Who makes the decisions?

A

Mrs Sirah Abraham

LLB (Hons)

Lay  

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Justice Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

Dr Barry Adams-Strump

MBChB, FRCGP, DFM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security Appeals; Former Senior Partner, Midlock Medical Centre; Former Chairman, Glasgow LMC; Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Vishal Agrawal

MBBS, MRCPsych, DPM

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2014; Tribunal Member since 2011; Consultant Psychiatrist, Essex Partnership University, NHS Foundation Trust; Former Clinical Director, Essex Partnership University, NHS Foundation Trust; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society.

Mrs Anjali Ahluwalia

MD, FRCOG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, University Hospital of South Manchester Foundation Trust, Manchester; Former Clinical Director, Women and Children Services, University Hospital of South Manchester (UHSM); Fellow, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), London; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, British Medical Association.

Mrs Fareth Ahmed

BA (Hons)

Lay 

Tribunal Member since 2023; Litigation Manager, Home Office.

Dr Iftikhar Ahmed

MA (Medical Ethics & Law), MBBS, MCPS, FCPS, FCARCSI, FRCA, MSc (Healthcare Leadership)

Medical 

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Anaesthetist, Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Former Consultant Anaesthetist, Hull & East Yorkshire NHS Trust (2009 – 2015); Member, Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association; Member, Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland. 

Mrs Remi (Oluremi) Alabi

LLB (Law)

Lay 

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Crown Prosecuting Solicitor, Crown Prosecution Service; Panel Member, Teachers Regulatory Agency; Member, The Law Society.

Professor John (Juan) Alcolado

DM, BM (Hons), FRCP

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2015; Medical Examiner, NHS Wales Shared Services; Consultant Physician, Royal Derby Hospital; Interim Dean, Medical Education, Aston Medical School; Deputy Head, Aston Medical School; Former Head of Division, Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine; Former Executive Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Life Sciences, University of Chester (2020 – 2023); Former Deputy Head, School of Medicine, Nottingham University School of Medicine; Former Head, Graduate Entry Medicine, University of Nottingham.

Mrs Jillian Alderwick

BA (Hons), MSc

Lay  

Tribunal Member since 2014; Independent Member, Appeals Board, Ministry of Defence (MOD); Substantive career in NHS Public Health and General Management; Lay member for a variety of regulatory bodies.

Ms Sally Allbeury

BA (Hons) 

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Financial Ombudsman, Service Parole Board of England and Wales, Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Dr Shazad Amin

MBChB, FRCPsych 

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2012; Deputy Chair, Muslim Engagement & Development; Expert Witness in Adult Psychiatry; Retired Consultant Psychiatrist; Former Specialist Adviser, Care Quality Commission.

Mrs Nasreen Anderson

BA (Hons) (Anthropology & Law), PG Dip (Legal Practice), Roll of Solicitors (2009)

Lay  

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Case Manager, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Lay Panel Member, General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS); Lay Representative, NHS Education for Scotland; Working Official (Judge), Boxing Scotland; Coach, Lochend Boxing Club; Former Legal Officer, The Royal College of Nursing (RCN); Former Lawyer, NMC; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL).

Dr Saqib (Mohammed) Anwar

MBChB, FRCGP, MASC, Dip (SpI), DFSRH, PG Dip (Med Ed)

Medical 

Tribunal Member since 2012; Associate Medical Director, NHS England (Central Midlands); GP Partner; Clinical Tutor & Honorary Fellow, University of Leicester; Council Member and Ex-officio Vice Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Leicester; GP and Foundation Trainer, HEEM; Specialist Advisor for Primary Care, Care Quality Commission (CQC); Member, Justice of the Peace; Member, Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee.

Ms Jenny Appleton

LLB, Bar Vocational Diploma, QLTS

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber (Mental Health); Legal Adviser, Magistrates Court, Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Trustee, UK-Med.

Mrs Catherine Audcent

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2012; Member of Investigation Committee, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA); Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Social Work England; Lay Chair, Disciplinary Committee, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

B

Dr Shri (Srinivasarao) Babarao

MBBS, MD (Paed), DCH, MSc, FRCPCH, PGCME, PGCML

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Neonatologist, Liverpool Neonatal Partnership, Liverpool Women’s Hospital & Alder Hey Children’s Hospital; Chair, Specialty Trainee Assessment of Readiness for Tenure (START) Committee, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); Independent Neonatal Care Reviewer, Maternity Investigations, Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust; Assessor, RCPCH START, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); Examiner (Membership Exam), RCPCH; PLAB-2 Examiner, GMC; Neonatal Subject Matter Advisor, Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB); Freedom-To-Speak-Up Guardian, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust; Appraiser, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust; Appointments Advisory Committee (AAC), RCPCH; Course Director & Instructor, Newborn Life Support (NLS), Resuscitation Council; Instructor, Generic Instructor Course (GIC), Resuscitation Council; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO); Member, Certificate of Eligibility to the Specialist Register (CESR) Committee, RCPCH; Member, TQB (Training & Quality Board), RCPCH.

Dr Marta Babores (Babores Raset)

LMS, MRCP, FRCP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Physician, East Cheshire NHS Trust; Member, Royal College of Physicians; Member, British Thoracic Society; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Gennaro Baffa

FCILEx

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Director, Shepherd Harris & Co LTD; Chair, Independent Review Panel (Exclusions), Hertfordshire County Council.

Dr Liz (Elizabeth) Ball

MRCGP, MBChB, DRCOG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; GP with special interest in substance misuse; GP appraiser, West Midlands and Black Country; Former Clinical Adviser, General Pharmaceutical Council; Former Clinical Adviser, General Optical Council; Former Tribunal Chair, MPTS (2014-2019); Member, Royal College of GPs; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union.

Mrs Fiona Barnett

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Solicitor; Independent Legal Assessor, General Dental Council; Independent Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Independent Legal Assessor, Association for Chartered Certified Accountants; Independent Legal Assessor, Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors; Former External Clerk, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; Former Crown Prosecutor, Senior Crown Prosecutor and Divisional Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service, West Yorkshire; Former Associate Solicitor, Walker Morris Solicitors, Leeds; Former External Clerk, Architects Registration Board; Former Tribunal Member, GMC and MPTS (2006-2017); Former Tribunal Chair, MPTS (2014-2017); Former Legally Qualified Chair, MPTS (2015-2017); Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.

Ms Christina Baron

BSc

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Member, General Synod, Church of England; Elected Member, Crown Nominations Commission; Retired University Lecturer; Former Lay Chair, Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education Boards, London Deanery (2010-2014); Former Council Member, Nursing & Midwifery Council (2007-2010); Former Lay Reviewer, CHI/Healthcare Commission (2002-2007); Former Interim Chair, North Somerset Primary Care Trust (2004-2005); Former Chair, Somerset Partnership NHS & Social Care Trust (1997-2004); Former Mayor of Wells.

Dr Richard Bateman

MBChB, DMCC, FCARCSI, AFICM, FCMI

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant in Cardiac Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, University Hospitals Bristol, NHS Foundation Trust; Member, Royal Naval Reserve.

Miss Gill (Gillian) Batts

LLB (Law), BVC

Lay 

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Self-Employed Barrister, Park Square Barristers; Former Member, New Park Court Chambers until 2012.

Dr Jennifer Bedford

MB ChB, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, Stanhope Mews West Surgery, London; Performance Lead, NWL; Performance Lead, London Central and West Unscheduled Care Collaborative; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society. 

Dr Jill Belch OBE

MBChB, MD (Hons), FRCP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Professor, University of Dundee; Member, Advisory and Speakers Boards, Amgen & Bayer Pharmaceutical Companies; Clinical Trail PI/adjudicator, Rexgenero; Trustee of Health-related charity, Scottish Heart and Arterial Risk Prevention (SHARP); Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences.

