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General Update (Programme 2) Speakers
Chairs
Dr Anne Slowther (London - September)
Anne Slowther is associate professor of clinical ethics at Warwick Medical School, where she is responsible for the ethics curriculum on the MBChB programme. Anne worked as a full time GP in Manchester until 1995 when she developed her interest in medical ethics. She is now also a sessional GP in Coventry. Dr Slowther has a masters degree in medical ethics and law from King’s College London and a DPhil in medical ethics from the University of Oxford. Her main research interests are ethical decision making in primary care and evaluation of clinical ethics support.
Professor Domhnall MacAuley (Manchester and Glasgow)
Domhnall MacAuley is a senior editor at the BMJ, with a focus on primary care, and a part time general practitioner. He graduated from University College Dublin, undertook postgraduate training at the University of Exeter, and was a senior research fellow at Queen’s University of Belfast, where he gained his MD in cardiovascular epidemiology and membership in public health medicine. Domhnall was appointed professor of primary health care (research) at the University of Ulster in 1997. He has published more than 250 scholarly articles including seven books. He also has specialist accreditation in sport and exercise medicine and was editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Dr George Rae (London - March and York)
George Rae is the senior partner of a GP practice in Whitley Bay. He is the present chairman of the national BMA Council and General Practitioners Committee and the previous chairman of the annual conference of local medical committees.
Dr Dan Lasserson (Birmingham)
Dan Lasserson is a clinical lecturer at Oxford University, with research interests in transient ischaemic attack diagnosis and management, stroke prevention, type 2 diabetes management and GP diagnostic processes. He also teaches at the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. After hospital training in elderly care, with research posts in cognitive neurology and stroke medicine he retrained in general practice. Dr Lasserson works at the Jericho Health Centre in Oxford with clinical interests in chronic disease management, neurological presentations in primary care and translating evidence into clinical practice.
Dr David Tovey (London)
David Tovey has been the editor in chief of the Cochrane Library since January 2009. He worked previously as editorial director for the BMJ Evidence Centre, which is the division of the BMJ Group that produces Clinical Evidence, Best Health and Best Practice. At the BMJ, David was initially deputy editor of Clinical Evidence under Fiona Godlee, becoming editor when Fiona became editor of the BMJ. Dr Tovey worked as a general practitioner in South London for 15 years until 2003 and also undertook roles in continuing professional development for primary care professionals. He was a clinical governance lead for a primary care group.
Dr Mark Porter (Bristol)
Mark Porter is the medical correspondent for The Times and presents Case Notes on BBC Radio 4. He qualified from Westminster Medical School in 1986 and entered general practice in Gloucestershire after 5 years working in various hospital specialties. He stepped down as a GP principal in 2006 and now works as a part-time salaried assistant in Wotton-under-Edge. Mark was appointed MBE for services to medicine in 2005.
Cardiology
Dr John Bayliss (Birmingham and London - September)
John Bayliss has been a consultant cardiologist at West Hertfordshire Hospitals (Hemel Hempstead and St Albans) since 1988 and is clinical lead for local cardiac services. Trained at Hillingdon, Westminster and the National Heart Hospital, he has particular interests in heart failure, arrhythmias and pacing and has long championed evidence based medicine.
Dr Jerry Murphy (York, Manchester and Glasgow)
Jerry Murphy qualified at the University of London and underwent specialist cardiovascular training in Manchester, Nottingham and Leicester. He was appointed consultant cardiologist at Darlington Memorial Hospital 16 years ago. For many years Dr Murphy was a single-handed cardiologist and introduced a number of services, focusing on improved patient care. His interest in clinical research began by studying the herb feverfew to treat migraine! He has since published over 70 papers on a variety of areas, including heart failure, angina and stroke. Dr Murphy is senior lecturer at the University of Durham.
