies Group, and member of the EAN/MDS-ES Parkinson's Disease Guidelines Task Force and Association of British Neurologists Movement Disorders Advisory Group.

Dr Rick Seah FRCP

Consultant in sport, exercise and musculoskeletal medicine, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Dr Rick Seah is a consultant in sport, exercise and musculoskeletal medicine at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) NHS Trust in Stanmore, North London. He is an honorary associate professor at the Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science, University College London.

He qualified in medicine from Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals Medical School, King’s College London, and completed a master's degree with distinction in sport and exercise medicine (SEM) at University College London.

Rick completed 12 years in postgraduate training and is a GMC-accredited SEM specialist. He is also an experienced musculoskeletal sonographer.

He is current chair of the RCP SEM Committee, as well as College of Sport, Exercise and Musculoskeletal Medicine (CSEM) co-opted council member. Rick is also an RCP Medical Specialties Board member. He was previously an elected FSEM(UK) council member (2020–24) and chair of the FSEM(UK) Communications Committee. 

Dr Rebecca Robinson FRCP

Consultant sport and exercise medicine, UK Sports Institute

Dr Rebecca Robinson is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine, having trained at Newcastle University and practiced in hospital medicine. Rebecca specialises in rehabilitation after cancer and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cumbria. Her clinical work spans elite athletes to people with reduced exercise capacity due to significant illness. She currently practises at Orthteam Manchester and Marylebone Health Group London while working with the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and the NHS to embed exercise medicine within the health service.

Dr Alethea McHardy

Consultant in sport and exercise medicine, Ministry of Defence

Dr Alethea McHardy is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine and clinical lead at the Regional Rehabilitation Unit for Scotland, Ministry of Defence (MoD). Alethea has worked for the MoD for over 10 years. She is an examiner for the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and sat on council until 2024.

In 2024 she commenced a PhD investigating the health outcomes in ex-servicewomen (musculoskeletal, reproductive, breast and ovarian cancer). She is passionate about shaping policy through evidence-based research and sits on the UK Armed Forces and Veterans Cross Party Working Group embedded in the Scottish government. In February 2025 she was awarded a prestigious PhD fellowship by the Colt Foundation. She will be presenting after speaking at the Canadian Institute for Military Veterans Health Forum in Ottawa, Canada, in October 2025.

Dr David Brooks

Professor Fliss Murtagh

Dr Sophie Maltas FRCP

Consultant in palliative medicine, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Ms Clare Fuller

Advance care planning advocate, educator and coach, Speak For Me

Ms Clare Fuller is a registered nurse with 30 years’ experience in end-of-life care (EoLC). She has worked in hospices, the community and acute sectors as a clinical nurse specialist, and at a national level as a consultant nurse for the Gold Standards Framework. Clare is a CQC specialist adviser for EoLC and a lasting power of attorney consultant. In 2025, Clare was also a commissioner for the Parliamentary Commission on Palliative and End-of-Life Care. Clare is the owner and director of Speak For Me, which helps organisations to improve EoLC and provides professional and public education about palliative and end-of-life care and advance care planning. Clare campaigns for proactive advance care planning and hosts the podcast Conversations about Advance Care Planning.

John Saunders

Stephanie Katiyar

PrEP lead and sexual health pharmacist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Stephanie Katiyar is a pharmacist specialising in pre-exposure prohylaxis (PrEP) and sexual health at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, bringing nearly a decade of expertise in HIV and sexual healthcare. Nationally, she holds the role of HIV Pharmacy Association lead for patient information leaflets and contributes to various committees, including the BHIVA education and training group, BASHH syphilis guideline, and BASHH PrEP working group. Furthermore, she is the founder and co-chair of the Pharmacy PrEP network, PrEP PharmConnect.

Dr Soonita Oomeer

Integrated sexual health consultant, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Soonita Oomeer completed GUM and HIV specialist registrar training at St Mary’s Hospital, Central Middlesex Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital in London.  From 2016, she was a GUM and HIV consultant at St Ann’s Sexual Health Clinic, Haringey and Marlborough GUM clinic at the Royal Free Hospital in London. 

Soonita works at Archway Sexual Health Centre, part of Central Northwest London NHS Trust (CNWL) as an integrated sexual health consultant.  She is the syphilis lead for CNWL Sexual Health services in North Central London.
She is a member of the NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy (IDPS) congenital syphilis clinical expert review panel.

She has been a member of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV

Dr Emily Clarke FRCP

Consultant in genitourinary medicine and HIV, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Emily Clarke is a consultant in genitourinary medicine and HIV in Liverpool. She is chair of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Special Interest Group, and immediate past chair of the BASHH Clinical Standards Unit and of Fast Track Cities Liverpool. Emily’s clinical interests include HSV, HIV in women including pregnancy and menopause, genital dermatology, and long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy (ART). She speaks regularly nationally and internationally on HSV, and HIV during menopause.

Emily believes strongly in the power of guidelines to improve clinical care. Within the field of HSV, she is co-author of the BASHH national guidelines for herpes, of the International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections European guidelines for herpes, and lead author of the BASHH / Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists national guidelines for herpes in pregnancy and the neonate. Other guidelines she has co-authored include the British HIV Association (BHIVA) national guidelines for HIV in pregnancy, and of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) national guidelines for reducing sexually transmitted infections (STIs). She was also the secretary for the BASHH standards for the management of STIs and chair of the BASHH standards for the management of sexual health in UK prisons.

Emily has a keen interest in research. She is the regional lead for sexual health and HIV research in north-west England. Her publications may be viewed under ORCID ID 0000-0001-9340-1417 and centre around her interests in HSV, the impact of guidelines on clinical care, research priority setting, and long-acting injectable ART. She has been principal investigator of 19 trials in HIV, STIs, genital dermatology, contraception, and women’s health.

Dr Ashish Sukthankar