4th National Scottish Medical Education Conference

Speaker Biographies

6 May 2014Edinburgh International Conference Centre

Professor Rowan ParksProfessor Rowan Parks was born and educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He qualified in Medicine from Queens University Belfast in 1989. He pursued his surgical training in Northern Ireland and then undertook a clinical fellowship in hepato-biliary and pancreatic surgery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Surgery and Honorary Consultant Surgeon in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1999, was subsequently promoted to Reader in Surgery in 2006 and was awarded a person chair as Professor of Surgical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh in 2010.

Professor Parks has a specialist interest in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. He has published more than 130 papers, written over 30 book chapters and has authored / edited four surgical textbooks. He has been awarded several prestigious prizes and travelling fellowships, and has given a number of eponymous lectures.

Professor Parks is currently a member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a member of the Executive Board of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, a member of Council of the European-African Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Association, a Director of the James IV Association and has previously served on the Council of the Council of the Association of Upper GI Surgeons. He is Chairman of the Education & Training Committee and a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Hepato-Pancreatico–Biliary Association.

Professor Parks has a significant interest in undergraduate and postgraduate education. He is currently Chairman of the Fitness to Practice Committee at the University of Edinburgh. His involvement in postgraduate training has been as Regional Adviser in General Surgery, Training Programme Director for the South East Scotland General Surgery rotation, Associate Postgraduate Dean (SE Scotland), Chair of the Scottish Specialty Training Board for Surgical Specialties and currently he is Deputy Director of Medicine, NHS Education for Scotland (NES).

Dr Lindsay Burley CBELindsay Burley was appointed Chair of NES in April 2010, having served on the Board since 2002. In 2003, after a thirty year career as a doctor and senior manager in the Scottish Health Service, she became the first Chair of the National Waiting Times Centre Board, with responsibility for the Golden Jubilee Hospital and Beardmore Conference Centre at Clydebank. Lindsay chairs the Scottish Association for Mental Health and until recently was a member of the Scottish Funding Council. She lives in Musselburgh and runs a coaching and mediation business with her husband, Robin. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal Society for the encouragements of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and was appointed a Commander of the British Empire in December 2010.

Dr Vicky OsgoodDr Vicky Osgood is Assistant Director of Postgraduate Education at the General Medical Council where she is responsible for the approval and quality assurance of the content, standards and outcomes of postgraduate medical education and training in the UK. She is also secretary to the Shape of Training Review.

From 2008 until 2011 she was Postgraduate Dean for Wessex. Prior to that, she worked as a Consultant in Obstetrics and as Director of Postgraduate Medical Education in a large NHS trust. From 2005-2008 she was the medical advisor to the Workforce Review Team and was involved in many aspects of workforce planning in the NHS in England.

Professor Ian Cumming OBEIan Cumming is Health Education England’s first Chief Executive.

Ian started his career in the NHS as a Biomedical Scientist and later worked in research into coagulation disorders in the Haemophilia Centre in Manchester, England before moving into general management in the late 1980s.

Ian has held a variety of NHS senior management posts, including Operating Theatre Manager at a large teaching hospital and Assistant Chief Executive to the former North West Regional Health Authority, before spending the last 16 years in CEO roles in the NHS. When Ian was first appointed as CEO in 1995, he was the youngest ever Chief Executive in the NHS.

In 2006 after almost 12 years as the CEO of a group of teaching hospitals, Ian was appointed CEO of NHS North Lancashire, a NHS commissioning body.

From 2009 until 2011, Ian was CEO of NHS West Midlands – one of ten regional Strategic Health Authorities for the NHS in England. On taking up this role Ian also became a member of the national Management Board for the NHS in England. NHS West Midlands looked after the health needs of a population of approximately 5.5million and expended almost £10bn per annum.

Ian was previously the National Director of Quality during Transition for the NHS in England.

