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Education directorate
Dr Jeremy Levy
• Director of education, Imperial College academic health science centre (AHSC)
• Clinical tutor for Hammersmith Hospital
• Head of the London school of medicine and medical specialties at the London Deanery
• Consultant nephrologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Levy has been a Consultant nephrologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust since 2000, working at Hammersmith, Charing Cross and Chelsea and Westminster hospitals. He trained in Cambridge, London and Oxford interrupted by spells of skiing, ski-mountaineering and volcano climbing. He has a major clinical interest in immune mediated kidney disease, vasculitis and SLE, chronic kidney disease, HIV and haemodialysis. He has written textbooks on dialysis and nephrology, including the Oxford handbook of dialysis, and actively leads and participates in clinical research studies in vasculitis, haemodialysis and HIV and kidney disease.
He has substantial teaching and training interests, previously as Director of medical education for the Hammersmith hospital responsible for postgraduate medical trainees, and as the first Head of the London School of Medicine for postgraduate medical training for all medical specialties across London for the London Deanery. He teaches undergraduates across all years of the medical school, and is actively engaged in multiprofessional teaching, and in enhancing training and education for the UK Renal Association. He also runs an education research group, and has a keen interest in the pastoral care of postgraduate trainees.
He continues to ski and ski-mountaineer, undertake cross country ski marathons (rather slowly unfortunately), and manages life across all Imperial sites on 2 wheels (and lycra or leathers) and is hoping his wife will become a best selling author (try “Fallen Order: intrigue, heresy and scandal in the Rome of Galileo and Caravaggio”, and also “Letter in a Bottle” – un-put-downable). He now represents training at all relevant high level trust boards, as well as in London for all medical training above foundation level. He is available at any time to meet any trainees with specific concerns and can be contacted via email, at the Hammersmith postgraduate centre or through the main switchboard.
Rachel Abraham
Associate director of education
Rachel Abraham came into post in October 2009. She is a research dietitian by background but has held various management roles in clinical audit, service redesign, clinical governance, organisational development and operational management both within acute settings and across the primary/secondary interface since 1997. Together with Jeremy Levy, director of education she is responsible for education strategy, governance and finance working with heads of education and professional leads across Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
Rachel has a particular interest in technology enabled learning and simulation so is keen to harness the deep learning opportunities that can be exploited through these routes. She is committed to multi-disciplinary education having worked in numerous effective teams throughout her career.
In line with the emerging interest in creating a workforce with organisational skills, Rachel is working with colleagues across the Trust on several clinical leadership programmes. More recently, she has led the successful bid to be lead provider for core medicine training, core surgery training, core psychiatry training and a GP training pilot in Hammersmith & Fulham on behalf of the north-west London health innovation and education cluster (HIEC).
Digby Ingle
Business development manager
Digby has worked as a senior lecturer in psychology within the university sector. He has held national posts as an education quality manager for the CIPD and for the Prison Inspectorate as a drugs inspector.
He is a qualified NHS strategic workforce planner and has worked closely with the Department of Health on several workforce development projects relating to offender health. He has substantive experience in workforce development for NHS Trusts and increasing their capabilities for income generation.
His interests lie in developing an intelligence-driven approach to workforce development and analysing the impacts health policy might have for the workforce. A key role for him is to identify opportunities for educational commercialisation within the AHSC.
Benjamin Cerezo
Project manager for simulation and clinical skills
With a background in workplace-based learning and assessment, Benjamin has a keen interest in the controllable factors which influence adults’ ability to acquire, apply and retain new skills and knowledge. Benjamin has spent over two years at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and his current focus is around the field of simulation enhanced learning and the ways in which simulation can accelerate movement along the learning curve. Benjamin manages various projects which support the implementation of simulation as a training technique and which increase accessibility of simulation equipment and learning opportunities.
Paul Phelan
Project manager for ICT and e-learning
Paul brings a wealth of experience in blended learning and is head of strategy for technology enabled learning (TEL) and e-learning initiative across the Trust. Paul also manages and supports several TEL projects and draws on a well connected network of information technology professionals to deliver accessible solutions for the Trust.
Anna Kingsland
• Office manager
• Educational governance lead
Anna started at the Trust working alongside doctors and nursing staff to coordinate the planned admissions system and subsequently worked as an MDT coordinator in the cancer department. Anna currently leads the operational function of the education directorate. She services the key committees through which educational governance is delivered and is increasingly playing a key role in collating and delivering on the education metrics.
Undergraduate medicine
Directors of clinical studies
Specialising in undergraduate education, the directors of clinical studies (DCS) roles help implement the Imperial College London School of Medicine’s educational priorities and manage the relationships between Imperial College London and its partner trusts, including Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
Each DCS also acts as a critical conduit between trusts and Imperial College London, monitoring student feedback and implementing action plans to bring about improvements where required, as well as communicating trends or concerns regarding student attendance, performance or learning.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has two directors of clinical studies.