Dr Juliet Bennett

MBChB, MRCGP (Distinction), DRCOG, DFSRH, PGCME

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, The Meadows Medical Practice; GP Appraiser, Appraisal and Revalidation Team, NHS England Midlands (Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire); Former Salaried GP roles, Shropshire (2003-2011); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.

Miss Rachel Birks

LLB (Hons), Dip (Legal Practice), Dip (Management)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Partner, Ward Hadaway Law Firm; Chair, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Governor, Parrs Wood High School; Former Trustee, Greater Manchester Learning Trust; Former Volunteer, Quality and Assurance Team, St Johns Ambulance (2018-2019); Former Employee and Director, Fieldfisher LLP (2007-2016); Former employee, General Medical Council (2003-2007); Former employee, Berrymans Lace Mawer (1998-2003); Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, Women in the Law UK.

Mrs Ann Bishop

LLB (First Class Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Retired Solicitor (1980-2010).

Dr Dawn Black

MBChB, MSc, MD, FRCPsych

Medical

Medical Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant Psychiatrist, North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (5 Boroughs Partnership); Medical Member, Mental Health Review Tribunal; Psychiatric Member, Parole Board for England and Wales.

Mrs Valerie Blessington

BSc (Sociology), MA, Dip (SW)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2012; Independent Social Worker; Former Head of Service, CAFCASS (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service).

Mr Simon Bond

LLB (Hons), LLM, FCIArb

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Director, Bond Legal Ltd; Associate Consultant, Ibex Gale Ltd; Licence Committee Member, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; Former Partner, Higgs & Sons solicitors; Member, Law Society, England and Wales; Member, Employment Lawyers Association; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

.

Mrs Emma Boothroyd

LLB, BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Non-Practising Barrister; Solicitor;  Financial Ombudsman; Case Examiner, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Legal Assessor, General Optical Council; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council; Independent Complaints Assessor, Phone Paid Services Authority; Legally Qualified Chair, Conduct Competence Committee, Architects Registration Board; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels, Wales; Former Investigating Committee Member, General Medical Council; Former Chair, Fitness to Practice Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Adjudicator, Solicitors Regulation Authority. 

Dr Candida Borsada

BSc, MBChB

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Medically Qualified Panel Member, Social Security and Child Support, HM Court Tribunal Service (HMCTS); Regional Medical Appraiser, Social Security and Child Support Registrar, HMCTS; Former Emergency Medicine Registrar, University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire.

Mr Tim (Timothy) Bradbury

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Member of Chambers, 3PB Barristers' Chambers.

Dr Ronan Brennan

MBBCh, FRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2011; Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, Medical Protection Society.

Mr Geoff (Geoffrey) Brighton

BSc (Hons), Professional Qualification (Chartered Institute of Housing)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Tribunal Member, Bar Tribunal and Adjudication Service, since 2020; Company Secretary, The Penwith Education Trust since 2012; Governor’s Clerk, St Levan School, since 2012; Panel Chair, Judicial Appointments Commission, since 2003; Trustee, CCHT Pension Fund, since 2003; Former Non-Executive Director (NED), Kingston Primary Care Trust; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Housing.

Dr Richard Brighton-Knight

MBChB, MPH

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Medical Director, Change Aesthetics Ltd.

Dr Deborah Brooke

MRCGP, MRCPsych, MPhil, MD

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Appraisal Lead, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Former Psychiatrist, Practitioner Health Programme; Former Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (1996-2016); Former Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry (1994-1996); Former Senior Registrar, St George's Hospital (1990-1993); Former Psychiatric Registrar, Maudsley Hospital (1987-1990); Former Medical Examiner and Supervisor, General Medical Council; Nottingham Vocational Training Scheme for General Practice (1982-1987); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Dr Maria Broughton

MBChB, MA, FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Ed), MRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Medical Member, Mental Health, Social Entitlement & War Pensions, First-Tier Tribunal; Second Opinion Appointed Doctor, Healthcare Inspectorate, Wales; Medical Member, MHRT Wales; Former Mental Health Act Commissioner, Mental Health Act Commission.

Mr Philip Brown

BA, MA, CiLCA

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Committee Member, Dental Professionals Hearing Service since 2013; Lay Chair, Dental Professionals Hearing Service since 2015; Part-time Aerodrome Flight Information Services Officer, Shobdon Airfield since 2009; Acting Manager, Air Traffic Services Unit, Shobdon Airfield; Former Education Associate, General Medical Council (2003-2013); Former Education Inspector, General Dental Council (2012-2018); Former Academic Registrar, St George’s, University of London (1991-2004).

Dr Frances Burnett

MBChB, BSc, MD, FRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Retired Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist, Clinical Director and Associate Medical Director, Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (1999-2016); Former Elected Member, Eastern Division Executive Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2013-2016); Former Elected Member, General Adult Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2006-2012). 

Dr Hazel Busby-Earle

DDS, MBBS, MRCS (Eng), FRCS (OMFS) (Eng), FFD (OSOM) (RCSI)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; PLAB examiner, General Medical Council since 2018; Clinical Director, Musculoskeletal and Specialist Services; Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, University Hospitals of Leicester, NHS Trust; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland; Fellow, British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Women in Surgery (WINS); Member, Oral Surgery Club of Great Britain; Member, Medical Advisory Committee, Spire Leicester Hospital.

C

Mr Colin Chapman

LLB, Solicitor

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panel; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration & Asylum Chamber, Ministry of Justice; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal, Ministry of Justice; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Security and Child Support.

Mr Stephen Chappell

LLB (Hons), Higher Courts Advocate (Criminal), Solicitor (Non-Practising)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant, Bar Standards Board; Board Member, Valuation Tribunal Service; Lay Panel Member, Primary Care Appeals Service; Associate, Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate; Associate, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services; Lay Panel Member, Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee and Magistrates Conduct Committee; Lay Panel Member, Teaching Regulation Agency; Senior Member, Valuation Tribunal for England; Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, CPS East Midlands (2013-2015); Former Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels (2016-2022); Member, Law Society.

Dr Rehanna Chaudhary

MB ChB, DFSRH, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP, South Yorkshire Area since 2014; GP Appraiser, NHS England, North East and Yorkshire since 2021; Local Medical Committee Member, Doncaster since 2021; GP Mentor, Doncaster Local Medical Committee since 2021; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunals, Social Entitlement Chamber since 2021; GP Mentor, South Yorkshire Supporting Mentors Scheme since 2023; Justice of the Peace, Family Court since 2020; Member, Magistrates Recruitment Advisory Committee since 2021; Former Race Equality Lead, South Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce Training Hub (Mar 2022 – Dec 2022); Former Medicolegal Expert, Soft Tissue Injuries Medco (2019 – 2022); Former PLAB Examiner, General Medical Council (2022 – 2023); Diplomate, Faculty Sexual and Reproductive Health; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Kamran Choudhry

LLB, MPhil (Criminology), LLM, BVC, Bar of England & Wales, New York Bar, Bar of Republic of Ireland

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Trial Lawyer, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Dr Anita Clay 

MBBS, MNIMH

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Medical Member, South West Tribunal Service, Social Entitlement Chamber; Tribunal Member, Fitness to Practise, General Dental Council; Medical Herbalist, Exeter, National Institute of Medical Herbalists.

Mr Andrew Clemes 

MA (Hons) (Oxon)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; Barrister at Law since 1984; Lay Panelist, General Dental Council (GDC) since 2021; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels, Wales since 2020, North East of England since 2020, East of England since 2019; Associate Tenant, Angel Chambers, Swansea; Independent Member, Service Complaints Panel, Ministry of Defence (MOD) since 2018; Tribunal Judge, Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeal Tribunal, HM Courts and Tribunals Service since 2018; Legal Assessor, General Pharmaceutical Council since 2018; Tribunal Judge, Asylum and Immigration Chamber since 2014; Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber since 2013; Editor and Marker, National Association of Paralegals; Former Associate Professor, Swansea University; Former Lay Panellist, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Former Chief Examiner, Criminal Litigation, Bar Standards Board; Member, The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.