Dr Iqbal Malik (London - March and London - December)
Iqbal Malik is a consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. He trained at Peterhouse, Cambridge and then at Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. He was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at St Mary’s Hospital, London in 2001. He is National Clinical Lead for Web Transfer systems and commissioning editor on Heart. His research interests are in stroke prevention (patent foramen ovale closure and carotid stenting). In addition he has set up a cardiac catheter laboaratory practitioner course, and runs an annual stroke meeting at the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Andreas Baumbach (Bristol)
Andreas Baumbach is a consultant cardiologist at University Hospitals Bristol. He is an honorary reader in cardiology at the University of Bristol having joined the department of cardiology in 2000. He was the director of the catheterisation laboratories from 2002 to 2008 and the clinical lead of the department from 2005 to 2008. Dr Baumbach is now acting as the research lead for cardiology in the biomedical research unit and is involved in clinical research and the evaluation of new technologies in interventional cardiology
ENT
Mr Gerry McGarry (Glasgow and London - December)
Gerry McGarry is a consultant surgeon in ENT in Glasgow with a special interest in head and neck surgery and rhinology. He has a particular interest in endoscopic surgical techniques for managing sinonasal tumours. Gerry is active in postgraduate surgical education and is on the faculty of many courses both in the UK and abroad. In addition to his clinical and teaching activities, Gerry regularly publishes clinical research. He is a section author for BMJ Clinical Evidence and is a team leader for the GMC performance procedures.
Professor Martin Birchall (Birmingham)
Martin Birchall is professor of ENT surgery at University College London and the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London. He has worked as a consultant in Bristol, Liverpool and Bath, and has been heavily involved in postgraduate training in those cities. His principal interest is in diseases of the throat, but he has also researched extensively into nose and sinus disease and paediatric ENT and is leading an initiative to combine adult and paediatric ENT services across a wide area of London. In 2008, Professor Birchall led the team that performed the world’s first stem cell based organ replacement (trachea) in a young woman in Spain.
Mr Ken MacKenzie (York)
Ken MacKenzie is consultant otorhinolaryngologist head and neck surgeon and honorary senior lecturer, University of Glasgow. He is based at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow. Mr MacKenzie graduated from the University of Dundee in 1978 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1982. He was appointed consultant in 1989 and has since developed his subspecialty, clinical and research interests in laryngology, complex upper airway disorders, and head and neck surgery.
Mr Martin Burton (London - March)
Martin Burton is consultant otolaryngologist at the Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, senior clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford and lecturer in clinical medicine at Balliol College. He is the founding coordinating editor of the Cochrane Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders Group (http://www.cochrane-ent.org) and clinical lead of the ENT and audiology specialist library of the UK’s National Library for Health (http://www.library.nhs.uk/ENT). He is interested in teaching and is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England IMRCS and IDOHNS. He was a medical student at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and did his early clinical training in Oxford and Bristol. He was a Fulbright scholar and undertook research training at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute at the University of Michigan. After a period as lecturer in otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne, he completed his doctoral thesis on the safety of cochlear implantation in small children. His higher surgical training was completed in London and as Fellow in otology, neurotology and skull base surgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. His clinical practice is otological - particularly middle ear surgery, tinnitus and balance disorders. He is interested in the application of evidence- (and wisdom-) based medicine in otolaryngology and in otolaryngological epistemology and heuristics.
Mr Darren Pinder (Bristol)
Darren Pinder is a general ENT surgeon with a subspecialty interest in otology and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He spent 2 years as a consultant in Melbourne and is now based in Bath. Darren undertook fellowship training at the Bionic Ear Institute, Melbourne and holds a masters degree in medical education. He is a tutor on the Training the Trainers course.
Mr Haytham Kubba (Manchester)
Haytham Kubba is one of the few ENT surgeons in the UK to work exclusively with children. He trained in Newcastle and Glasgow and was a research fellow at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research and a clinical fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He has been a consultant at the children’s hospital in Glasgow since 2003 and specialises in airway disorders and ENT problems in children with neurodisability.