Professor Stewart IrvineStewart Irvine graduated in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, completed his MD in 1988, and completed postgraduate training in obstetrics and gynaecology in Edinburgh and Aberdeen. He held academic training posts in the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, followed by a clinical consultant post within the MRC Human Reproductive Sciences unit in Edinburgh, with clinical and research interests in reproductive medicine – particularly issues affecting male reproductive health.

Held posts as RCOG College Tutor and Regional College Advisor before assuming the responsibility of Associate Postgraduate Dean in South-East Scotland Deanery from 2004. Became Deputy Medical Director of NES from 2008, with responsibility for the quality management of postgraduate medical training across Scotland, and for the performance management of the Medical ACT funding used to support undergraduate medical students in clinical placements.

In 2012, was appointed as Executive Director of Medicine for NHS Education for Scotland – a special health board responsible for the education and training needs of all staff groups within NHS Scotland. As a General Medical Council (GMC) Associate, he sits on the GMC Quality Scrutiny Group, and has been extensively involved as a GMC Visitor to medical schools and postgraduate deaneries elsewhere in the UK. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary Professorship by the University of Edinburgh, and Honorary Fellowships by the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Surgeons in Edinburgh.

Professor David GreenawayProfessor David Greenaway was appointed Nottingham’s sixth Vice Chancellor in 2008, having previously been a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University for both Research and Infrastructure. A Professor of Economics, he was the founding Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of trade and labour market adjustment, cross-border investment, and international trade policy. Professor Greenaway has also acted as a consultant to the World Bank, the European Commission and the United Nations. He was Chair of the UK Armed Forces Pay Review Body from 2004 until 2010 and in 2013 was appointed as Honorary Colonel of the East Midlands Universities Officers Training Corps. He is currently a Member of the Government’s Asia Task Force, and its Higher Education Task Force. He is a Trustee of CASE Europe and a member of the National Centre for Universities and Business Leadership Council. He has also just completed a comprehensive independent review of UK postgraduate medical education and training. He was awarded an Honorary Citizenship of Ningbo, China, in September 2012.

Professor William ReidProfessor Bill Reid has been medical postgraduate dean in South East Scotland since November 2008, after 15 years as a Consultant Geriatrician in the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow. Previously Bill was a trainee in both Glasgow and Edinburgh, and is considered bilingual as a result.

He has been active in national educational roles for longer than he cares to remember, serving on RCPSG College Council, as well being honorary secretary for three years with NACT (UK).

He leads for academic training in Scotland, as well as trainee revalidation, and in addition to being involved in the four nation Shape of Training review as a member of the expert advisory group, has been involved in the recent GMC working group on Health & Disability and the Academy of Royal Colleges’ working group on remediation.

He is currently Chair-elect of COPMeD UK, and is looking forward to taking up post later this year.

Professor Ian G FinlayProfessor Finlay was a Consultant Surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary where he developed the Department of Coloproctology. He was also Associate Medical Director for Surgery and Anaesthetics in Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board from 2010 – 2013 having responsibility for the delivery of approximately one third of all the surgery performed in Scotland

In 2008 he was seconded on a part time basis to Scottish Government to advise on the implementation of Revalidation and Chaired the Revalidation Delivery Board Scotland and the National Appraisal Leads Group.

He now has a wider role within Scottish Government providing medical advice to the Health Workforce Directorate. This includes providing medical advice to the Seven Day Services Task Force. In this role he Chairs the Board Leads and the Remote and Rural sub-groups.

Professor Finlay is also a representative of Scottish Government on the UK Education Scrutiny Group and the UK Shape of Training Implementation Steering Group.

Dr John R ColvinDr John R Colvin, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Ninewells Hospital, DundeeChair, Professionalism and Excellence in Medicine Group, 2009-2013Chair, Royal College of Anaesthetists Scottish Board 2008-dateChair, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties in Scotland, 2010-2013Senior Medical Advisor, Scottish Government Health Workforce and CMO Directorates 2013 - date

Dr David CowellClinical Leadership Fellow and Clinical Radiology StR. Working with Scottish Government and NHS Education for Scotland on projects related to workforce, training and the Professionalism and Excellence agenda.

