Day One

Dr Fiona Godlee

Editor, BMJ

Fiona Godlee has been Editor in Chief of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) since 2005. She qualified as a doctor in 1985, trained as a general physician in Cambridge and London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Since joining the BMJ in 1990, she has written on a broad range of subjects, including the impact of environmental degradation on health, the future of the World Health Organization, the ethics of academic publication and the problems of editorial peer review.In 1994 she spent a year at Harvard University as a Harkness Fellow evaluating efforts to bridge the gap between medical research and practice. On returning to the UK, Fiona led the development of BMJ Clinical Evidence, which evaluates the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of treatments and is now provided world wide to over a million clinicians in nine languages. 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 its new Knowledge division. She has served as President of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and is co-editor of Peer Review in Health Sciences. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.

Dr Iqbal Malik

Consultant Cardiologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London and National Clinical Lead for Web-Based Systems for the Heart Improvement Programme

Iqbal Malik is a consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. He trained at Peterhouse College, Cambridge and then at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London. After further training in West London, Dr Malik was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London in 2001. At Hammersmith Hospital, he is director of the catheter laboratories and lead for primary angioplasty. He is lead clinician for revascularisation for North West London Cardiac Network and national clinical lead for web transfer systems. His research interests are in stroke prevention (patent foramen ovale closure and carotid stenting), coronary revascularisation and transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

Dr Mark Pakianathan

Consultant Physician – Sexual Health, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust

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 Richard Smith

Consultant in Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Medicine and Tutor, Salisbury Hospital, Salisbury and British Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine

Dr Richard Smith is a Consultant Rheumatologist at Salisbury Hospital. He trained in London and, following that, spent a year at the New South Wales Institute of Sports Medicine. He runs a multidisciplinary musculoskeletal and sports medicine clinic every week. In his spare time he is doctor to the World's Strongest Man and Superstars tournaments.

Dr James Dalrymple

GP, Drayton and St Faiths Medical Practice

Jamie Dalrymple is a full-time GP in Norwich, trainer in General Practice, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Norwich Medical School where he teaches 3rd year Medical students.

Dr Claire Nicholl

Consultant Physician, Medicine for the Elderly, Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge University Hospitals NHSFT

Claire has broad interests in clinical aspects of medicine for the elderly and service delivery. She developed her interest in memory disorders while she was senior lecturer in medicine for the elderly at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, working in one of the pioneering multidisciplinary memory clinics at the Hammersmith with Professor Brice Pitt, founder of the Old Age Section in the Royal College of Psychiatry. She was also the GP tutor and organised the week long annual update for GPs. Since moving to Cambridge, she has continued to see patients with memory difficulties in a typical outpatient setting, and teaches and examines undergraduates and postgraduates.

Mr Alam Hannan

Consultant Otorhinolaryngologist, Royal National Throat, Nose & Ear Hospital, London

After completing undergraduate studies at King’s College London, Mr Hannan remained in London to pursue postgraduate training in otorhinolaryngology—head and neck surgery. In 2009 he was appointed to the consultant staff at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, the UK’s largest ear, nose and throat (ENT) service, which is recognised internationally as a centre of excellence, unique in the breadth of ENT knowledge and subspecialties represented on one site. Mr Hannan delivers a full general elective and emergency ENT service for adults and children, and collaborates to provide subspecialised rhinology and facial plastic surgery.

Day Two

Dr Hilary Pinnock

GP Principal, Whitstable Medical Practice, Kent and Reader, Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

Dr Hilary Pinnock is a GP in Kent. She 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. 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.

Dr Tahseen Chowdhury

Consultant Physician and Diabetologist, Barts and The London NHS Trust

Tahseen Chowdhury is lead clinician in the department of diabetes and metabolism at the Royal London Hospital, in the East End of London. He runs a large specialist diabetes and metabolism unit, dealing with diabetes particularly among the Bangladeshi community of Tower Hamlets. Dr Chowdhury has a research and clinical interest in diabetes in South Asians, and has authored over 100 publications, including a book entitled Diabetes in South Asian people: Explained. He qualified from the University of Birmingham and trained in Birmingham and Manchester, before becoming a consultant physician in 2000.

Dr Adam Fox

Consultant Paediatric Allergist, St Thomas' Hospital, London

Dr Adam Fox chaired the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health National Care Pathway for food allergy in childhood and was a member of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guideline development group for the assessment and diagnosis of food allergy in children. He is an expert adviser to NICE on allergy and also an executive member of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He was named ‘Paediatric Allergist of the Year' by Allergy UK in 2007.Dr Fox's particular interests are food allergy, gastrointestinal allergy, immunotherapy and medical education.

Dr Stuart Smellie

Consultant Chemical Pathologist, County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust

Stuart Smellie is consultant chemical pathologist at County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. He qualified from St John's College, Cambridge and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and took up his current post in 1994. His main research interest is good practice in laboratory medicine and he chairs a cross-discipline group researching common questions for primary care. Dr Smellie is director of clinical practice for the Association of Clinical Biochemists and sits on the council of the Association of Clinical Pathologists and the HTA diagnostics panel.

Ms Laura Crawley

Fellow of Ophthalmology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London

Laura Crawley is a post CCT fellow in ophthalmology with a specialist interest in glaucoma, cataract and anterior segment surgery at Imperial College Hospitals NHS trust and Moorfields Eye Hospital. She trained at Bristol University and having completed MRCP in the Wessex Deanery moved to Oxford and then London for ophthalmology training

Dr Giles Elrington

Medical Director and Consultant Neurologist, National Migraine Centre

Giles Elrington qualified at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1980 and has been consultant neurologist at Barts and the London NHS Trust since 1993. From 1993 to 2001 he was also consultant neurologist in Colchester. Since 2001 he has had a portfolio career. Regular NHS sessions include the headache clinic and clinical research at the London Hospital, general and botulinum toxin clinics at Southend General Hospital, contract work for North and Mid-Essex PCTs and a rehabilitation clinic in Stowmarket. He has a private practice in Colchester and London. Dr Elrington is a general neurologist with particular interest in headache, multiple sclerosis, rehabilitation and neuropsychiatry.