Neurology
Dr Giles Elrington (London - March, York, Birmingham and London - September)
Giles Elrington qualified at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1980 and has been consultant neurologist at Barts and the London NHS Trust since 1993. From 1993 to 2001 he was also consultant neurologist in Colchester. Since 2001 he has had a portfolio career. Regular NHS sessions include the headache clinic and clinical research at the London Hospital, general and botulinum toxin clinics at Southend General Hospital, contract work for North and Mid-Essex PCTs and a rehabilitation clinic in Stowmarket. He has a private practice in Colchester and London. Dr Elrington is a general neurologist with particular interest in headache, multiple sclerosis, rehabilitation and neuropsychiatry.
Dr Tom Hughes (Bristol and London - December)
Tom Hughes qualified in the Royal London Hospital in 1987 and trained in neurology in Cardiff where he completed an MD thesis on swallowing in health and in motor neurone disease. He is interested in acute neurology and the interface between diagnostic neurology and enablement.
Dr John Paul Leach (Manchester and Glasgow)
John Paul Leach has been a Consultant Neurologist in the Southern General Hospital and the Western Infirmary, Glasgow since 2002. He also runs general neurology clinics in Wishaw and Hairmyres Hospitals, Lanarkshire. Dr Leach’s specialist interest is in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy and he runs first seizure services for north Glasgow.
Musculoskeletal Medicine
Professor Chris Lavy (London - March)
Chris Lavy is a senior research fellow at Oxford and also holds honorary professorial posts both at Oxford and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In addition, he is an honorary orthopaedic surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. He undertook undergraduate studies in London and then pursued his orthopaedic training in the UK, South Africa and France. Chris was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital and University College Hospitals in 1992. In 1996 he moved to Malawi where, as professor at the new medical school, he helped set up orthopaedic training in the region and built an orthopaedic teaching hospital. Satisfying the orthopaedic needs of developing countries remains his passion. Within UK orthopaedic surgery, Professor Levy’s clinical interests are problems of the spine, hip and knee. He holds fellowships from the Royal Colleges of England and Edinburgh, and also the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa, which he helped found. He holds a Mastership in orthopaedic surgery from the University of Liverpool and an MD from the University of London.
Mr John Williams (York)
John Williams has been a consultant in Newcastle for 11 years, specialising in trauma and upper limb surgery, particularly of the shoulder. He holds a clinical senior lectureship at the medical school in Newcastle. Before coming to Newcastle, Mr Williams trained at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and John Radcliffe Hospitals in Oxford and held fellowships at the Wrightington Hospital for Joint Diseases in Lancashire and the Mayo Clinic in the USA. He has a DM degree in upper limb biomechanics from the Oxford Orthopaedic Engineering Department.
Mr David Stubbs (Birmingham and Manchester)
David Stubbs is a full time NHS consultant at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, a renowned specialist orthopaedic hospital and tertiary referral centre, whose interests lie in hip and knee replacement surgery and limb reconstruction surgery. This is a subspecialty of orthopaedic surgery which deals with deformity correction and bone regeneration following major trauma, bone loss or congenital problems. Mr Stubbs has a particular interest in problem fractures that have gone on to non-union (failure to unite) or mal-union (healed in an unacceptable position). Many of these problems are secondary to infection and he works in a team running the only dedicated bone infection unit in the country. Mr Stubbs is interested in teaching and research and has published papers relating to limb lengthening, non-union surgery and bone infection. He is a regular faculty member on the Oxford FRCS(Orth) revision course and is coordinator of the SHO training in the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.
Dr Inam Haq (London - December)
Dr Inam Haq is a senior lecturer in rheumatology and medical education at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School at the University of Brighton. He has a keen interest in GP and undergraduate education, and is currently an external examiner in medicine for University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka and Queen Mary University of London Medical School. He has published widely on various aspects of musculoskeletal medicine, particularly the rheumatological manifestations of hepatitis C, which is one of his main research interests. He also co-edited the most recent edition of the Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology.