Dr Reem Al SoufiSpecialty Trainee in Emergency Medicine (ST6) based in the North of Scotland Deanery and currently a Clinical Leadership Fellow with the Scottish Government/NES. My current project investigates the correlation between Rota design and the development of professionalism amongst doctors in training under the auspices of the Professionalism and Excellence agenda.

Professor Gillian NeedhamGillian graduated from Manchester University medical school in 1981 and completed specialist training as a Radiologist in Manchester and Aberdeen. She was a full-time Consultant Radiologist in Grampian for 10 years before being appointed as Postgraduate Medical Dean in the North of Scotland in 1999.

She is responsible for co-leading a workstream of national professional development activities from her base in Aberdeen as part of the NES Medical Directorate arrangements and leads for the Directorate on leadership development for doctors in training.

Gillian is a GMC Associate; ASME Leadership Faculty-active; and COPMeD UK Lead Dean for the Neurosciences Group of specialties. She currently leads for NES on implementation of GMC Recognition & Approval of Trainers work and is the responsible Postgraduate Dean for the NES-hosted SAS (Staff, Associate Specialist & Specialty Grade) Doctors & Dentists project.

Professor Keith Gardiner MD, MCh, MSc, FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Gen)Postgraduate Dean, Responsible Officer and Interim Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency.Consultant General, Colorectal and Intestinal Failure Surgeon, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast Trust.Honorary Professor, Centre for Medical Education, Queen’s University Belfast.

Professor Gardiner, after graduation from Queen’s University in 1983, did his surgical training in Northern Ireland, West of Scotland and Oxford. He was Research Fellow in Johns Hopkins, Baltimore (1991-1992) and has been the recipient of Wellcome, Surgical Research Society and James IV Association of Surgeons Travelling Fellowships.

He has been a Consultant Surgeon, specialising in colorectal disease and intestinal failure since 1995. His clinical interests are in management of inflammatory bowel disease, enterocutaneous fistulae, radiation enteritis, sclerosing peritonitis and short bowel syndrome.

He was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Surgery in Queen’s (1995-1999), Honorary Senior Lecturer (2000-2012) and appointed Honorary Professor in 2013. He has supervised 19 surgical and medical research fellows to successful awards of postgraduate degrees and has had 10 book chapters and over 75 original articles published.

He has a major interest in surgical and medical training – Chairman of Basic Surgical Training Committee (1997-2002), Programme Director in General Surgery (2000-2008), Associate Postgraduate Dean (2007-2012). In 2012 he was appointed Postgraduate Medical Dean. He represents NI postgraduate education and training on the UK Medical Education Scrutiny Group, the Shape of Training Sponsoring Board and the GP Training 4 Nations Steering Group.

Dr David A Bruce FRCGP, FRCPEDirector of Postgraduate General Practice Education, NHS Education for Scotland. Honorary Reader, University of Dundee

Dr David Bruce is a general practitioner in Dundee Scotland and the Postgraduate Director for GP Education. His main role is the management of training for general practice, and his interest include workplace based assessment, multisource feedback, models of feedback and their use in clinical practice and physician revalidation. He is the co-lead for development of primary care within NHS Education for Scotland.

Professor Philip CachiaGraduated from Edinburgh University. Trained in Edinburgh and CardiffConsultant Haematology and Director of Haemophilia services in Tayside (1991-2004)Postgraduate Dean, East of Scotland, NHS Education for Scotland (NES) since 2004

NES Executive lead for Clinical Skills and Patient SafetyChair of NES Multidisciplinary Patient Safety GroupScottish Patient Safety Programme Fellowship Steering GroupLead Dean for Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology and VirologyNES representative on National Approach to Management of Adverse Events

