Paediatrics and Women's Health Speakers

Dr Magda Cullen
Magda has been a GP principal since 1982. She qualified at UCH in 1977 returning to Worcestershire to train as a GP. Her particular interests have been in Women’s health and Family Planning. She has been involved in teaching for many years starting as an instructing doctor in Family Planning then in the practice teaching registrars and more latterly medical students. Recently she has been extending her interests in travel medicine by accompanying school trips on high altitude treks as an expedition doctor.

Dr Elizabeth Nyholm
Liz is a GP Principal in Birmingham, having qualified at UCH in 1973. Teaching has become a major part of her life as a GP Trainer and Instructing Doctor in Family Planning, delivering sexual health training in a variety of formats.

Currently Sexual Health Clinical Lead for Birmingham East and North PCT, Liz is working to deliver the ‘sperms and germs’ agenda jointly between primary and secondary care and develop the educational support for GPs to provide sexual health services in the area. She retains an interest in general medicine as a Hospital Practitioner in Gastroenterology at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital.

Dr Mark Beattie
Dr Beattie has been a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist in Southampton since 2000. He is honorary senior lecturer in Nutrition in Southampton General Hospital. He qualified from the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in 1986. His clinical and research interest is the nutritional management of inflammatory bowel disease.

Dr Helen Goodbyear
Dr Goodyear is a Consultant Paediatrician with a special interest in Paediatric Dermatology at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. She qualified and did SHO jobs in Bristol before moving to the Hospitals for Sick Children, London where she trained in Paediatric Dermatology for 7 years. Her MD was about herpes simplex virus infections in children with atopic eczema. She has a strong interest in Medical Education and is an Associate Dean in the West Midlands leading on flexible training and careers as well as being Head of the School of Paediatrics.

Dr Mary Pillai
Dr Pillai has been a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust since 1996. She works closely with the Sexual and Reproductive Health Service, taking a lead in community gynaecology. Her special interests include pelvic ultrasound, menstrual disorders, paediatric and adolescent gynaecology, and forensic gynaecology. In addition to her work within the NHS, Dr Pillai provides a service for forensic examination of alleged child and adult sexual assault cases to Gloucestershire Constabulary.

Mr Ali Kubba
Mr Ali Kubba is a Consultant/Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Guy’s, King’s, and St Thomas’ School of Medicine.
His main interests are cervical screening, colposcopy, contraceptive technology, menopause, PMS, and medical gynaecology.
He is a founder member of the Board of the Faculty of Family Planning of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and a current member of the Council. He is the London Region NHSCSP Quality Assurance Committee member.

Dr Marian Everett
Marian Everett is a Consultant in sexual and reproductive health in Hull and East Yorkshire, and is also consultant lead for family planning and menopause services. She is Faculty Deanery Adviser for Yorkshire, General Training Programme Director for Family Planning for Hull and the East Riding and a member of the Education Group of the Faculty of Family Planning. Dr Everett has worked in women’s health for over 20 years and leads an integrated sexual health clinic for men and women.

Dr Mark Pakianathan
Dr Mark Pakianathan graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1991. He trained in general internal medicine and then specialised in GU/HIV medicine in Edinburgh. He has a keen interest in reaching out to disadvantaged groups and these have included working in outreach settings, working with commercial sex workers, setting up adolescent sexual health clinics (including a teenage HIV clinic) and, more recently, setting up a sexual health service at HMP Wandsworth.

He is chair of the BASH media committee and has extensive experience in working with the media. He is particularly passionate about delivering high quality sexual health services to young people.

Dr Susan Hill
Dr Susan Hill is a Consultant in Paediatric Gastroenterology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. She has a special interest in nutrition and intestinal failure and the role of food allergy in common gastrointestinal disorders.

Dr Alison Kemp
Dr Alison Kemp is currently Clinical Reader in Child Health in the School of Medicine at Cardiff University. She is also Director of the Welsh Child Protection Systematic Review Group (www.core-info.cf.ac.uk) which is currently undertaking a rolling programme of systematic reviews in the diagnosis and investigation of physical child abuse. Dr Kemp is also a Clinical Advisor to NICE Child Maltreatment Guidance and a Consultant in Community Paediatrics.

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