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BMJ Masterclass for GPs: General Update, 2008 series

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SPEAKERS FOR 2008

	Dr Fiona Godlee Chair, Glasgow and London (Day One); York and Glasgow (Day Two) Fiona Godlee has been Editor of the British Medical Journal, (BMJ) since March 2005. She qualified as a doctor in 1985 and trained as a general physician in Cambridge and London. She joined the BMJ as an assistant editor in 1990 and has written on a broad range of medical and publishing issues, including the impact of environmental degradation on health and the future of the World Health Organization. She has served as President of the World Association of Medical Editors. In 1995 she led the development of Clinical Evidence, a resource for clinicians that evaluates and summarises the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of treatments. 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 up its new Knowledge division. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.
	Professor Domhnall MacAuley Chair, Bristol (Day One); Cardiff (Day Two) 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).
	Dr John Moroney Chair, Newcastle and Sheffield (Day One); Sheffield (Day Two) 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 Philip Cotton Chair, London (Day Two) 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 Chair, Birmingham (Day 1) 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 Eric Rose Chair, Birmingham (Day 2) 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 George Rae Chair, Newcastle (Day Two)
	Dr Hilary Pinnock Respiratory Medicine, Glasgow, London and Birmingham 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 Keir Lewis Respiratory Medicine, Bristol 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 Respiratory Medicine, Newcastle 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 Richard Russell Respiratory Medicine, Sheffield 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.
	Dr Barney Hawthorne Gastroenterology, Bristol and Birmingham 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 Gastroenterology, Newcastle 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 Gastroenterology, Glasgow and London 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 Gastroenterology, Sheffield 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 Tom Hughes Neurology, Glasgow, Bristol, Newcastle and London Tom Hughes qualified at the Royal London Hospital in 1987 and trained in neurology in Cardiff. He completed an MD thesis about swallowing (in health and in Motor Neurone Disease) under the supervision of Professor Mark Wiles and was a Glaxo Stroke Fellow in Edinburgh before starting as a neurologist in Cardiff in 1999. Since then he has worked in neurology, neuro-rehabilitation and acute medicine. His current project is the establishment of a thrombolysis service for acute stroke in Cardiff.
	Dr Giles Elrington Neurology, Sheffield Giles Elrington qualified at Barts 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 rehab 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 John Paul Leach Neurology, Birmingham 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.
	Dr Richard Quigley Diabetes, Glasgow and Bristol 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 Nicola Zammitt Diabetes, Newcastle 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.
	Dr Azhar Farooqi OBE Diabetes, London, Sheffield and Birmingham 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.
	Professor Chris Lavy OBE Musculoskeletal, Glasgow and London 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 also 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. He was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital and University College Hospitals in 1992. In 1996 he moved to Malawi in Central Africa where, as professor at the new medical school there, he helped set up orthopaedic training in the region and built an orthopaedic teaching hospital. The orthopaedic needs of developing countries remains his passion. Within UK orthopaedic surgery, his 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 Chris Little Musculoskeletal, Bristol 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.
	Mr John Williams Musculoskeletal, Newcastle John Williams has been a consultant in Newcastle for the past 10 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 Musculoskeletal, Sheffield 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.
	Mr Andrew Price Musculoskeletal, Birmingham Andrew Price is a Consultant in Orthopaedic Surgery at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford and a Reader in Musculoskeletal Science at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oxford University. He qualified from Cambridge University and St Thomas’ Hospital in 1992 and his initial postgraduate surgical training was in Bristol. Dr Price was a Specialist Registrar in Orthopaedics and Trauma on the Oxford rotation and completed his DPhil from Oxford University studying joint replacement surgery. He is an academic knee surgeon with a research group and has a specialist clinical interest in young adult cartilage repair. Andrew is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, the British Association for Surgery of the Knee and the International Cartilage Research Society.
	Dr Ian Verber Paediatrics, Glasgow Ian Verber graduated in Cardiff and is a consultant paediatrician, University Hospital of North Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, who has practised paediatrics for over 30 years. His special interests are the care of the newborn and children with renal problems but he continues to hold a weekly general clinic. Dr Verber was previously lecturer in child health at St. George’s Hospital Medical School and has always been interested in medical education. He completed the Diploma of Clinical Education at the University of Newcastle in 2005 and is now head of the Northern Deanery School of Postgraduate Paediatrics.
