Speakers
Simon Hodkinson
Lesley Kay
Sheona Macleod
Tim Mitchell
Fergal Monsell
BOA Session
Chairs: Simon Hodkinson & Fergal Monsell
Simon trained in London at St Bartholomew’s Hospital from 1977-82.
He was a Royal Naval cadet as a medical student so after house jobs in London and the Navy he spent the next two and a half years on General Duties in the Royal Navy.
After a crash course in all sorts of medical disasters he might face at sea, he went to the Falklands and Antarctica for the best part of a year before spending the second year in general practice in a Naval base.
Simon started his surgical training within the Navy in 1986 and in 1990 joined the fledgling HEMS project at the London as one of the original three Drs flying on the helicopter.
His higher training took him out of the Navy to Edinburgh and Leeds before being appointed a Consultant in the Navy in 1995.
Deployments to Cyprus, Bosnia and the Gulf intermingled with his early career and he then left the Navy in 1999 to join the NHS in Portsmouth.
In the NHS he developed his fledgling interest in foot and ankle surgery, which rapidly became him chosen speciality as the department expanded.
After a period as clinical director in Portsmouth his interest in education started as the RCS Tutor and progressed to being the Training Programme Director for T&O in Wessex for 8 years and membership of the SAC for 5 years.
His involvement with the BOA began with being elected to the Training Standards Committee, as was and then the Education committee.
Elected as a Trustee in 2017 he became Honorary Secretary in 202O and then elected to the Presidential line in September 2021.
Dr Lesley Kay is a Consultant Rheumatologist in Newcastle upon Tyne, the joint National Clinical Lead for Rheumatology in the Getting It Right First Time Programme, Vice Chair of the Northern Clinical Senate Council and a trustee of the National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society. She was previously acting Medical Director and deputy Medical Director at the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch, Clinical Director for Musculoskeletal Services and for Patient Safety and Quality in her trust, and Chair of the British Society for Rheumatology’s Clinical Affairs committee. She has master’s degrees in public health and in Leadership and Quality Improvement.
Professor Sheona Macleod is NHS England’s Director of Education and Training.
She worked clinically as a General Practitioner, an Occupational Health Advisor to a number of regional industries, as Clinical Assistant in the local community hospital, and as a Medical Officer for Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) service.
She was appointed as GP Dean in 2009 and Postgraduate Dean in September 2012. She was also the Regional Director of Education and Quality from 2013 to 2014 and was appointed as Deputy Medical Director in October 2017. Sheona covered the Interim Medical Director and Director of Education and Quality role in HEE during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 and was responsible for the successful development and delivery of COVID 19 Training Recovery programme.
Sheona led the Future Doctor review and is responsible for a number of national working groups focussing on how to accelerate improvements in education and training including the Enhancing Doctors Working Lives Programme and the Educator Workforce programme.
Tim Mitchell is a Consultant ENT Surgeon at University Hospital Southampton. He has a subspecialty practice in otology and undertakes cochlear implant and other auditory implant surgery as part of the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service.
He has a major interest in training and assessment. He was a member of the Specialist Advisory Committees in Otolaryngology and Audiovestibular Medicine from 2012-2017. He has been a MRCS examiner since 2004 and was Chair of the Court of Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2014-2017, with experience of examining in the UK, Egypt, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
Mr Mitchell has been a member of the Council of the British Society of Otology. In 2017, he was elected to the Council of RCS England, served as Vice President from 2020 to 2023 and was elected as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2023.
He has been a strong advocate for equality through the recruitment of female surgeons as MRCS examiners and through the support of Women in Surgery and Women in ENT Surgery. As Vice President, he led on the implementation of RCS England’s response to the Kennedy report. He is one of only 5 men to be awarded Honorary Membership of the Medical Women’s Federation.
Fergal Monsell graduated without distinction from the Welsh National School of Medicine. He completed higher surgical training at the University of Manchester and has been a Consultant at the Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol since 2004. He is involved in the management of paediatric patients with a special interest in limb deformity and trauma.
He has made a greater than average contribution to the canon of lower-level evidence and has been awarded degrees at Master and Doctorate level.
He has a longstanding interest in education, is Director of the Avon Centre for Musculoskeletal Education and Projector at the Grand Academy.
Gill Tierney is the President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI), the second female in 100 years. She is Head of the School of Surgery in the East Midlands and a clinical advisor to NHSE on the extended team in surgery. She has held an honorary chair at Nottingham University, continues to supervise PhD candidates and publishes in the field of improving outcomes in surgery. Her clinical interests are in colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. Her research interests are in improving outcomes in emergency surgery, surgical training, and the extended surgical team. She examines the intercollegiate FRCS, is a member of the general surgery SAC and has strong links with the ACPGBI, NELA and GIRFT. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a fellow ad hominem of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She is passionate about making a career in surgery accessible to all, irrespective of characteristics, in order to attract and retain a breadth of skills and talent within the profession. She regularly engages in outreach work with medical schools and secondary schools to facilitate this aim . She is a natural communicator and has delivered invited lectures on these topics to professional societies, politicians and industry leaders.