Dr Richard Smith (Bristol)
Dr Richard Smith is a Consultant Rheumatologist at Salisbury Hospital. He trained in London and, following that, spent a year at the New South Wales Institute of Sports Medicine. He runs a multidisciplinary musculoskeletal and sports medicine clinic every week. In his spare time he is doctor to the World's Strongest Man and Superstars tournaments.
Dr John Ioannou (London)
John Ioannou trained in rheumatology within the North East Thames area and has developed a subspecialty interest in connective tissue disease and adolescent rheumatology. During his training he also attained a PhD whereby he developed a novel therapeutic agent which is now being further developed for the antiphospholipid syndrome. He then did 2 years of post doctoral work in Sydney. Dr Ioannou was appointed as senior lecturer and honorary consultant at UCL in 2007. He is also an experienced lecturer on PACES courses and teaches undergraduates and postgraduates at UCL.
Dr Max Field (Glasgow)
Max Field graduated from university in London in 1977, undertook a clinical career in Oxford and joined the Charing Cross and Westminster University Medical School in London as a lecturer in the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and later, the Centre for Rheumatic Diseases in Glasgow in 1991. He is curriculum director for the final years at Glasgow University Medical School and his research involves investigating methods of increasing students’ knowledge of rheumatic diseases, clinical aspects of septic arthritis and connective tissue diseases.
Polypharmacy
Dr Martin Duerden (London - March, York, London - September, Manchester and London - December)
Martin Duerden was a full time GP in the North East for 8 years at Whickham, until 1994. He trained in public health medicine at Cambridge and then worked as medical director for the National Prescribing Centre for England. From 2001 Dr Duerden worked on various projects as a consultant in University College London Hospitals Trust, PRODIGY and at Keele University. He did regular sessional work as a part time GP in Conwy, North Wales from 1999 and in 2003 became medical director at Conwy Local Health Board. Since September 2005, Martin has been course organiser for the Diploma in Therapeutics at Cardiff University and is on the editorial board of the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin.
Mr Peter Burrill (Birmingham)
An experienced pharmaceutical adviser, Peter Burrill contributes to the prescribing and clinical effectiveness agenda for the Derbyshire Public Health Network. He is involved with the appraisal of evidence, evaluation of new drugs and guideline development, and runs the Derbyshire Joint Area Prescribing Committee. Mr Burrill also trains health professionals in the principles of critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine and is an editorial board member for the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin. He produces the Prescribing and Clinical Effectiveness (PACE) newsletter and is a fellow of the College of Pharmacy Practice and the Faculty of Prescribing and Medicines Management.
Mr Jamie Hayes (Bristol)
Jamie Hayes studied pharmacy at Cardiff, and the early part of his career was spent as a clinical pharmacist in South Wales with a 12-month spell in New Zealand. He then became head of prescribing advice for the Conwy and Denbighshire local health boards and undertook a training role at the National Prescribing Centre. He is now director of the Welsh Medicines Resource Centre and one of the directors of the Welsh Medicines Partnership. His interests include the application of lean thinking to healthcare and medical education, in particular the teaching of therapeutics and critical appraisal and approaches to evidence based prescribing.
Mr Paul McManus (Glasgow)
As a registered pharmacist for 20 years, Paul McManus has wide experience of primary and secondary healthcare services. Now pharmacist advisor to the Yorkshire and the Humber Specialised Commissioning Group, his previous roles include associate editor for the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, principal pharmacist with North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust, prescribing advisor to the States of Guernsey, and senior information pharmacist at the Regional Drug and Therapeutics Centre, Newcastle. Paul is consultant pharmacist to the States of Jersey Social Security Department and teaches on the non-medical prescribing course at the University of York.
Women's Health
Dr Meera Kishen (London - March and London - December)
Meera Kishen has been a consultant in Liverpool community service since 1996 and has extensive experience in sexual and reproductive healthcare primary delivery and training. She was president of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare of the RCOG in 2005–8. Dr Kishen works with the Department of Health to improve contraception training and service provision across the UK and with the RCGP and its sex, drugs and HIV task group to support primary care led training in sexual and reproductive healthcare.
