New Registration14/05/2009Pri-Med Update, Manchester
Dr Chris Barker - MB BS MRCGP DRCOG | |
| Clinical Director - NHS Sefton Community Pain Service Associate Specialist in Pain Medicine - The Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery | |
| Dr Chris Barker is Clinical Director at NHS Sefton Community Pain Service and Associate Specialist in Pain Medicine - The Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery. | |
Dr Winston F de Mello - MBBS, BSc, FRCA, DRCOG, FIMCRCSEd, FFPMRCA, DipPain | |
| Consultant Anaesthetist, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester | |
 | Dr Martin Gibson - MD |
| Consultant Physician, Hope Hospital, Salford | |
 | Dr Geoffrey Hackett - MBBS, MRCPI, MRCGP, MD |
| Consultant in Sexual Medicine, Good Hope Hospital, Birmingham | |
| Dr Geoff Hackett MD FRCPI MRCGP has been a consultant in Sexual Medicine at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, UK since 1994 as well as a primary care physician for 28 years. His major areas of interest are the links between erectile dysfunction, testosterone deficiency, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular and diabetic risk. He is the author of over 50 papers, 3 original books, and has co-authored 5 textbook chapters on sexual medicine, lectures internationally on sexual medicine topics. He is a past winner of the Duke of Edinburgh prize in Sports Medicine in 1992 and the Charles Oliver Hawthorn award from the British Medical Association or original research in 1986. He was elected chairman of the British Society for Sexual Medicine 2005-2007 and has been on the scientific committee of the ESSM 2003 -2009 and ISSM Educational Committee from 2009. | |
 | Dr James Kingsland - MD |
| National Clinical Commissioning Network Lead on behalf of the Dept of Health (England) | |
| DR JAMES KINGSLAND St Hilary Brow Group Practice, Wallasey, Merseyside National Clinical Commissioning Network Lead President National Association of Primary Care James is the Senior Partner in a Personal Medical Services General Practice partnership in Wallasey. He has been in practice on the Wirral since 1989. His practice has won numerous awards for clinical excellence and was in the early waves of fundholding, a first wave PMS plus site, an early adopter of Practice Based Commissioning and now in a first wave pathfinder consortium for GP Commissioning. He is the National Clinical Commissioning Network Lead on behalf of the Dept of Health having previously been the National PBC Clinical Network Lead from April 2009. James served as Chairman of the National Association of Primary Care for 4 years from September 2004 and became President of the organisation in September 2008. He has a wealth of experience in General Practice, medical education and medical politics. He has regularly worked as a part time GP advisor to the Department of Health and was instrumental in the development and implementation of PMS policy and Walk-in Centres, worked with the DH to develop the quality agenda for General Practice and was a member of the Department of Health's National Leadership Network. He is now a member of the NHS Top Leaders programme. He continues to have a central role in supporting the current Reform Agenda for the NHS, particularly in the development of GP Commissioning and supports several DH reference groups for current policy implementation. He also serves on the NICE Commissioning Steering Group. Previously a personal advisor to Lord Darzi for the Next Stage Review of Primary and Community Care and part of the review's Clinical Advisory Group as well as a member of the National PBC Improvement team. He developed and Chaired the first incorporated practice based commissioning organisation in NHS Wirral, Wallasey Health Alliance LLP. He has been a GP trainer for 19 years and formerly a longstanding member of the Regional GP Education Board. He is also an undergraduate tutor for the medical schools of Liverpool and University College London. He was formerly the Vice Chair of Wirral Health Authority having previously served as a non-executive director of Wirral FHSA. He served for 10 years on Wirral LMC, has been a member of the General Practice Committee of the BMA and for 3 years chaired its PMS sub-committee. He was appointed to Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as their Primary Care advisor in 2007 and has recently been appointed as a Non Executive Director of the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology. Married to Sarah, they have 2 daughters and live in the Wirral. He includes golf, football, music and broadcasting as his hobbies, and regularly guests on BBC Radio Merseyside and a medical current affairs programme on Liverpool's independent radio, City Talk. He is nationally recognised as an excellent presenter and undertakes regular public speaker engagements. Contacts; Practice Tel: 0151 638 2216 Mob Tel: 07887 894124 DH e-mail: jameskingsland.dh@gmail.com Practice e-mail: james.kingsland@nhs.net Home e-mail: jameskingsland@tiscali.co.uk | |
