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General Update (Programme 1) Speakers
Chairs
Dr Fiona Godlee (York and London - December)
Fiona Godlee has been Editor in Chief of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) since 2005. She qualified as a doctor in 1985, trained as a general physician in Cambridge and London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Since joining the BMJ in 1990, she has written on a broad range of subjects, including the impact of environmental degradation on health, the future of the World Health Organization, the ethics of academic publication and the problems of editorial peer review.
In 1994 she spent a year at Harvard University as a Harkness Fellow evaluating efforts to bridge the gap between medical research and practice. On returning to the UK, Fiona led the development of BMJ Clinical Evidence, which evaluates the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of treatments and is now provided world wide to over a million clinicians in nine languages. In 2000 she moved to the Current Science Group to establish the open access online publisher BioMed Central as Editorial Director for Medicine. In 2003 she returned to the BMJ Publishing Group to head its new Knowledge division. She has served as President of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and is co-editor of Peer Review in Health Sciences. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.
Professor Domhnall MacAuley (Manchester)
Domhnall MacAuley is currently honorary professor in the Faculty of Life and Health Science at the University of Ulster. He is practising both in general practice and sport and exercise medicine. At the BMJ Publishing Group he has been Editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine and is now a senior editor at the BMJ with a particular focus on primary care. Professor MacAuley has published widely, most recently the Oxford Handbook of Sport and Exercise Medicine (Dec 2006) and a new edition of Evidence Based Sports Medicine (April 2007).
Professor Mike Pringle (London - March)
Mike Pringle is Professor of General Practice and Head of the School of Community Health Sciences in the University of Nottingham. He is a member of the General Medical Council and a board member of UK Biobank. He was chairman of the RCGP from 1998 to2001. Mike has recently ceased to be a partner in a rural Nottinghamshire practice and instead is helping to run the Collingham Healthcare Education Centre, an innovative primary care development project. He has recently completed his secondment as part-time national clinical lead for general practice in NHS Connecting for Health and is now strategic director of PRIMIS+.
Professor Martin Underwood (Birmingham)
Martin Underwood is a GP in Coventry and professor of primary care research at Warwick Medical School. His main area of research interest is in management of chronic musculoskeletal disorders including back pain, chronic widespread pain, osteoarthritis and gout in the community.
Dr Ann Robinson (London - September)
Ann Robinson has been a GP principal for 20 years and in her spare time is a medical journalist and author of books on women’s health and embarrassing health problems. She is now working on a book on ageing. Dr Robinson wrote a Dear Doctor column for the Guardian for 5 years and still contributes to the paper and website, Comment Is Free. She has been Barnet PCT clinical lead on delivering urgent care and wants now to work on end of life services.
Dr Philip Cotton (Glasgow)
Philip Cotton is a Senior Lecturer in General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Glasgow, where he is Convenor of Community Based Education and Director of Vocational Studies in the Medical School. His research is in medical education and respiratory disease. He has an interest in developing world medical curricula. Dr Cotton is a GP in Springburn and medical examiner with Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. He is chair of the West of Scotland Faculty of the RCGP.
Dr Richard Neal (Bristol)
Richard Neal is a senior lecturer in general practice within the department of primary care and public health, North Wales Clinical School, Cardiff University. He leads a programme of research into the early diagnosis of cancer, and its follow-up in primary care. Dr Neal has written about 60 peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters. He works 1 day a week in general practice, rotating between various deprived practices in Flintshire, NE Wales, and is a volunteer doctor at Glastonbury.
Respiratory Medicine
Dr Hilary Pinnock (London - March, Birmingham and Glasgow)
Hilary Pinnock is a Principal in General Practice in Kent. She also holds a Clinical Research Fellowship in Primary Care in the Division of Community Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests focus on delivering respiratory care in the “real life” setting of primary care, including evaluating telephone reviews for asthma, the role of GPs with a Special Interest, and the palliative care needs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She is actively involved in the education programme of the General Practice Airways Group, and chairs the self management evidence review group of the British Thoracic Society SIGN asthma guideline. She lectures extensively to GPs, nurses, and pharmacists, both nationally and internationally.
Dr Jon Miles (York and Manchester)
Jon Miles trained at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1986. His respiratory training was undertaken in Birmingham and in Wellington NZ, where he developed an interest in severe asthma and allergy. He has been a consultant physician in North Manchester since 1996 and runs severe asthma, allergy, and pleural clinics there. Dr Miles is also one of the NW Deanery associate deans and helps with education research there.
