Internationalisation

Professor Matthew Walters

Matthew is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Head of the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing at the University of Glasgow. His clinical work is undertaken within the Acute Stroke Unit of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. In the recent past he has served as the director of the Scottish Stroke Research Network and as lead physician for cerebrovascular medicine in West Glasgow. He serves on the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, as a trustee of the UK Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and on the editorial boards of a number of clinical journals. His research interests involve clinical trials in cerebrovascular disease and he is widely published in this field.

 

Professor Glenn Bowes

Glenn Bowes has had a long career in academic medicine at Monash University, University of Toronto and most recently The University of Melbourne where he has held professorial title and a range of leadership roles for over 25 years. Glenn trained initially as an adult respiratory physician and completed his PhD and postdoctoral training in respiratory physiology. In 1991 he became the first Professor of Adolescent Health in Australia and the Founding Director of the Centre for Adolescent Health at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne.

For over 17 years Glenn held academic and management roles at the Melbourne Children’s Campus including Chief Medical Officer, Executive Director and Stevenson Chair and Head of the University Department of Paediatrics. For the past 10 years Glenn has served in a number of Faculty leadership roles as Associate Dean and Deputy Dean. He was made Professor Emeritus in 2019. He has served as a Board Director to many community based organisations committed the health and wellbeing of children and young people. He was made an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2016.

Professor Bairbre Redmond Provost of Universitas 21

Professor Redmond started her career as a social worker in the disability services, where she worked for over a decade, moving to University College Dublin to train health professionals and to research into the development of effective health service education. She was awarded UCD’s inaugural prestigious President’s Teaching Award in 1997 and her PhD in 2000.

She is Professor Emeritus in Higher Education at University College Dublin where, prior to being seconded full-time to role of Provost of Universitas 21 (U21) in 2016, she was also Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Deputy Vice President for Teaching and Learning. In these roles she had responsibility for the development and maintenance of high-quality teaching and learning across the university and for strategic institutional educational initiatives. She also had oversight of the structure and quality of local, national and cross-national programmes developed and delivered both in and in collaboration with University College Dublin.

As Provost of U21 Professor Redmond acts as the network’s lead academic and advisor, overseeing the strategic direction of the international network in worldwide student experience and mobility, education innovation and researcher engagement. In liaison with U21’s Presidents and Vice Chancellors and with the Senior Leaders for each of the member universities, she has responsibility for the overall direction and coherence of the network’s projects. She also identifies new areas of development where staff and students in the network's member universities can engage with U21’s shared initiatives and benefit from the network’s shared resources. These projects are underpinned by the network's core commitment to a wider appreciation of and advocacy for internationalisation.

Professor Redmond has a particular research interest in the advancement of reflective approaches in higher education, particularly in how effective approaches to reflective learning and critical thinking can be incorporated in curriculum design. For over a decade she also led a series of research studies on stress, job satisfaction and burn-out in health service professionals. She advises on the development of effective sectoral cross-European higher education and training.

Dr Gregor Smith

Dr Gregor Smith is proud to be a GP and was appointed Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Scotland in October 2015. Prior to this he combined roles as a Senior Medical Officer in the Scottish Government and medical director for Primary Care in NHS Lanarkshire where he spent most of his clinical career as a GP in Larkhall. He is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Glasgow and Fellow of both the Scottish Patient Safety Programme and Salzburg Global. He is passionate about continuous quality improvement and innovation in healthcare, with a particular interest in person-centred care, shared decision making and working in teams. He is a resolute advocate of the values that define our NHS, of universal healthcare, and of widening access to medical careers to those from all backgrounds. When not working, he tries very hard, but not so successfully, to use his quality improvement skills to improve his cycling, triathlon and guitar. To find him on Twitter, follow @DrGregorSmith

Geraldine Marsh

Geraldine is the Associate Chief Nurse with South Sector NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Geraldine has 31 years of nursing experience, 27 of which have been in senior positions in a variety of specialties, including Emergency Department, Acute Medicine and now in Older People’s Care.
As Lead Nurse within Medicine for the Elderly at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow she implemented “What’s Matters to me” – A tool which allows staff to find out what really matters to patients and has made a significant improvement in the delivery of person centred care. The approach has now been rolled out to all acute adult in patient wards across Glasgow, with many other Boards also adopting initiative.