 | Professor Rayaz Malik - BSc (hons), MSc, MBChB, FRCP, PhD |
| Professor of Medicine & Consultant Physician, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary & University of Manchester, Manchester | |
| Rayaz Malik is a Professor of Medicine & Consultant Physician in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary & University of Manchester, Manchester. He obtained his BSc. MSc. and MB ChB from the University of Aberdeen and his PhD from the University of Manchester. His clinical work includes consultant responsibility for unselected general acute medicine admissions to Manchester Royal Infirmary and a general medical and diabetes outpatient clinic weekly. His research focuses on diabetic neuropathy and cardiomyopathy in both animal models and at a translational level in patients. He is an expert in the pathogenesis, assessment and treatment of diabetic neuropathy and has published and presented extensively on this. His research is currently funded by the NIH, JDRF, MRC, DUK and BHF and he is currently supervising 6 PhD's and 4 MD's. He is a member of the Curriculum and Progress Committees and the Interview committee for medical undergraduates in the Manchester Medical School. He is the Heart Lung and Blood lead for year 3 and is also the Final year exam lead for Manchester Royal Infirmary. He won the young clinical investigator prize for clinical science for Neurodiab in 1999, and the North West of England Medical Society Prize in 2000. He has been an invited lecturer for the American Diabetes Association, European Association for the Study of Diabetes and Diabetes UK. He was elected as the Chairman of Neurodiab (The neuropathy study group of the European association for the study of diabetes) in October 2009. He was appointed to become a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 2007 and became an examiner for the MRCP in 2009. He is also a professorial member of the Association of Physicians. He is the associate editor for Diabetic Medicine and Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury. He is a JDRF Medical and Research Committee grant reviewer 2005-2014. He also reviews for DUK, MRC and the Wellcome Trust and for nine medical journals, including Neurology, Diabetes, Diabetologia, and the Lancet. | |
 | Dr Raj Patel - MD |
| PEC Chair, Tameside & Glossop PCT | |
| Dr Raj Patel was born in Nairobi but grew up in Leicester. He went to Manchester University in 1980 and graduated in 1985. He worked for one year as a GP on the Gold Coast in Australia, but returned to take up General Practice in Hyde in 1993, and has been a GP ever since with a special interest in dermatology. Raj has made many television appearances in the past few years. He also wrote a weekly column in the Daily Express before becoming PEC Chair. He was appointed as a GP adviser to the Department of Health from 2001 to 2003. Raj is the current chair of the Greater Manchester Commissioning Board. | |
 | Mr Gary Ross - MBChB, MRCS, MD, FRCS (Plast) |
| Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Manchester | |
| Having qualified in medicine at the University of Bristol Mr Ross underwent a basic surgical training in Australia, Bristol and Plymouth before beginning a career in plastic surgery in 1997. Following experience in the plastic surgery units of Plymouth and Bristol he spent two years in the Canniesburn Plastic Surgery Unit, Glasgow as a head and neck fellow completing an MD in head and neck surgery. Mr Gary Ross is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at The Christie with a practice specialising in head and neck and breast surgery. | |
 | Professor Jiten Vora - BA, MB, BChir, MA, FRCP |
| Consultant Diabetologist, Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Honorary Professor, University of Liverpool | |
| Professor Jiten Vora has been a Consultant Physician at the Royal Liverpool University since 1993. He has served on many advisory panels including The National Institute for Clinical Excellence and The Diabetes and Renal Service Frameworks. He has also been actively involved in Diabetes and Renal National Service Frameworks. He has been actively involved in the district wide delivery of diabetes care and chairs the Cheshire and Merseyside Diabetes Clinical Network. Professor Vora has on-going research interests in renal haemodynamics/function and hypertension in Type 2 Diabetes, the prevention of renal disease in diabetes and the physiological aspects of treatment in Type 2 Diabetes. He has published extensively in these fields. |