Overseas Regional Advisers

Australia - Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory

Professor Balakrishnan (Kichu) Nair FRCP Edin

Email: Kichu.Nair@newcastle.edu.au

Biographical Information:

Professor Nair has been Director of the Centre for Medical Professional Development, Hunter New England Health since June 2004. He holds a conjoint appointment as Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Newcastle and has extensive experience in medical education. He has been a Senior Staff Specialist in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle for the past 10 years and works on the General Medical Roster there.

Prof Nair has been Chair of a number of Committees and Panels relating to geriatric and general medical education and is a member of the National Panel of Examiners, Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Australia - Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia

Professor Geoffrey A Donnan
Professor of Neurology, University of Melbourne, Austin Hospital and
Director of the National Stroke Research Institute.

Email: gdonnan@unimelb.edu.au

Biographical information:

Professor Donnan’s ;research interest is clinical stroke management and he was co-founder of the Australian Stroke Trials Network. He is President of the World Stroke Organisation.; He received the American Stroke Association William Feinberg award for excellence in clinical stroke research in 2007.

Australia - Western Australia and the Northern Territory

Dr Roger W Warne FRCP Edin
Consultant Physician Geriatric Medicine, Department Aged Care Services, Royal Perth Hospital

Email: roger.warne@health.wa.gov.au

Biographical information:

I have worked as Physician Aged Care Services at Royal Perth Hospital for the past 15 years. The structure of the services is a teaching hospital based acute service `hub' with satellite community rehabilitation units through the catchment areas of the Royal Perth Hospital. The community aged care teams are located at each satellite unit. The department also provides a country service based at a regional centre 60 miles from Perth and also coordinates aged care throughout the Pilbara and Kimberly regions of Western Australia.

Bangladesh - Chittagong

Professor Mohammed Nurun Nabi, MBBS, DTM&H, MRCP, FCCP, FCPS, FRCP
Physician and Cardiologist

Email: centrpnt@abnetbd.com

Biographical Information:

Ex-Professor and Head of Departments of Medicine in various Medical Colleges

Principal, Chittagong Medical College
Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Chittagong University
Director General of Health Services
Chief Adviser, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Vice-Chairman, Bangladesh Medical Research Council
Ex-Committee Member, Joint Co-ordinating Board (UNDP/WB/WHO) TDR, WHO-HQ, Geneva
Member, Executive Committee, Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council
Vice-President, Bangladesh Medical Association (Central)
President, Bangladesh Medical Association, Chittagong Branch
President, Diabetic Association, Chittagong
President, Chittagong Medical College Teacher’s Association

Retired from Government service, December 1995, with grade 1 salary
Adviser, RCP Edinburgh, since May 1987
Involved in national and international professional and social health-related organisations – mostly in Chittagong

Bangladesh - Dhaka

Professor Mohammed Tahir FRSM, FCPS, FCCP, FRCP
Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka

E-mail: bsmmu@bangla.net

Biographical Information:

Passed MBBS from Dhaka Medical College in 1964
Passed FCPS in Medicine from the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Pakistan in January 1969
Assistant Professor of Medicine - 1970
Assistant Professor of Medicine – 1973
Professor of Medicine – 1977
Professor of Medicine & Director, Institute of Postgraduate Medicine and Research in 1994
Professor of Medicine & Pro Vice-Chancellor, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University from 1998 until now

Egypt

Professor Hadi Alphonse Goubran, MB, BCh, MSc, MD, FACP, FRCP Edin
Professor of Medicine & Haematology, Cairo University, Egypt

E-mail: goubran@link.net

Biographical Information:

Graduated in 1981, Master degree in Medicine in 1985, Doctorate degree and Membership of the American College of Physicians in 1991
Trained in Kasr El-Aini hospital, Cairo and St Thomas’ Hospital, London
Research interests include thrombophilia and viral inactivation of plasma
Founding member of Egyptian Society of Haematology & Research and Chief Editor of its journal and Member of Editorial board of Thrombosis Journal.
Shared in setting the PACES examination in Cairo since 2003

Hong Kong

Professor Wah Kit LAM, FRCP Edin
Chair, Professor and Chief of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong

E-mail: lamwk@hkucc.hku.hk

Biographical information:

Graduated MBBS and MD, Hong Kong, and Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiothoracic Institute, Brompton Hospital, London 1978-79
Chair Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Hong Kong (1997 - )
Honorary Consultant Physician, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong (1984 - )
President, Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (2002-04)
Founding Chairman, Hong Kong Lung Foundation
Vice-President, Hong Kong College of Physicians (2004 - )
Chairman, MRCP (UK) Examination Co-ordinating Committee, Hong Kong (1995 - 2004)
Chairman, National and International Liaison Committee,
Hong Kong College of Physicians (1999 - )
International Adviser, Royal College of Physicians of London and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

India - Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala

Professor B M Hegde, MD, FRCPE, FRCP, FRCPG, FRCPI, FACC, FAMS
Retired Vice Chancellor, Manipal, India.

Email: hegdebm@gmail.com

Biographical Information:

Having had his graduate and postgraduate medical education in India, Professor Hegde trained in cardiology at the Middlesex Hospital, Harefield, the National Heart Hospital, London and the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. He has taught in Mangalore and in numerous countries. Now retired, he and his wife live in Mangalore. He holds visiting professorships in India, UK and the USA.

Professor Hegde has written 30 books and published more than 245 research articles. He examined for 10 years for the College’s membership examination and continues to examine for the RCP Ireland. Health education of lay people is his passion.

India - North and Central Regions of India
(ie for Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Punjab, Sikkim and Uttar Pradesh)

Dr S J Gupta FRCP Edin
Honorary Senior Consultant Rheumatologist, Sant Parmanand Hospital, Civil Lines, Delhi, and
Apollo Indraprastha Hospital, New Delhi and HC Gupta Memorial Clinic, New Delhi.

Email: sirindergupta@gmail.com

Biographical Information:

Graduated Delhi University, 1977
Consultant in Delhi since 1986, practice confined primarily to Rheumatology
Trained Internal Medicine and Rheumatology- UK: 1978 to 1986 at Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Inverness, Brighton and Edinburgh, respectively
Currently, President: Delhi Rheumatology Association; Treasurer: Indian Rheumatology Association; Editorial board: Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association

India - Tamil Nadu

Professor Krishnamoorthy Srinivas
Emeritus Professor, Chairman Institute of Neurological Sciences VHS Medical Centre, Chennai

Email: vhsneuro@eth.net

Biographical Information:

Professor Krishnamoorthy Srinivas was educated at the University of Madras, in the United Kingdom and Canada. He holds the degree of Doctor of Medicine in Neurology (DM) from the University of Madras. He is a Fellow of all three Royal Colleges (Glasgow, Edinburgh and London). He is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the Indian Academy of Medical Sciences.

He was elected to Honorary Membership of both the American Neurological Association (2003) and the American Academy of Neurology (2005). He has over 50 publications in regular and peer journals and has given over 100 presentations at national and international meetings.

India - West Bengal

Professor Dilip Kumar Mazumdar FRCP Edin
Professor of Medicine, Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences, Calcutta University

Email: rkmsp@cal2.vsnl.net.in

Biographical Information:

Consultant in internal medicine, including acute medicine, at Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan since 1988
Registrar at Roodlands Hospital, Haddington, UK
Fellow, Indian Academy of Medical Specialities (cardiology) – 1991
FRCP London – 1995
Fellow, Indian College of Cardiology – 1995
Fellow, Indian College of Physicians – 1996
Regional Adviser, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh – 1999
International Adviser, Royal College of Physicians of London – 2000
Member of Association of Physicians of India
Member of Cardiological Society of India
Examiner, Diplomate National Board of Examinations (2003)

Jamaica

Professor Owen Morgan, FRCP Edin
Neurologist, Professor of Medicine (Emeritus) and Dean (Emeritus), University of the West Indies

Email:; ostcmorgan@yahoo.com

Biographical Information:

Professor Morgan is Honorary Consultant Physician at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica, where he served from 1999-2005 as Head of the Department of Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Mona Campus, University of the West Indies.; Although retired he continues to take an active part in clinical work and to study the HTLV-1 associated neurological disorders on which he has published extensively.