A Scottish Quality and Safety, cohort 7 Fellow, she is passionate about blending quality, safety and person centred care to deliver more positive outcomes for patients. Geraldine has spoken at a number of national learning events within NHS Scotland. In October, she presented “What matters to me” at the Irish Association of Directors of Nursing and Midwifery, co- presented at the International Quality Forum in Orlando in December with the IHI Person Centred Team.

Andrew Fraser

Andrew Fraser is Director of Public Health Science with NHS Health Scotland. He was Director of Public Health in NHS Highland from 1994-97, then Deputy Chief Medical Officer in the Health Department of the Scottish Office, then Scottish Executive from 1997-2003. He was responsible for advice on Public Health Policy.

From 2003-2012, he worked in the Scottish Prison Service as Director of Health and Care, where he also worked with WHO to improve prisoners health. Andrew’s current focus is on public health reform, and ways to narrow health inequalities in Scotland. In addition, Andrew is Co-Chair of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Independent Review.

Professor Stuart Carney

Professor Carney is the Deputy Executive Dean and Medical Dean in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland. He is also a Liaison Psychiatrist.
Immediately before joining the University of Queensland in 2017, Stuart was Dean of Medical Education and Vice Dean International in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London. As Dean of the School of Medical Education, Stuart was responsible for the largest MBBS Programme in the UK and overhauled the medical curriculum (Curriculum 2020).

Stuart has had lead roles across the entire continuum of medical education. As Deputy National Director of the UK Foundation Programme, he co-developed the two-year foundation programme, which is now followed by all medical graduates in the UK and Malta. As Associate Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and as a Senior Clinical Advisor with Health Education England, he led the broadening of the Foundation Programme, which has resulted in all foundation doctors in England rotating through a community placement and half undertaking a mental health placement. He also played a central role in setting up the integrated academic training pathway in England, which is the key talent pipeline for clinical academics. In addition, Stuart was the Clinical Lead for the UK Shape of Training Review (2013), which was commissioned by the four UK health departments and provided the blueprint for reform of the entire UK medical education and training continuum.

Professor David Kluth

David Kluth is Head of Medical Education, Edinburgh Medical School. His principle role is as Programme Director for the MBChB degree programme including curriculum design and assessment. He is Deputy Chair of the Medical School Council Assessment Alliance board and has been leading on the development of UK medical schools knowledge assessment item bank and national standard setting. He is an advisor to the General Medical Council on the development of the Medical Licensing Assessment. His educational research focuses on development of assessments, standards setting and psychometric analysis across UK medical schools. He is a Principal Investigator in the Centre for Inflammation Research with interests in macrophage biology, acute kidney injury and translational studies in renal transplantation. His clinical background is in nephrology and he runs Edinburgh Vasculitis Service.

Dr Caroline Bradbury-Jones

Caroline is a registered nurse and midwife. She holds a position as Reader in Nursing at the University of Birmingham, UK where she leads the Risk, Abuse and Violence Research Programme. Her research focuses primarily on gender based violence. An important part of her work is in relation to how to prepare healthcare students to deal with the issue of gender based violence so that they are better prepared when they become registered/licensed practitioners.

Ian Ritchie

Ian Ritchie is a retired Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon whose practice was in Forth Valley, Scotland. He is also a past President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
He has had an active life starting with competitive swimming at school and going on to Hillwalking in Scotland during his university undergraduate career.
Following graduation, he joined the Royal Navy and served as a Medical Officer with the Royal Marines. This required completion of the RM Commando Course.
Throughout his subsequent career, he has maintained an interest in physical activity (particularly hillwalking in Scotland) and recently has been interested in the extent to which physical activity and its health benefits is taught to health professionals in training. Ian is also a non executive director of Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board.