Dr Andy (Andrew) Cohen

MBChB (Hons), BSc (Hons), FFICM

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2014; Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Fellow, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, British Medical Association.

Dr Caroline Colaco

MBChB, BSc (Hons), DFSRH, ECFMG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Sessional GP, Greater Manchester Area since 2016; Member, The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare; Member, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Royal College of General Practitioners (2016-2021).

Mr Ian Comfort

QTS, BA (Maths), PG Dip (Law), PG Dip (Professional Legal Skills), LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Commissioner, Criminal Cases Review Commission; Chair, Investigation and Registration Appeal Committees; Chair, Health and Care Profession Tribunal Service; Chair, Cognus Ltd; Magistrate and Presiding Justice, West London Local Justice Area; Member, Investigating Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; Barrister Member, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple; Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Ms Bronwen Cooper 

BA (Applied Social Studies), Cert Qual (Social Work)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Social Worker Adjudicator, Social Work England since 2019; Independent Author and Consultant in Social Care; Lead Reviewer, Multi-Agency Serious Case Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews; Member, British Association of Social Workers (BASW).

Mr Damian Cooper 

BPharm (Hons), MPharm, LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Independent Commercial Lawyer; Former Commercial Partner, DWF LLP; Former Legal Manager, Bupa UK; Former Solicitor, Addleshaw Goddard LLP; Former Regulatory Pharmacist, Zeneca Pharma UK (1995-2000); Former Pharmacist, NHS, DoH, Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA); Member, The Law Society; Member, The Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.

Ms Melissa Coutino

BA (Hons), PG Dip (Law), Degree of the Utter Bar, MSc, PG Dip (Leadership), PPM Practitioner

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Barrister; Senior Lawyer, Government Legal Department; Legal Assessor, Health & Care Professions Tribunal; Legal Adviser, General Optical Council; Non-Executive Director, Windsor Fellowship, Inns Council of Law Reporting, British Cardiovascular Society; Bencher, Lincolns Inn; Vice-President, Women Barrister Association; Former Legal Adviser, Commission on Human Medicine (CHM); Former Legal Adviser, Herbal Medicine Advisory Committee (HMAC); Former Legal Adviser, Advisory Board on the Registration of Homeopathic Products (ABRHP); Former Senior Lawyer, Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA); Member, Bar Council.

Dr Polly Cowan 

BA (Hons) (Law), MA (Social Work), PhD

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Practice Manager, Scottish Adoption; Associate Trainer/Consultant, AFKA Scotland; Associate Tutor, Stirling University; Former Senior Practitioner, Children & Families Social Work Department, City of Edinburgh Council (2013-2015); Former Social Worker, Children's Service, London Borough of Barnet (2006-2013).

Miss Sally Cowen 

LLB (Hons), Bar Vocation Course

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister since 1995; Fee-Paid Employment Judge, Scotland; Fee-Paid Employment Judge, SE England; Director, B3sixty.

Mr Callum Cowx

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Barrister (Non-practicing); First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Temporary Employment Judge; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings; Former, Army Lawyer; Former position, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Mr Patrick Cox

Dip (Professional Legal Studies) (Belfast)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; BCL Solicitor; Director, PC Legal Costs Ltd; Solicitor, Northern Ireland since 1989; Solicitor, England and Wales since 1990; Member, Law Society Criminal Litigation Accreditation Scheme since 2001; Awarded Higher Rights in the criminal courts, Law Society (2005).

Dr Louise (Helen) Crabtree 

FRCP, MD, MBBS, BSc (Hons)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Former Consultant Geriatrician, Gateshead NHS Foundation Trust (Queen Elizabeth Hospital); Member, Royal College of Physicians, London.

Mr Michael Crewe

MA

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2012; Member, Parole Board; Financial Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service; Member, Appeals Panel, CILEX Professional Standards; Member, Need to Sell Panel, HS2; Member, Copyright Tribunal; Magistrate, North West London Bench.

Dr Ian Crighton 

MB Chb, FRCS (ENG), FRCS (GEN)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Fee Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security and Child Support; Former Consultant Surgeon, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (2001 – 2023); Former Consultant Surgeon, City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Trust (1996 – 2001); Member, British Medical Association.

Dr Emily Crosse 

BSc (Hons), MB ChB (Hons), DFSRH, DRCOG, MRCGP, PGCME, FHEA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow, Warwick Medical School; GP, Taurus Healthcare; Medical Member, SEC, Ministry of Justice; Former GP, Hau Green Health; Former GP, Granton Medical Centre; Former role, South Worcester VTS Training (2010 – 2014); Former Role, Birmingham Women’s Hospital; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Mr Vince Cullen 

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Registrant Member, Investigating Committee, General Osteopathic Council; Registration Assessor, General Osteopathic Council; Education Visitor, General Osteopathic Council; Education Visitor, Mott MacDonald; Education Visitor, General Chiropractic Council; Independent Panel Member, Police Misconduct Panel, Northamptonshire Police; Lay Member, The Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service; Magistrate, North London Local Justice Area.

Mr Paul Curtis 

MA

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Hearing Panel Lay Member, Fitness to Practice, General Optical Council; Lay Chair, School Admission Appeals Panel and Lay Chair Independent Review Panel (School Exclusions), East Sussex County Council; Former Lay Member, Disciplinary Panel, Judicial Conduct Investigations Office.

Mrs Ruth Curtis (Sloan)

LLB, PGCE

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022.

D

Dr Muhammad Dadibhai

MB ChB, MRCS, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Director, Eightlands Surgery; Clinical Advisor for Diabetes, Community Care and Medicine Management, West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board; GP Specialist Advisor, Care Quality Commission; Treasurer, Kirklees LMC; Former GP Principal, Brisbane, QLD Australia; Former Locum GP, West Yorkshire (2008-2010.

Mr Neil Dalton

BA (Hons), Cert (Operational Management)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels, Eastern, North-Eastern and East-Midlands Regions; Legally Qualified Chair, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Former Senior Specialist Prosecutor, Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, Crown Prosecution Service; Member, Law Society; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Former Committee Member, NALQC.

Ms Liz (Elizabeth) Daughters 

BA (Hons), CPID (Assoc)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Chair, Appeals Committee, Women's Equality Party; Former Local Government Manager.

Dr Bryn Davies 

BSc, MBChB, MRCGP, FRCOphth

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Ophthalmologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; General Practitioner, West Yorkshire; Director, Bryn Davies Limited; Director, Clinicare Health Support Services; Fellow, Royal College of Ophthalmologists; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Gareth Davies 

BSc (Hons), CeFa, DipFa

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2012; Tribunal Member since 2011.

Dr Jonathan Davies

MBBS, FRCS, FRCS (Ed)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Former Member, Working Party, Provision of Vascular Services, Vascular Society, Great Britain and Ireland; Member and Fellow, The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng); Member and Fellow, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RSCEd); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Vascular Society for Great Britain and Ireland.

Dr Katherine Davies

MB ChB, MRCP, FRCEM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust; Former Registrar Training, Emergency Medicine, Leeds; Former SHO Positions, York and Leeds (1998 – 2004); Former House Jobs, Bristol (1995 – 1996); Fellow, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Member, Medical Defence Union.

Mr Lee Davies

LLB, PG Dip (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Deputy District Judge, Magistrates’ Courts since 2022; Director and Solicitor Advocate, Goldstones Solicitors; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Member, Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates (SAHCA).

Mrs Hannah De Merode 

MA (Hons), CPE (College of Law), LPC (College of Law), Qualified Solicitor (Non-practising)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Performance Advisory Group, NHS England London & South; Lay Chair, Performers List Decision Panel, NHS England London & South; Public Member, NIHR Health Technology Assessment Funding Committee (Clinical Evaluation & Trials); Former Lay Representative, Health Education England, Wessex (2013-2021).