Professor Edwina Brown
Director of clinical studies, Charing Cross Hospital campus
Professor Brown’s main clinical and educational interests are peritoneal dialysis, dialysis in the elderly and renal palliative care. She is the principal investigator for broadening options for long-term dialysis in the elderly (BOLDE) and is involved in other research including a prospective study of membrane function and dialysate cytokines in patients on peritoneal dialysis; and developing screening tools for encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis. Professor Brown has published extensively on peritoneal dialysis and dialysis in the elderly and is the author/editor of several books.
Dr Timothy Orchard
• Director of clinical studies, St. Mary’s Hospital campus
• Consultant gastroenterologist
• Reader in gastroenterology at Imperial College London
Postgraduate
Directors of postgraduate medical education and clinical tutors
Each director of medical education (DME) and clinical tutor is responsible for medical education and training within their organisation and for ensuring the delivery of the London Deanery Learning and Development Agreement (LDA).
DMEs and clinical tutors support trainees in all specialties within their organisation and maintain a close professional relationship with the London Deanery for the purposes of quality management, and to support the educational agenda. DMEs also provide educational leadership and vision on medical education, implement and monitor strategies for the provision of medical education, align medical training and education with service objectives and ensure trainers are fit for practice.
At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, these accountabilities are held by:
Dr Ruth Brown
• Director of medical education, St. Mary’s Hospital
• Clinical tutor for Imperial College London school of medicine, St. Mary’s Hospital
• Consultant in emergency medicine
Dr Brown is a consultant in emergency medicine based at the St Mary’s Hospital campus, providing clinical care and supervision in the emergency department at St Mary’s, caring for both adults and children with emergency and urgent problems.
Dr Brown has been based at St. Mary’s Hospital since 2000 and is happy to discuss any training or professional issues with doctors of all grades - especially trainees and staff grade or associate specialist doctors - and can be contacted via email, the postgraduate centre or through the main switchboard.
Dr Frances Sanderson
• Clinical tutor, Charing Cross Hospital
• Consultant in infectious diseases
• Honorary senior lecturer, Imperial College school of medicine
Clinical programme group heads of education
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust’s clinical care delivery is organised into seven clinical programme group s, each of which has a dedicated head of education (Clinical Programme Group HoE). Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has a Head of Education in each clinical programme group.
Dr Megan Griffith FRCP PhD
Head of Education CPG 4 (Circulation Sciences and Renal Medicine)
Training Program Director Core Medical Training Hammersmith Hospital
Consultant Nephrologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer
Megan completed her PhD at Hammersmith Hospital before being appointed Consultant Nephrologist at St Marys Hospital in 2001. She returned to Hammersmith site in 2006 following the amalgamation of renal services at Imperial in 2006. She has a clinical and research interest in immunological mediated renal disease and is the Clinical Lead for Nephrology. She also chairs the chronic kidney disease research group at Imperial. She has maintained a strong role in education throughout her career, and has an interest in simulation training.
She is happy to discuss any training issues with staff, and can be contacted by email or via the hospital switchboard.
Professor Graham Williams
• Head of education for clinical programme group 1 (medicine)
• Clinical professor of endocrinology
Graham Williams became professor of endocrinology at Imperial College London in 2005. He obtained a BSc in anatomy and MBBS from St. Thomas’s Hospital, University of London and a PhD from the University of Birmingham. He trained as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA and as a medical research council training fellow and clinician scientist fellow at the University of Birmingham. He was appointed as senior lecturer at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London (1995) and received an MRC career establishment award. He was promoted to reader (2000) and subsequently professor (2005) of endocrinology.
Professor Williams is head of the molecular endocrinology laboratory in the department of medicine and MRC clinical sciences centre at the Hammersmith Hospital campus.
Dr Patrick Venables
• Head of education for clinical programme group 3 (specialist services)
• Head teacher for musculoskeletal medicine
Professor Venables began work at Charing Cross Hospital as a research fellow in 1977. Since then, he has dedicated his career to teaching, research and clinical practice, culminating in the award of professor in 1998. His interest in autoimmunity in rheumatic disease has resulted in over 100 papers and contributions to several text books of rheumatology and medicine, also receiving several awards including a teaching excellence award (Imperial College) in 2007 and outstanding service care and research award (OSC&R) in 2009.
Professor Venables’ discovery of citrullinated enolase as a new autoantigen in rheumatoid arthritis in 2005 has led to several internationally collaborative papers published in journals such as Nature Genetics and Arthritis and Rheumatism. In spite of his seniority, he continues in a heavy teaching commitment, a busy clinical service (including acute medical takes) and heading up a small research team at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology.