Professor Ann Gates

Ann Gates is an Honorary Associate Professor of Physiotherapy and Sport Rehabilitation at The University of Nottingham and an Honorary Visiting Professor at Plymouth Marjon Sport and Exercise Science.

A clinical pharmacist by profession, Ann became interested in leadership and service transformation and eventually became a Director of Strategic Planning in an NHS Hospital Trust.
In 2011 Ann set up an educational consultancy @exerciseworks for undergraduate student health care professionals and launched the successful #MovementForMovement resource community of practice. Ann has been commissioned by Public Health England, WHO Europe, and Swim England. As an author, international speaker and certified NHS change agent, Ann has implemented undergraduate health care curricula adoption in the UK schools of medicine and health and this work is recognised as an exemplar of best practice by WHO Europe. She is also a Member of the World Heart Federation Emerging Leaders programme 2014-2019. Ann has a supportive social media role with a following of 60,000 on Twitter @exerciseworks and is passionate about health education reform and equity. Join the #MovementForMovement and connect via @exerciseworks

 

Professor Barbara Dooley

Professor Barbara Dooley, is Dean of Graduate Studies and Deputy Registrar at University College Dublin. She provides support to the Registrar and Deputy President on enhancing the student experience for doctoral students and ensuring the delivery of the university education strategy. Professor Dooley holds a PhD in Psychology from UCD and is an active researcher and supervisor with over 60 publications indexed in Scopus. She has led a number of large scale national studies estimating prevalence of psychological problems in young people. She is particularly interested in how help-seeking behaviour is linked to psychological issues such stress, depression, alcohol consumption, self-esteem and social support. She led the first national study of youth mental health in Ireland in 2012 with data from over 14,000 young people aged 12-25 years looking at both risk and protective factors related to their mental health.

A second wave of data collection, My World Survey 2, is currently near completion with a sample >20,000 with a particular focus on students enrolled in third level institutions in Ireland. She was instrumental in seeking institutional support for an external review of the student mental health services in UCD leading to changes in service delivery for all students. Professor Dooley is a member of the HSE National Office for Suicide Prevention Evaluation Advisory Group, Vice-President International Association for Youth Mental and steering group member of the European University Association – Council for Doctoral Education.

Simon Fleming

Simon is a Trauma and Orthopaedic registrar on the Pott rotation in London, having trained at Barts and the London as an undergraduate. He is also a Past President of the British Orthopaedic Trainees’ Association (BOTA), a co-chair for the International Conference in Residency Education (ICRE), the Vice Chair of the Academy Trainee Doctors’ Group (ATDG) and a Ph.D candidate in Medical Education at Barts and The London Medical School.

While passionate about Orthopaedics and achieving excellence in surgical training, he has special interests in hand surgery, competency attainment decisions and combating bullying, undermining and harassment in healthcare, through the award winning #HammerItOut campaign, on which he has delivered a TEDx talk and spoken internationally.

He is heavily involved in mentoring and teaching both undergraduates and postgraduates, which has been recognised with a Surgeon Educator Award from the Royal College of Surgeons (Eng), the Academic Support Award from Queen Mary University, Barts and The London Medical School and the Internal Resident Leader Award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is also the recipient of the Royal College of Surgeons (Eng) and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Harry Morton Research Fellowship in Surgery (MedEd)

Professor Alastair Gracie

Having previously enjoyed a career encompassing medical research and education, Professor Alastair Gracie’s main focus is now on both undergraduate and postgraduate education. For in excess of 20 years he was postgraduate Convener overseeing the successful completion of several hundred doctoral students across a wide range of life science, medical and other allied health professions. He  is currently Chair of the MVLS Higher Degrees Committee which has responsibility for monitoring academic process, university regulations and supporting our doctoral students.

Associate Professor Louisa Remedios

Associate Professor Louisa Remedios is the Director of Teaching and Learning and Online Learning at the Department of Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne. She is currently leading the design and implementation of multiple interprofessional and fully–online Masters programs and is a consultant on multiple education projects.  Her research interests are in curriculum design, teaching strategies to promote attribute development, authentic assessments and service learning. She is the current Chair of the U21 Health Sciences Group (HSG) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) strategic group. She takes pride and pleasure in being part of a team promoting and supporting SDG education through international and interprofessional initiatives.