	Dr Warren Hyer Paediatrics, Bristol, London and Birmingham Warren Hyer is a Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Gastroenterologist based in North West 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. He has just returned from a three month job 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 advisor to the Dorling Kindersley series of medical books.
	Dr Bob Phillips Paediatrics, Newcastle and Sheffield Bob Phillips is a longstanding practitioner and tutor in evidence based practice. He has taught regularly for the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, and the Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health in London. He has also taught many cross-disciplinary groups nationally and internationally. Dr Phillips has written extensively on the practice of evidence based medicine and he currently edits the Archimedes section of Archives of Disease in Childhood.
	Dr Iqbal Malik Cardiology, Cardiff, London and Birmingham Iqbal Malik is a Consultant Cardiologist at St Mary’s Hospital, London. He trained at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge and then at Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. After training in cardiology in west London he was appointed to St Mary’s Hospital, London in 2001. He is Chair of the generic catheter lab practitioner course, an Associate Editor on Heart, and regularly trains junior staff and GPs. His research interests are in stroke prevention (patent foramen ovale closure and carotid stenting). He also runs an annual, national stroke meeting for the Royal College of Physicians.
	Dr John Bayliss Cardiology, York and Newcastle 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 Cardiology, Glasgow and Sheffield 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 new 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 Rachael Morris-Jones Dermatology, Cardiff and Birmingham Rachael Morris-Jones studied parasitology before qualifying as a doctor and trained as a dermatologist at the St John’s Institute of Dermatology. She is a Consultant Dermatologist at King’s College Hospital, London. Dr Morris-Jones has spent several years undertaking research in cutaneous infections.
	Dr Emma Craythorne Dermatology, York 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, Newcastle and currently London. Dr Craythorne often presents at international and national dermatology conferences; her special interests include dermatological surgery and cutaneous malignancy.
	Dr Danny Kemmett Dermatology, Glasgow 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 Anthony du Vivier Dermatology, London 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 Graham Colver Dermatology, Sheffield 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 Dermatology, Newcastle 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 Philip Lodge Palliative Care, Cardiff Philip Lodge is a Consultant in palliative medicine at the Royal Free Hospital and Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead. He qualified in 1989 and after six years of varied posts including anaesthetics, completing the tropical medicine and hygiene diploma in Liverpool and two years overseas, trained as a GP on the Barnet vocational training scheme. Dr Lodge’s specialist training in palliative medicine was on the North Thames rotation. The service includes hospice, hospital, community and a chronic pain clinic. His special interest is teaching.
	Dr Colin Campbell Palliative Care, York 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 Jane Edgecombe Palliative Care, Glasgow 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 Palliative Care, London and Birmingham 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 Palliative Care, Sheffield and Newcastle 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 Linda Gask Mental Health, Cardiff, London and Newcastle 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).
	Dr Graeme McDonald Mental Health, York, Glasgow and Sheffield Graeme McDonald is a consultant psychiatrist in the Belfast home treatment service and associate medical director for mental health and learning disabilities in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. He has completed clinical research in the treatment of depression and psychosis and published on pharmacoeconomics, the history of the health service and post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr McDonald is chairman of the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health—the leading mental health charity in the Province. He takes a particular interest in adverse incident investigation and clinical review.
	Dr Elizabeth England Mental Health, Birmingham 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 Renal: Chronic Kidney Disease, Cardiff 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 Renal: Chronic Kidney Disease, York and Glasgow 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 Renal: Chronic Kidney Disease, London 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 Renal: Chronic Kidney Disease, Sheffield 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 Renal: Chronic Kidney Disease, Newcastle 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!
	Dr Damian Fogarty Renal: Chronic Kidney Disease, Newcastle 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 Women's Health, Cardiff 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.
	Mr Adrian Evans Women's Health, York 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 Women’s Health, Glasgow and Newcastle 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.
	Mr Anthony Rutherford Women's Health, London, Sheffield and Birmingham 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.