Professor Peter Davey MD FRCPPeter is the Medical School Lead for Clinical Quality Improvement at the University of Dundee and is a member of NHS Tayside’s Improvement and Quality Committee. He has nearly thirty years’ experience of research focused on the outcomes of antimicrobial chemotherapy and the relationships between prescribing and resistance. He trained as an Infectious Diseases Physician in Birmingham UK and at the Tufts New England Medical Centre in Boston. He joined the University of Dundee in 1989 on a University Grants Committee Clinical Senior Lectureship to work on record linkage in the fields of antibiotic stewardship and healthcare associated infection. He was the first Director of the University of Dundee’s Health Informatics Centre from 2003-6 and has been a member of the HIC Executive since 2003. He is past President of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. He is Education Secretary of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

Michelle BeattieMichelle’s current research and educational interests are captured in the theme of health care quality improvement (QI). Her interest in improving health care quality has been built on a diverse clinical background in nursing, project management and a co-ordinating role for safety, governance and risk within the NHS. Michelle is now work with clinical and academic colleagues to design, implement and evaluate QI curriculum.

Research Interests: Michelle is now developing an instrument to measure quality of hospital care from the patients’ perspective. She is also interested in some of the QI tools and techniques – what works well, where and why.

Brian JamesBrian has over 25 years of experience teaching nurses. He has been involved with curriculum design for much of that time. He has designed courses which span many subject areas, including care of older people, self-management and long term conditions, and Quality Improvement. He introduced the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health to Quality Improvement (QI). QI is a main theme of the undergraduate curriculum. Brian co-designed a Masters level course in QI and support QI MSc dissertation students. He also co-designed a degree-level QI module and has been designing and running assessments recognisable as QI projects from as long ago as 1992. He co-designed the Practicum evaluation.

Dr Ronald MacVicarRonald MacVicar is Director of Postgraduate GP Education for the North of Scotland and based in Inverness where he has been a GP for approaching 30 years. He is, with Prof Alastair McLellan co-lead for the Scotland Deanery Quality workstream. He also has responsibility for areas of work in other Directorate workstreams, notably the Professional Development workstream, including; rural training issues including rural-track GP training and Rural Fellowships, Paediatric Scholarships and GP/ Primary Care CPD, including the Practice-based Small Group learning programme.

Dr William S McKerrow MRCGP(exam), FRCSEd & Glas.William is an Associate Postgraduate Dean based in Inverness and partially retired ENT Surgeon to NHS Highland and Western Isles. He chairs the Advisory Group of the Scottish School of Rural Health & Wellbeing which is a strategic alliance of NES, locally based Universities, NHS Boards, Local Authorities and other stakeholders with the remit of facilitating collaborative research and educational initiatives to support healthcare for remote, rural and island communities. He has specialty responsibility for Paediatrics in the North and have a major interest in the provision of education to support healthcare in Remote, Rural and Island communities.

Ian StaplesHaving worked as a Community Development and Youth Worker in London in the 1980s, Ian went on to train as a therapeutic counsellor at the University of East London. He worked as a counsellor of students at Universities in London and Edinburgh throughout the 1990s and became involved in teaching counselling and counselling skills. He worked as training manager with Couple Counselling Scotland from 2002 – 2006. Ian joined NES as Development Manager for GP Appraisal in 2006 and is now Project Team Manager for the Medical Appraisal Team. He has a longstanding interest in experiential approaches to communication skills development and individual growth.

Dr Niall Cameron MBChB FRCGP M PhilNiall has been a GP in Govan since 1986 and partner in a 4 doctor practice which has a significant involvement in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

He has been involved with Appraisal since 2003 as an appraiser, lead appraiser for GGHB and currently as National Appraisal Adviser for Medical Appraisal in Scotland employed by NHS Education Scotland. He has responsibility for appraiser training and developing systems to support appraisal and the roll out revalidation across the territorial health Boards. He is also a member of a number of national groups and at UK level concerned with appraisal and revalidation.

Niall also has a role as an Associate Adviser in CPD for NES with a particular interest in communication and consultation skills.

He has co-authored a number of peer reviewed publications in the areas of appraisal and communication skills.

His other areas of interest include medical law, medical ethics and health inequalities.