Dr Ellie Hothersall

Ellie Hothersall is Head of MBChB at University of Dundee Medical School. She was chair of the Scottish Sustainable Managed network for Sustainable Healthcare (SMaSH) in 2014-16, and remains on the steering committee. She is currently in the process of a comprehensive curriculum review at the School of Medicine, including building more environmental and healthcare sustainability into the core materials.

Dr Ellie Hothersall graduated from University College London in 2000 with an Intercalated BSc in Medical Anthropology (1st Class Honours), and with MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 2001. Since then, her career has taken her through a postgraduate certificate in Health Economics at University of Aberdeen and an MD from the University of Glasgow in 2008.

She completed Higher Specialist Training in Public Health in the West Midlands, and was an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Birmingham. She has completed the NIHR Clinical Academic Leadership programme at Ashridge as part of that Fellowship.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and of the Faculty of Public Health.

Ellie moved to Dundee in 2011, initially in a combined research and teaching role. From 2011 to 2017 she was Theme Lead for Public Health and latterly Evidence Based Medicine. She became Deputy Convener of Systems in Practice in 2012, and Convener in 2013. She is a member of the Medical Schools Council Assessment Alliance Board (2017-2020).

Dr Sharon Buckley

A microbiologist by background, Sharon is an experienced educator with a strong record in expanding IPE opportunities. She worked with Birmingham students to establish the Knowledge and Skills Exchange IPE Society, led the Health Care Team Challenge (West Midlands) 2015, the first such to be held in England and, in 2012, established the College of Medical and Dental Sciences IPE steering group, which works to embed IPE into health professions programme curricula. Since 2005, Sharon has led four major regional IPE projects, focussing particularly on the development of authentic IP simulations for pre-registration students.

Sharon is a board member for the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE), a member of the Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) collaboration editorial committee and an Associate Editor for the journal The Clinical Teacher.

Professor Craig Vincent-Lambert

Professor Craig Vincent-Lambert began his career in 1989 as a South African Fire Fighter / EMT. He went on to qualify as a Medical Rescue Specialist and Advanced Life Support Paramedic. Further study let to completion of the Bachelor Degree in Emergency Medical Care and registration as an Independent Emergency Care Practitioner. Prof Vincent-Lambert is currently Head of the Department of Emergency Medical Care at the University of Johannesburg where he lectures Emergency Medical Care and Medical Rescue.  Prof Vincent-Lambert’s recent interests are clinical teaching and learning in the authentic and simulated pre-hospital medical rescue environments.

Neil Nairn

Neil is employed at the University of Glasgow Dental School as an Orthodontic Dental Instructor and is the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS1) Deputy co-ordinator. In addition to Neil’s primary roles, he is also the senior pastoral advisor and mentoring lead for the BDS programme. Externally Neil is a Dental Care Professional (DCP) assessor for the General Dental Council (GDC) and held the position of Glasgow Dental Student Society (GDSS) honorary staff president for six years until 2017.

Having lost a close family member to suicide, Neil began to raise funds for a local charity “Touched by Suicide”, and spoke at their inaugural conference where he was asked to take on the role of patron for the charity. Neil continues to raise awareness and understanding around mental health and suicide, delivering suicide prevention training within Glasgow University and external organisations.

He has established a running group at the Glasgow Dental School promoting the health benefits of incorporating exercise in to a daily routine. He introduced a variety of activities into his own life and rapidly found that the benefits of exercise is as much mental as it is physical.  He has gone on to establish two other running groups and last year qualified as a level 3 Scottish Athletics coach in endurance running to support all participants.

Julie Mardon

Julie is lead for undergraduate simulation at Glasgow Medical School with over 20 years of simulation experience. She is passionate about faculty development and interprofessional learning. She is also an ED consultant based in Ayrshire and Arran and has a special interest in frailty and delirium in the emergency setting. She has over 20 years of simulation experience.