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Past Speakers

SPEAKERS FOR AUTUMN 2007

Dr Brendan Lloyd
Chair, Cardiff and Bournemouth
Brendan Lloyd graduated from Cardiff and worked as a general practitioner in Swansea from 1989 until 2005 when he became the medical director of Cardiff Local Health Board. Experience as a GP included time as chairman of the District Medical Committee and vice-chairman of the Local Medical Committee.

In 2003 he was awarded an MSc in diabetes and served as chairman of Swansea Local Diabetes Service Advisory Group. As an advanced trainer for the Warwick University diabetes course he co-facilitated the Certificate in Diabetes as a satellite course in Swansea. Dr Lloyd was a member of the Welsh Diabetes Education Steering Group which developed the Welsh GP Foundation Course in Diabetes. He is an honorary clinical research fellow of the Centre for Health Information, Research and Evaluation (CHIRAL) at Swansea University School of Medicine and has co-authored publications on diabetes in primary care with CHIRAL members.

In 2007 he was awarded fellowship of the British Association of Medical Managers.

Dr Colin Kenny
Chair, Belfast
Dr Colin Kenny is a general practitioner in Dromore, Co Down. He is now an associate director of postgraduate medical education in Northern Ireland. He runs a diabetes clinic in his practice, writes, and lectures regularly on diabetes related subjects. He is the inaugural chairman of Primary Care Diabetes U.K. In 2000 he completed a survey of primary diabetes care in Northern Ireland. He was chairman of the Primary Care Diabetes Society and is a current committee member. He is also the editor of the journal Diabetes and Primary Care.

Dr Kevin Gruffydd-Jones
Respiratory Medicine, Cardiff

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. He has research interests in Asthma and COPD and is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Bath and University of Aberdeen.

He is Committee member and ex- Education Lead of the General Practice Airways Group and has spoken widely at national and international meetings. He has (and is) involved in the development of national guidelines for asthma and COPD management and in Guidelines for the employment of practitioners with a special interest in respiratory medicine.
Dr Graham Burns
Respiratory Medicine, York
Graham Burns began academic life as a mathematician, studying in Nottingham and Cambridge. Despite the joys of this rude intellectual stimulation, he decided pure academia was would not afford him the full range of life’s experiences. He changed direction.

After turning down a lucrative appointment on the stock market he took up voluntary work in Bihar, India. He also worked as an actor and as a civil servant in Westminster before deciding medicine was the career most likely to fulfil his dual requirements: a plug for the existentialist gap and a decent income.

He studied medicine in Newcastle. As a registrar his PhD thesis was on asthma. In 2000/01 he was a visiting scientist and honorary lecturer in the Alfred Hospital and University of Monash, Melbourne.

In 2002 he was appointed as consultant physician and honorary senior lecturer in the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Newcastle University. He is heavily involved in undergraduate education and is chair of the British Thoracic Society Workforce committee. Clinically he retains an active interest in asthma and is COPD lead for Newcastle Hospitals.

Mr Jonathan Rees
Musculoskeletal, Cardiff

Jonathan Rees is the University Lecturer in Orthopaedics at the University of Oxford and NHS Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London and did his Orthopaedic and Specialist Training in Oxford. Mr Rees is a Committee Member of the Research and Academic Surgery Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is also a Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and Member of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society.

Dr Andrew Dowson
Neurology, London, Manchester and York

Andrew Dowson qualified in medicine in 1984, and worked as a GP for several years before becoming a specialist in headache. He is Director of the NHS King’s Headache Service at King’s College Hospital, London and also has several General Practice based, headache-focussed positions. He is chairman of the umbrella organisation for the headache interested charities - Headache UK and of MIPCA (Migraine in Primary Care Advisors), the leading UK charity that promotes headache management in primary care as well as of the international organisation ‘Headache Care for Practising Clinicians’ – a group of similar organisations from around the world. In recent years he has chaired the P-CNS (Primary Care Neurology Society). He is a Council member of BASH (British Association for the Study of Headache). He has authored numerous original articles, reviews, books and congress presentations in the field.