Mrs Suzi (Suzanne) Denton

BA, LLB, GDL, LPC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Former Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service; Former Freelance Law Tutor, BPP University; Former Practice Development Lawyer, Irwin Mitchell; Member, Resolution; Member, Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).

Mrs Angela Dilks

BA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Fee-Paid First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Fee-Paid First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Fee-Paid Employment Judge.

Dr Paul Diprose 

BM, FRCS (Ed), FRCA, FFICM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust; Private practice in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care; Occasional paid honoraria from various healthcare companies; Member, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Association for Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd); Former Member, Southampton 'A' Research Ethics Committee (2006-2012).

Ms Sue (Susan) Disley 

MBA, MA (Social Work), BA (Hons) (Applied Social Sciences), CQSW

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2012; Ambassador, VISTA (Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Charity for Sight Loss); Former Assistant Director, Social Services, Leicestershire County Council; Former CSCI Service Inspector (Joint with Health Care Commission); Chair and Trustee, VISTA (2012-2019).

Ms Emma Dixon

BA

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2023; Barrister, Blackstone Chambers; Voluntary Healthcare Support Worker (Occasionally Paid), Skanda Vale Hospice, Carmarthenshire; Former Lawyer, Government Legal Service (Department of Health/DWP) (2002-2006); Member, End of Life Doula UK.

Mr Malcolm Dodds

LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Treasurer, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church; Trustee, Milton Keynes Child Contact Centre; Trustee, Eynsham Museum and Heritage Centre; Volunteer Driver, Eynsham Driver Scheme; Retired District Judge, Magistrates Court (2012-2021); Member, National Trust; Member, English Heritage; Member, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB); Member, Greenpeace.

Mr Piers Doggart 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010.

Mr Andy (Andrew) Donovan

LLB

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Solicitor; Founder and Managing Director, Compliance Office Ltd; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber, HM Courts and Tribunal Service; Former Director, Cilex Regulation Limited; Former Legal Policy Manager, Law Society, Solicitors Regulation Authority; Former Trustee of Appeal.

Miss Gabrielle Downey (Luesley)

MBBCh, BAO, MD, FRCOG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Peer review, NHS Wales; Former Consultant, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust; Member, Royal College of Obstetricians.

Mr Stephen Downing

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor Advocate, Criminal and Civil Proceedings; Senior Lecturer, The University of Hull; Lecturer, Professional Legal Training, BPP University; Freelance Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service; Member, The Law Society.

Dr Edward Doyle 

MD, FRCA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant Anaesthetist, NHS Lothian; Trustee, Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (Charity); Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, British Medical Association. 

Dr Keith Dunnett 

BA, MBBChir, MRCGP, Dip (Adult Cognitive Behaviour Psychotherapy)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Referee, Ministry of Justice.

Dr Stephen Duxbury 

BSc, MBChB, Dip (OM), DDAM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Medical Adviser, Defence Business Services (DBS), Veterans UK; Medical Panellist, Social Entitlement Chamber, HM Courts and Tribunal Service; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member and Branch Secretary, Prospect Trade Union.

Dr Maria Dyban 

Vrach, FRCGP, DRCOG, DFFP, LLM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Locum GP, Cardiff; Senior GP Clinical Editor for Health Pathways, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Section 12 approved Doctor; PLAB Examiner, General Medical Council; Annual tutorials on Medical Tribunal work, Legal Aspects of Medical Practice Master Degree, Cardiff University; Former GP Partner, Kings Road Surgery, Cardiff; Former Member of Editorial Board, Guidelines in Practice Magazine; Former Board Member, Royal College of General Practitioners, South East Wales Faculty (2010-2020);Former Community Director, Clinical Governance in Primary Care, Cardiff and Vale UHB (2015-2019); Former Vice Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners, South East Wales Faculty (2015-2018); Former Fellow, NICE (2012-2015); Former Member, NICE Technology Appraisal Panel (2012-2014); Former Salaried GP, Gwent OOH GP service, Aneurin Bevan UHB (2008-2013); Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Medical Protection Society.

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Dr Jill Edwards 

MBBS, MSc, FRCGP, DRCOG, DA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; External Advisor, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP); Retired Principal GP, White House Surgery, Chipping Norton; Former Prescribing Support, Gloucester CCG; Former GP Dean, HEE Thames Valley; Former Medical Director, Quality and Standards, RCGP.

Dr Carl Egdell

MB ChB, DCH, DRCOG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, Meadowgreen Health Centre; GP Lead Appraiser, NHS England Midlands; Former Locum GP and Salaried GP Positions, Sheffield and Derbyshire (2000-2005).

Mr Sean Ell

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2011; Barrister at Law; Barrister, Garden Court North Chambers; Former Councillor, Wigan MBC; Former Authority Member, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue; Member, Immigration Lawyers Practitioner's Association.

Dr Susan Ellerby 

MBChB, MSc, MBA, FFPH

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber; Panel Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Company Secretary, LRB Consulting Ltd; Former Deputy Director of Public Health and Health Improvement, Leicester City; Former Public Health Adviser, 3M Healthcare; Former Medical Adviser, Ashfield Intermediate Healthcare; Former Medical Director, Parkwood Healthcare; Retired Consultant Clinical Adviser, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union; Former Fellow, Faculty of Public Health.

Mr John Elliott

BA (Hons), Bar Finals

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Case Examiner, General Optical Council; Retired Barrister; Former Specialist Crown Prosecutor; Former Member, Investigation Committee, General Dental Council (2009-2013).

Mr John Ennis 

MA (Oxon), MSc

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2012; Member, Health and Conduct Committee, University of Leeds Medical School; Member, Licence Committee, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; Former Elected Member, Harrogate Borough Council (2010-2023); Former Elected Member, North Yorkshire County Council (2013-2022); Former Chair, Scrutiny of Health Committee, North Yorkshire County Council (2019-2022); Former Member of the Court, University of Leeds (2013-2022); Former Senior Civil Servant, Department of Health; Former Governor, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (2011-2016).

Professor (Emeritus) Aneez Esmail 

LRCP, MRCS, MFPHM, MRCGP, FRCP, PhD

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Non-Executive Director, North-West Ambulance Service; Locum GP, Better Health Manchester; Trustee, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust; Board Member, Dignity in Dying; Former Professor, General Practice, University of Manchester (2005-2022); Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester (1992-2005); Member, Labour Party.

Ms Val (Glenys) Evans 

MSc, BA (Hons), CQSW

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Dental Professionals Hearings Service; Former Lay Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Social Care Member, Camden Primary Care Trust Professional Executive Committee; Former Registrant Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Health and Social Care Professions Council; Former Lay Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Health Professions Council.

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Dr Matthew Fiander 

BA, MSc, PhD

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2012; Specialist Tribunal Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Health Education and Social Care Chamber; Former Chair Adjudicator, Social Work England.

Dr Róisín Finn 

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Distinction), MSc (Distinction)

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2015; Specialty Training Registrar Neurosurgery, Health Education Thames Valley, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford; National Medical Director's Clinical Fellow, NHS England; Specialist Adviser, Care Quality Commission (CQC); Post-Graduate Tutor, University of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; Education QA Associate, GMC; Former StR Neurosurgery, Health Education North East (HENE), James Cooke University Hospital, Middlesbrough; Former Academic Foundation Doctor, Peninsula SW Foundation School; Former Research Foundation Doctor, Exeter, Clinical Research Facility, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR); Former Honorary University Fellow, University of Exeter; Former Medical Student Elective, Blond McIndoe Research Foundation.

Mrs Sue (Susan) Fishburn 

BSc, JP, BA (Hons), BSc (First Class Hons), BA (First Class Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2012; Former Head, Leeds Girls' High School; Former Head, Dean Grammar School, Leeds; Former Justice of the Peace, Leeds Bench; Former Co-Chair, University Subcommittee, Girl’s School Association (GSA); Former Co-Chair, Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC); Former Council Member, University of Leeds; Former Lay Member, Ethics Committee, University of Leeds; Former Member, Representative of Independent Schools, National Council Association of School and College Leaders; Former General Commissioner of Taxes. 

