Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Dr Chris Packham

Professor Chris Whitty

Professor Sir Stephen Holgate

Clinical professor of immunopharmacology and honorary consultant physician, University Hospital Southampton

Professor Sir Stephen Holgate researches the mechanisms and treatment of asthma, with over 1,000 research publications and a citation h index of 188. He is a past president of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, British Thoracic Society, British Association for Lung Research, and the Collegium International Allergologicum. His work has been recognised by international awards such as the King Faisal and J. Allyn Taylor international prizes in medicine, as well as a number of scientific achievement awards and honorary degrees and fellowships. Stephen is currently UK research and innovation clean air champion and special adviser to the Royal College of Physicians on air quality. He led the influential RCP air pollution report in 2016, titled Every breath we take: the lifelong impact of air pollution, and its update in 2025. He was appointed CBE in 2011 for contributions to clinical science and knighted in 2020 for medical research.

Dr Suzanne Bartington

Clinical associate professor in environmental health, University of Birmingham

Dr Ruth Law

Consultant in geriatric medicine, Whittington Health NHS Trust

Dr Sean Ninan

Consultant geriatrician, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Sean Ninan is a consultant geriatrician with a specialist interest in community geriatrics. He is the clinical lead for dementia and delirium at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He is also course director for Leeds Frailty Education (www.leedsfrailtyeducation.co.uk). Sean contributes to and teaches about quality improvement. He tweets @sean9n and @leedsfrailtyed and has educational videos on frailty on TikTok and YouTube @LeedsFrailtyEd. He writes a blog on geriatric and medical topics sean9n.wordpress.com

Professor Simon Conroy

Consultant geriatrician, Barts Health NHS Trust

Professor Simon Conroy is a consultant geriatrician at Barts Health NHS Trust. His ambition is to improve outcomes for older people living with frailty by embedding evidence-based medicine into clinical practice.

Dr Sinead Henderson

Consultant, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr Sinead Henderson is a palliative medicine consultant in Surrey. She completed her training in 2013 and has spent the last 4 years specialising in the care of older adults in the last year of life. Sinead is the clinical lead for the Department for Elderly Medicine as well as ReSPECT and EOLC lead at Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust.

Dr Sacha Moore

WCAT specialty registrar in nephrology and general internal medicine, Cardiff University & University Hospital of Wales

Professor Michael Boon

Dr Paul Jarman

Dr Chris Carswell

Dr David Brooks

Dr Sebastian Van der Linden

Speciality registrar in palliative medicine, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Seb Van der Linden is a specialty registrar in palliative medicine and general medicine in Sheffield. In 2024 he was awarded the Abe Guz Fellowship from the Association for Palliative Medicine and undertook work on the collation of resources on breathlessness management, along with research into equity of access to breathlessness support services across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Today’s presentation will focus on the pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of breathlessness in the palliative setting.

Dr Erin Kadodwala

Dr Sharon Chadwick

Dr William Grant Dunn

Haematology registrar, Cambridge University Hospitals (Addenbrookes Hospital)

Dr Anna-Louise Mackinnon

Dr Kim Gregory

David Salman

Dr Mike Rossiter

Consultant in sport, exercise and MSK medicine, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Mike Rossiter is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine (SEM), clinical director of the Candover Clinic in Basingstoke and recent chair of the SEM Committee for the Royal College of Physicians. He has recently retired as NHS clinical lead for SEM and musculoskeletal (MSK) medicine. Mike has worked with a variety of professional sports for over 25 years, including as chief medical officer (CMO) for GB hockey, CMO for GB synchronised swimming, and as a club doctor in both football and rugby. He has attended four Olympic Games (one as deputy CMO for Team GB), six Commonwealth Games (three as CMO for Team England), and European and World Cups. He has appointed again as CMO for Team England at the Commonwealth games and also as CMO for Team GB at the Winter Olympics, both in 2026. Mike is currently clinical lead for premiership rugby and the premiership match day doctors, tutor on the Rugby Football Union’s pre-hospital immediate care in sport course since 2005, and independent match reviewer for concussive events in rugby. He is also a member of the UK Anti-Doping Medical Committee. He is actively involved in research across several sporting areas.

