Editorial advisory board

You can view featured members of the BMJ Masterclasses team below, who have all been instrumental in the development and success of the courses. To view all speakers for a particular masterclass, please visit the individual programme page.

Featured Speakers - GP Series

Fiona Godlee
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.

Hilary Pinnock
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.

Chris Lavy
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.

Featured Speakers - Physician Series

Geraint Fuller
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.

Wisia Wedzicha
Wisia Wedzicha is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at University College London and the Royal Free and University College Medical School, London. She has a major interest in the causes and mechanisms of COPD exacerbations and she has published extensively on this topic.

Wisia is also an expert on home ventilatory support and is the Chair of the British Thoracic Society working group on home oxygen therapy. She was a member of the Guideline Development Group for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence COPD guidelines. She is also Editor in Chief of Thorax and is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Roger Hall
Roger Hall is Professor of Clinical Cardiology at the University of East Anglia and Consultant Cardiologist at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He was formerly Head of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Hammersmith Hospital until 2003. He was the Editor in Chief of Heart from 1999 to 2006 and has extensive experience both as a clinician, a clinical researcher, and journal editor.