Dr Peter Tasker
Diabetes, Manchester
As a General Practitioner for almost 30 years, Peter Tasker has had an interest in the management of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is a member of the diabetes team at St James Medical Practice, which offers continuous care for almost 900 patients. Structured and continuous education is a feature of the service, which is delivered by a team of general practitioners, primary care based diabetes nurses, podiatrists and dieticians. The team won the “Diabetes Doctor of the Year Award “ in 1994.
Dr Tasker is President of the local branch of Diabetes UK, and a former member of various national committees of Diabetes UK. He co-chaired the steering group of Primary Care Diabetes UK, becoming chairman from 1999 to 2002.
Peter was a member of the RCGP working party that developed guidelines and protocols and was a member of various groups that developed the National Service Framework for diabetes.
He is a co-editor of the diabetes journal Practical Diabetes International and has published work on many aspects of chronic disease management. Dr Tasker helps organise diabetes multidisciplinary continuing education and chairs the local Network Group.

Dr David Millar-Jones
Diabetes, Cardiff
David Millar-Jones trained and qualified in Cardiff in 1988. He eventually left hospital medicine to become a GP Principal in 1995, but has continued to work in hospitals as a Practitioner in Diabetes and became an Associate Specialist in Diabetes in 2004 after election to FRCP (UK). Dr Millar-Jones continues to work as a full time GP and has established a specialist service to assist GPs in the management of diabetic patients who are difficult to control.
Dr Millar-Jones is a strong believer in GP education and has given numerous CPD talks. He is also a tutor for Warwick University, a committee member of the Welsh Endocrine Society and PCDS and on the editorial board for their Journal.

Dr David Tuthill
Paediatrics, Cardiff
David Tuthill is a Consultant Paediatrician at the Children's Hospital for Wales, as well as Chair of the multidisciplinary Cardiff Nutrition Care Team and an active member of the Child Nutrition Panel, developing practical educational material for healthcare professionals on the many aspects of infant feeding. His paediatric training was conducted in a wide variety of hospitals in Wales and New Zealand.
Dr Tuthill's research interests have centred on infant feeding, breast feeding, coeliac disease, medication errors and probiotics. His teaching commitments, among others, include being an honorary lecturer in Cardiff University, and lecturer to the paediatric Specialist Registrar national grid training in gastroenterology/nutrition.
Dr Simon H Baird
Cardiology, Belfast
Simon qualified at Queen’s University Belfast in 1991 and after completing a general practice training year in 1996 took up a position as a Cardiology Registrar in Antrim Area Hospital. Dr Baird completed his Medical Doctorate in the field of acute coronary syndromes in 2000. He joined Broughshane Medical Practice as a full time General Practitioner with special interest in cardiology, working in the chest pain clinic of Antrim Area Hospital for one session a week. He is a member of the CREST subgroup for both hypertension and lipid management and sits on the Regional Cardiac Network Board for Northern Ireland.
Dr Lee David
Mental Health, London and Manchester
Lee David is a GP from Hertfordshire with a specialist interest in cognitive behavioural therapy. She runs workshops for GPs, GP Registrars and primary healthcare professionals, on how to apply CBT techniques within routine 10 minute consultations. The aim of her training is to improve quality within primary care and to make consultations more interesting and enjoyable for GPs. Dr David has also written a book Using CBT in General Practice: the 10-minute Consultation. She can be contacted on CBM.Training@googlemail.com

Dr Jenny Maguire
Mental Health, Belfast
Jenny Maguire is a Clinical Psychologist in Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. She completed her PhD at Queen’s University Belfast and her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool. She is based at Belfast City Hospital and works in both Primary and Secondary Psychological Services in South Belfast. Jenny has a keen interest in cognitive behaviour therapy in primary care and new ways of delivering services to increase access and choice.
Dr Frances Cole
Mental Health, Bournemouth
Frances Cole is a part time GP in Huddersfield and trained in cognitive behavioural therapy at Newcastle CT Centre in 1993-94. In 1996, she started the first UK multidisciplinary primary care pain rehabilitation service in Bradford based on CBT principles. She currently runs this service and works in clinical health psychology at Bradford Teaching Hospitals using CBT in a wide range of mental and physical health problems. She runs a variety of workshops and training courses for primary care trusts in the North of England for primary care practitioners in CBT techniques for both mental health, chronic pain and long term health condition self management. She is also a co-author of a CBT self help guide Overcoming Chronic Pain, CBT based self help guides on health problems published in 2005 by Constable Robinson.