Ms Alison Fisher 

BA (Hons), Dip SW (Probation Studies), Cert Qual (Social Care), CMI Level 5 Management Dip, MA (HR Management)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Panellist, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Trustee, Home-Start, Kirklees; Trustee, St Hild’s Theological College; Lay Representative, General Synod, Leeds Diocese, Church of England; Former Non-Executive Director, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust (2005-2013); Former Member Panellist Conduct Hearings, General Teaching Council, England (2000-2011).

Mr David Fisher 

MBA 

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2012; Trust Member, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Trust Member, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Appeals Committee Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW); Former Lay Reviewer, Midwifery Supervision, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2009-2012); Former Audit Commission role inspecting public services (2001-2011); Various NHS positions in Pathology and in Training and Development (1972–1994).

Mr Nick (Nicholas) Flanagan 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Barrister at Law, Lincoln's Inn since 2019; Tenant Barrister in Private Practice, Cobden House Chambers, Manchester; Recorder, Crime, Northern Circuit since 2023; Assistant Coroner, Manchester (North), Rochdale MBC on behalf of the Manchester (North) Coronial Area since 2015; Junior Counsel to the Crown (Regional), Attorney General's Office since 2012; Trustee, Tiny Tickers (Reg. Charity No 1078114); Member, Employment Lawyers' Association; Member, Criminal Bar Association.

Dr Peter Flanagan 

MD, FRCP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Locum Consultant Geriatrician, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland); Chair of Northern Area (Northern Ireland), CRUSE Bereavement Care; Former Medical Director and Consultant Geriatrician, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland); Fellow, Royal College of Physicians.

Dr Laura Florence

MBChB, RCGP, GDL, RCPathME, JP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; GP; Clinical Lead, Derbyshire Health United; GP Appraiser, NHS England; Medical Examiner, University Hospitals of Northamptonshire; Clinical Director, Orbalis Healthcare; Justice of the Peace; Magistrate, Adult Criminal Court, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland; Former Acute Care Common Stem Trainee, University Hospitals Leicester (2006-2008); Former Anaesthetics Trainee, University Hospitals Leicester (2007-2014); Member, Magistrates Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Caroline Friendship

BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Registrant Partner (Practitioner Psychologist), Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service; Specialist Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Health Education and Social Care Chamber; Lay Member, Fitness to Practice, Nursing and Midwifery Council.

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Dr Mark Garfield

MB ChB, FRCA, FFICM, RCPathME

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust since 2000; Former Anaesthetic Registrar, East Anglia (1996-2000); Former Anaesthetic SHO, Birmingham (1994-1996); Former Pre-Registration House Officer, Birmingham (1993-1994); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, Faculty of Intensive Care; Member, Intensive Care Society; Member, Royal College of Pathologists.

Dr John Garner

MBChB, DRCOG, DCH, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Retired GP; Former Director and Vice Chairman, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Former Vice-Chairman, BMA Staff Pensions Trustee Board, British Medical Association; Former Performance Assessor Team Leader, Fitness to Practise, GMC; Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 

Mr Andrew Gell 

BA, MA, MBA, BSc

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2014; Tribunal Member since 2014; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Health and Care Professions Council; Panellist, Investigation Committee Taxation Disciplinary Board; Panellist, Disciplinary and Fitness to Practise Committee, Bar Tribunal and Adjudication Service; Director, Andrew Gell Limited; Advisory services to Industry on Defence and Logistics issues; Retired Air Commodore, Royal Air Force.

Mr Thomas George 

MBBS, FRCS (Ed), FRCEM, Dip (HSM)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security and Child Support; Former PLAB OSCE Examiner (1998-2020); Former Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Director, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (1984-2012); Fellow and Member, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Fellow and Member, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Member, British Medical Association.

Ms Angela Georgiou

LLB (Hons), FRCS

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister, Cobden House Chambers, Manchester.

Dr Obadah Ghannam 

MBBS, BSc, MRCGP, DRCOG, LLM, PGCert (Med Ed), DPH, FHEA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP; Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber; Director, Circumcision Clinic; Former Trustee, Centre for Islam and Medicine; Former GP, Midlands Medical Partnership; Former Locum GP, Birmingham, Solihull, Warwickshire and Coventry; Member, British Medical Association; Member, British Islamic Medical Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners. 

Dr Ammar Ghouri 

MRCGP, MBChB, BSc (Hons)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; GP Partner, Lakeside Healthcare Group; Clinical Tutor, University of Leicester Medical School; Clinician, Derbyshire Health United (Out of Hours); Locality Chair for Corby, Northamptonshire Local Medical Committee since 2022; Specialist Advisor (Primary Care), Care Quality Commission; Former Locality Chair, Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Groups (2020-2022); Former Vice-Chair, Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Local Medical Committee (2014-2019); Former GP Partner, Washbrook Medical Group (2018-2019); Former GP Partner, South Wigston Health Centre (2014-2018); Member, Medical Defence Union (MDU) since 2014.

Mrs Emma Gilberthorpe

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service since 2021; School Governor, Woodthorpe Church of England Primary School; Former Legal Team Manager, HM Court Tribunal Service (HMCTS) (2005-2021).

Mr Inderjeet Gill

MA (Oxon) (Modern Languages & Literature), MA (History of Art), GDL, BVC

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014;  Recorder, Crown Court since 2022; Barrister; Legal Adviser, Fitness to Practice Tribunal, Social Work England; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Mental Health Chamber; Fee-Paid Judge, Employment Tribunal.

Dr Mandeep Gill

MRCGP, MB ChB, BSc, DRCOG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP; GP Appraiser; Medical Member, Tribunal Service, Social Security and Child Support; Medical Assessor, VDPS; Former Locum GP Positions, The Black Country (2021-2023); Former Salaried GP, Wolverhampton (2015-2021); Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Michael Glickman

MA (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Pharmaceutical Council; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Member, Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council; Lay Member, Joint Disciplinary Panel, Intellectual Property Regulation Board; Trustee, Gateshead Hatzola Community Ambulance Service; Former Public Governor, North-East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (2011-2020); Former Director, Healthwatch Gateshead (2015-2017).

Miss Debi (Deborah) Gould

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Principal Crown Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service; Deputy Chair Board of Trustees, Wirral Change; Safeguarding and Care Governor, West Kirby Residential School; Member, Criminal Bar Association.

Mr Stephen Gowland

FCILEX

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Non-Executive Board Member, The Legal Services Board; Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings; Member, Joint Audit Committee, Durham PCC & Durham Chief Constable; In-house Counsel, Positive IT Consultants Ltd; Associate, College of Policing; Lay Member, Professional Standards Panel, Chartered Institute of Public Relations; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX).

Mr Alex Graham

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Partner, Heckford Norton Solicitors; Former Chair of Governors, Primary School, Hertfordshire.

Dr Alison Graham 

MBChB

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Clinical background in General Practice, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Public Health Medicine; Medical Adviser, Management Steering Group, NHS Scotland; Secondary Care Appraisal Lead, NHS Ayrshire and Arran; Former Medical Director, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Highland.

Miss Samantha Gray

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Former Solicitor & Partner, Langleys Solicitors LLP (2000-2017).

Mr Martyn Green 

BDS, MFGDP (UK), DPDS, FDS, RCPS (Glasgow)

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Fee-Paid Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Primary Health Lists, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber; Non-Executive Director, Dentists' Provident; Member, Council of Reference, Bridge2Aid (Dental Charity); Former Dental Member, Appointments Committee, General Dental Council; Former Lay Member, Probate Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales; Former General Dental Practitioner, Senior Partner in NHS Practice; Former Vocational Training Adviser; Former Regional Adviser in General Dental Practice; Former Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean (DF1), S.W. Dental Postgraduate Deanery; Former Panel Member and Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, General Dental Council (2003-2013); Fellow, Dental Surgery, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; Member, Faculty of General Dental Practitioners, Royal College of Surgeons England.

