Speakers and Faculty for National Academic Foundation Program Conference.
Prof Jane Norman Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bristol. Keynote speaker “My career in academia – the rewards of research and an unexpected destination” Jane graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1986 and trained in research and in clinical practice in Edinburgh and Glasgow. For the last 30 years, her translational research programme has investigated factors responsible for the initiation of normal parturition and developed strategies for the prevention of preterm birth and stillbirth. Jane’s previous roles include Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow, Director of the Edinburgh Tommy’s Centre for Maternal and Fetal Health and Vice Principal People and Culture at the University of Edinburgh. She moved to the University of Bristol in August 2019.
Dr Liz Coulthard Associate Professor in Dementia Neurology, Bristol Medical School Keynote speaker “How I ReMemBr the reward of sleep” Liz is a dementia neurologist in Bristol. After clinical training in Oxford, London and Newcastle, she did a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at University College London. She runs clinics in dementia and Huntington’s disease and leads the ReMemBr research group. Her research focuses on interventional trials in early Alzheimer’s disease as well as understanding the role of dopamine in long term memory and sleep.
Prof Esther Crawley Professor of Child Health, Bristol Medical School Session: Resilience and Wellbeing for Academics and Clinicians Esther Crawley is a Professor of Child Health at the University of Bristol, a Consultant Paediatrician and Director of the Centre for Academic Child Health. She is the clinical lead for the Bath specialist CFS/ME service for children based at the Royal United Hospital in Bath. Esther leads a research team which investigates the epidemiology and treatment of CFS/ME in children and adults. Her team have developed expertise in delivering complex hard-to-do trials. Esther trained in Oxford, did her PhD in London and lives in Bristol when she is not sailing or skiing with her teenagers.
Dr Katherine Finucane Director of Medical Education, North Bristol NHS Trust. Session: Resilience and Wellbeing for Academics and Clinicians Katherine trained in Oxford coming out with a medical degree and a rowing blue, and is still a doctor and still a rower. She worked as a GP for 10 years before moving to dermatology and is now an associate specialist and chair of the skin cancer MDT. As DME at NBT, she oversees training for 450 trainees across many specialities which includes facilitating the development of a support faculty and training educational and clinical supervisors. She has developed quality improvement training for foundation doctors and facilitate simulation training including the opening of a new simulation suite.
Bristol 2020 Speakers and Faculty for National Academic Foundation Program Conference.
Dr Rebecca Aspinall Director of Medical Education, University Hospitals Bristol. Session: Resilience and Wellbeing for Academics and Clinicians Rebecca is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Director of Medical Education at UHBFT. She qualified from Kings College Hospital, London in 1988. In 2010 she introduced the week-long shadowing for new doctors in Bristol which subsequently was adopted nationally by the DOH and published by the BMJ. Her programme of pastoral support for young doctors has been advocated by the GMC as an example of Best Practice and her recently released webapp resource www.mysupportt.com has been adopted nationally by Health Education England.
Prof Jonathan Barratt College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester Workshop: Getting Funded Jonathan leads the Renal Research Group whose research is focused on a bench to bedside approach to improving our understanding of the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy, a common global cause of kidney failure. He is the IgA nephropathy Rare Disease Group lead for the UK National Registry of Rare Kidney Diseases (RaDaR) and a member of the steering committee for the International IgA Nephropathy Network. He is Chief Investigator for a number of international randomised controlled clinical trials in IgA nephropathy and works closely with industry. For the past 10 years he has led the Integrated Clinical Academic Training Programme in the East Midlands.
Dr Anna Murray Associate Professor of Human Genetics, University of Exeter Workshop 4: Scientific Writing for Publication Anna is an Associate Professor in Exeter, who specialises in reproductive genetics. Anna also leads the Masters Programme in Genomic Medicine and is involved in teaching on the undergraduate BMBS and BSc Medical Science Programmes. She runs regular workshops on scientific writing, using methods and licensed materials developed by Tim Albert. She has written over 170 papers and has an H index of 52. Anna trained as a molecular biologist in Southampton, is married and has a teenage daughter and a springer spaniel.
Prof Paul Baker Deputy Postgraduate Dean, Health Education England working across the North West Workshop 3: Leaders’ Round Table Paul is responsible for the large North West of England School of Foundation Training and Physician Associates. He has a special interest in Quality Management of training and empathy in trainees. He is a fellow a fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, General Practitioners and the Academy of Medical Educators, where he is a council member. He is also vice chair and academic lead for the national School Directors committee of UKFPO.
Bristol 2020 Speakers and Faculty for National Academic Foundation Program Conference.
