Further Information
I am a Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. I studied at the University of Edinburgh between 1997-2002 and trained in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham and Johns Hopkins Hospital in the USA before taking up my Consultant post in 2011. I have a strong interest in promoting EDI within organisations to ensure opportunities are equal and all individuals feel the same sense of belonging. I have been involved in a Fairness Taskforce across University Hospitals Birmingham for many years, set up to promote diversity and inclusion across the organisation, and we were shortlisted for the ‘Diversity team of the year’ at the recent British Diversity Awards. Some of its achievements include adoption of reciprocal mentoring programs, debiasing of recruitment processes which have resulted in improvements in WDES indicators for the likelihood of disabled staff being appointed from shortlisting, adoption of a Trust anti-racist statement and many more. I hope to bring that experience to the RCPE EDI Group in our efforts to ensure equality, diversity, and inclusion across the College.