Miss Shirin Irani (York, Birmingham and Bristol)
Shirin Irani is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Heart of England Foundation Trust, an honorary senior clinical lecturer affiliated to the University of Birmingham and consultant adolescent gynaecologist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. A consultant in the UK since 2000, and in gynaecology since 1987, Shirin Irani’s training background is extensive and varied. She completed a training fellowship in minimal access surgery (MAS) in Kiel with Professors Semm and Mettler, and has been carrying out MAS for 19 years. She is the lead for ablation techniques in the trust, which was one of the first to introduce microwave ablations and which uses a variety of techniques. This led to the start of a holistic service for heavy/abnormal uterine bleeding and, jointly with the interventional radiology team, a tertiary service for women with fibroids. Miss Irani is a practising colposcopist and also run a gynaecological adolescent transplant clinic for girls after transplants and liver problems at the Children’s Hospital.
Dr Hilary Cooling (London - September)
Hilary Cooling is a Bristol graduate who has worked exclusively in the city, in general practice (including a GP service for homeless adults) and as a forensic medical examiner. She is a specialist in sexual and reproductive health, with clinical special skills in intrauterine contraception and complex contraceptive problems, and has an interest in the needs of vulnerable groups, including those who have experienced female genital mutilation. Dr Cooling is a member of the standing committee on general training of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) responsible for the diploma of the FSRH, and Bristol training programme director for this primary care postgraduate qualification. She is concerned about improving women’s health by access to contraceptive choices free of outdated contraindications, especially in developing countries, which would reduce the 500,000 annual maternal deaths. She is author of the BMJ Learning module: Oral contraception: clinical dilemmas.
Dr Urszula Bankowska (Glasgow)
Urszula Bankowska is clinical director and a consultant in sexual and reproductive health based at the Sandyford (an integrated community sexual and reproductive health service) in Glasgow. Clinical work is in youth and core sexual and reproductive services. Urszula has had an additional remit for the education programme of the unit and has been involved in undergraduate, postgraduate and non-clinical teaching for many years. She works clinically and managerially in a multidisciplinary setting, including external non-health agencies, and has been involved in training programmes and committees for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare and most recently in development of e-learning modules for the faculty diploma (DFSRH).
Dr Kay McAllister (Glasgow)
Kay McAllister has been a consultant in sexual and reproductive health care at Sandyford since 2001, is the lead clinician for gynaecology, menopause and vasectomy services and chairs Sandyford’s clinical effectiveness group. The gynaecology service has expanded, and community consultant led clinics are now based at five Sandyford hubs. A team of consultants at Sandyford contributes to the service. The clinics provide all aspects of medical gynaecology care, with local anaesthetic hysteroscopies and endometrial ablations performed at Sandyford Central. Sandyford also performs all local anaesthetic vasectomy procedures within the Glasgow area. Dr McAllister represents Sandyford at the effective gynaecology in Glasgow audit group, West of Scotland sexual health protocol group, Glasgow and Clyde gynaecology protocol group and is on the editorial board of the Obstetrician & Gynaecologist representing the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.
Dr Fiona Fargie (Glasgow)
Fiona Fargie graduated from Leeds in 2000 planning a career in genitourinary medicine, and gained her MRCP during a general medical rotation in Plymouth before moving to Glasgow in 2004 to start registrar training. During training she developed special interests in young people’s sexual health and sexual assault. Fiona became a consultant at the Sandyford in Glasgow in 2008 and divides her time between general genitourinary medicine clinics, young peoples clinics and sexual offences examining for the sexual assault referral centre (SARC).
Dr Marian Everett (Manchester)
Marian Everett is a consultant in sexual and reproductive health and clinical lead for contraceptive services in Hull and East Yorkshire and has worked in the field of women’s health for 25 years. Dr Everett is active in the development of integrated contraception and sexual health clinics (CASH) in her area and is also the lead consultant for menopause care. Her particular interest is in education and she is a member of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare education committee which organises the faculty conferences.