Prof Debbie Sharp OBE Professor of Primary Health Care, Bristol Medical School Workshop: Leaders’ Round Table Debbie set up the Bristol Academic Foundation Programme after being a member of the original Walport committee. She is currently Head of the School of Clinical Academic training at the Severn Deanery. She took up the foundation chair in Primary Health Care in Bristol in 1994, the first woman to be appointed to a substantive chair in medicine in Bristol and built up a world-class department over the next sixteen years. She takes an active role in the career development and mentoring of academic trainees.
Dr Alethea Peters AFP, University of Bristol and North Bristol NHS Trust Workshop: Getting onto the Academic Foundation Programme Ali is a current academic F2 in Severn with an interest in Anaesthetics and Critical Care. She has taken a rather circuitous route to medicine, initially doing a masters in Natural Sciences at Cambridge before working in NHS management. This included two years in Newcastle on the NHS Management Graduate Scheme whilst also studying for a Masters in Leadership and Service Improvement in healthcare. It was during this time she decided to do medicine and moved down south to study at Oxford. After a great varied year at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, she is now thoroughly enjoying her research block and hopes to continue research with an ACF in the future.
Dr Mike Ambler GW4 Wellcome Trust Clinical research fellow, University of Bristol Workshop: Developing an academic career Mike is an intensive care trainee with an interest in autonomic neurophysiology and therapeutic hypothermia. He has, on paper at least, followed a fairly textbook route through the clinical academic path: academic foundation program, core training, then academic clinical fellow. He is currently in the final throes of a PhD as a Wellcome-funded research fellow in Physiology, Pharmacology, & Neuroscience at the University of Bristol. En route he has dabbled with a few different research topics, and moved from London to Bristol, to London (via South Africa), and back to Bristol.
Dr Anna Bibby Respiratory Consultant, North Bristol NHS Trust NIHR Research Fellow, University of Bristol Workshop: Developing an academic career Anna trained at the University of Bristol and completed her junior doctor training in the Severn Deanery. In the spirit of following a varied career, she found herself doing an AF2 job in the first year they were available. However, she got distracted by sunnier climes and spent much of her registrar years alternating between the UK and Africa, working for Medicins sans Frontieres and other Non-Government Organisations in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mozambique and Malawi. Since becoming a consultant she has returned to academia, doing an NIHR-funded PhD in thoracic malignancy alongside her role as Clinical Lead for Lung Cancer at North Bristol Trust.
Bristol 2020 Speakers and Faculty for National Academic Foundation Program Conference.
Prof Nick Cooper University of Plymouth: Faculty of Health: Peninsula Medical School Workshop: Academic Development and scholarship beyond research Nick has practiced as a GP in Totnes, Devon for more than 35 years and has worked at various levels in medical education, with key roles in the development of The Peninsula Medical School in 2001. In the last 20 years he has been involved in the development of postgraduate programmes in medical/clinical education, management and leadership, and Academic Foundation Lead, Peninsula Foundation School and is a Director and Member of Council of The Academy of Medical Educators.
Dr Clare van Hamel Consultant Anaesthetist, Associate Post Graduate Dean and Head of Severn Foundation School, Clinical Advisor to the UKFPO. Workshop: Leaders’ Round Table Clare chairs the UKFPO Curriculum Delivery Group which is responsible for core content of the e-portfolio; she is also the lead for the Foundation Doctors Advisory Board (FDAB). Her main interests have been in developing the F1 induction programme and research relating to foundation doctors preparedness to practice. The National Foundation Doctors Presentation Day has been delivered by Clare and her team since 2011.
Dr Angus Jones NIHR Clinician Scientist & Honorary Consultant Physician Workshop: Scientific Writing for Publication Angus is an Academic Endocrinologist in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. He trained in medicine in London and worked in Southampton, Malawi and Southwest England before developing a late interest in research through an NIHR Academic Fellowship, followed by subsequent Doctoral and Clinician Scientist Fellowships at the University of Exeter. His current research focusses on classification and treatment stratification in diabetes, work that includes prospective studies running across over 50 UK centres, analysis of electronic healthcare record and trial data, and development of clinical prediction models. He co-leads a program of research and capacity building (NIHR Global Health Group) focused on the diagnosis and management of diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa. He leads for research in the Academic Foundation Programme in Peninsula.
Prof Tony Pickering Professor of Neuroscience & Anaesthesia, University of Bristol. Workshop: Getting onto the Academic Foundation Programme Tony is an Anaesthetist and Pain clinician and his academic interests lie in neuroscience. He is a Geordie expat who has been exiled in the South West for 20 years. He leads a research group with interests in both fundamental neurobiology and experimental medicine. His career started before 'Walport' was born when an academic training was a pick and mix of opportunities. He did his PhD while still at Med School in Birmingham, was a Wellcome Trust funded clinical research fellow for a decade and his team's research is currently also funded by MRC, BBSRC and NIH. To try to make amends for his own haphazard career path he leads the Academic Foundation Programme in Severn.
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