Past Speakers 2008

 
Dr John Moroney
John Moroney qualified at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and, after SHO and Registrar posts in general medicine both in Newcastle and Norwich, became a GP Principal in 1986.

He has an M.Med.Sc. in primary health care (University of Leeds) and is involved in his local Medical School (HYMS) both as a problem based learning facilitator and as a clinical placement tutor. Dr Moroney chairs York Postgraduate Education Club and is Appraisal Clinical Lead for North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust.

He has been a clinical assistant in chest medicine, a GP CME tutor, Vice Chairman of Yorkshire Postgraduate Education Committee for General Practice (Leeds Deanery), a member of the Inter-Regional Standard Setting Group for the National Simulated Patient Surgery Project (Leicester and Leeds Deaneries), tutor for the Certificate of Education in Primary Care (University of Leeds) and sat on the Advisory Board and Management Committee in the Department of Health Studies (University of York).

Having survived two “new GP contracts”, after commissioning, he thinks the next large hurdle is revalidation. John hopes the Leicester statement on NHS Appraisal will help this journey in a productive and (relatively) non-threatening way.

Dr Eric Rose
Eric Rose has been a family doctor for 36 years and is a senior partner of a six doctor practice in Milton Keynes. He has been a member of the BMA GP Committee since 1989 and is a former chairman of the Local Medical Committee Conference. Eric believes strongly that the GP is the frontline clinical generalist, a role which requires constant updating of knowledge.

Dr Keir Lewis
Keir Lewis graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and, after junior doctor jobs in London, completed specialist training in respiratory and general medicine in South Wales. He is a senior clinical lecturer in Swansea University and an honorary consultant in Carmarthenshire NHS Trust. He was a member of the British Thoracic Society tobacco committee and founded the Carmarthenshire Respiratory Group, to promote better care and research between primary and secondary care for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Dr Lewis has co-written one textbook and papers on sleep apnoea, COPD and smoking cessation.

Dr Noel O'Kelly
Noel O’Kelly has been a general practitioner in Spilsby, Lincolnshire for 18 years. He was one of the first GPs with a specialist interest in respiratory medicine, leading an innovative community respiratory service in Lincolnshire which was awarded the Secretary of State Award for Excellence in Health Care Management at the Health Service Journal awards in 2005.

Dr O’Kelly is a member of the external reference group for the National Service Framework for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), co-chairing the Chronic Care and End of Life subgroups. He is an active member of both the General Practice Airways Group and the British Thoracic Society and was a member of the BTS group which recently published BTS guidelines for intermediate care for COPD.

He is committed to improving the care for respiratory patients in primary care.

Dr Barney Hawthorne 
Barney Hawthorne trained in medicine in Cambridge, completing his clinical training in Oxford in 1983.  Having specialised in gastroenterology in Nottingham and Manchester, he became a Consultant at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW), Cardiff in 1995.  Dr Hawthorne's interests are inflammatory bowel disease and intestinal failure.  He is the director of the endoscopy service at UHW, chairs the Welsh home parenteral nutrition network and is the secretary of the S Wales Gut Club.  He is engaged in clinical trials of new treatments for Crohn's disease and colitis.

Dr Alastair Turnbull
Alastair Turnbull qualified at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, in 1982 and undertook postgraduate training in medicine and gastroenterology in London and MD research into zinc biology at the Rayne Institute, St Thomas’s and in Boston, USA. He was a Senior Registrar in gastroenterology and hepatology at the Freeman Hospital and Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, becoming a Consultant Gastroenterologist in York in 1994. Dr Turnbull is now a general Gastroenterologist with an interest in inflammatory bowel disease and hepatology, a general Physician and, for the past three years, Clinical Director of Medicine.

Dr Chris Babbs
Chris Babbs qualified from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London in 1981. He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1984 and a Fellow in 1997. He undertook postgraduate training in gastroenterology in Manchester and obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree from London University in 1993 for research work in liver disease.  After a consultant post in Rochdale and Oldham, he was appointed as Consultant Gastroenterologist and Director of Endoscopy services at Salford Royal NHS Trust in 1998.

He is currently programme director for specialist registrar training in gastroenterology in the North West, Honorary Senior Lecturer at Salford University, Member of Council of the British Society of Gastroenterology and Secretary to the Section of Medicine of the Manchester Medical Society.

His main clinical interests are in hepato-biliary disease and interventional endoscopy.

Dr Tony Rahman 
Tony Rahman is a consultant gastroenterologist and honorary senior lecturer at St George’s Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital, London.

His practice encompasses all aspects of adult gastroenterology and hepatology, including the investigation of liver, pancreatic and bowel cancers, indigestion, abdominal pain, irritable bowel disease, functional bowel problems and other forms of acute and chronic liver and pancreatic disease.

