Nisreen Alwan
Associate Professor in Public Health at the University of Southampton and Honorary Consultant in Public Health at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Alwan is Associate Professor in Public Health at the University of Southampton and Honorary Consultant in Public Health at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. She leads epidemiological and public health research in maternal and child health towards optimising the wellbeing of families and preventing future chronic disease. During the pandemic, she focused on the recognition and the quantification of morbidity from COVID19, having initiated the call to Count ‘Long COVID’ in summer 2020. She was awarded an MBE for services to Medicine and Public Health during the pandemic in the Queen’s New Year Honours 2021, and named among women leading change from across the world in the BBC 100 Women 2020 list. Her latest publications on Long Covid:
The road to addressing Long Covid
The teachings of Long COVID
Dr Anne Connolly
After a two-year volunteer posting to an under-resourced mission hospital in rural Zimbabwe, Anne returned to General Practice in inner-city Bradford in 1990 and is currently working as a GP providing care for asylum seekers, refugees, homeless and sex workers.
She is a GPSI in gynaecology, accredited as a hysteroscopist and FSRH trainer. She has been involved with commissioning since 2006 and retired as CCG clinical board member with a remit for maternity, women’s, children and young people’s healthcare in 2019.
Anne is chair of the PCWHF and RCGP Clinical Champion for Women’s Health. She is also co-editor of Women’s Health in Primary Care.
Anne was honoured to be awarded an MBE for her work in women’s health in the 2021 Queens Birthday Honours List.
Tahseen A. Chowdhury
Consultant in Diabetes
Honorary Professor in Diabetes
Tahseen Chowdhury is a Clinician in the Department of Diabetes and Metabolism at the Royal London Hospital, in the East End of London. He runs a large specialist Diabetes and Metabolism unit, dealing with diabetes particularly amongst the Bangladeshi community of Tower Hamlets. He has a research / clinical interest in diabetes in South Asians and diabetic kidney disease, and has authored many publications, including books entitled “Diabetes in South Asian people: Explained”, “Fatty Liver” and “Diabetes Management in Clinical Practice”. He also runs the metabolism programme for medical students at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London. He qualified from the University of Birmingham and trained in Birmingham and Manchester, before becoming a Consultant Physician in 2000.
Andrew Day
Chemical Pathology in London and Bristol
Dr Andrew Day trained in Chemical Pathology in London and Bristol and for the past 25 years has worked as a consultant in clinical biochemistry and metabolic medicine at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, where he is currently Head of Department of Clinical Biochemistry. He has clinical interests in lipids, diabetes and nutrition. Alongside his clinical work, Dr Day has a longstanding involvement in medical education at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is co-author of two bestselling textbooks of clinical biochemistry. Education management roles have included Head of Postgraduate School of Pathology, Health Education England South West, RCPath Lead Examiner in Chemical Pathology and most recently RCPath Clinical Director of Examinations.
Mark Edwards
Professor of Neurology at St George’s University of London and The Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Service at St George’s University Hospital
Mark Edwards (MBBS, BSc(Hons), PhD, FRCP, FEAN) is a Professor of Neurology at St George’s University of London and The Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Service at St George’s University Hospital. He has a specialist clinical and research interest in Movement Disorders and Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). He did his PhD with Professor John Rothwell and Professor Kailash Bhatia at the UCL Institute of Neurology, studying the pathophysiology of genetic dystonia. During this period he was involved with the development of a novel and now a widely used technique for transcranial magnetic stimulation: theta burst stimulation. Following completion of neurology training, he became a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at UCL and the National Hospital for Neurology. Here he developed an NIHR funded research program and specialist diagnostic and treatment service for patients with FND. After moving to St George’s in 2015 he expanded this work to develop one of the first integrated diagnostic and treatment services for FND alongside continued research work into the pathophysiology of the disorder and development and testing of novel treatments, including the first randomised trial of specialist physiotherapy for functional movement disorders. He is also an active part of the specialist movement disorders and deep brain stimulation team at the Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Centre, and continues electrophysiological and psychophysical research work into the pathophysiology and treatment of movement disorders in general. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed publications and is the author of the Oxford Specialist Handbook of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders. He is President of the Association of British Neurology Movement Disorders Group, International Executive Committee member of the International Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Society, Board and Founding Member of the Functional Neurological Disorder Society, Associate Editor of the European Journal of Neurology, and medical advisor for FNDHope, the UK Dystonia Society and the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine. He is the winner of the Jon Stolk Award for Movement Disorders research from the American Academy of Neurology, the David Marsden Award for Dystonia research, the Queen Square Prize and the Uschi Tschabitscher prize for research from the European Academy of Neurology.
