Sir Michael Dixon CVO, OBE, MA, FRCGP, FRCP (Hon): Co-Chair
Michael is an NHS GP at the Culm Valley Integrated Centre for Health in Cullompton, Devon. He is co-Chair of the College of Medicine and former Co-Chair of the National Social Prescribing Network. He was previously a leader in the GP Commissioning movement as Chair of NHS Alliance (1998-2016) and President of NHS Clinical Commissioners (2012-2014), which aimed to give GPs and their patients a greater say in the services available to them. Michael is a Visiting Professor at Westminster University and Head of the Royal Medical Household. His recent book A Time to Heal – Tales of a Country Doctor describes his views on general practice – past and present. Find out more about his work here
Professor Dame Donna Kinnair DBE RGN HV LLB MA: Vice Chair
Donna is a Non-executive Director at East London Foundation Trust, and Vice Chair of the College of Medicine. She was the General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) until June 2021. She was responsible for delivering the RCN’s strategic and operational plans and promoting patient and nursing interests on a wide range of issues.
Donna has held various roles, prior to joining the RCN, including clinical director of emergency medicine at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust; Executive Director of Nursing, Southwark London Cluster Board; Director of Commissioning, London Borough of Southwark & Southwark PCT. She was the Strategic Commissioner for Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority’s Children’s Services. Donna advised the PM’s Commission on the future of Nursing and Midwifery in 2010 and served as nurse/child health assessor to the Victoria Climbié Inquiry.
Sir Sam Everington MBBS, MRCGP, Barrister, OBE: Co-Chair
In 2025, Sam became co-Chair of the College of Medicine.
Sam has been a GP in East London, England since 1989 at the Bromley By Bow Centre. The centre has over 100 projects under its roof ranging from art and garden therapy and financial and jobs advice, all supporting the wider determinants of health. The social prescribing delivered at the centre, is now part of a network of thousands across the country and a growing movement across the world. Its focus is on what matters to patients rather than what is the matter with them. East London is a poor community but rich in diversity with over 150 different ethnic group. We are proud to say we have the world in our East End.
Sam is an Honorary Vice President of the British Medical Association. In 1999 he received an OBE for services to inner city primary care in 2006, The International Award of Excellence in Health Care and in 2015 a Knighthood for services to primary care. In 2022 he received the Albert Medal from the Royal Society of Arts (Previous recipients include Marie Curie, Stephen Hawking, Winston Churchill). He is a member of the East London foundation Trust board (mental Health Hospital), an Associate Director of NHS Resolution and is a Fellow and Honorary Professor of Queen Mary University of London and Honorary Vice President of the Queen's Institute of Community Nursing. He is a member of the Royal College of GPs Council and the Knight’s Society, and as well as being our co-Chair is also Chair of Trustees, and a Council Member of the College of Medicine. He is a non-executive board member of NHS England and is the Provost of the RCGP from November 2025. In 2026 he became an Honorary Professor of the University of East London. He is a trained woodcarver, day skipper, and speaks Norwegian. He trained originally as a cadet pilot in the RAF and lives with his wife and children in the East End of London in the heart of his community.
Amanda King: Chief Executive Officer
Amanda manages the day to day running of the College of Medicine, with a particular focus on membership engagement, communications, events, conferences and educational courses like the very popular Foundation Courses on Integrated Healthcare. She spent most of her career until 2011 at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society as Membership Manager then latterly as Local Practice Forum Manager and a manager of the annual national conference organising team as well as roles in PR and Education. Amanda has a wealth of experience in running events, project management to delivering change in organisations.