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Dr. Chris Harvey
Consultant Radiologist, Hammersmith Hospital
Dr. Harvey qualified from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and is
a consultant at Hammersmith Hospital.
He is a highly experienced MRCP Clinical teacher, having lectured regularly
on MRCP Clinical courses for over 15 years. He has coauthored a self assessment imaging book for MRCP.
Dr. David
Holdsworth Cardiology Registrar, Oxford Deanery
After taking a Double First Class degree in Natural Sciences (Physiology) at Cambridge, Dr Holdsworth graduated
from Oxford University Medical School, winning the University Gibb’s Prize for Medicine.
He is currently
working as a cardiology registrar in the Oxford deanery, at Northampton General Hospital. He has a particular interest in
peri-arrest echocardiography. Dr Holdsworth is a regular faculty member and sits on the steering committee for the new UK-based
peri-arrest echocardiography system FEEL-UK©. Dr Holdsworth has
a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and recently worked as a physician at the UK Field Hospital in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan
He is passionate about clinical training
and teaches on a variety of courses. He has tutored in pre-clinical and clinical medicine at Oxford since 2003 and currently
has a non-stipendiary lectureship as a clinical tutor in medicine.
Dr Matthew Huggett Clinical Research Fellow,
UCL Institute of Hepatology, London
Dr Huggett qualified
from Southampton University in 2003 and moved to London in 2006 to join the NE Thames rotation in Gastroenterology. In 2009
he became a Clinical Research Fellow in Pancreaticobiliary Medicine at UCL where he is studying for a PhD. His main research
interests are DNA replication licensing in pancreatic cancer and biliary interventional endoscopy.
He enjoys teaching and as well as teaching
for PassPACES he also participates in the PACES course at UCH.
Dr John Ioannou Senior
Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at University College London Hospital.
Dr Ioannou qualified at the Royal London Hospital in 1994 and undertook
his specialist registrar training within the North Thames Deanery, during which time he also attained a PhD. His clinical
and research specialist interests lie in the field of autoimmunity, notably lupus and the antiphospholipid syndrome and also
in the emerging field of adolescent / young adult rheumatology.
He has wealth of experience as a regular lecturer
on clinical MRCP courses, having commenced lecturing shortly after attaining his MRCP in 1997.
Dr Tevfik Ismail
Specialist
Registrar in Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Northwest Thames rotation
Dr Ismail graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary’s with numerous honours,
academic prizes and distinctions, and proxime accessit to the University of London Medal. Following
SHO training at the Royal Brompton Hospital, he became a Specialist Registrar in Cardiology and General Internal Medicine
on the Northwest Thames rotation. He has
a keen interest in medical education and has successfully tutored hundreds of medical students and SHOs for undergraduate
exams and the MRCP PACES. He has also devised and run the Undergraduate final year cardiology teaching programme at Northwick
Park Hospital as well as teaching on numerous courses for PACES and revision courses for Undergraduate finals. In addition
to contributing to the in-house lecture and seminar programmes in the hospitals he has worked in, he has devoted a great deal
of time to organising and delivering bedside PACES teaching. His experience, competence and boundless enthusiasm for teaching
are conveyed on our courses and have been acknowledged by repeated positive feedback from candidates.
Dr. Alamgir Kabir Consultant Cardiologist, Essex Cardiothoracic
Centre, Basildon
Dr. Kabir is a Consultant Cardiologist and has specialised in interventional cardiology,
pacing and adult congenital heart disease at the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre. His has an interest in structural intervention.
He is dually accredited in cardiology and general internal medicine. He was awarded a PhD in cardiology for his work on ischaemic
preconditioning in 2006.
He enjoys and has a strong commitment to clinical teaching. He has been teaching for MRCP since 1999.
Dr. Arvind Kaul
Consultant in
Rheumatology and Acute Medicine, The Royal Free Hospital, London
Dr Kaul qualified from Bart’s and The Royal London Hospital
Medical School in 1997 having previously completed his Ph.D. at The London Hospital Medical College.
He completed
his SpR training in Rheumatology in the South Thames region, working at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ and St. George’s
Hospitals.
He was appointed as a Consultant in Rheumatology and Acute Medicine at The Royal Free Hospital in 2007.