Ben Esdaile
Consultant Dermatologist
Dr Ben Esdaile is a Consultant Dermatologist based at the Whittington Hospital in North London where he holds his NHS post. He trained in medicine at Imperial College London after obtaining a First Class honours degree in Biochemistry at King’s College London.
He undertook his specialist dermatological training in Oxford and developed a specialist interest in skin cancer diagnosis and surgery. He has a particular interest in the early detection of skin cancer using dermoscopy and mole mapping. He lectures nationally and internationally and is also on the Board for the International Dermoscopy Society.
Geraint Fuller
Consultant Neurologist at the Gloucestershire Royal NHS Trust
Dr Geraint Fuller is a Consultant Neurologist at the Gloucestershire Royal NHS Trust. He qualified in 1983 and started clinical neurology training in London. He won the Queen Square Prize in Neurology in 1990.
He is particularly interested in education and training and has written two textbooks, including Neurological Examination Made Easy (Churchill Livingstone). He has also edited a training journal Neurology in Practice. He is the Chair of the Neurology Specialty Advisory Committee and has been closely involved in introducing assessment into specialty training in medicine all while maintaining a busy clinical service.
Michael Kirby
Michael Kirby has been a GP and vocational trainer in Letchworth, Hertfordshire 1973- 2008. He was the Director of HertNet (The Hertfordshire Primary Care Research Network) 1998-2008, and Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire, Professor of Primary Care at the Institute of Diabetes for Older People, University of Bedfordshire (IDOP) and subsequently attending physician to the Prostate Centre, London, where he dealt with complex medical problems until 2020.
He qualified at St Mary’s Hospital, London before working as a Cardiology Registrar, and subsequently Hospital Practitioner at the QEII Hospital, Hertfordshire. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, an Associate Member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and a Trustee of the Sexual Advice Association. He is a committee member of the British Society for Sexual Medicine. He was Editor in Chief of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Journal, and currently is Editor of Trends in Urology & Men’s Health, and reviewer and advisor for many other Journals. He also holds membership of several NHS advisory boards. He has published more than 400 clinical papers and 32 books. His special interests include cardiology, diabetes, osteoporosis, men’s health, urology, andrology and education.
Dr Angela Goyal
GP and Founder of Inspired Medics
Angela is an experienced GP with a passion for Lifestyle Medicine and is the Director of Inspired Medics . Angela founded Inspired Medics with the idea to train healthcare professionals in using Lifestyle Medicine in the consultation. The power of these simple interventions is under utilised in medicine due to a lack of training. Inspired Medics have now trained thousands of healthcare professionals in the UK and across the globe as well as working with PCNs. The aspiration is to instill this training in medical schools and core training for all healthcare professionals. Watch video to find out more about the power of Lifestyle Medicine, whatever your specialty.
Angela also has an Extended Role in Dermatology, accredited by RCGP.
She has over 10 years of experience of seeing patients in Dermatology clinics. She is Clinical Lead for OneMedical Group Community Dermatology NHS Services, who take referrals from GP’s in Leeds and Yorkshire. Her role also involves contract procurement and service delivery design.
Dr Inge Kreuser-Genis
Consultant Dermatologist
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Kreuser-Genis is a Consultant Dermatologist based at The Churchill hospital in Oxford. She is passionate about all things Dermatology, with a particular focus on her dual sub-specialty interests of Vulval and Paediatric Dermatology. She is also currently the Dermatology Training Programme Director for The Thames Valley region.
She originally qualified from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and then worked for a few years as a junior Doctor in Cape Town, before emigrating to the UK. She worked as a Specialty Doctor in Dermatology in Amersham and London for a number of years, before completing her formal Dermatology training in Glasgow. During this period of training she undertook a Fellowship in adult and paediatric vulval disease, travelling to specialist clinics in the UK and the US. She moved back to the South of England to take up her current post and has been enjoying the positively balmy weather (in contrast) since…
She is an active member of the British Society for Paediatric Dermatology and the British Society for the Study of Vulval disease.