Professor Morgan has been Chair of a number of committees to the government of Jamaica and is the recipient of many national awards including the Order of Jamaica (O.J.). He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Ireland and London and Master of the American College of Physicians.

Jordan

Professor Ammar Mubaidin FRCP Edin
Consultant physician and neurologist, King Hussein Medical Centre, Amman

E-mail: drammar@orange.jo

Biographical information:

Consultant, King Hussein Medical Centre since 1995
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology, Jordan University since 1995.
Chief of the Professional Training Division, Directorate of Royal Medical Services since 2001
Clinical and research interest – published more than 40 articles in national and international journals. Main interest is demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system and neurogenetic disorders. Author of many new neurogenetic syndromes discovered in last 10 years.
Jordanian Board Examiner in adult & paediatric neurology
Member of the Jordanian Surveillance Committee for microcephaly since 1998
Member of the Research Audiology Council/Jordan University since 2001
Member of Jordanian Surveillance CJD Unit since 1999

Kenya

Dr Joseph A Aluoch FRCP Edin, FRCP Glas
Consultant Chest Physician, The Nairobi Hospital
Vice Chairman, Nairobi Hospital Board of Management
Patron, Kenya Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases

Email: j.aluoch@africaonline.co.ke

Biographical Information:

Past Chairman, Kenya Association of Physicians
Past Chairman, Kenya Medical Association
Member, WHO Expert Committee TB Control in Africa
Member, Task Force for Asthma Sub-Saharan Africa
Previous Director, Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases Research Centre, Nairobi
Current Interest: Asthma, Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

Libya

Professor Giuma M El-Bozedi, FRCP Edin, FRCP Glasg
Senior consultant physician and professor of medicine at Al-Fateh University, Faculty of Medicine, Tripoli

Email: g_bozedi@hotmail.com

Biographical Information:

Graduated from Ain Shams University, Egypt in December 1975
After house jobs, travelled to the UK
Passed MRCP (UK) in February 1982
Worked in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle
Specialised in gastroenterology as a sub-specialty
Returned to Libya in September 1984
Upgraded to be on hospital medical staff and university teaching staff
Now based at Tripoli’s Medical Centre – the largest in the capital with 1,200 beds
Research interests are viral hepatitis, treatment of peptic ulcer disease and hydatid liver disease
Examiner for the finals MBBCh, the Arab Board and the Libyan Board

Malta

Myra K Tilney MD FRCP Edin, FRCP, FACP, FEFIM,MBA(Henley)
Consultant Physician, Dept of Primary Health Care/Dept of Medicine
Senior Lecturer, Dept of Medicine, University of Malta Medical Schoo

Email: myra.tilney@um.edu.mt

Biographical Information:

Myra Tilney trained in Malta, the United Kingdom and Belgium; she qualified with Distinction in Medicine from the University of Malta in 1984; MRCP(UK) in 1989, FEFIM in 2000, Dip Mgt (Henley) in 2001 and MBA (Henley) in 2003 (on scholarship).

Her main interests include cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, and quality of care improvement. She is Examiner for MRCP(UK) PACES and MD (Malta). She has sat on various educational and professional committees including the University of Malta, Association of Physicians of Malta, Commonwealth Medical Association and Medical Association of Malta.

Her outside interests include classical music, swimming, and walking holidays with her family.

Myanmar

Professor Nyunt Thein, MBBS, FRCP Edin
Professor and Head of Department of Medicine, University of Medicine, Yangon

Email: drnt@yangon.net.mm

Biographical Information:

After postgraduate pathology training worked as an assistant lecturer and pathologist. Following local and UK training and MRCP, held various posts in Department of Medicine; before; assuming his current post at Myanmar’s largest and oldest medical institution..; He was also awarded diplomas in pathology and medical education from the University of Medicine (1), Yangon.; Professor Nyunt Thein is a Member of Postgraduate Courses of Medicine and Allied Medical Specialties of all Universities of Medicine, Member of Myanmar’s Drug Advisory Committee/FDA, President of Myanmar Medical Association’s Internal Medicine Society, a Member of its Proceedings Editorial Board and a Member of Curriculum Committee for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses in Universities of Medicine.