Dr Kevin Gruffydd-Jones (Bristol and London - December)
Kevin Gruffydd-Jones trained at the University of Oxford and is a principal in general practice and GP trainer in Box, near Bath. He has a special interest in sports medicine and respiratory medicine. Kevin has research interests in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and is an honorary lecturer at the Universities of Bath and Aberdeen. He is ex-education lead and current joint policy lead of the General Practice Airways Group and has spoken at national and international meetings. Dr Gruffydd-Jones is involved in the development of national guidelines for asthma and COPD management and guidelines for the employment of practitioners with a special interest in respiratory medicine.
Dr Richard Russell (London - September)
Richard Russell is a Consultant at Wexham Park and Windsor Hospitals and an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College, London. He trained at Guy’s Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital, where he completed a PhD as a British Lung Foundation Research Fellow. His research interests are in COPD, asthma and delivery of care across the primary/secondary care interface. Dr Russell was recently a member of the committee drawing up the new asthma guidelines and is active in the British Lung Foundation. He is the lead from secondary care on the primary care quality outcomes framework national working party. He is also the founding editor of the International Journal of COPD.
Dermatology
Dr Emma Craythorne (Glasgow and Bristol)
Emma Craythorne is a specialist registrar in dermatology on rotation at King’s College Hospital and St John’s Institute of Dermatology. She underwent undergraduate training in Dundee and postgraduate dermatology training in Glasgow and Newcastle. Dr Craythorne often presents at international and national dermatology conferences; her special interests include dermatological surgery and cutaneous malignancy.
Dr Anthony du Vivier (London - March and London - December)
Anthony du Vivier is Consultant Dermatologist at Kings College Hospital, London, a position he has held since 1978. He qualified in 1968, trained at St Bartholomew’s, and then held a position as Senior Registrar at St. Mary’s, and a Research Fellow post at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. His research interests include cutaneous malignancy, topical steroids, and cutaneous aspects of lymphoma and leukaemia, with special relation to bone marrow transplantation. He is also the author of Atlas of Clinical Dermatology.
Dr Simon Dawe (York)
Simon Dawe trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’s medical school, graduating in 1994, and was a clinical fellow in dermatology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and then specialist registrar at King’s College Hospital and St John’s Institute of Dermatology from 2001 to 2005. He was appointed consultant dermatologist at West Hertfordshire NHS trust in 2005. Dr Dawe’s areas of interest include cutaneous allergy and paediatric eczema and he is clinical lead of his community dermatology service. Dr Dawe is a member of the dermatology council at the RSM and St John’s Institute of Dermatology.
Dr Nuala O’Donoghue (London)
Nuala O’Donoghue is a consultant dermatologist at St Mary’s Hospital, part of Imperial College NHS Trust. She is the lead consultant for skin cancer at St Mary’s where she runs a rapid access clinic for suspected skin cancer and a clinic for immunosuppressed patients and patients with melanoma.
Dr Jonathan Bowling (Manchester)
Jonathan Bowling is a consultant dermatologist and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the Oxford University Department of Dermatology. He is chair of the Oxford local skin cancer multidisciplinary team and West Thames Valley specialist skin cancer multidisciplinary team. His main interests are dermatological surgery, dermoscopy, hair and nail pathology and the management of patients with skin cancer genetic syndromes. Dr Bowling’s current research projects include the development of a validated scoring system to determine the clinical accuracy of melanoma diagnosis by clinicians. He is the UK board member and faculty member of the World Congress of the International Dermoscopy Society. Dr Bowling has a mole screening practice in Oxford and London.
Diabetes
Dr Simon Page (York and Bristol)
Simon Page graduated from Bristol before completing SHO training at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton. His medical registrar and endocrine research training was completed at St George’s Hospital, London, before he joined the Nottingham and Derby senior registrar rotation in 1990. He took up a consultant post at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham in February 1995. Early in his consultant career, Simon was involved in developing the Nottingham medical curriculum as clinical sub-dean and, more recently has survived a spell as clinical director for the general and acute medicine directorates at NUH. Dr Page has published over 50 clinical papers on diabetes and endocrinology and a text book on the management of diabetes in the emergency and hospital setting.
Dr Tahseen Chowdhury (London - March and London - December)
Tahseen Chowdhury is lead 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 among the Bangladeshi community of Tower Hamlets. Dr Chowdhury has a research/clinical interest in diabetes in South Asians, and has authored over 100 publications, including a book entitled Diabetes in South Asian people: explained. He qualified from the University of Birmingham and trained in Birmingham and Manchester, before becoming a consultant physician in 2000.