Dr Raymond G White
Women’s Health, Belfast
Raymond White is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in the Belfast Trust based in the Mater Hospital. He has a sessional commitment to the Royal Jubilee Maternity Service. Dr White is also an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. He has had a longstanding interest in HRT and the management of the menopause and has spoken widely on the subject. He is a member of the British Menopause Society and was a founding member of the Irish Menopause Society. Dr White initiated the first specialist menopause clinic in Northern Ireland and maintains this interest at his clinic in the Mater Hospital.

Dr Hugh Cairns
Renal: Chronic Kidney Disease, London and Manchester
Hugh Cairns is a Consultant Nephrologist in the Renal Unit at Kings College Hospital, London.    He trained at Guy’s Hospital Medical School at the University of London, and has held previous posts as Renal Registrar and Senior Registrar at the Royal Free Hospital and Middlesex and University College Hospitals. He was also Clinical Director of the Kings Renal Unit and the Kings Liver Unit for ten years. His research interests include haemodialysis, urological renal disease, and chronic renal failure and its progression.
Dr Paul Stevens
Renal: Chronic Kidney Disease, Bournemouth
Paul Stevens trained in renal medicine in the Royal Air Force and at Charing Cross Hospital, London. He is the President of the British Renal Society and has a major interest in commissioning and developing renal services. Paul oversaw the modernisation and development of one of the largest District General Hospital renal units, was clinical advisor to NICE for Anaemia Of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and is clinical advisor to the NICE Chronic Kidney Disease Guideline currently under development. He was also a member of the UK CKD guideline development group. Dr Stevens is Consultant Nephrologist and Clinical Director Vascular, Interventional Radiology, Urology and Renal Services, East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust and Canterbury Hospital. His research interests are centred on clinical nephrology and epidemiology, with a particular interest in the unmet need in nephrology and in earlier identification and management of CKD.

