Speaker and Session Chair Profiles
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NHS England South Central Medical Directorate Conference ‘Excellence through Innovation and Leadership’ th Wednesday 7 June 2017 Speaker and Session Chair profiles Speaker profiles (alphabetical) Dr Sanjay Agrawal Consultant Respiratory Physician, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester Dr Sanjay Agrawal is a Consultant in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester and is Chair of the BTS Tobacco Specialist Advisory Group. In 2016 the British Thoracic Society undertook the first comprehensive UK wide smoking cessation audit in hospitals, providing valuable new data on the treatment of sick smokers and smoking cessation services in the UK. Dr Shahed Ahmad Medical Director, NHS England South Central Shahed is the Responsible Officer for the 3200 NHS GPs in South Central. Appointed to the Medical Director role in August 2016, Shahed is also the NHS England South Central director lead for the Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer function and Clinical Programmes and Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Networks and Senate. Shahed trained at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London. He obtained his MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and did his leadership training at the London Business School. Shahed’s training in public health included working at the Kings Fund and CDSC Colindale. Shahed is an experienced NHS Director, performing director posts in PCTs since 2002. Shahed was the lead director in his PCT for Fitness for Purpose and producing the Commissioning Strategy Plan. Shahed has benefitted in his career from the advice and mentoring of others and has a strong commitment to workforce and leadership training. He has taken innovative approaches, including negotiating for an NHS team to be trained as Six Sigma green belts (free of charge) by a major car manufacturer. At the time of public health transition to local government, Shahed led on a leadership development programme for Public Health Consultants in London. In 2008, Shahed led for London on the rollout of Vascular Risk Assessment, and London achieved the fastest rollout in the country. He led for London ADPH on the London Cancer Board and Primary Care Transformation Board. Shahed chaired the London Hypertension Leadership Group and is a member of the PHE national Blood Pressure System Leadership Board. Shahed’s passion is to improve the health outcomes of the populations he serves. In both Newham and Enfield, he led evidence based programmes that led to reduction in mortality and improvements in life expectancy which were amongst the fastest in the region. Dominique Allwood Senior Improvement Fellow, Health Foundation and Consultant in Public Health Medicine Dominique is a Senior Improvement Fellow at the Heath Foundation leading aspects of the Q initiative. She also works part time in NHS organisations supporting quality improvement and capability development. Dominique has been working as a doctor in the NHS for 13 years and is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine. She is passionate about quality improvement, clinical leadership and development. Dominique was named one of HSJ’s Rising Stars in 2015. Monique Audifferen Thames Valley Cancer Alliance Manager Monique is the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance Manager. Monique joined the NHS in 2008 as a Service Development Manager before taking on the role of Offender Health Commissioning Manager. She has extensive experience in service development, and programme and strategic change management having worked in both the public and private sectors. In her current role of Cancer Alliance Manager she is responsible for planning, developing and implementing an evidence-based programme of improvements using new approaches to service delivery that are meaningful and more accessible to cancer patients and/or their carers across Thames Valley. Monique believes an important aspect to her role is ensuring the relationships; clinical engagement and patient participation that have been developed and maintained over many years by the former Cancer Network are sustained and enhanced. Dr Berge Balian GP Medical Director, Symphony Healthcare Services Dr Berge Balian qualified from St Thomas's Hospital medical school (London) in 1990 and completed the GP training scheme based around Yeovil District Hospital (YDH) in 1995. He has been a full time GP at Crewkerne Health Centre in Somerset for the past 21 years. Dr Balian has held a number of leadership roles during his career, including being a member of the Somerset LMC for the past 21 years with four year periods as Chair and Vice Chair, three years as Associate Medical Director for Primary Care at Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and chairing the Symphony Programme Board (the South Somerset PACS Vanguard project) for the first 18 months. He is currently Medical Director of Symphony Healthcare Services, a Primary Care organisation established by YDH Foundation Trust, into which an increasing number of GP practices are integrating. He continues to work