Professor Kenneth WalkerKenneth Walker is a Colorectal Surgeon in Inverness, and an Associate Postgraduate Dean, with an interest in surgical skills training (technical and non-technical) especially using simulation. Ken chairs the Scottish Surgical Simulation Collaborative, a bicollegiate group (RCSEd and RCPSG) with close ties to NES and various Skills Centres, which has been asked to integrate simulation into surgical training programmes in Scotland. He directs Scottish Surgical Boot Camps, a novel introductory course for Core Surgical Trainees. The University of Stirling have recently awarded him an Honorary Chair of Surgical Training, and he supervises two research fellows. After training in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Sydney, Ken had worked as a surgeon and trainer in Nepal, and he still has an interest in surgery for hard-to-reach populations.

Professor Jean S KerCurrent Post: Professor in Medical Education at the University of Dundee and is the Director of the Clinical Skills Centre

Professor Ker founded the Scottish Clinical Skills Network in 2000. As part of the Scottish Clinical Skills Strategy she was appointed in 2007 as National Clinical Lead in the development of the Scottish Clinical Skills and Simulation Managed Educational Network. She has had the opportunity to work in medical education and primary care development in Kuwait, Bangladesh, Moldova and Latvia on behalf of the World Health Organisation and British Council and University. She has over 90 peer reviewed publications. She has been an invited speaker at over 35 national and international conferences and has raised over £8M in R&D in the last 12 years. She has been recognised at both UK and University level with awards for her teaching and scholarship. She received an ASME Travelling Fellowship in 2012. She currently runs a medical education PhD programme and has introduced a Masters in Simulation Based Education for Safe Clinical Practice as part of faculty development

Dr James TiernanJames currently works as a clinical teaching fellow in NHS Lothian. His clinical background is as a specialty registrar in respiratory and general medicine. Within his current role he has been fortunate to have the opportunity to be involved in various aspects of clinical education and patient safety. His particular area of interest is clinical procedural skills, around which he has been developing a Mastery Programme of postgraduate simulated skills training.

Dr Janet SkinnerJanet graduated from Edinburgh in 1994 and trained in SE Scotland becoming a Consultant in Emergency Medicine in the Royal Infirmary in 2007. During her SpR training she developed an interest in medical education and had some time out of programme to do a Masters and a research fellowship. Within the Emergency Department Janet is the Year 5 Emergency Medicine Module Organiser and a Personal Tutor. Her clinical interests include the management of vulnerable patients in the ED; particularly frequent attenders, the elderly and patients with mental health problems.

The other half of her current post is as Director of Clinical Skills at the University of Edinburgh, leading and co-ordinating undergraduate clinical skills and acute care teaching. She is responsible, with the rest of the clinical skills team, for running the clinical skills and simulation centre in Chancellor’s Building. Janet’s research interests lie in areas such as: preparation for practice, acute care, assessing competence and the role of significant event analysis as a reflective tool.

Janet is particularly interested in the need to get back to basics and focus on improving the delivery of ad hoc clinical teaching and is involved in delivering workshops addressing this area. She also works for NES as the regional champion for the South and East of Scotland as part of the Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network.

Dr Julie SmithJulie Smith is a Specialty Registrar in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in Tayside. She has recently completed a Clinical Education Research Fellow post at the University of Dundee undertaking a PhD in medical education to develop her surgical education interest. Her PhD study explored the development of clinical reasoning in the transition phase between final year medical student and Foundation Doctor. This focused on the role of simulation and workplace-based learning. Julie’s longitudinal multi-centre study spanned 10 NHS Trusts and Health Boards across the UK. She has recently won the New Researcher Award, 2014 from the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) for her work.

Professor Alastair McLellanProfessor Alastair McLellan, Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, West of Scotland Region from August 2012. Co-leader of the Quality work stream (with Ronald MacVicar & Duncan Pollock) for the Scotland Deanery.

Previous NES role – Associate Postgraduate Dean for Core Medical Training 2008 – 2012. Currently also Consultant Endocrinologist, Western Infirmary, Glasgow 1993 – present, with particular interest in bone health & osteoporosis.