His special clinical interests are Connective Tissue Diseases and Psoriatic Arthritis. His research interest is cardiovascular
risk and vascular biology in rheumatic diseases.
Dr. Richard Lee NIHR Academic Clinical
Fellow in Respiratory Medicine, South East Thames rotation
Dr. Lee graduated
from Cambridge University and the Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine and is now an NIHR academic
clinical fellow training in Respiratory medicine on a South East Thames rotation.
He is an enthusiastic lecturer, adept at engaging the
candidates' focus to that required to pass PACES.
Dr Guy Leschziner
Consultant Neurologist, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals
Having qualified from Oxford and St Mary’s in 1998, Dr Leschziner
completed a medical rotation at Guy’s and St Thomas’. Following a year as a medical registrar, he undertook a
PhD in epilepsy genetics and pharmacogenetics at Imperial College and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge. He trained
in neurology at Imperial, Guy's and St Thomas' and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, with neuro-ophthalmology
experience at both St Thomas’ and Moorfields hospitals. He is now a consultant neurologist at Guy's and St Thomas',
with specialist clinics in sleep neurology and epilepsy and a nationally commissioned complex neurocutaneous service.
He is heavily involved in teaching both undergraduates and graduates, with extensive experience in bed-side, lecture-, seminar-based
teaching and as an examiner, at UCLH, Imperial, Guy’s, King’s, St Thomas’ medical schools. He has been teaching
on MRCP courses for a number of years.
Dr. Myles Lewis Specialist Registrar in Rheumatology, Hammersmith Hospital.
After graduating with first-degree
honours in pre-clinical medicine at Cambridge University, Dr Lewis trained at Oxford University. Since that time he has trained
at several central London teaching hospitals, particularly at St Thomas' where his interest in Lupus and Rheumatology
was initiated. He is currently completing a PhD at the Hammersmith Hospital.
He has extensive teaching experience on PACES courses at Guy's, Hammersmith and Lewisham hospitals, as well
as lecturing undergraduates in both clinical rheumatology and scientific fields. Having been Examining registrar for the PACES
examination at Lewisham, he has first hand experience of how an actual PACES exam is set up, examined and marked.
Dr. Shameer Mehta Specialist Registrar in Gastroenterology and General
Medicine, North East Thames Rotation
Dr. Mehta qualified from Guy’s King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine in 2003. He obtained
an intercalated BSc in Molecular Medicine in 2000. After gaining excellent clinical experience on the Barts and The London
Medical SHO Rotation, he entered specialist training in Gastroenterology and General Medicine in 2007 on the North East Thames
Rotation and has developed a special interest in the inflammatory bowel diseases and medical education.
His commitment to teaching throughout his career has been unwavering:
he has prepared candidates for the PACES examination for over 5 years, has regularly taught on a variety of formal courses
and is an undergraduate OSCE examiner. He has been responsible for the set up and delivery of teaching programmes for both
PACES candidates and medical students. His lively, enthusiastic and inclusive approach to teaching has led to excellent structured
feedback from candidates and he hopes to continue to gain as much from them as they do from him.
Dr Michael Nandakumar
General Practitioner
Dr Nandakumar graduated
from the University of Birmingham in 2003.
He gained experience in a variety of medical
specialties including haematology, cardiology and genitourinary medicine before qualifying as a GP in 2008. He has
special interests in dermatology and acute medicine and is currently undertaking the Cardiff Postgraduate Diploma
in Practical Dermatology.
He has been teaching candidates for PACES since 2006.
His diverse educational experience also includes a senior editor position for InnovAiT, the monthly journal from the Royal College of General Practitioners, and role
as a GP trainer.
The
combination of his MRCP and general practice experience has particularly helped an ever increasing number of
GP specialty registrars who choose to sit the PACES examination.
With Rupa Bessant, he has recently written the Communication
Skills and Ethics chapter of a popular PACES revision book.
Dr. Julian Nash
Consultant Rheumatologist,
University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
Dr. Nash qualified from the University
Hospital of Wales College of Medicine in 1990. He obtained a PhD in the immunology of SLE from Imperial
College of Medicine and Technology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School Hammersmith Hospital. He trained
in North Thames deanery and was dually accredited in Rheumatology and General medicine in 2002. He was
a consultant at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore for 3 years before moving to his current post as a Consultant
Rheumatologist at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in 2006.