Special Interest – Medical education

Hobbies – meditation and writing experiences as teacher and physician

New Zealand
(ie, for the South Island, Wellington, Wairarapa, Manawatu, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay and Central Plateau)

Dr Simon G Allan FRCP Edin
Consultant Medical Oncologist and Palliative Care Physician, Palmerston North Hospital, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Email: simon.allan@midcentraldhb.govt.nz

Biographical Information:

Consultant Medical Oncologist since 1989 at the Regional Cancer Treatment Service, Palmerston North
Palliative Care Physician, Arohanui Hospice, Palmerston North since 1992
Clinical Director of Regional Cancer Treatment Service, Palmerston North since 2001
Medical Director and Director of Palliative Care, Arohanui Hospice, Palmerston North
Chair, National Health Promotion Committee, New Zealand Cancer Society
Clinical Advisor to Hospice New Zealand

Pakistan - Karachi, Sindh and Baluchistan

Dr Syed Hasnain Ali Shah, MBBS 1980, MRCP(UK) 1988, FACG (USA) 1996,
FRCP(Edin) 1997, MD(Edin) 2002
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, The Aga Khan University, Karachi

Email: hasnain.alishah@aku.edu

Biographical Information:

Medical College - King Edward Medical College, Lahore
Specialist Interest - Gastroenterology/Hepatology;
Training in GI/Hepatology (Registrar), Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Research Interest - Portal Hypertension
Examiner for FCPS (Pakistan) Diploma Examination - an exit examination
Member, Faculty of Gastroenterology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan.
Examiner MRCP (UK) PACES examination
Member, Asian Council of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver
Currently, Vice-President, Pakistan Society of Hepatology

Pakistan - North West Frontier Province

Professor Sultan Mahmood FRCP Edin
Professor of Medicine, Khyber Medical College Peshawar

Senior Consultant Physician in charge of an acute medical unit
and ICU, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar

Email: sultan_mahmood@hotmail.com

Biographical Information:

1975 - graduated from Khyber Medical College; awarded university gold medal and President of Pakistan academic award
Postgraduate training in the UK; 1978 - DTM & H (London School of Tropical Medicine) and 1982 - MRCP (UK)
1991 - University of Oohashi, Tokyo; trained in advance GI endoscopy
1995 – FRCP Edin
Current interests - reforming undergraduate and promoting postgraduate medical education.
Director of Medical Education and in process of reforming his institution’s medical education system
Editor, Journal of Medical Sciences
Numerous publications on general medicine and medical education
Former Vice President, Pakistan Society of Gastroenterology; pioneered the initiative for prevention of hepatitis through safe blood transfusion in Pakistan
Examiner FCPS

Qatar

Professor Dirk Deleu, MD, PhD, FAAN, FRCP Edin
Head of Neurology & Neurophysiology Hamad Medical Corporation and
Professor Clinical Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Email: ddeleu@hmc.org.qa

Biographical information:

MD - University (Vrije Universiteit) Brussels, Belgium, 1983
Belgian/European Board Certified Neurologist, 1988
M.Sc. Medical & Pharmaceutical Research - University Brussels, 1990
PhD - University Brussels, 1994
Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology 2000
FRCP Edin 2002
Formerly held positions:
Director of Movement Disorders Clinic, University Hospital Brussels
Consultant Neurologist and Head of Clinical Pharmacology, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman (1993-2003)
Member of several editorial and review boards including Journal of Neurological Sciences
Published over 150 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals and educational neurology website (www.neuroweb.us)
Has a passion for languages

Saudi - East of Saudi Arabia
(including Riyadh and Bahrain)

Dr Safaa Al Essa FRCP Edin
Consultant Paediatrician, St. John’s Hospital, Livingston (from February 2005)
Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

Email (RCP Edinburgh): c.gray@rcpe.ac.uk

Biographical Information:

Worked in the Al Hammadi Hospital, Riyadh, lectured at Edinburgh University and Ninewells Hospital, Dundee; also worked in Kirkcaldy and at Edinburgh’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Continues to be actively involved in teaching at the latter hospital (including bedside clinical teaching).