Dr Rahman performs upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, colonoscopy and has experience in therapeutic procedures such as polypectomies, balloon dilatation of strictures, treatment of oesophageal and gastric varices and insertion of metal stents and feeding tubes. He has particular interest in nutritional matters and provides a holistic consultation involving lifestyle, nutritional and physical assessments.

Dr Richard Quigley
Richard Quigley is a full time partner in an urban practice in a deprived part of the south of Glasgow. In 1986 he set up, and still runs, his practice diabetes clinic. Dr Quigley is the primary care representative of both the Scottish Advisory Council of DUK and the Scottish Research Ethics Committee and represents Scotland on the Executive Committee of the Primary Care Diabetes Society. He holds postgraduate diplomas in diabetes and therapeutics and has lectured on diabetes in Europe and the United States.

Dr Danny Kemmett
Danny Kemmett has been a consultant in dermatology for 15 years and now works in the department of dermatology in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after periods in Glasgow and Argyll and Clyde. His main clinical interests are the management of skin cancer, minor surgery, psoriasis and male genital dermatoses. Other interests include using IT to speed up the interaction between secondary and primary care in dermatology, in which context he has run a successful email advice service for over four years. Dr Kemmett has written electronic guidelines for the management of common skin conditions in Lothian and also participated in the Scottish Executive’s net-based clinical pathways project.

Danny Kemmett has long had an interest in GP education in dermatology, organises the main GP dermatology educational sessions in Edinburgh and Lothians and regularly lecture to GPs. Recently, he was awarded honorary membership of the Primary Care Dermatology Society in recognition of his role in GP education. He has also been involved in the education of clinical assistants and set up an annual educational weekend which ran for seven years.

Dr Graham Colver
Graham Colver has been a consultant dermatologist since 1990 and is based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and Thornbury BMI Hospital, Sheffield. He works in all areas of dermatology but has a subspecialty in skin surgery with an emphasis on the surgical management of skin cancer. Dr Colver has led a six year collaborative programme for general practitioners concentrating on the management of common skin conditions by GPs. The teaching took place in the GP surgeries in order to orientate the sessions towards primary care and to involve other health care workers.

Dr Claire Fuller
Claire Fuller is a consultant dermatologist recently appointed to East Kent Hospitals NHS trust, having spent the past 10 years as consultant dermatologist at King’s College Hospital. As a general dermatologist training and working in southeast London she has considerable experience in black skin disease. Dr Fuller’s research experience is in tropical and infectious dermatology, especially fungal infections, and she has field experience in Ethiopia and Tanzania. In East Kent she continues her subspecialty interests as a paediatric and vulval dermatologist as well as taking the lead for the use of biologics for psoriasis for the trust.

Dr Jane Edgecombe
Jane Edgecombe qualified in 1989 in London and trained in general medicine and palliative medicine in London and Nottingham. She has been a consultant in palliative medicine at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre since 2002, and previously worked as a consultant at St Andrew’s Hospice in Airdrie, Lanarkshire. The Beatson is the second largest cancer centre in the UK and as a hospital specialist palliative care service sees more than 1500 patients a year. Dr Edgecombe’s specialist interest is in the palliative management of lung and upper GI malignancies.

Dr Charles Daniels 
Charles Daniels is the Medical Director of St Luke’s Kenton Grange Hospice. He is also Lead Clinician at Northwest London Hospitals NHS Trust and Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Harrow Primary care trust. He has a special interest in out-of-hours community palliative care and non malignant palliative care, particularly motor neuron disease and advanced heart failure. He is a board member of the London Strategic Health Authority End of Life Care Programme and Chair of the Harrow End of Life Care Programme. He is also Chair of West London Out of Hours Palliative Care Working Group and author of the subsequent report. He has led the implementation of the new HARMONI (GP cooperative) protocol in two primary care trusts in West London and was the lead investigator in the West London Palliative Care Pathways Project 2001-2006.

Dr Max Watson
Max Watson trained in theology, medicine and general practice. He worked in Nepal for 8 years, setting up a general practice training programme before returning to the UK to complete training in palliative care in London and Belfast. Max is a research fellow at Belfast City Hospital, Consultant at the Northern Ireland Hospice and Honorary Consultant in palliative medicine at the Princess Alice Hospice, Esher. He will take up a post at the University of Ulster in the new year. Dr Watson is also the special advisor to the Hospice Friendly Hospitals Programme based in Dublin. He is author of the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care; Oncology, an Oxford core text; Pain and Palliation, one of the OUP Oxford GP Library series; London and Belfast Palliative Care Guidelines and series editor of the Oxford specialist end of life handbooks. Max is the originator of the Princess Alice Certificate in Essential Palliative Care.