Prof. Mohammed Karim Meeran
• Head of education for clinical programme group 6 (clinical and investigative sciences)
• Professor and Honorary Consultant in Endocrinology,
• Deputy Director of Education, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
• Head of Education, Investigative Sciences
• Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement (Faculty of Medicine)
• Chief of service for Endocrinology
• Training Programme Director for Endocrinology and General Medicine
Prof Karim Meeran is an accredited Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). He is passionate about improving undergraduate teaching both broadly and for pathology teaching while energising medical students about the importance of research. Prof Meeran’s research interest is control of feeding and metabolism, which is critical in view of the obesity epidemic; some of the work has generated analogues used for treatment in humans. He has made the pituitary service of international repute, published over 75 peer reviewed papers and won several prizes including some for his expertise as a teacher. The SpR training in North West Thames which he reorganised has been accredited as the “Best Training Scheme in the United Kingdom” by the Joint Committee of the Royal Colleges. He has a particular interest in e-learning which is now embedded throughout undergraduate medicine and has written a number of webCT packages, developed numerous clips with a page of web based text to enable remote learning. He is actively involved in national course development including updates for GPs, MRCP and for other Consultants.
Nurse education
Nursing and midwifery clinical practice educators
Nursing and midwifery clinical practice educators (CPEs) are based throughout the Trust in each clinical programme group (clinical programme group ). By developing and supporting nursing staff to undertake a variety of developmental opportunities, the quality of care delivered to patients is improved and the value we place on our staff is also demonstrated. Access to ongoing development also facilitates opportunities for progression as a CPE.
Clinical practice educators work together with staff, managers, the nursing directorate, organisational development team and higher education institutions (HEIs) to ensure that the education needs identified by all parties are met using a collaborative team approach.
Dr Kathryn Jones
Deputy Director of Nursing
The portfolio for Nursing and Midwifery education sits within Kathryn’s portfolio. Registered as an adult and children’s nurse and a qualified nurse teacher, Kathryn is committed to the delivery of high quality, safe and effective patient care through workforce development together with the integration of service, education and research. Kathryn was awarded a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology in 1994 and a Doctorate in Health Care (DHC) in 2007 with a thesis focusing on implementation of new nurse prescriber roles. She has recently returned from a secondment to NHS London where as Programme Director for Modernising Nursing Careers she successfully led a programme of workforce transformation to equip nurses with the skills they need to deliver and support safe, effective, high quality healthcare within a constantly changing health economy.
Nariane Chantler
Lead nurse for education
Nariane joined the Trust in 2000 and has worked in many roles including as clinical practice educator in critical care. Nariane was responsible for successfully establishing the clinical education team with a focus on clinical coaching for staff, ultimately delivering high quality patient care to enhance patient experience.
Nariane currently manages the corporate nursing education team within the Trust incorporating both post and pre-registration nurses. A particular interest is the provision of good quality, enjoyable training and the use of methods which facilitate the transfer of skills from training into the clinical environment.
Phil Hoddinott
• Senior nurse in Education, learning and development
• Visiting senior lecturer, Bucks New University
Phill leads a team of senior nurses within the corporate nursing education team on initiatives to support student nurses, newly qualified nurses and healthcare assistants within the Trust. He liaises closely with the three main universities who provide pre-registration education to the Trust.
Phill is an adult registered nurse and has held a number of clinical and managerial posts in the UK and overseas, he continues to work clinically on the emergency floor at St Mary's Hospital.
Phill has completed an MSc in quality and patient safety at Imperial College London and has a particular interest on the use of feedback given to student nurses to help improve patient experience.
Corporate Nursing Team
Ally James
• Clinical Practice Educator (Preceptorship)
• Visiting senior lecturer, Bucks New University
Ally currently works within the corporate nursing education team leading on the Imperial Internship, the preceptorship programme within the Trust for newly qualified nurses. She is working closely with Bucks New University on the development and implementation of the Imperial Internship Programme. Ally joined the Trust in 2007 and worked within paediatrics as one of the Paediatric Renal Clinical Nurse Specialist and sisters on Paediatric Short Stay Unit.
Ally has experience in both paediatric and adult nursing and graduated with a Bachelor of Nursing from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. She is about to commence studying for a Masters in Education for Healthcare Professionals at Kings College, London.
Mary Collins
Clinical practice Educator for pre-registration
Mary is an adult registered nurse and joined the trust in 1995. She has worked in a number of clinical and educational roles. Mary currently works with student nurses on placement at the Charing Cross and Hammersmith sites. She liaises very closely with BucksNewUnit to support the student nurses in placement and with the mentors in clinical practice.
A particular interest is the development of an effective learning environment for all learners.
Fran Naick
Trainee Nursing Assistant programme Manager.
Fran leads the Vocational training in Care for the Trust . Joined the Trust in 1989 and worked on a Surgical Ward.
Fran joined the Education Team in 2004 and has since been in charge of the NVQ and Qualifications Credit Framework training. Fran works in partnership with HR to bring unemployed workforce into employment.
Nursing and midwifery clinical practice educators
CPG1 - Medicine
Karen Richards
CPG2 - Surgery and cancer
Lucy Paterson
Simone Frehe
Dhalia Moore
CPG3 - Specialist services
Elaine Dix
Angela Morgan
CPG4 - Circulation sciences and renal medicine
Kit Ryan
CPG5 - Women’s and children’s - Paediatrics
Elizabeth King
Carolyn Rooth
Senior Nurse Gynaecology & Reproductive Medicine (Education & Research)
Pauline Cooke
Midwifery
CPG6 - Clinical and investigative sciences
Debbie Plaugher