Taught in the annual Diploma of Paediatrics Course – held jointly in Saudi Arabia between Edinburgh University and the Ministry of Health - and in 54 courses and seminars at the Al Hammadi Hospital, Riyadh. Contributed to the establishment of the Annual Al Hammadi Lectures at the RCP Edinburgh and the RCS Edinburgh.

Interests are teaching (lecturing), human behaviour (particularly in relation to child abuse and communication skills)

Examiner for the MRCP (UK), PLAB and for the Arab and Saudi Board.

Singapore

Professor Yam Cheng Chee FRCP Edin
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore Senior Physician, Department of General Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

Email: Yam_Cheng_Chee@ttsh.com.sg

Biographical Information:

He was Past Master of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 1998-2000 and is a Fellow of the three UK Colleges, Australasian and American College of Physicians. As one of the senior General Physicians here, he chairs the Specialist Training Committee in Internal Medicine, which selects, appoints, tracks and approves training programs for Basic and Advanced Trainees in Internal Medicine. This training used to take on average 6 years, but has been shortened to 5 years for the majority and 4 years for the exceptional ones.

South Africa - Northern Area

Professor Arnold Christianson FRCP Edin
Medical geneticist, Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

E-mail: arnold.christianson@nhls.ac.za

Biographical information:

Arnold Christianson qualified in medicine from the University of Zimbabwe in 1974, trained as a paediatrician at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, and moved into medical genetics in 1990.

His current interests are the global epidemiology and burden of congenital disorders and the development of medical genetic services appropriate for middle- and low-income nations. He is an expert advisor to the WHO’s Human Genetic Programme and Genomic Resource Centre.

Other interests include travel (which his position fortunately enables him to do) reading, trout fishing and, on rare occasions when nothing needs to be done, contemplating what it is really all about.

South Africa - Southern Area

Dr Andrew Hampden Girdwood FRCP Edin
Gastroenterologist, Vincent Pallotti Hospital and
part-time consultant and senior lecturer, Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town

Email: girdwood@iafrica.com

Biographical Information:

Undergraduate training at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Postgraduate training in Dumfries, Scotland and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town
Consultant since 1981
Clinical and research interest in Pancreatology and Interventional ERCP
Member of the South African Gastroenterology Association
Member of the International Association of Pancreatology
Member of the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Sri Lanka

Dr J B Peiris
“JB'”is Sri Lanka’s senior consultant neurologist and has been Regional Adviser for over 20 years.

Email: jbpeiris@hotmail.com

Biographical Information:

He is a Past President of the Ceylon College of Physicians, the Sri Lanka Medical Association and the Sri Lanka United Kingdom Society. He was instrumental in founding Colombo’s 4 floor Institute of Neurology - in 3 years, entirely from public donations. From 1996 to 2002 he was Dean of Postgraduate Studies at the National Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo and Chairman of the 1001 bed Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital (donated by the Japanese Government to the Sri Lankan people). He has written two books and over 30 papers to peer reviewed journals.

Sudan

Dr I A H Ismail FRCP Edin

Email: tubra716@hotmail.com

Biographical Information:

Qualifications:

MBBS University of Khartoum, Sudan 1982.
MRCPI (Dublin) 1991.
MRCP (UK) 1992.
Member of British Thoracic Society (BTS).
FRCP( Edinburgh) 2004.
FRCPI 2004.
Fellow of American College of Chest Physicians (FACCP) (USA).
Member of Undersea and Hyperbaric Oxygen Society (USA).
Adviser to RCP Edinburgh since 2005.

Posts:

Currently Head of Consultancy Council of Respiratory Medicine and Chief of Respiratory Medicine Department Ministry of Health, Sudan.

Previously:

Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of Medical Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Omdurman Islamic University.
Honorary Consultant Physician, Omdurman Teaching hospital.
Consultant Physician with special interest in respiratory medicine and in drugs of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, King Khalid Hospital, Najran, Saudia Arabia.