She enjoys being involved in teaching colleagues in a practical way, and facilitating the dissemination of up to date knowledge. She has presented widely, on a national and international level, and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals. She has also contributed a chapter on ‘Genital skin disease in Adolescents’ to the recently published Oxford Press ‘The Facts Series’ on ‘Skin disease in Adolescents’ textbook.
She is also a Mum to two, and tries to fit in amateur portrait painting, trail running and swimming (often with a charitable slant) when she can.
Dr Chun-Man Lee
Dr Lee graduated from Barts and the London School of Medicine in 2006 and following almost a decade of vocational training in Internal Medicine, he was
elected to the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in 2013, followed by Specialty Certificate (SE) in Dermatology by the end of 2018. In
2014, his career progressed into Dermatology where he sub-specialises in skin
allergies for children and adults. 2 years later, Dr Lee accepted an honorary role by the University of Surrey, where he gives lectures and sets assessments for the Faculty of Medical Science. His clinical work is based at Frimley Park Hospital, where he currently conducts an international, multicentre study on the effect of Biologies on Chronic Plaque Psoriasis as a Principle Investigator in UK. Bearing a Masters degree in Skin Aging and Aesthetic Medicine at the University of Manchester Dr Lee has had many articles published in highly regarded peer-reviewed journals over the years.
Dr Clifford Lisk
Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine and Geriatric Medicine at Barnet hospital, Royal Free NHS foundation trust in North London
Dr Clifford Lisk is a Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine and Geriatric Medicine at Barnet hospital, Royal Free NHS foundation trust in North London. He works in Acute Medicine with his colleagues with a focus on early Physician input into adult patients of all ages presenting to the hospital. As part of this service, he provides Specialist Geriatrician input into older adults. He also works with General Practitioner colleagues, Community matrons, nurses and Allied Health professionals in Hertsmere providing a service to community-dwelling older adults living with frailty. His main interests are in Medical Education where he is currently Lead Training Programme Director for Internal Medicine Training (IMT) in North Central London, Health Education England, Joint Quality Lead Specialty advisory committee, Royal College of Physicians, Visiting lecturer to the Non-Medical prescribing programme at the University of Hertfordshire and Honorary Senior Lecturer at UCL medical school and Community Geriatric Medicine. He is particularly interested in appropriate Medicines use in older adults particularly in relation to addressing Inappropriate Polypharmacy and sits on the London Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee Polypharmacy group.
Philip Lodge
Palliative medicine consultant
I have been a consultant in palliative medicine at the Royal Free and Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead for 17 years, having trained as a GP before specialty training in North London. I am fortunate to work across a hospital, community and hospice which, I hope, gives me some awareness of the challenges for colleagues working in all settings. My areas of interest include medical education and the management of chronic pain.
I am happy to be distracted by most sports involving a ball and still kick one while ignoring my dodgy knees.
Charlotte Marriott
Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Charlotte Marriott is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the NHS and a Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician. She is Chair of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine’s Mental Health Special Interest Group. Charlotte likes to inspire and empower her patients (and everyone else!) to make small changes to their lifestyle habits to improve their physical and mental health and reduce the burden of medication side effects.
Simon McLaughlin
Consultant Gastroenterologist at University Hospitals Dorset
Dr Simon McLaughlin is a consultant gastroenterologist at University Hospitals Dorset. He trained in Medicine at Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ Medical Schools, qualifying in 2000. During his postgraduate training he undertook two and half years of clinical research at St. Mark’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals London and was awarded an MD (Res.) from Imperial College London in 2010.
Simon has published three book chapters on inflammatory bowel disease and has written numerous papers. He authored the 2010 British Society of Gastroenterology Coeliac Disease guidelines. His practice includes all aspects of luminal gastroenterology with a particular interest in inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and patients who have undergone ileal-anal pouch surgery) irritable bowel syndrome and coeliac disease. His endoscopic interests include video capsule endoscopy, balloon-assisted enteroscopy and complex colonoscopy (removal of large polyps including use of the full-thickness resection device).
At Bournemouth, he leads the iron-deficiency anaemia service, video capsule endoscopy service and is the Research Lead for gastroenterology.
In 2021 he introduced non-invasive video capsule alternatives to gastroscopy and colonoscopy to Dorset. Outside work Simon enjoys swimming and sailing with his family.