As well as lecturing for PassPACES
Julian has previously taught extensively on other MRCP courses, at both part I and part II level, for companies including
123Doc, Onexamination.com and Pastest, as well as on courses locally in Wales. He previously ran the CliniPass MRCP clinical
course in London with two colleagues. Dr Nash has also edited a book for the basic sciences in MRCP part I.
Dr Elena NikiphorouRheumatology Specialist Registrar, Eastern Deanery
Dr
Nikiphorou graduated from University College London (UCL) in 2004 and is currently a Rheumatology Research Registrar, undertaking
her MD at UCL. She obtained a First Class Honours for her Intercalated BSc in Physiology in 2002, as well as a British
Pharmacological Society Award and a Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship for her BSc Research on Mineralocorticoid Receptors.
Having completed a diverse medical rotation as an SHO, including Cardiology at The Royal Brompton Hospital, Renal medicine
at The Hammersmith and The Royal London Hospitals, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Infectious diseases and Acute Medicine at
Charing Cross Hospital, she has been well-equipped with the credentials necessary for delivering teaching for MRCP examinations.
She has been actively involved in the teaching
and organising of revision courses for Imperial College and University College London medical students, and participates as
an examiner on the Final MBBS at Queen Mary’s School of Medicine. She delivers regular bedside PACES
teaching to SHOs at various London and Eastern Deanery hospitals.
Her enthusiasm and commitment to medical education has led her to undertake
a Medical Education Training Program in association with the University of Dundee, and has successfully completed the Postgraduate
Certificate in Medical Education.
Dr Anna Nuttall Rheumatology Specialist
Registrar, North London Rotation
Dr Anna Nuttall qualified
from Jesus College Oxford with an MA in Physiological Sciences (and a half blue in Ballroom Dancing); followed by an
Honours MBBS from Imperial College London.
She completed an MD (Res) thesis 'The Role of the Epidermis in Pathogenesis of Systemic Sclerosis' at UCL in
2010.
She has several years of experience
teaching PACES.
Dr Bill Oldfield
Consultant
in Respiratory Medicine, St. Mary’s and Royal Brompton Hospitals
Dr Bill Oldfield had
a miss-spent youth training initially in Pharmacology and subsequently in Human and Applied Physiology at King’s College
whilst climbing whenever possible. He then trained in Medicine at St. George’s Hospital, London and
was later appointed to the North-West Thames Rotation in Respiratory Medicine. During this time he completed
a PhD at the National Heart and Lung Institute and trained in General Respiratory Medicine with sub-specialty interests in
initially Allergy and subsequently Critical Care. He was appointed as Consultant in Respiratory Medicine
in 2003 to St. Mary’s Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital and currently works at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
as Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and Lead Clinician for High Dependency Medicine.
He continues to teach; he is responsible for Foundation Years teaching in Respiratory Failure and Critical
Care and also undertakes regular small group PACES Teaching. He personally failed Membership numerous times
and, due to this experience, has, so far, prevented any of his tutees suffering the same fate with a near 100% pass rate from
his candidates.
Dr Marlies Ostermann
Consultant in Critical Care and Nephrology at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London.
Dr Ostermann is very interested in teaching and holds a postgraduate degree in Medical
Education.
In her role as Royal College Tutor she teaches on a regular basis and also organises
the Core Medical Training program at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital.
Dr. Andrew PinkAcademic Registrar in Dermatology, St. John's Institute of Dermatology in
London.
Dr. Pink trained at
Nottingham Medical School and graduated with a BMedSci(Hons) and BMBS. He continued his training at the Royal Surrey County
Hospital, Guy's Hospital and St. Thomas' Hospital.
He is currently an Academic Registrar in Dermatology at the prestigious St. John's Institute
of Dermatology in London.
Dr. Pink intends to pursue an academic
career in Dermatology and maintain his interest in research and teaching.
Dr. Katharine PinkSpecialist Registrar in Neurology,
Atkinson Morley (St George's Hospital), London
After traversing
the Irish Sea to study at Nottingham Medical School Dr. Pink developed an early interest in Neurology and elected to spend
six months doing research in Neuro-anaesthesia. She presented this work at three national conferences, published in peer reviewed
journals and was awarded a National Prize. She has completed a competitive, varied medical rotation, which provided her with
a thorough grounding in general medicine, and equipped her with the knowledge and experience necessary to teach for the MRCP
examinations. The highlights included Intensive Care at St Thomas' Hospital and Neurology/Stroke Medicine, which further
fuelled her desire to pursue a career in Neurology.