Dr Mark Strachan (London - September and Glasgow)
Mark Strachan is a consultant in diabetes and endocrinology at the Western General Hospital. He has published extensively on the effects of diabetes on the brain and was a member of the 2008 SIGN group on chronic kidney disease. His subspecialty interests include antenatal diabetes and rare genetic diabetes syndromes.
Ophthalmology
Professor Philip Bloom (London - March and London - December)
Philip Bloom is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon with special interests in glaucoma, cataract and anterior segment surgery. He holds a joint consultant appointment between the Western Eye Hospital (London) and the Hillingdon Hospital (Uxbridge) is an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College School of Medicine and an honorary professor at Middlesex University, London. He qualified in medicine in 1984 from Bristol University and began his basic ophthalmology training at the Bristol Eye Hospital in 1986. From 1992 Philip continued his higher surgical training in London at the Western Eye Hospital and at Moorfields Eye Hospital, where he subsequently undertook a clinical glaucoma fellowship in 1994–5. His particular clinical and research interests include: spectacle independence after cataract surgery; toric and multifocal intraocular lenses; medical, laser and surgical treatment of glaucoma; cyclophotocoagulation (trans-scleral and endoscopic); combined cataract and glaucoma surgery.
Mr Brian Leatherbarrow (York)
Brian Leatherbarrow was appointed as consultant at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital in 1992 where he trained in general ophthalmology before training in oculoplastic and orbital surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, and the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of the textbook Oculoplastic Surgery (published by Martin Dunitz, 2002). Mr Leatherbarrow has made over 70 contributions to journals and written five book chapters. He undertakes all aspects of ophthalmic plastic surgery and cataract surgery. He is the clinic director for Face & Eye, a new ambulatory surgical centre in Northenden, Manchester, specialising in day case cataract, ophthalmic and cosmetic surgery.
Mr Dan Nolan (Manchester)
Dan Nolan is a consultant ophthalmic and oculoplastic surgeon at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, and Tameside foundation hospitals in Manchester. He qualified at University College Hospital Galway in 1994 and, after house jobs, was appointed to the West of Scotland SHO rotation in ophthalmology at the Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, Glasgow. Mr Nolan became a specialist registrar at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital where he completed a fellowship in oculoplastic, orbital and adnexal surgery, obtaining CCST with subspecialty training in 2004. He was appointed to set up a similar service for the Pennine region in 2004, and has worked there since. Mr Nolan performs multidisciplinary team subspecialty work with the ENT team (orbital and endonasal surgery), the maxillofacial team (orbital and facial trauma work) and the endocrine team (thyroid eye disease). He maintains a general on call and outpatient commitment. He has two clinical excellence awards, and was nominated in 2008 for “North West innovation of the year award”.
Miss Anne Cook
Anne Cook has been a consultant at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital since 2005 having conducted her ophthalmic surgical training all over the North West, before completing her surgical fellowship in oculoplastic and orbital surgery. Her NHS work consists of tumour excision and reconstruction, trauma, and lid/lachrymal work. She has a special interest in the management of thyroid eye disease, with collaborative research into this area now underway with Moorfields Hospital, London. Anne has a private and cosmetic practice based at the Face and Eye Clinic in Northenden, where the whole spectrum of non-surgical and surgical cosmetic procedures are available.
Mr Ewan Kemp (Glasgow)
Ewan Kemp is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon with a specialty practice in two disciplines. He supervises both an ocular oncology and oculoplastic service, the former being a national service funded directly by the Scottish government. The scope of his specialist practice is reflected by almost 40 published papers. Mr Kemp’s is a training practice promoting the careers of up to 30 junior doctors. His own training was in Scotland and as a fellow at both Moorefield’s Hospital in London and Vancouver General Hospital in Canada.
Miss Clare Bailey (Bristol)
Clare Bailey is a consultant ophthalmologist at Bristol Eye Hospital, with a subspecialty interest in medical retina disorders. She undertook ophthalmic training at Bristol Eye Hospital, St Thomas’ Hospital/South London Hospitals and Moorfields Eye Hospital. She wrote an MD thesis on treatment for diabetic retinopathy. Clare is a member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists professional standards committee and chairs the quality assurance group of the English national diabetic retinopathy screening programme. She has a considerable involvement in clinical research into retinal disorders and is principal investigator in a number of clinical studies, chiefly into age related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.
Miss Gilli Vafidis (London)
Gilli Vafidis is a consultant eye surgeon at Central Middlesex Hospital with a subspecialty interest in medical retina. She is clinical lead for the Brent diabetic retinopathy screening programme.