Huw Morris
Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the UCL Institute of Neurology
Huw Morris is Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at UCL Institute of Neurology, and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the Royal Free Hospital and the National Hospital, Queen Square. He was Senior Lecturer and then Professor in Neurology and Neurogenetics at Cardiff University, the Royal Gwent Hospital and the University Hospital of Wales from 2003-2013. His clinical and research training took place at the National Hospital Queen Square, the Mayo Clinic and the Western Pacific island of Guam. His main interests are Neurogenetics, Movement Disorders and Dementia. He is leading a UK-wide research network in PSP and Cortico-basal degeneration (PROSPECT), a UK-wide research project in genetic Parkinson’s (Parkinson’s families project). He also studies genetic determinants of progression and variation in Parkinsonian disorders to define new treatments.
Clinton Mitchell
Neurologist at the University Hospital of Wales
Clinton Mitchell is a neurologist working at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. He trained in Wellington, New Zealand and the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. He has also worked in Worthing and Newcastle.
Dr Angus Nightingale
Consultant cardiologist
Angus Nightingale trained in Cambridge and London, going on to do heart failure research in Cardiff, Oxford and Adelaide, Australia. He is now consultant cardiologist at Bristol Royal Infirmary. His areas of clinical cardiology interest are non-invasive imaging, valvular heart disease and heart failure and his research areas are in resistant hypertension and heart failure.
As University Hospitals Bristol foundation programme director, Dr Nightingale is committed to postgraduate medical education and is heavily involved in teaching to local GP groups and regional BP meetings.
He is most proud of innovative illustrations (such as washing up gloves) for understanding the pathophysiology of heart failure!
Hilary Pinnock,
Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
Professor Hilary Pinnock is a Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, University of Edinburgh and a family doctor in Whitstable, Kent. She leads programmes of work in the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research and the RESPIRE NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health.
Her research interests include the delivery of care within the ‘real-life’ primary care setting including implementing supported self-management for asthma, telehealthcare for monitoring respiratory disease, talking therapies to help people with COPD and depression, supportive care for people with severe COPD.
She is Head of Assembly 1 of the European Respiratory Society and actively involved with the International Primary Care Respiratory Group and the UK Primary Care Respiratory Society. She has been a member of the BTS/SIGN British asthma Guideline Development Group and is an associate editor of NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine.
Kai-Keen Shiu
Consultant in the Gastrointestinal Oncology Unit at University College London Hospital
Dr Shiu is a Consultant in the Gastrointestinal Oncology Unit at University College London Hospital and Honorary Associate Professor at the UCL Cancer Institute. He is the Clinical Lead for the CUP MDT and the Acute Oncology Service at UCLH. He qualified at Guys and St Thomas’ Medical School, training in medical oncology at the Royal Free Hospital and UCLH. He completed his PhD in integrative genomic profiling of cancer at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital. He also attained a post CCT research fellowship at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL.
His research interests include immunotherapy for GI malignancies and Cancer of Unknown Primary, with focus on clinical trials and translational research of these cancers. He is the UK Chief Investigator for CUPISCO, a 1st line Phase 2 randomised molecular guided therapy trial for patients with CUP, and Principal Investigator for the CUP-COMP; (CUP): A comparison across tissue and liquid biomarkers. He is the UK Chief Investigator or Principal Investigator for several gastrointestinal immuno-oncology trials including JAVELIN-Gastric100, VESTIGE, KEYNOTE 177, 811, 859, LEAP 17 and an investigator initiated NEOPRISM-CRC trial of neoadjuvant immunotherapy.
Dr Shiu is Chair of the NCRI MUO-CUP Workstream and a member of the NCRI Colorectal Advanced and Adjuvant Disease Subgroup. He is a collaborator in the PEACE (Posthumous tissuE donAtion in CancEr) study, and a member of the Gastrointestinal Oncology and CUP subgroups at UCL Cancer Institute/Francis Crick Institute. He is the Principal Investigator of the UCL/UCLH Gastrointestinal Cancer Translational Research Biobank.
