Dr James Szymankiewicz
Dr Ruth Chambers
Ruth Chambers OBE is currently a half-time partner in a GP practice in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, and also Clinical Telehealth Lead at NHS Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Group. She is honorary professor at Staffordshire University School of Health and has also been appointed honorary professor at Keele University, where…
Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green
Sir Al Aynsely-Green trained at Guy’s Hospital, London, hospitals in Oxford, and in paediatric endocrinology at the University Children’s Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. He became University Lecturer and Fellow of Green College, Oxford, and James Spence Professor of Child Health in…
Emily Downs
Emily Downs is a third year Physiotherapy student. She says “I got involved with the college in 2014 after receiving an email about the upcoming summer school based on self-management and resilience. I felt that these were key topics for…
Arani Vivekanantham
I am a medical student, in my 5th Year, at Keele University Medical School. This year I am intercalating, undertaking a research masters (MPhil) in Primary Care Sciences. As part of this I am conducting research evaluating the prevalence of…
Alison Zander
Alison is a first year graduate entry medical student and current Medical Society president at Swansea University. Her previous education includes a Batchelor of Science degree in Biology from University College, Durham, and a Master of Science degree in Public…
Olivia Phillips
As a student of Graduate Medicine at the University of Leicester, I am in the very early stages of developing an understanding of the complexities and needs of the national health service. Growing up, I was heavily influenced by my…
Tim Owen Jones
Tim is a student nurse, adult branch, at King’s College London. Previously, he worked as project manager with artists and arts organisations across UK, Spain and USA. He has an MA in Arts Policy & Management from Birkbeck, University of…
Alex Ocampo
Alex Ocampo is a final year Mental Health Nursing Student at the University Of East Anglia, Norwich. He says: “I became involved in the College of Medicine Student Strategy group after going to two College Of Medicine Summer Schools –…
Dame Julie Moore
Dame Julie Moore is Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB). She is a graduate nurse who worked in clinical practice before moving into management. After a variety of clinical, management and director posts, she was appointed to her present…
Peter McCarthy
Position in College: Member of the Neuromusculoskeletal Faculty Member/fellow: Member of Neuromusculoskeletal faculty Peter McCarthy is a neurophysiologist training at Universities of Manchester (Pharmacology and Physiology), St Andrews (PhD, neuropharmacology/physiology) and Bristol (neurophysiology) before electing to lecture in a private…
Dr Nigel Hewett
Nigel Hewett FRCGP OBE qualified in general practice and then spent two years as a volunteer training barefoot doctors in the Amazon jungle of Peru. He has worked with homeless people since 1990. In 1997 he was the founding Chair…
Simon Mills
Simon Mills MA FNIMH MCPP is a Cambridge graduate in medical sciences and a herbal practitioner. He is Managing Director of SustainCare, a community interest company dedicated to developing new models of self-care. He is project lead on the Department of…
Professor David Peters
David Peters MB, ChB, DRCOG, DMSMed MFHom FLCOM trained as a GP, a musculoskeletal physician and also as a homeopathic and osteopathic practitioner. For fifteen years he directed the complementary therapies development programme at Marylebone Health Centre. Professor Peters is…
Professor Dame Donna Kinnair
Donna Kinnair DBE, RGN, HV, LLB, MA is Clinical Director, Emergency Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Founation Trust Hospital. She was previously Chief Nurse for the NHS in South East London. She advised the Prime Minister’s Commission on the future of Nursing…
Simon Fielding
After graduating as an osteopath, Simon Fielding, OBE, DO, embarked on a clinical and academic career. As well as establishing two integrated multi-disciplinary clinics he lectured extensively both in the UK and abroad. After he was forced to retire from…
Sir Sam Everington
Sam Everington OBE, MRCGP puts patient-centred at the heart of his practice at his award-winning surgery at the Bromley-by-Bow Centre, London. It is a unique partnership between the private, public and voluntary sector, the community and patients. The centre includes over…
Mr Michael Dooley
Michael Dooley MMs FFSRH FRCOG is Treasurer of the College of Medicine He is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Dorset County Hospital. His special interest is reproductive endocrinology with particular expertise in infertility, menopause, premenstrual syndrome and sports gynaecology. He…
Sarah Bazin
Sarah Bazin OBE is a senior Therapy Manager at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. She represented the West Midlands on the Council of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) for 14 years, and has recently served a term…
Dr Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor MRCGP MICGP is past chair of the Family Doctors Association where he is currently responsible for external relations. He graduated from Edinburgh University and has worked in various high profile treatment and diagnostic faculties. It was his firm belief…
Professor Stephen Holgate
Stephen Holgate MD DSc CSc FRCP FRCPath FIBiol FBMS FMed Sci CBE is MRC Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton School of Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician at Southampton University Hospital Trust. He is also chair of the…
Rt. Hon Peter Hain
Peter Hain MP MPhil is MP for the South Wales Valley of Neath. He is the former Secretary of State for Wales, Leader of the Commons, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Secretary of State for the Department of Work…
Professor Sir Muir Gray
Muir Gray CBE, DSc, MD, FRCPSGlas, FCLIP is a life-long champion of patient empowerment. Director of the NHS National Knowledge Service, he created the National Library for Health and the ‘Behind the headlines’ service that offers professionals and the public an…
Lord Clement-Jones
Tim Clement-Jones OBE is a Liberal Democrat peer and has a background in the law. He is Chair of Council at the School of Pharmacy, University of London. He was the party health spokesperson in the Lords, before taking on…