SPEAKERS FOR 2006 AND SPRING 2007

	Dr Clare Kaye Dr Clare Kaye is a GP on the flexible careers scheme. She specialises in teaching and for a number of years has taught postgraduates in the vocational training setting. She has also co-ordinated and created teaching curriculums for this group of doctors. She is a member of a group of young GPs who meet every six weeks to discuss their learning needs and ways to fulfil them. She teaches undergraduate students in the community as well as teaching communication skills and issues in psychiatry. She coordinates the curriculum for the undergraduate students. Part of her clinical work includes two clinical sessions at her practice in Pinner, Middlesex. She gained a distinction in the MRCGP examination in 2004 and keeps up to date using journals, online resources, courses, and peers. She has also completed her Diploma of Family Planning, Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist, and Diploma of Child Health.
	Dr Rupal Shah Dr Rupal Shah is a Principal in General Practice in Battersea, south London. She is based in a vibrant inner city practice where she works with a socio-economically and culturally diverse population. She qualified as a GP in 2002 and has written about and taught current issues in general practice since then. She has also written and edited two textbooks for newly qualified GPs and edits the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) magazine, The New Generalist. She is also an editorial adviser for Doctor and Update magazines. She passed the MRCGP examination with distinction in 2002 and currently teaches undergraduates within her practice.
	Dr Roger Gadsby Dr Roger Gadsby has been a GP since 1979 and works in an eight partner training practice in Warwickshire. He has spoken on and written about diabetes since 1983, and has published two textbooks on diabetes and more than 150 articles, papers, and chapters. He is also a Senior Lecturer in Primary Care at Warwick University. He is involved with developing assessed accredited courses in diabetes run by Warwick Diabetes Care. Over 5000 healthcare professionals have so far undertaken the Warwick Certificate in Diabetes Care. Dr Gadsby is a member of two diabetes guideline development groups for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), and is a founder member of the Primary Care Diabetes Society.
	Dr Fraser MacLeod Fraser MacLeod is a GP in South Glasgow and is the Primary Care Lead Clinician in the Health Board's Managed Clinical Network for Diabetes. He is involved in developing and implementing the managed care programme for diabetes, which is now delivered as a General Medical Services Local Enhanced Service in over 200 GP practices. Dr MacLeod was a member of the panel which wrote the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network guideline on diabetic retinopathy screening and chairs the project group responsible for establishing the retinopathy screening programme in Glasgow. He also participates in work on various aspects of chronic disease management.
	Professor Roger Jones Roger Jones is Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at King’s College London. He has carried out research in gastroenterology for over 20 years, with a focus on the epidemiology and management of common problems in primary care. Professor Jones is founding President of the Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology in the UK and was founding Chairman of the European Society for Primary Care Gastroenterology. His other research interests include medical education and research ethics and governance. He is Editor in Chief of the Oxford Textbook of Primary Medical Care.
	Dr Iain Small Iain Small has been a General Practitioner in Peterhead since 1989. He has been Chair of the Scottish Paediatric Asthma Group and the Grampian Asthma Action Group. He is education lead and Vice Chair of the General Practice Airways Group, and an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of General Practice at the University of Aberdeen. Dr Small is the clinical lead for the Grampian managed clinical network for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	Dr Tom Brown Tom Brown is a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh and was a physician then a general adult psychiatrist, before liaison psychiatry. He is a cognitive behavioural therapy trainer whose interests are in managing depression in chronic physical illness. Dr Brown has written extensively on the management of patients with medically unexplained symptoms. He is Chair of the Scottish division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
	Professor Greg Rubin Greg Rubin is a general practitioner, Professor of Primary Care at the University of Sunderland, and Director of the Northern Primary Care Research Network. He has been involved with the development of practice based research and research networks. His principal research interest is the management of gastrointestinal disorders in primary care. Professor Rubin’s current research activity includes studies of the diagnostic approach of GPs to irritable bowel syndrome, a Europe-wide survey of the GP management of GI problems and an extensive programme in IBD. He is currently Honorary Secretary to the RCGP Scientific Foundation Board and Chair of the European Society for Primary Care Gastroenterology.
	Dr John Paul Leach 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.
	Dr Iqbal Malik Dr Iqbal Malik is a Consultant Cardiologist at St Mary’s Hospital, London. He trained at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge and then at Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. After training in cardiology in west London he was appointed to St Mary’s Hospital, London in 2001. He is Chair of the generic catheter lab practitioner course, an Associate Editor on Heart, and regularly trains junior staff and GPs. His research interests are in stroke prevention (patent foramen ovale closure and carotid stenting). He also runs an annual, national stroke meeting for the Royal College of Physicians.
	Dr John Hebden John Hebden is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield. He trained in London and Nottingham, where he completed a postgraduate degree investigating colonic drug delivery. Dr Hebden is Secretary of the Gastroenterology Speciality Question Group of the Royal College of Physicians, and a member of the Standard Settings Group for the Part 2 MRCP(UK) examination and is on the Part 2 membership board. His interests include inflammatory bowel disease and endoscopic ultrasound. He has written Your Questions Answered: Gastrointestinal Problems, part of a series for primary care physicians.
	Dr Angus Kennedy Angus Kennedy is Consultant Neurologist at Charing Cross Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, having received his neurological training in London at the Atkinson Morley’s and St Mary’s Hospital. In 1997 he spent a year as Senior Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. His specialist neurological interests include the diagnosis, investigation and management of people with degenerative dementia. Dr Kennedy’s research has aimed to assess how functional imaging can be used to map the early phases of Alzheimer’s disease, and how this affects the functioning of the brain.
	Dr Linda Gask Dr 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).
	Dr Marta Buszewicz Dr Marta Buszewicz is qualified in both general practice and psychiatry. She works part time as a GP in north London and part time at the Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London. Her main research and teaching interests are in the field of mental health, particularly in depression, anxiety, and somatisation. Until recently she was also involved in teaching the history of medicine for the intercalated BSc in medical humanities.
	Dr David Westaby Biography will be available shortly.
	Dr Geraint Fuller 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.
	Miss Joan Pitkin Miss Joan Pitkin is a Consultant Gynaecologist and Director of the Menopause Clinical and Research Unit at Northwick Park and St Mark’s Hospital (NPMH) in Harrow, Middlesex. She is also Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London. She was Chair of the British Menopause Society, retiring in July 2005, and a member of the British Menopause Society Council for seven years. She was also a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist (RCOG) Council for six years and the RCOG Continuing Medical Education Committee for three years. She is a RCOG Tutor and heads the Faculty of Education for NPMH for undergraduates and postgraduates. She heads a multidisciplinary menopause team, which won a Team of the Year Award in 2000.

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