Thailand

Professor Pinit Kullavanijaya, MBChB(Leeds), DTM.&H (Liverpool), MRCP(UK), FIMS, NDC, FRCP (Edin, Glas, Lon, Thailand), FAMM, FACG, FACP (Hon), FRACP(Hon), FAMS, FRCPI
Secretary - General, Medical Council of Thailand 2003-2005, 2005 -
Director, Thai Red Cross Youth Bureau, Thai Red Cross Society, since 8 October 2003

Email: pinitkul@hotmail.com

Biographical information:

House Officer to Professor Sir R.E. Tunbridge. St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, 1965-1966
SHO to Dr G N Chandler, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds 1966-1968
Registrar to Dr D JKinloch, Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, Middlesex 1968-1970
Fellow in Gastroenterology with Sir Francis Avery-Jones, Central Middlesex Hospital 1970-1971
Honorary Lecturer with Professor Dame Sheila Sherlock, Royal Free Hospital, London 1980
President, The Royal College of Physicians of Thailand 1994-1996, 2002-2004
President, Thai Board of Internal Medicine 1996-2001
Council Member, Asia Pacific Gastroenterology Association

Trinidad & Tobago

Dr Rasheed Rahaman, FRCP Edin, CMT
Consultant Cardiologist

Email: drrasheedrahaman@tstt.net.tt

Biographical Information:

Consultant cardiologist since 1981
Presently in private practice at the Southern Specialist Clinic, San Fernando
Sessional cardiologist at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex and San Fernando General Hospital
Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Trinidad
Former Medical Chief of Staff and Head of Cardiology at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex

United Arab Emirates - Dubai

Professor J M Muscat-Baron, MD BPharm, FRCP (Lond), FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Glasg)
Consultant Physician and Cardiologist, Department of Health and Medical Sciences, Dubai

Email: jmbaron@dohms.gov.ae

Biographical Information:

Born Malta
Trained at Royal University of Malta
Originally studied pharmacy and qualified in medicine in 1958
Held Registrar and Senior Registrar posts in Lancashire, Dundee and Newcastle
Previously consultant in general medicine and cardiology in Halifax and in Leeds, UK
Currently Clinical Dean and Professor of Medicine, Dubai Medical College
Director of Dubai MRCP (UK) Office
MRCP host and examiner from 2001 to date

Unites States of America - North East USA

Dr Gary H. Lyman MD, MPH, FRCP Edin
Director of Health Services and Outcomes Research in Oncology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Email: gary.lyman@duke.edu

Biographical Information:

Dr Gary Lyman is Director of Health Services and Outcomes Research in Oncology at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina and a Senior Fellow in the Duke Centre for Clinical Health Policy Research. Previously, Dr Lyman served as Professor of Medicine and Oncology, University of Rochester and Thomas Ordway Professor of Medicine, Albany Medical College in New York and Chief of Medicine, H Lee Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Florida. Dr Lyman holds fellowships in the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), the American College of Physicians, the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the American College of Preventive Medicine.

Unites States of America - Western USA

Dr Moira Aitken
Attending physician at the University of Washington Medical Centre
Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Programme

Email: moira@u.washington.edu

Biographical Information:

Moira Aitken qualified in medicine from Edinburgh in 1978. She completed four years as a House Officer, Senior House Officer and Registrar in Edinburgh prior to completing a Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1985.

Her clinical duties include attending physician at the University of Washington Medical Centre and Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Programme. Her research interests are in clinical and translational research of cystic fibrosis.

She is a member of the Cystic Fibrosis Centre Directors Committee and is the elected adult Cystic Fibrosis representative for that committee.

Her outside interests include hiking and ski-ing but primarily focus on the activities of her two children.

West Africa

Dr Adesola Ogunniyi FRCP Edin
Professor of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Consultant Physician and Neurologist, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

Email: aogunniyi53@yahoo.com
aogunniyi@comui.edu.ng
ogunniyi@skannet.com

Biographical information:

Qualified as a doctor in 1978
Residency training at the University College Hospital, Ibadan (1980-5)
Neuroepidemiology Fellowship at the NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA (1986-7)
Clinical & Research Interests: Tropical Neurology, Dementia, Epilepsy
Member, World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Dementia
Assistant Editor, African Journal of Medicine and medical science (2004-)

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