Mrs Ronno Griffiths

CQSW

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2012; Independent Member, Parole Board, England and Wales; Former Peer Reviewer, Healthcare Inspectorate, Wales; Background working in Substance Misuse, Sexual Abuse and Sexual Health Fields.

Mr Alistair Griggs 

MA (Social & Political Science), MA (Applied Social Studies), MBA, CQSW

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Trustee and Board Director, Sheffield Citizens Advice and Law Centre; Walking Holiday Leader, HF Holidays; Self-Employed Consultant; Former Director of Modern Governance, Sheffield Council; Former Director of Operations, British Refugee Council; Former Chair, Pitsmoor Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB); Former Service Manager, Wakefield Council Housing & Social Care.

Dr Tony Gu

BMedSci, MBChB, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; GP Partner, Valance Medical Centre; Debrief Tutor, Manchester Medical School; Representative, Manchester Local Medical Committee; Director, Ardwick & Longsight Primary Care Network; Director, SCG Medical Group; Admin, Manchester CPD Group; Former locum positions in the Manchester Area (2014-2017); Former Junior Doctor, various Manchester hospitals (2009-2014); Member, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP); Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy.

Miss Ayanthi (Uttara) Gunasekera 

MBBS, MSc, BSc, MRCOG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Trustee and Fundraising Chair, Promise to Amalia (Charity); Trainee Representative ST3-ST5, North East Thames Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Trainee Committee; Member, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

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Mr Kenneth Hamer

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2002; Practicing Barrister; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Legal Assessor, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); Member, Prosecuting Panel, Bar Standards Board; Chairman, Review of the Selection and Appointments Process of Independent Members to Police Authorities, Home Office; Author of Professional Conduct Casebook; Committee Member and Joint Editor, Quarterly Bulletin, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Former Recorder, Crown Court, Ministry of Justice; Former Chairman, Appeal Committee, Institute of Chartered Management.

Mrs Joy Hamilton

LLB (Hons), JP, RN

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2013; Tribunal Member since 2012; Registered Nurse; Magistrate since 1997; Trustee, Northern Counties Children’s Benevolent Society; Non-Practising Barrister; Former Sister, Intensive Care.

Mrs Anita Hargreaves 

BA (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2012; Human Resources Manager, Policy and Projects, The University of Sheffield; Former Human Resources Adviser, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health, University of Sheffield (2014-2019); Former Human Resources Business Partner, Avant Insurance Limited (Medical Defence Organisation in Australia).

Mr Christopher Harper

MA (Hons) (Economics), GDip (Law), Bar Professional Training Course

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Former Trustee, Royal Life Saving Society UK (2014-2017).

Miss Catherine Hartley 

BA (Law) (Cantab)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Fee-Paid District Judge and Recorder, First-Tier Tribunal; Honorary Fellow, Judicial Institute.

Mr Mike (John) Hayward 

BMedSci, BMBS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2015; Former Consultant Ophthalmologist, York Hospital; Former Team Leader, Performance Procedures, General Medical Council (1998-2015); Former Vice President and Chairman of Training Committee, Royal College of Ophthalmologists (2011-2015); Former Associate Postgraduate Dean, Health Education England Yorkshire and the Humber (2009-2018).

Ms Katherine Henderson 

MA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, The Immigration and Asylum Chamber.

Mr Paul Hepworth

FCMI

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Former Member, Wakefield Child Safeguarding Board, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Member, Wakefield Health and Wellbeing Board, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Mrs Debbie Hill 

BSc (Social Policy and Social Work), Dip (Law), Bar Vocational Course

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Non-Practising Barrister; Member, Parole Board for England and Wales; Parole Commissioner for Northern Ireland; Lay Member, Mental Health Review Tribunal; Lay Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Specialist Member, Criminal Injuries Compensation; Disability Member, Social Security Tribunals; Chair, Fitness to Practice Panels for Chiropractors.

Dr Leigh-Anne Hill 

MBBS

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Locum Doctor, Barts Health Trust, Hull; Former Locum Employee, Yorkshire and the Humber Health Trusts; Former Employee, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust; Former Student, Norwich Medical School; Member, Medical Defence Union.

Ms Annie Hockaday  

MA (Cantab), LLM, BPTC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2023; Deputy District Judge, His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service; Adjudicator, Traffic Penalty Tribunal.

Dr Emily Hubbard

BSc (Hons), MB ChB (Hons), FRCA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Education Fellow, Guy’s Cancer Academy; Clinical Educator, University of Buckingham Medical School; Former GP Trainee, Oxford Deanery (2015-2021); Former Anaesthetics Trainee, Oxford Deanery (2010-2015); Member, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.

Mrs Meloney Hughes

LLB (Hons), PG Dip (Legal Practice)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor, District Crown Court; Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service. 

Ms Susan Hurds

MSc, HDCR, CHSM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, Employment Tribunal Service (Wales Region); Lay Chair and Panellist, Social Care Wales; Lay Member, Adjudication Panel for Wales; Lay Panellist, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; Former Director of Primary Care and Planning, Former Deputy Chief Executive and Former Acting Chief Executive Ceredigion Local Health Board; Former General Manager, Clinical Support Services, Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust; Various Radiography positions in North Wales, Warwickshire and Mid Wales.

Mr Gul Nawaz Hussain KC

QC, LLB, BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Non-Executive Director, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2022; Freelance Presenter, BBC; Member, Advisory Board.

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Dr Fade Ibitoye

Vrach, FMCPsych, DPsych, DPM, MRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant Psychiatrist, Responsible Clinician and Medical Director, Cygnet Delfryn Hospital, North Wales; Former Medical Director and Former Responsible Officer, Northwest Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Former Medical Member, Mental Health Tribunal Service; Fellow (Dormant), National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria; Member, Medical Association of Nigerians Across Great Britain; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, Society of Clinical Psychiatrists; Regional Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine; Member, Medical Defence Shield UK; Member, British Medical Association; Former Member, Medical Defence Union.

Miss Ruona (Ogheneruona) Iguyovwe OBE

LLB, BL

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Senior Specialist Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels; Member, The Law Society, England and Wales; Member, CPS.

Mr Robin Ince

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2010; Tribunal Member since 2015; Fee-Paid First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, Ministry of Justice; Legal Assessor, Nursing & Midwifery Council; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings, Police and Crime Commissioners, Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Merseyside; Member and Former President, Manchester Law Society; Member, The Law Society.

Mr Lindsay Irvine 

MA (Oxon), MA (London), Dip (Law)

Lay 

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister; Former Commissioned Officer, RAF Legal Branch (1986-2017); Retired Air Vice-Marshal, Royal Air Force; Former Director, Royal Air Force Legal Services and Legal Adviser to the Air Force Board (2009-2017); Fellow and Former Member, Air Law Group, Royal Aeronautical Society.

Mrs Zeenat Islam

LLB, LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Panel Member, Redress Scotland; Race Trainer, Bar Council; Associate Tutor, University of Warwick Law School; Member, The Honourable Society of Inner Temple; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Member, Muslim Lawyers Action Group; Member, Bar Human Rights Committee; Member, Administrative Law Bar Association.

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Dr Sarah Jeffery

MB ChB, BSc (Hons)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; GPST3, North-West Deanery; Former CMT Trainee, North-West Deanery; Member, Royal College of General Practice.

Dr Angela Jesudason

MB ChB (Hons), BSc, MRCP, MRCPCH, FRCPCH

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh; Panel Member, Children’s Hearing Scotland; Honorary Senior Lecturer; Former National Clinical Director, Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer; Former Clinical Lead roles, TYAC and MSNCYPC (2009-2019); Former Co-Chair, NCRI TYA GCT Clinical Studies Group (2017-2018); Former Chair, NCRI TYA Clinical Studies Group (2014-2017); Former Specialist Registrar in Paediatric Oncology, North Thames Grid Trainee, UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital (2004-2006); Member, Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group; Member, Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer. 