Dr Elizabeth England
Elizabeth England is a GP by training and divides her time between general practice and academic work as a clinical research fellow, based in the Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham. She focuses on primary care mental health problems and the development and implementation of mental health policy. Dr England is particularly interested in the challenges associated with converting academic research findings into policy and clinical practice. She is a National Institute for Health Research award holder and is undertaking a PhD, which is examining the barriers and facilitators associated with commissioning and implementing early intervention services for first episode psychosis.

Dr Charlie Tomson
Charlie Tomson has been a Consultant Nephrologist at Southmead Hospital, Cardiff since 1993. He was Secretary of the Renal Association Standards and Audit Committee from 1998 to 2002 and Chair of the Joint Specialty Committee on Renal Medicine of the Renal Association and the Royal College of Physicians from 2003 to 2007, when he chaired the committee that developed the RA/RCPL/RCGP UK guidelines on chronic kidney disease in adults. He spent 2004-5 as a Health Foundation Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston. Dr Tomson became Chairman of the Renal Association UK Renal Registry in April 2006.

Professor Alan Jardine
Alan Jardine graduated in physiology and medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1984.  He undertook postgraduate research training as a clinical training fellow in the MRC Blood Pressure Unit, where he pursued studies on the physiology, pharmacology and the therapeutic potential of natriuretic peptides.  Professor Jardine trained initially in endocrinology and thereafter in nephrology and transplantation in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness.  He returned to Glasgow in 1994 and, as a lecturer, reader and professor has pursued a variety of research themes that centre on accelerated vascular disease and long term adverse outcomes in patients with renal disease and transplantation, their pathophysiological and genetic determinants and their management.

His current research combines laboratory work, clinical research and clinical trials, and he is the leader of the Renal Research Group in the BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre.  He is, and has been, on the Steering, Endpoint and Safety Committees of several large scale international multicentre trials of cardiovascular disease in renal failure which examined transplantation and new immunosuppressive agents.  Professor Jardine has published over 150 papers and is funded by the MRC, Kidney Research UK, British Heart Foundation and Scottish Office.

Dr David Wheeler
David Wheeler is Reader in Nephrology at University College London. His research focusses on the cardiovascular complications of chronic kidney disease.

He is Chair of the UK Renal Association's Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee. He serves on the Advisory Board of the US Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative and is a member of the Board of Directors of Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes. Dr Wheeler’s other positions include Deputy Editor of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation.

Dr William McKane
William McKane is a consultant nephrologist and the clinical director of the Sheffield Kidney Institute. He is an honorary clinical lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Dr McKane trained at Cambridge University and St Bartholomew’s Hospital followed by postgraduate nephrology training at Lister Hospital, Stevenage and St Mary’s Hospital in West London.  Dr McKane maintains a research interest in clinical transplantation and is an associate editor of Nephron. He participates in the planning and delivery of care in the North Trent renal network.

Dr Kathryn Griffith
Kathryn Griffith is a GP in York and is Clinical Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Lead for Selby and York Primary Care Trust. She has worked in cardiology at York District hospital for over 12 years and was one of the first intake on the Bradford Course for Practitioners with a Special Interest in Cardiology in 2003. She is now one of the course tutors leading the CHD and hypertension and arrhythmia modules.

Dr Griffith continues to work at York District Hospital in the Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic and as Co-investigator for the Cardiology Research Department. She is Honorary Secretary of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society and Lead (with Dr Ahmet Fuat) in the GPs with a Special Interest (GPwSI) in Cardiology Forum, a national support group for GPwSI. She has written and lectured on managing hypertension, chronic kidney disease, ischaemic heart disease, and atrial fibrillation, and regards interpreting ECGs as challenging but fun!

Mr Adrian Evans
Adrian Evans is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at York Hospitals Foundation Trust with special interests in urogynaecology, pelvic floor reconstruction and minimal access surgery. His other interests include the effects of age and childbirth on the pelvic floor and he is involved in teaching and training at all stages.

Dr Evans graduated from St Andrews and Manchester Universities, before training in the North West and the Midlands.

Dr John Stevenson
John Stevenson is reader in metabolic medicine in the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, and consultant physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, where he jointly runs the UK’s first Female Heart Disease Clinic. He has over 370 publications in journals and books, including 10 textbooks.

Dr Stevenson is chairman of the charity Women’s Health Concern; executive committee member of the British Menopause Society; fellow of the European Society of Cardiology; non-US section head, Cardiovascular diseases in women (reproductive and post-reproductive age), Women’s Health Faculty, Faculty of 1000 Medicine; foundation member of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (UK); and editor of Maturitas.