Dr Imogen Grant

FY1, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Imogen Grant studied medicine at the University of Cambridge. While there, she learnt to row and went on to race at two Olympic Games, most recently at the 2024 Paris Olympics where she became Olympic Champion in the lightweight women's double sculls. 2 days after the Closing Ceremony, Imogen began work at Wexham Park Hospital as an FY1. She has an MPhil in obstetrics and gynaecology, and also has an interest in sports physiology.

Professor Ramesh Arasaradnam

Professor of gastroenterology, University of Warwick, and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Prof Ramesh Arasaradnam was previous academic vice president of the Royal College of Physicians. He developed a national research strategy for physicians working closely with the NIHR. He set up and chaired the RCP national advisory group on health and environmental sustainability. Currently he chairs a local drugs and therapeutics committee and is director of the Institute of Precision Diagnostics and Translational Medicine.

Professor H Jervoise Andreyev

Consultant gastroenterologist Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group

Professor H Jervoise Andreyev’s first degree was in Arabic studies, before qualifying in medicine in 1987 and completing a PhD in molecular biology in 1997. In 2000, he was appointed senior lecturer at Imperial College London and in 2006 appointed at the Royal Marsden Hospital as the first gastroenterologist ever asked to focus on treating GI side effects of cancer treatments. In 2016, Jervoise was honoured to be the Nimmo visiting professor at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia, before moving to Lincoln County Hospital. In 2019, he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Nottingham. While working as a full time NHS clinician, Jervoise has enrolled 1,500 patients into randomised trials and several thousand patients into interventional cohort studies. He has published approximately 175 papers and has a h-index of 49. Jervoise’s research has focused primarily on the GI toxicity of cancer treatments, however, his team’s findings have also been shown to be also relevant to non-cancer related GI disorders.

Dr Natalia Zarate-Lopez

Consultant gastroenterology, UCLH

Dr Shivir Moosai

Consultant haematologist, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Shivir Moosai is a consultant haematologist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust with a special interest in lymphoid malignancies. He is actively involved in clinical trials and treatment optimisation, focusing on improving patient outcomes through research, real-world data analysis, and service development. Shivir is passionate about medical education, and serves as an educational lead, training haematology registrars and resident doctors. He also contributed to the British Society for Haematology (BSH) through its Lymphoma Special Interest Group (SIG) and Communications Committee. Beyond the UK, he aims to contribute to strengthening haematology services in resource-limited settings. His interests include healthcare system improvement, audit and quality initiatives, integrating clinical excellence with education and innovation.

Dr Michael Desborough

Consultant haematologist and associate professor of haematology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Michael Desborough is a consultant haematologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and honorary consultant haematologist with NHS Blood and Transplant. He subspecialises in immunohaematology, transfusion medicine and obstetric haematology. Michael is the lead for the Oxford Specialised Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) and Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) Centres, as well as an associate professor at the University of Oxford where his research focuses on platelets, fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT), and intracerebral haemorrhage.

Dr Sarah Wheeldon

Haematology SpR, Royal Devon University Hospital

Dr Sarah Wheeldon is an ST7 haematology specialty registrar in Exeter, having commenced her specialty training in the Peninsula Deanery in 2019. Sarah went to medical school at the University of Oxford, followed by foundation training in Thames Valley, core medical training in Peninsula. and a post as a trust grade in ICU in Exeter. She has an undergraduate degree in physiological sciences and a postgraduate certificate in clinical education (PGCert). In 2023/24 Sarah held a 1-year post with NHSBT as a transfusion education fellow, responsible for populating the RCPath pathology portal. Her main interests include transfusion, clotting, liaison haematology and medical education.

Shari Spencer

Dr Anita Arasaretnam

Dr Sarah Logan

Consultant in infectious diseases, Hospital for Tropical Diseases UCLH

Dr Sarah Logan is a consultant in infectious diseases and general medicine, as well as clinical lead for the HTD at UCLH and medical workforce director at the RCP. She runs the outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) service at UCLH and spends a lot of time thinking about how to improve the care of patients with infections across the UK.

Dr Vicky Price

AMU consultant physician, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Vicky Price is an acute medicine physician for Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the current president-elect of the Society for Acute Medicine. She has an interest in same day emergency care and end-of-life care.