Current major interests – joint leadership of StART, Scotland’s Strategy to Attract & Retain Trainees – that seeks to address the challenges in recruitment throughout Scotland, through the commitment and engagement of the StART Alliance. Also joint leadership of the Quality work stream that embraces the challenging remits of Quality Management & Quality Improvement but also Medical ACT as well as the Medical Directorate’s Research activities; with the advent of the Scotland Deanery we have embarked upon the challenging pathway that will craft new single processes for QM & QI for Scotland.

Anne DicksonPrior to taking up post as Deanery General Manager in 2010, Anne was the Directorate Manager for Women & Children’s Health in NHS Fife for 9 years, working with clinicians and managers at local and regional level.Anne was born in Glasgow and attended St Andrews University before training as a Biomedical Scientist in the Blood Transfusion Service in Oxford, where she specialised in antenatal serology while completing her MSc. She subsequently worked part-time for the BTS in Aberdeen, during which time she also completed her legal training.In 1995 Anne was the lead for haematology laboratory services in NHS Western Isles. She joined the NHS National Management Training Scheme in 1997 and worked in Dumfries, Stirling and Edinburgh before taking up post in Fife as the Laboratory Medicine Business Manager in 1999. She was seconded to Strategic Management within NHS Fife and then moved into Women & Children’s Health in 2001, working across acute and primary care.Anne worked on many regional and national groups around children’s services and on the strategic group for maternity services review.

Professor Allan CummingDean of Students, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Professor Cumming graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1975, with an intercalated degree in pathology. He trained in general and renal medicine in Edinburgh and in Canada, and was appointed Senior Lecturer and Consultant Physician, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1989. Research interests have included the pathophysiology of acute renal failure and the role of regulatory peptides in the kidney.

In 1998 he became Associate Dean (Teaching), Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, and led the implementation of a new undergraduate medical curriculum. He became Director of Undergraduate Learning and Teaching for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh in 2002. He was awarded a Personal Chair of Medical Education in 2005. In 2012 he took on the newly-created post of Dean of Students for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Professor Cumming’s recent work has focussed on the definition of learning outcomes/competences for medical programmes, and their application to national and international harmonisation of standards. He leads the Tuning (medicine) Project, which has defined learning outcomes for medical graduates in Europe (www.tuning-medicine.com ). This framework for curriculum development is being implemented in various countries and institutions, including Europe, Africa, and Latin America. He is Chair and Coordinator of the EC-supported Erasmus Academic Network for medical education in Europe, MEDINE2 (www.medine2.com ).

Dr Sarah MillerSarah is a Specialty Doctor in General Medical and Gastroenterology at Hairmyres Hospital Lanarkshire, and also an SAS Dr and Dentist Educational Advisor in NHS Lanarkshire. The Educational Advisors are part of a Managed Educational Network, organised through NHS Education for Scotland as part of the new SAS Development Project. She also been a clinical teaching fellow in Lanarkshire, and have studied Medical Education at Dundee University.

Professor Gary MiresGary Mires is Professor of Obstetrics, Deputy Dean of Medicine and Director of the Medical Education Institute in the School of Medicine, University of Dundee. He is an Honorary Consultant Obstetrician at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee.

He obtained his MBChB and MD from the University of Dundee, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His clinical interest is high risk pregnancy particularly the management of multiple pregnancy and pregnancy complicated by diabetes. His research interests relate to both Obstetrics and Medical Education.

He is Chair of the Scottish Deans Medical Education Group and Honorary Director of E-learning at the RCOG.

Ben GriffithBen Griffith is a Policy Manager at the GMC working in the Education and Standards Directorate.

Ben is responsible for policy and guidance in undergraduate education and is currently reviewing the impact of the 2009 edition of Tomorrow’s Doctors. The review includes commissioning a rapid literature review and original research as well as analysing information collected by the GMC through its quality assurance and registration functions. Ben was involved in the development of the 2009 edition of Tomorrow’s Doctors and the supplementary advice for medical schools issued in 2010 regarding assessment, clinical placements, developing teachers and trainers, and involving patients and the public.