Dr Amit Jinabhai

BSc (Hons), PhD, FBCLA, FEAOO, SFHEA, MCOptom

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Lecturer and Optometrist, The University of Manchester; Hearings Panel Member, The General Optical Council; External Examiner, The College of Optometrists; External Examiner, Bradford University; Deputy Chair of the Disciplinary Panel, The College of Optometrists; Registered Optometrist, General Optical Council; Member, Association of Optometrists; Fellow, British Contact Lens Association; Fellow, European Academy of Optometry and Optics; Fellow, College of Optometrists; Senior Fellow, The Higher Education Academy.   

Dr Suzanne Joels

BSc, MBBS, MRCGP, MRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Clinical Lead, Dementia Clinical Network NHS London; Former Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (2002-2022); Former Clinical Director, Aging and Perinatal Mental Health, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (2010-2022); Member, British Medical Association.

Mrs Jane Johnson QPM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Former Police Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police (1987-2021).

Ms Cerys Jones 

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; Senior Associate Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service; Tribunal Clerk, British Association of Counsellors & Psychotherapists; Chair and Panel Member, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Disciplinary Committee; External Member, Human Fertilisation & Embryology Committee; Trustee, Arthritis Action UK; Member, Valuation Tribunal for England; Former Lead Ombudsman, Office of Legal Complaints (2010-2016); Former Head of Office of Independent Commissioner; Former Lay Member, Investigating Committee, General Dental Council (GDC) (2009-2014); Former Member, NHS Complaints Panel, South West; Member, The Law Society; Member, Association of Women Solicitors.

Ms Rachel Jones

BA, LLM, LLM, BPTC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Member, The Administrative Law Bar Association; Member, The Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, The Bar European Group.  

Mr Vijay Joshi

MB ChB, LLB (Hons), FRCSEd (C-Th), PGCert (Medical Law)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Surgeon, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Former Clinical Fellow, James Cook Hospital, Middlesbrough; Former Clinical Fellow, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; Former Cardiothoracic Registrar, East Midlands; Member, Royal College of Surgeon of Edinburgh; Member, European Society of Thoracic Surgery; Member, Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Hospital Consultants Specialist Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Ontario Bar Association.

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Ms Miriam Karp

MSc, BA (Hons), Cert (Ed)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2011; Non-Executive Director, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust; Panellist, Exceptional Circumstances Body, Department of Education; Chair, Fitness to Practise, Social Work England; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise, General Optical Council; Lay Member, Honorary Medical Advisory Panel, Secretary of State for Transport; Lay Member, Northern Ireland Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal; Former Chair, Interim Orders Hearings, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Lay Representative, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency; Former Fitness to Practise Panellist, Northern Ireland Pharmaceutical Society; Former Non-Executive Director, Public Health Agency; Former Non-Executive Director, Northern Ireland Social Care Council; Former Non-Executive Director, Northern Ireland Teaching Council.

Ms Chitra Karve

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Solicitor; Panel Chair, Parole Board of England and Wales; Lay Member, Disciplinary Committee Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Chair, Board of Trustees, Action for Southern Africa.

Mr John Kelly 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Company Director and Consultant in Forensics, Policing, Justice and Defence Sectors, International Capacity Building; Retired Police Officer and Former Director of Forensic Services and Intelligence, Greater Manchester Police; Member, Chetham’s School of Music Independent Safeguarding Commission.

Dr Marianne Kennedy 

MBBS, PhD, MA, MSc

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Ophthalmology Specialist Registrar, Manchester Eye Hospital; Population Health Fellow, Health Education England; Former Foundation Doctor, Southampton General Hospital; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

Mrs Aaminah Khan

LLB (Hons), Bar Vocational Course

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Legal Adviser, Fitness to Practice Panel, General Optical Council; Tenant, St John's Buildings; Former Enforcement Lawyer, Information Commissioner's Office; Former Tenant, New Bailey Chambers. 

Dr Aamna Khan 

MB ChB, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Sessional GP, BARDOC; Medical Director, BARDOC; Clinical Lecturer, University of Manchester; Former Locum GP, Greater Manchester (2017-2022).

Dr Shehleen Khan 

MBChB, MRCGP, DFSRH, SFHEA, MSc (Med Ed)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Clinical Lecturer, University of Manchester; Sessional GP; GP Appraiser, NHS England; GP Recruitment Assessor, Health Education North West; Teaching Medical Students, OSCE Examiner and PBL Tutor, University of Lancaster; PLAB Examiner, GMC; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

Dr Shez (Shehzad) Khan 

BSc, MBBS, MRCPsych, LLM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Psychiatrist, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust; Chair, Clinical Topics Panel, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, Examinations Sub-Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, American Psychiatric Association; Member, British Association for Psychopharmacology; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society.

Dr Zaheer Khonat

MBChB (Hons), MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; General Practitioner, Bolton Community Practice; Out of Hours GP, BARDOC; Out of Hours GP, Mastercall; OSCE Examiner; Former Special Constable, Greater Manchester Police; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

Ms Jane Kilgannon

BA (Hons), GDL, BVC, DLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Legally Qualified Chair, Heath and Care Professionals Council since 2021; Adjudicator, Office of the Schools Adjudicator since 2021; Adjudicator, Road User Charging Adjudicators Tribunal since 2019; Tribunal Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council since 2019; Tribunal Member, Employment Tribunal since 2019; Community Member, Audit Committee, North Central London NHS Clinical Commissioning Group.

Mr Stephen Killen 

LLB (Law), GDip (Legal Practice)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal member since 2014; Solicitor, Department of Justice, Court Service (NI); Legally Qualified Chair, Appeal Tribunals (Social Entitlement); Legally Qualified Chair, Review Tribunal (Mental Health); Member, Law Society of Northern Ireland; Member, Law Society of England & Wales; New York State Bar.

Mr Birju Kotecha

LLB (Hons), Called to Bar (Middle Temple), PGCE, MA, PhD

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Assistant Professor, University of Northumbria; FtP Panel Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Partner, Health and Care Professions Council.

Mr Sean Kyne

BA (Hons), PG Dip (Legal Practice)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service.

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Mr Sanjay Lal

LLB, LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2015; Barrister; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS); Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers. 

Mrs Colette Lang

LLB (Hons), Law Society Finals

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2012; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Former Legal Director, Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS); Member, The Law Society.

Dr Nigel Langford 

BSc (Hons), MBChB, MD, MRCP, MRPharmS

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant, NHS University Hospital Leicester; Clinical Pharmacologist, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Health Technology Assessment (Committee C), National Research Ethics Service (Edgbaston Commitee); Former, Care Quality Commission (CQC); Member, British Pharmacological Society; Member, Society of Acute Medicine; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Dr Bridget Langham 

MBChB, DA (UK), FRCA, MMedSci (Med Ed), FAcadMEd

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Retired Consultant Anaesthetist, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Retired Director of Foundation Training for the East Midlands, Health Education England.

Mrs Barbara Larkin 

Bachelor of Financial Services

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014.

Miss Megan Larrinaga

LLB (Hons), LLM, Dip (Legal Practice)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Senior Legal Adviser, Oil and Gas Authority; Deputy District Judge, South Eastern Circuit; Chair, Appeals Panel, England Infected Blood Support Scheme; Chair, Appeals Panel, Infected Blood Payment Scheme, Northern Ireland; Former Adviser, CCGs and PCIs, NHS England (2014-2017); Former Secondee, Professional Standards Authority and NHS England; Former Assistant Legal Adviser, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman; Member, Law Society.