Dr Azhar Farooqi OBE
Azhar Farooqi is a GP in Leicester and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Leicester. He is a member of the external reference committee for the Diabetes National Service Framework, a founder member of the Primary Care Diabetes Society, and has been a member of the professional executive committee of Diabetes UK. Dr Farooqi recently chaired a multi-professional national group which developed the Diabetes Commissioning Toolkit. Dr Farooqi has published widely, particularly on diabetes and primary care research and was awarded an OBE in 2007 for services to health care.

Mr Anthony Rutherford
Anthony Rutherford studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital London, qualifying in July 1980 and trained in reproductive medicine under the guidance of Professor Lord Winston at the Hammersmith, before moving to Leeds.  He has worked as a consultant in reproductive medicine and gynaecological surgery at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust since May 1991, establishing the reproductive medicine service, one of the largest NHS facilities in the UK.

Mr Rutherford has wide ranging research interests and has published over 80 peer reviewed original papers, reviews and text book chapters on various aspects of reproductive medicine. He is on the British Fertility Society Committee and heads the Practice and Policy Committee.

Dr Damian Fogarty
Damian Fogarty is Consultant Nephrologist and Senior Lecturer in the Regional Nephrology Unit, Belfast City Hospital and Queen’s University Belfast. He trained in Belfast before moving to Harvard as a Fulbright fellow at the Joslin Diabetes Centre. On return he took up his first consultant post at Antrim Hospital and moved to his current post in 2002.

Dr Fogarty has clinical and research interests in diabetic nephropathy and the broader epidemiology of chronic kidney disease, on which he has published significant papers. He coordinated the guidelines for chronic kidney disease management in Northern Ireland and has advised the Department of Health on hypertension, diabetes and kidney disease. He represents the region on the UK Renal Registry Committee and is a founding member of the UK Renal Association Epidemiology subgroup.

Miss Margaret Rees
Margaret Rees is a Reader in Reproductive Medicine, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant in Medical Gynaecology and a Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford and a Visiting Professor at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. Her areas of interest are menopause and menstrual disorders and has over 250 publications. In both areas she has undertaken both laboratory and clinical research. She has edited 16 books in this area: two of which were highly commended in BMA book awards.  She is the Editor-in- Chief of Menopause International (previously Journal of the British Menopause Society), a Medline listed journal.  She is also the Chair of Oxford research Ethics committee B in Oxford and a Council member of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE). She was awarded the 2006 Egon Diczfalusy Medal by the Karolinska Institute in recognition of her international profile in reproductive medicine. She is a faculty member of Faculty of 1000 Medicine.

Dr Philip Cotton
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 Daniel Lasserson
Daniel Lasserson is a clinical lecturer in the Department of Primary Health Care at Oxford University and a part time GP in Oxford. After studying in Cambridge and Guy’s & St Thomas’, he initially trained in hospital medicine and held several research posts in cognitive neurology and stroke medicine. After retraining in general practice his research is now in the community management of cerebrovascular disease and the management of type 2 diabetes. Dr Lasserson has a particular interest in translating research into clinical practice and teaches on courses run by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford.

Dr Nicola Zammitt
Nicola Zammitt graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 1998 and completed a medical rotation at York District General Hospital and St James’s University Hospital, Leeds.  She was then a locum registrar in endocrinology and diabetes at Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, followed by two years of research in Edinburgh investigating the effects of hypoglycaemia on symptoms and cognitive function.

Since October 1996, Nicola has been on the South East Scotland specialist registrar rotation. She has led numerous workshops for GPs, other healthcare professionals and patients, organised by the local branch of Diabetes UK and the managed clinical network in Edinburgh.

Mr Chris Little
Chris Little graduated from Bristol in 1993 and undertook his basic surgical training in Bristol and Gloucester. He moved to Oxford in 1999 for specialist orthopaedic training, working as a clinical lecturer in orthopaedics at Oxford University from 2003 to 2004. Dr Little completed Fellowship training in hand, wrist and elbow surgery in the West Midlands in 2004–2005. He has worked as a consultant in Oxford and Coventry and was appointed as a consultant in hand and upper limb surgery in Oxford in 2006. Chris has published research on hand, elbow, hip and knee surgery, is closely involved with undergraduate teaching and coordinates the orthopaedic specialist training programme.

Dr Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell is a palliative medicine consultant, and medical director of Saint Catherine’s Hospice, Scarborough. He has a special interest in palliative care of people with neurological diseases. A member of the Association of Palliative Medicine’s ethics committee, he was co-author of a recent paper on Artificial Nutrition and Hydration in end of life care.

Colin was originally a GP in Glasgow for 13 years before starting palliative medicine training in the south Thames area.

Dr Linda Gask
Linda Gask is Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester. She underwent her undergraduate training in Edinburgh and postgraduate training in Manchester. For the last 20 years she has worked closely with primary care in education, research, and clinical work and is now appointed jointly to the divisions of psychiatry and primary care at the University of Manchester (at the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre).

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