Dr Zack Ferguson

Acute medicine registrar, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Zack Ferguson is an acute medicine registrar and honorary lecturer in medical education based in Surrey. He has a special interest in improving postgraduate training with a specific focus on situated workplace learning. In addition to teaching on the postgraduate certificate in medical education at the RCP, he has published research exploring how internal medicine training doctors transition into the role of the medical registrar. Zack is also a passionate advocate for the use of point-of-care ultrasound at the front door, having gained accreditation in both FAMUS and FUSIC-Heart. He is currently undertaking a takeAIM fellowship through the Society for Acute Medicine, promoting the specialty to resident doctors and medical students.

Dr Anika Wijewardane

Consultant acute and stroke physician, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Anika Wijewardane is a consultant in acute and stroke medicine and deputy chief of service for acute and general medicine at Frimley Park Hospital. She has led on major transformation of medical SDEC and AMU, achieving measurable improvements in patient flow, reduced admissions, and improved staff morale. As a former national takeAIM fellow and Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) trainee representative, Anika co-authored the current national curriculum for acute medicine and has promoted the specialty through education, engagement and recruitment initiatives. She continues to collaborate with SAM, more recently co-authoring national guidance to support acute medicine service development. Anika applies lean principles to design acute care models that are efficient, sustainable and empowering – grounded in the belief that well-designed services improve not only system performance, but also the everyday experience of staff and patients alike.

Dr Parizad Avari

Dr Hermione Price

Consultant diabetologist, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Hermione Price is a consultant diabetologist at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and University Hospitals Dorset in Bournemouth. Hermoine is a visiting professor at the Health Sciences University and an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Southampton, where she has a research interest in the interface between diabetes and mental ill health. She has published widely on this topic and has received several research awards including the 2021 National institute of Health Research and Royal College of Physicians NHS researcher of the year award. She was awarded her DPhil by the University of Oxford in 2010 and her doctoral research concerned cardiovascular disease risk in adults living with type 2 diabetes. Hermoine is passionate about delivering specialist diabetes care in a community setting. She is especially interested in improving care for those people often thought of as ‘hardly reached’, including people in care homes or living with a serious mental disorder or a learning disability. She has led the writing group for both the first and second editions of the Joint British Diabetes Societies guideline: ‘The management of diabetes in adults and children with psychiatric disorders in inpatient settings’.

Dr Katherine Fayers

Diabetes consultant, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Katherine Fayers is a diabetes consultant at Hampshire and Isle of White Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Patient empowerment has been at the heart of Kate’s strategy for developing an intermediate community diabetes service which has relocated type 1 and type 2 diabetes care into the community since 2010. Her interest in leadership development and quality improvement has supported the development of a number of transformation projects across many aspects of diabetes care, improving community integration and reducing inequalities across West Hampshire. Kate’s current roles include Wessex training programme director for diabetes and endocrinology, less than full-time trust champion and ABCD meeting secretary.

Dr Kapil Agarwal

Internal medicine trainee Year 3, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Kapil Agarwal is an internal medicine trainee, shortly due to complete IM stage 1 training. He completed his MBBS in 2020 from Imperial College London, including an intercalated BSc in medical sciences with endocrinology. Kapil has also completed postgraduate training (to date) in Severn Deanery. He is currently an RCP associate college tutor and provides PACES teaching locally in Bath. Previous roles include foundation doctor representative and resident doctor on the Medical Workforce Planning Group. Kapil enjoys teaching as well as leadership and management roles.

Dr Anthony Martinelli

Clinical lecturer, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Anthony Martinelli is a clinical lecturer in respiratory medicine, based in Cambridge. He has been co-chair of the RCP Resident Doctor Committee since September 2024. Anthony has research and clinical interests in iron biology, COPD and infection.

Bobin Lee

Medical student, University of Buckingham | SFDN representative, Royal College of Physicians

Bobin Lee is a 4th-year postgraduate entry medical student at the University of Buckingham. Prior to medical school, she completed a bachelor’s degree of psychology and masters of nursing in Sydney, Australia, where she worked as a registered nurse in A&E and anaesthetics. Through her background, Bobin experienced clinical education and training in varying health systems and professions. This led her to strongly believe that supporting trainee experience is a key driving force for creating a healthier, more resilient and sustainable workforce. Bobin is passionate about improving student mental health and wellbeing, having assisted in the formal introduction of a peer support programme at her medical school. She continues to advocate for her colleagues as a member of the RCP Student and Foundation Doctor Network.

Dr Hatty Douthwaite

Dr Waqas Akhtar