Gilli was educated at Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital, with ophthalmic training from Western Eye and Moorfields Eye Hospitals. In 1987 she was appointed to Edgware Hospital and moved to lead the new eye department at Central Middlesex Hospital in 1994. She has a longstanding interest in medical education, writing ophthalmic articles for GP and nursing journals, lecturing on undergraduate and postgraduate courses both in the UK and abroad and contributing to ophthalmology modules for City and Warwick Universities. Miss Vafidis is also a member of the teaching faculty for Rila postgraduate diploma in ophthalmology.
Interpreting Lab Results
Dr Stuart Smellie (York and Manchester)
Stuart Smellie is consultant chemical pathologist at County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. He qualified from St John's College, Cambridge and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and took up his current post in 1994. His main research interest is good practice in laboratory medicine and he chairs a cross-discipline group researching common questions for primary care. Dr Smellie leads the special clinical interests group in the Association of Clinical Biochemists clinical practice section and sits on the council of the Association of Clinical Pathologists and the HTA diagnostics panel.
Dr Rob Cramb (Birmingham)
Rob Cramb is a consultant chemical pathologist with a specialist interest in the diagnosis and management of hyperlipidaemia, and is participating in a programme funded by the HTA to assess the functionality of liver function tests in GP surgeries. Dr Cramb has contributed to reviews on point of care testing and is the programme director for medical training in clinical biochemistry in the West Midlands.
Dr Ceridwen Coulson (Bristol)
Ceridwen Coulson is senior clinical lecturer in pathology at the University of Bristol and deputy head of pathology sciences and chair of blood sciences at the North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT). She is also lead for clinical biochemistry point of care testing (POCT) at the NBT. Dr Coulson is national assessor for the United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service (UKNEQAS) for interpretative comments in clinical chemistry and director of the Association for Clinical Biochemistry Clinical Practice Section 2007–2009. She has particular interests in lipids and cardiovascular risk factors, POCT.
Dr William Simpson (Glasgow)
Bill Simpson studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1984. He spent his early post graduate years around Central Scotland, returning to Glasgow at the time of the WOSCOPS trial. In 1990 he moved to Aberdeen to finish his training in Chemical Pathology. He is now a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, and has held a Consultant post in Aberdeen since 1997. His main areas of clinical and research interest are nutrition and lipids. He also currently chairs the Association for Clinical Biochemistry Scotland Region, the Scottish Senior Clinical Biochemists and the Scottish Lipid Forum.
Dr Danielle Freedman (London - December)
Danielle Freedman is vice president of the Royal College of Pathologists and member of the College’s executive, council and professional performance panel. She is the Royal College of Pathologists eastern region specialty adviser for chemical pathology and a member of the UK “Labs are vital” executive board. Dr Freedman has been chair of the Association for Clinical Biochemistry (ACB) clinical practice section for endocrinology and diabetes mellitus since 2005, and chair of the ACBN clinical excellence awards committee. She is also medical vice chair, East of England Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards. Dr Freedman speaks both in the UK and internationally on clinical cost effectiveness of laboratory medicine, interactive clinical cases, clinical governance and point of care testing.
Paediatrics
Dr Warren Hyer (London - March, Birmingham, London - September and London - December)
Warren Hyer is a consultant paediatrician and paediatric gastroenterologist based in northwest London. As a full time children's doctor at Northwick Park and St Mark's Hospitals in Harrow, Middlesex, he specialises in general and acute paediatrics and paediatric gastroenterology, food allergy and nutrition. Warren has just returned from a three month exchange as consultant paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Dr Hyer has published widely on many aspects of paediatric gastroenterology and has lectured internationally on paediatric polyposis syndromes. In addition, he is an adviser to the Dorling Kindersley series of medical books.
Dr Tim Lee (York)
Tim Lee is consultant in paediatric medicine at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, working in general paediatrics and paediatric respiratory medicine. He is also honorary senior lecturer and co-organiser of the MSc in child health at the University of Leeds, a highly regarded taught postgraduate course for medical practitioners working in paediatrics and child health. This course uses case based and small group approaches to teach experienced students who are usually at post-membership (MRCPCH) level. Dr Lee also has a background in undergraduate paediatric teaching.
Dr Ian Verber (Manchester, Glasgow and Bristol)
Ian trained as a general paediatrician with an interest in the newborn at St Mary’s Hospital Manchester, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London and for a year at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He is also interested in kidney problems, especially urinary tract infection in childhood. Dr Verber has been a consultant in Teesside since 1989 heading the neonatal care services but retaining a general paediatric interest. He is also involved in postgraduate education and has been clinical tutor and college regional adviser. Ian is currently head of the Northern Deanery Postgraduate Paediatric School.