two days per week in his GP practice and remains an LMC representative for his local area. Dr Barbara Barrie GP and End of Life Network Lead, Thames Valley SCN Barbara graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 MBChB; MRCGP 1994; Diploma in Palliative Medicine (Cardiff) 2005. She worked as a GP for 20 years, and is currently a Partner at Pangbourne Medical Practice. She previously worked as Hospital Practitioner at Duchess of Kent House in Reading and as GP with Special Interest (Palliative Medicine) at West Berks Community Hospital. She is currently working with Berks West CCGs Federation Steering Group and has been End of Life Lead since 2008. She is also a Macmillan GP Facilitator for Berkshire since 2011 and Thames Valley SCN EOL Lead (Generalist) since Jan 2014. Elizabeth Beech Prescribing Advisor and National Project Lead - Healthcare Acquired Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance, NHS Improvement, NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG Elizabeth Beech trained as a pharmacist and has worked in variety of organisations throughout the NHS, in many different clinical roles including academia and research. Elizabeth is currently seconded to the Patient Safety team in NHS Improvement as a national project lead (England) for Antimicrobial Resistance. She also works for NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG as a prescribing advisor, where she also leads AMR, AKI and safer care culture work programmes. This includes ToDipOrNotToDip, a QI programme to improve the management of UTI in care homes which now has a growing community of interest managed via Slack. She is proud to be part of the Q community. Jonathan Berry Policy Development Lead, Person Centred Care, NHS England Jonathan Berry joined NHS England’s Person Centred Care team in November 2015 where he leads on policy development with regard to Health Literacy and Shared Decision Making. Prior to this he worked in the national voluntary sector for an organisation which specialises in delivering Health Literacy programmes in deprived communities, raising practitioner awareness about the impacts of low health literacy, user testing health information with people who have lower levels of health literacy and lobbying policy makers to ensure that health literacy is central to health and other government policies. He has an extensive health background which includes developing and project managing the development of the national Health Literacy Programme, Skilled for Health, on behalf of the Department of Health and the Department for Education. Before that, he worked in the NHS for 10 years where, among other things, he set up the PALS service and the Expert Patient Programme. His background is in policy development, implementing policy, partnership working, quality improvement, change management, project management, training and advocacy. He has an MA in Applied Health Studies and was recently trained in Mental Health First Aid. Dr Jonathan Bickford GP, Broadmoor Hospital I have been a GP in Oxford since 2001. A longstanding interest in mental health led to a position at Littlemore Mental Health Centre addressing the physical health of inpatients. From 2015 I commenced a similar role at Broadmoor Hospital and from last year I became the clinical lead for physical health for West London Mental Health NHS Trust. Patients who experience mental ill health have significantly higher rates of morbidity and mortality than the wider population, typically dying in their 50s and 60s. This is one of the greatest health inequalities that exists within the NHS. My work at the frontline to address this lies within forensic settings as this population has particular challenges accessing a dedicated physical health service. However it is my view that reducing the inequality more widely requires developments in education, commissioning, research and innovation. The opportunity to vary my career and to address an area in which I feel passionately promotes my resilience at a time of challenge for primary care. Not that we should need to seek empowerment, my role further shows how GPs have a vital role in various settings of service provision. Dr William Bird MBE GP in Reading, Chief Executive and Founder of Intelligent Health Dr William Bird MBE is a family GP and founder and CEO of Intelligent Health. His schemes have got over two million people more active and he is passionate in getting the NHS to use physical activity as a treatment. He founded Intelligent Health to provide ways to integrate physical activity into health and wellbeing, from Green Gyms and GP training to helping develop whole city physical activity strategies engaging both adults and children. Through Intelligent Health, William has helped develop physical activity strategies and inspired communities across the UK, Europe and worldwide to become physically active through expertly delivered, gamified campaigns. William is a member of PA Strategy Board for PH England and advises WHO and PH Wales. He is co- editor of the Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health, and BBC Wildlife magazine recently voted him one of UK’s top 30 influential conservationists.