She is an enthusiastic educationalist and is actively involved
in lecturing/examining at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Medical School. She is an Associate Royal College of Physicians
Tutor.
Dr. Nick Powell
Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow at King’s College London
Dr Powell graduated from Birmingham
University Medical School in 2001, before moving to London to train in internal medicine. He joined the North West Thames
specialist registrar program in gastroenterology in 2005. He is currently a Wellcome Trust clinical research fellow at King’s
College London and also holds an honorary clinical lectureship at Bart’s and the London School of Medicine, and continues
to hold a clinical contract at Imperial College NHS Trust where he has worked for the past 5 years.
His research
interests concern immune regulation of intestinal inflammation. He also continues to pursue research interests in clinical
gastroenterology and endoscopy. Most of his time in the lab is spent trying to avoid nephrologists (with whom he shares the
immunology lab) who still think the abdomen only exists to house the kidneys, ignorant to the infinite complexity of the liver
and elegance of small bowel motility. Dr Powell has been teaching
PACES since 2005, where he cynically shares his gift of conveying competence in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the
contrary!
Dr Simon Quantrill Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine, Whipps Cross University Hospital, London.
Dr Quantrill qualified from Manchester Medical School in 1989 and has been a consultant since 2001.
He later obtained a Master´s Degree in Medical Education, studying whilst running a course for overseas doctors at The
Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College.
He was Director
of Medical Education and Foundation Training Programme Director at Whipps Cross for 3 years, and is currently Training
Programme Director for the North East Thames Respiratory Specialist Registrar Rotation.
Dr. Jonathan Rohrer Clinical
Research Fellow in Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Dr. Rohrer studied at Cambridge, Oxford and University College London before his junior doctor training in
London. He has a PhD from the UCL Institute of Neurology in the field of neuroimaging in dementia and has published over 50
papers in the field.
He was the Chairman of the Young Fellows Committee of the Royal Society of Medicine and has
been involved in organizing many educational meetings for junior doctors including running a teaching skills course.
He has been teaching MRCP for a number of years and has lectured on
Part 1, Part 2 and PACES.
He is the lead author of "Neurology for MRCP" published by Imperial College
Press.
Dr. Fergus Rugg-Gunn
Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London.
Dr. Rugg-Gunn trained
at Guys and St Thomas's Hospital Medical schools. He undertook his Neurology training in Oxford and at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery,
Queen Square. He was awarded a PhD for his research in Advanced MRI techniques in epilepsy, carried out at the Institute of
Neurology, Queen Square, in 2002. He became a Consultant Neurologist at Queen Square in 2006.
He has been actively involved in MRCP Clinical teaching for 7 years.
Dr
Kate Shiell Consultant Nephrologist at St
Helier Hospital, South London
Dr Shiell graduated from Sheffield Medical School in 1994 and has worked in most
medical specialities, including a six-month stint as a GP Registrar before finally discovering her passion for Renal Medicine.
She is a Consultant Nephrologist at St Helier Hospital, South London and has a specialist interest in dialysis and CKD management.
She is currently undertaking the Royal College of Physicians 'Physicians as Educators' course and has always
enjoyed clinical teaching, seeing students develop skills and knowledge needed not only for the MRCP exam but also for their
longer term future as doctors.
Mr Alex Shortt NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Ophthalmology, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology, Moorfields
Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London.
Dr Shortt graduated MB BCh (1st Class Honours) from University College Dublin Medical School in 1999.
He immediately studied for an MSc in Physiology (1st Class Honours) and then began his postgraduate training in ophthalmology
at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He passed his MRCOphth examinations in 2003 being awarded the Crombie and Harcourt medals
for the highest mark in the examinations.
He studied
for a PhD in Ophthalmology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields between 2004 and 2007. He investigated novel
cell therapy for corneal limbal stem cell deficiency and tested the hypothesis that the limbal epithelial stem cell niche
has a specialised structure and that an understanding of this may lead to improvements in outcomes and understanding of this
therapy. Dr Shortt is continuing his training as a clinician scientist and is currently undertaking postdoctoral research
in the field of cellular therapy of corneal disease.