Dr. Emma Short
FRCPath PhD MRCSEd BMBCh (Oxon) MA (Cantab) PGCMEd
Instagram: @dr_emmashort
Dr. Emma Short studied pre-clinical medicine at Cambridge University and clinical medicine at Oxford University. She completed her basic surgical training in Devon, before moving to Wales to specialise in histopathology. Her clinical areas of interest are gastrointestinal and soft tissue pathology. She has a PhD from Cardiff University in cancer genetics: Genetic Mechanisms in Colorectal Polyposis, 2018.
Dr. Short has published extensively in the scientific literature and she also writes for a variety of health and fitness magazines. She has an active role in medical education and is interested in the gut microbiome and its role in health and disease.
Dr. Short is a qualified meditation teacher and has diplomas in Mindful Nutrition and Shinrin Yoku. She is a keen runner and is passionate about health promotion and disease prevention. She set up and runs a not-for-profit community running group in Cardiff, Sirius Running, and is a qualified personal trainer. Her first book, A Prescription For Healthy Living: A Guide to Lifestyle Medicine, was published in January 2021. She edited the book and wrote several of the chapters.
Phil Smith
Consultant Neurologist at the University Hospital of Wales
Phil Smith is a Consultant Neurologist at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. In addition to his clinical role, mainly in epilepsy, he co-edits the journal Practical Neurology, is lead for undergraduate written assessments for Cardiff Medical School, and is a member of the NICE epilepsy guideline panel. He was President of the Association of British Neurologists (2015–17) and of the UK Chapter of the International League Against Epilepsy (2008–11).
Dr Richard Smith (Salisbury)
MBBS, FRCP, BSc, MSc Rheumatology, PGDip SEM
Dr Richard Smith is a consultant Rheumatologist at Salisbury Foundation Trust and visiting consultant to King Edward memorial hospital in the Falkland Islands. He trained in London and, following that, spent a year at the New South Wales Institute of Sports Medicine. He has sat on both the clinical affairs committee and education committee for the British Society of Rheumatology and the council and education committee for the British Institute of musculoskeletal medicine. He is junior secretary for the RSM Sports and Exercise Medicine council. He lectures for the BMJ Musculoskeletal, Rheumatology and General Masterclasses, He helped set up and run a dedicated psoriatic arthritis biologics clinic in Salisbury. He is an inaugural member of the Wessex Psoriatic disease network and is a member of GRAPPA (Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis) helping to create guidelines for co-morbidities in Psoriatic arthritis. In his spare time, he is the doctor to the World’s Strongest Man and Superstars tournaments.
Ricky Thakrar
Dr Ricky Thakrar qualified in Medicine from Imperial College London. He trained in Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital and completed his training in Northwest London. He was appointed to a three-year academic fellowship at UCL where his PhD examined state of the art and innovative diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopic techniques for managing cancers arising in central airways and lung. He is a Consultant in Thoracic Medicine and his main interests are in interventional bronchoscopy procedures (laser resection, airway stenting, cryotherapy, photodynamic therapy and brachytherapy) for pre-malignant and malignant disease of the tracheobronchial tree.
Dr Julia Thomson
BA BM MSc FRCPCH
Julia is a consultant paediatrician at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in east London. She is a general paediatrician with expertise in paediatric cardiology and a strong interest in teaching and training. An active life support instructor and instructor trainer, she is a trustee and volunteer for a charity that trains instructors to teach a newborn care course in West Africa. She set up the CPD website, www.paediatricpearls.co.uk, in 2009 when she first became a consultant and still writes the monthly round-up of all things paediatric to help keep GPs and other health professionals up to date with everything to do with the clinical care of children.
David Unwin
Dr David Unwin FRCGP works at the Norwood NHS Surgery in Southport near Liverpool, UK where he has cared for the same population since 1986 as a family doctor. During this time he has seen an eight fold increase in the prevalence of diabetes, causing him to ask why this is and what we can all do about it in our own practices? To date 107/206 of his patients with T2 diabetes who chose a low carb approach have achieved drug-free remission. This gives a remission rate of 50% for those who choose the approach, equivalent to 22% of the entire practice diabetes register. So far, the average duration for participants is 30 months. Significant diabetes drug budget savings of about £58,000 per year(1) have resulted from improving diet as an alternative to initiating lifelong medication.
As part of this he has also published research into improving blood pressure(2), lipid profiles and liver function(3) by reducing dietary carbohydrates, especially sugar. Dr Unwin’s work has been covered by both BBC, C4 & C5 television, The New Scientist, The Times, The Daily Mail and The BMJ.
