RCP 2025 elections - president

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As CVP, he is a member of the RCP senior leadership team, with specific responsibility for the college’s strategic aim of improving health and care, as well as overseeing the work of the Care Quality Improvement Directorate.

As clinical director for quality improvement and patient safety, and then improvement clinical director at the RCP from 2017, he represented the college and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges on a number of NHS improvement boards and provided leadership to several RCP patient safety and quality improvement programmes.

In East Lancashire, he works across the health and care system, leading service improvement. He works clinically as a consultant physician in acute and general medicine and diabetes.

He has previously worked in improvement initiatives across the Department of Health, royal colleges, NHS NW, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the Health Foundation.  He was faculty and non-executive board member of the Advancing Quality Alliance.  He was previously medical director of NHS Bolton, clinical director of medical and elderly service for Bolton Hospitals, and clinical lead for diabetes services in Bolton.

He is a Health Foundation/IHI fellow and Q fellow.

Email: clinicalvp@rcp.ac.uk

He has been a consultant in diabetes and endocrinology for 15 years and continues to work in acute and community trusts in this specialty.

He is national specialty advisor for diabetes with NHS England and co-author of the diabetes GIRFT report, having led on widespread adoption of technology in Type 1 Diabetes. He also passionately believes in tackling issues of racial disparity in the medical workforce and recently authored an action plan on behalf of NHS England – working with the General Medical Council, British Medical Association and NHS Employers aiming to improve the inequalities, while also working to ensure fairer treatment of international medical graduates in the NHS.

She is currently postgraduate associate dean for NHS England, is a director for conduct and progress at the School of Medicine at the University of Liverpool and has recently completed her three year term as RCP global vice president. Mumtaz has also worked as an RCP regional adviser for training, and clinical lead for quality management for the JRCPTB.

After completing her medicine degree at University of Manchester in 1996, Mumtaz went on to pursue a career in renal medicine. She completed her foundation training at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and obtained her MRCP in 2000. She did her renal specialist training in Yorkshire and gained her PhD from the University of Manchester in the genetics of lupus nephritis in 2006. She was appointed as a consultant nephrologist at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2007.

Mumtaz has established a strong track record in education, training, assessment and research. She obtained her Masters in Medical Education in 2014 and leads on national research around assessment, differential attainment, professionalism. She has published and presented widely at national and international conferences. She has designed and delivered several educational and leadership courses in the UK and internationally and is actively involved in assessment as an experienced PACES examiner.

As RCP global vice president, she developed the global strategy, which has made a significant impact on our membership growth over the past two years, increased diversity and established strong networks. She also launched a global women leaders programme, which empowers female physicians to advance into leadership roles.

Professor Saravanan is a professor and honorary consultant physician in diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick and George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton. He is the lead for the diabetes division for the NIHR Clinical Research Network, West Midlands. He is the founder-director of the international Doctoral Training Programme, which focuses on research capacity-building activities in low- and middle-income countries.

Louella is a consultant physician in acute medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust. As senior clinical research fellow at the Nuffield Trust, her research focusses on the organisation of acute and emergency care, smaller and rural hospitals, and patient safety.

She is also a medical historian and the current Harveian librarian of the RCP.

Dr Ajay Verma is a consultant gastroenterologist working in Kettering, Northamptonshire, where he was appointed in 2015. He has specialist interests in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), early colorectal cancer, endoscopy (including endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography – ERCP), and clinical research – he is the research director at Kettering General Hospital and one of the hospital’s chief clinical information officers.

In 2019, Ajay was appointed gastroenterology specialty lead for the NIHR Clinical Research CRN East Midlands. Having previously served as chair of the RCP New Consultants Committee, he is currently an elected RCP councillor, and a member of the Medical Specialties Board and Joint Specialty Committee for Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Ajay is chair of the British Society of Gastroenterology’s colorectal section and member of the endoscopy clinical research group. He is also a member of the Midlands Gastroenterological Society executive committee.