Dr
Penelope SmithConsultant in Acute Medicine & Infectious Diseases, Royal Free Hospital, London
Dr Smith graduated from University of
Queensland, Australia, in 1992 since which time she has worked and travelled widely. She completed MRCP in London in 1996,
followed by FRACP examinations in Australia in 2000. She has completed an MSc in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, and
laboratory research interests include innate immunity of viral infections.
After completing her SpR rotation in North Thames in G(I)M and Infectious Diseases, she was appointed
to a Consultant post at the Royal Free Hospital in 1997. In her current post she plays an active role in the development of
departmental teaching programmes and is committed to ensuring that junior doctor training programmes incorporate high quality
teaching within the acute hospital setting.
She has been
teaching on Part 1, Part 2 and PACES courses across London for 8 years.
Dr. Ajay SuriSpecialist Registrar in Cardiology, North-East Thames rotation
Dr. Suri graduated from King’s College Hospital in 2001 and is currently
a Cardiology Specialist Registrar in The North-East Thames Training Program. He is currently undertaking his training at The
London Heart Hospital. He has a strong commitment to clinical teaching.
He has undertaken a Masters in Medical Education and has also been responsible for organising MRCP
PACES teaching at UCL Hospital.
Dr.
Daniel Tan
Specialist Registrar in Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore / Royal Marsden Hospital,
Sutton.
Dr. Tan qualified from Barts and the Royal London Hospital and obtained
First Class Honours for his intercalated B.Sc. in Tumour Biology from UCL. He commenced his medical training at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital and subsequently Singapore General Hospital, and is presently in the midst of oncology specialty
training at the National Cancer Centre Singapore and The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK. His area of interest
is in translational early phase oncology clinical trials.
He is an active MRCP tutor both in Singapore and London.
Dr David Tan Specialist Registrar in Medical Oncology at the
Royal Marsden Hospital
Dr David Tan trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and graduated with a First Class Honours
Intercalated BSc in Experimental Pathology and MBBS with Distinction in 2001. He trained in General Medicine at Hammersmith, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and was awarded a Cancer
Research UK Clinical Research Fellowship for his PhD at the Institute of Cancer Research in 2005. He is currently a
Specialist Registrar in Medical Oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital with clinical and research interests in breast and
gynaecological cancer.
He
has a strong commitment to clinical teaching and has been involved in tutoring candidates for the PACES exam since 2005.
Dr Peter Taylor Welsh Clinical Academic Trainee, Centre for Endocrine and Diabetes Sciences, Cardiff University School of Medicine
Dr Taylor graduated from the Universities
of St.Andrews and Manchester. He worked in Edinburgh before commencing training in Diabetes and Endocrinology in the Severn
Deanery. His main medical interests are Graves Disease, Hypothyroidism, Thyroid Cancer and managing hyperglycaemia in sepsis.
He has carried out research into the prognostic role of Thyroid receptor
antibody response to treatment in Graves Disease and is currently undertaking a PhD in combined T3 T4 therapy in hypothyroidism
and effect on depression.
Dr. Robert Thomas Specialist Registrar
in Radiology, Guys and St Thomas' University Hospital, London.
Dr. Thomas qualified
from St Bartholomew's and The Royal London School of Medicine in 2003 and completed a general medical rotation with membership
to the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP(Lond)) in 2006. Leaving a medical registrar position in 2007 he joined Guys and St
Thomas' University Hospital as a specialist registrar in Radiology.
He became a fellow of the Royal College of Radiology (FRCR) in 2010. Working as a general radiologist he has a
special interest in oncological interventional radiology.
He has a strong interest in academic medicine and medical education.
Dr. Jenny Vaughan
Consultant Neurologist, Imperial College Healthcare and Ealing Hospital NHS Trusts
Dr. Vaughan is a Consultant Neurologist with a particular interest in Movement disorders and Neuro-genetics.
She has an extensive teaching commitment and experience of
over 10 years MRCP Clinical Teaching. As well as lecturing for PassPACES she is a Course Director for the Ealing Neuro-ophthalmology
course.
She enjoys teaching and personally gains satisfaction from seeing doctors perform
well and pass their examinations.
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