Among other projects, Ben led the GMC’s work in developing arrangements for the recognition of trainers and managed the GMC’s consultation and workshops for this project in 2012. On behalf of the GMC, Ben attends the Academy Assessment Committee and the Stakeholder Group for the development of the Prescribing Safety Assessment.

Dr Liz SpencerLiz is a Consultant Anaesthetist in Gloucestershire and was Director of Medical Education from 1999-2010 establishing the new foundation and specialty training programmes. She is an experienced medical educator and has developed and delivered professional and generic skills workshops for all grades of doctors, such as leadership, communication, mentoring, team training and Peer Appraiser skills. She obtained her diploma in medical education in 2005 from Bristol University and a Certificate in Executive Leadership Coaching from ILM in 2010. She has been on NACT UK Council since 2004, was Chair from 2006-9 and continues as Education Adviser. She created a Faculty Development programme locally and has delivered workshops nationally and internationally on Managing doctors in difficulty and Leadership in Medical Education. She is passionate about supporting and developing doctors and has recently established her own business DoctorsTraining.

John BallattJohn Ballatt has offered consultation and support to individuals, teams and organisations for over 20 years. His practice is enriched by having worked as a practitioner, trainer and manager in social care and the health service, culminating in 6 years as an Executive Director responsible for an operational division, and for trust-wide strategic organisational change, in a large NHS trust. During that time he led several national and regional learning and development initiatives, mainly relating to mental health.

John has worked independently since 2006. In the last few years, he has offered role consultancy to senior clinical and managerial leaders, facilitated the development and implementation of new clinical models and commissioning strategies, supported complex organisational change and worked with senior teams, mainly in the NHS. John is a trained mentor, with extensive training in group dynamics. He is co-author of ‘intelligent kindness: reforming the culture of healthcare’, and has lectured widely on the subject to a wide range of professional, academic and organisational audiences and Government departments.

John is a Partner in the innovative consultancy organization People in Systems – a multi-disciplinary team of specialists committed to supporting the creative integration of the ‘human’, the professional, the organisational and the business factors in health and social care and other settings.

Margaret MurphyFollowing the death of her son as a result of medical error, Margaret Murphy has been actively involved as a patient safety advocate. Margaret is the External Lead Advisor, WHO Patients for Patient Safety (a network of 300 patient safety champions from 52 countries with 19 collaborating organisations).

The focus of her work relates to seeing adverse events as having the potential to be catalysts for change as well as being opportunities for learning, identifying areas for improvement and preventing recurrence. She promotes this viewpoint at local, national and international levels as an invited presenter to conferences, hospital staffs and students. Her area of particular interest is education as a vehicle to achieve sustainable culture change.

Viewed as a resource for including the patient perspective in a variety of initiatives and a range of fora, Margaret has been invited to partner and collaborate in the areas of:

• Policy-making (Commission on Patient Safety & Quality Assurance and implementation steering group; Member HSE National Risk Committee); • Standard-setting (HIQA working group)• Regulation (lay member, Irish Medical Council serving on ethics committee and preliminary proceedings committee), • Education (Lectures to students UCC, Trinity, UHG, Queens)• Research (Collaborator on EU Handover Project, QUASER Project, Assessor final stage applications for NIHR funding for Translation Research Centres in UK).• Conference speaker – often keynote (conferences, seminars, learning sets: (Ireland, UK, Europe, US, Canada, Australia)• Team member critical incident reviews.• Designated as one of seventy ISQua Experts in 2012

Dr Aileen Keel CBE Undergraduate Medical Education at Glasgow University. Postgraduate training and early career in general medicine and haematology. Practised haematology at consultant level in both the NHS and private sector, London, for 6 years, including a career period as Director of Pathology at the Cromwell Hospital. Joined the then Scottish Office Department of Health in 1992 as a Senior Medical Officer. Deputy Chief Medical Officer since 1999. Honorary consultant in haematology at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Chair of the Scottish Cancer Task Force.