Dr Andrew Leach OBE

MB ChB, MRCGP, FRCGP, MSc (Med), DRCOG, DIMC

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP, Davenal House Surgery, Bromsgrove; Associate Medical Director, Military and Veterans Health, NHS England; ICB, NHS Hertfordshire and NHS Worcestershire; Covering Body Member, PCC; Former National Medical Director, Covid 19 Vaccination, NHS England (Sept 2020 – Sept 2022); Former Joint Secretary, Royal College of General Practitioners (2017-2021); Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, British Medical Association.

Mrs Linda Lee

BA (Law) (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Licence Committee Member, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority since 2021; Consultant Solicitor, Weightmans (Formerly Radcliffes LeBrasseur) since 2012; Deputy District Judge since 2021; Commissioner, Criminal Cases Review Commission since 2017; Board Member and Deputy Chair, Body Corporate, Criminal Cases Review Commission; Panel Member, HS2 Need To Sell Panel since 2017; Contributing Editor, Cordery on Legal Services since 2014; Committee Chair and Adjudicator, Primary Care Appeals Service (PCAS) since 2014; Lecturer, MBL Seminars (2006-2010, Resumed 2012); Incorporated Council of Law Reporting since 2016; Trustee of the pension scheme, Law Society; Council Member, Law Society of England and Wales since 2003; Council Member, Medico-Legal Society since 2008; Chair, Solicitors Assistance Scheme since 2014; Committee Member, Solicitors Assistance Scheme since 2013; Committee Member, Northamptonshire Law Society since 2003; Chair, Professional Indemnity Insurance Committee of the Law Society since 2021; Former roles, Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) (2006-2010); Former President, Law Society of England and Wales (2010-2011); Former President, Northamptonshire Law Society (2013-2015); Former President, Medico-Legal Society (2014-2016); Former Consultant, Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) (2013-2015); Former Solicitor Member, Queens Counsel Selection Panel (2011-2015); Member and Former Chair of the Regulatory Process Committee; Member, Policy and Regulatory Affairs Committee; Member, Access to Justice Committee; Member, Law Society.

Mr Andrew Lewis 

MA (Jurisprudence), Barrister

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; Barrister; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge (Mental Health); Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Reserve List, Deputy Legally Qualified Chair, General Pharmaceutical Council since 2018; Legal Adviser, Social Work England since 2019; Former Deputy District Judge, Magistrates Courts; Member, Criminal Bar Association.

Dr Harriet Leyland 

BSc (Pharmacology & Physiology), MBChB, FRCA, MSc (Global Health Policy), FFMLM, MFCI

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Director, HML Health Ltd – Healthcare Consultancy; Principal Clinical Safety Officer, Ethos Ltd; Head of Operations, TCC-CASEMIX Ltd; Former Partner, Datalla Group; Former Strategic Clinical Lead, Care Visions Group; Former Medical Director, Qured; Former Healthcare Specialist, Healthcare UK, Department for International Trade; Founding Fellow, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FFMLM); Member, Faculty of Clinical Informatics.

Mrs Claire Lindley

LLB, LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Fee-Paid Panel Member, Bar Standard Board; Bencher, Gray’s Inn; Trustee, Slynn Foundation; Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); Member, Gray’s Inn.

Dr Gillian Livesey

MB ChB, MRCGP, DFSRH, DOccMed

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Sessional GP, West Midlands Deanery, Shropshire; Medically Qualified Member, Social Entitlement Chamber, HM Courts and Tribunal Service; Regional Medical Appraiser; Former Occupational Health Director, Birmingham and Chester; Member, MDDUS.

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Dr David Mabin

MBChB, LLM, MD, MRCP (UK), FRCPCH

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Paediatrician and Deputy Medical Director, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust; Former Associate Dean, University of Exeter Medical School; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Member, Medical & Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS); Member, Paediatricians with Expertise in Cardiology Special Interest Group (PECSiG).

Mr John MacGregor KC

LLB (Hons), BCL, Dip (LP)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Self Employed Advocate (Queen’s Counsel), Axiom Advocates; Deputy Counsel, Scottish Hospitals Inquiry; Chair, Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland; Legal Assessor, Healthcare and Care Professions Council; Standing Counsel, UK Government (Home Office); Equality and Human Rights Commission, Panel of Counsel; Curator, Advocates' Library; Member, Faculty of Advocates, Free Legal Services Unit; Member, Management Committee of Axiom Advocates; Member, Faculty of Advocates.

Professor Simon Mackenzie 

MBChB, FRCA, FFICM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2011; Secondary Care, Doctor South East London Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs); Director, SJ Mackenzie Consulting Limited; Medical Director, System Improvement South East Region (NHSEI); Medical Director, St George’s NHS Foundation Trust; Medical Director, University Hospitals NHS Lothian; Chair, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guideline Development Group, Atrial Fibrillation; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Fellow, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine; Member, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

Mrs Cindy Mackie 

BA, Dip (RSA), CIPD Graduate Award, Further Cert (Adult Education Teaching), Dip (Business Coaching)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Independent Assessor, Public Appointment; Board Member, Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland; Lay Chair, Quality Assurance Inspector, General Dental Council (GDC) Education Programmes, UK; Lay Examiner, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; School Governor, Special School, Northern Ireland; Retired Civil Servant; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008-2017); Former experience on integrated regional children's services committees.

Mr Angus Macpherson

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Barrister.

Dr Jane Patricia Mamelok

BSc (Hons), MBBS, MRCGP, FRCGP, DRCOG, DFFP, MMEd

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Postgraduate Medical Dean, NHS England North-West; Former Hon. Civilian Consultant Adviser, GP Education Committee, Defense Medical Services, British Army (2013-2022); Panelist, RCGP Examination Panel (2000-2013); Member, British Medical Association. 

Professor Robert Mansel

CBE, CF, MRCS, LRCP, MBBS, MS, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Edin)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Chair, European Commission Quality Assurance Committee in Breast Cancer; Auditor, European Certification, Italcert, Florence, Italy; Professor of Surgery, University Hospitals Wales, Cardiff; Former President, British Association of Surgical Oncology; Former President, Association of Breast Surgeons; Former President, European Society of Breast Specialists (EUSOMA); Member, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Cardiff University.

Dr Jane Margetts

BA, MBBS, DRCOG, PGCME, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Sessional GP; Medically Qualified Tribunal Member, Social Security and Criminal Injuries Jurisdictions; GP Appraiser; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society. 

Ms April Marland

LLB (Hons) (University of Bristol), LLM (Health Care Ethics and Law) (University of Manchester), Professional Workplace Mediator ILM, The City and Guilds of London Institute

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Solicitor; Solicitor Consultant, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Member, The Law Society.

Dr Sarah Marwick 

MBChB (Birmingham), FRCGP, DFFP, DRCOG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2011; GP Locum, various practices; Associate Medical Director, Professional Regulation and Appraisals/Revalidation, NHS England, West Midlands; GP Appraiser since 2010; GP Appraiser, Regional Appraiser (Midlands and East), NHS England; Appraiser, MIAD; Non-Executive Board Member, Strategic Policing and Crime Board, Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, West Midlands; Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust; GP with special interest in the homeless since 2002; Former Junior Doctors Committee (1998-2001); Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners since 2001; Member, British Medical Association; Forum Moderator, Doctors.net.uk.

Mrs Brenda McAll-Kersting 

BSc, MSc, ALCM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2012; Independent Member, Parole Board; Former Lay Assessor, National Clinical Assessment Service; Former Non-Executive Director and Interim Chair, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. 

Dr William McClune 

PhD, MEd, BSc, PGCE

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023.

Dr Helen McCormack 

BM, Soton, MRCPsych, FRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Member, Parole Board since 2021; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Ministry of Justice; Executive Member, Old Age Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Former Tribunal Chair, MPTS (2015-2019).

Ms Hermione McEwen 

BSc, Solicitor (Non-practising)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security and Child Support; Chair, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Social Work England; Director, TortureID.

Dr Aine McGeary 

MBBCh, BAO (Hons), MRCPI, MRCGP, LLB (Hons)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Solicitor (Non-Practising); GP, Parkview Surgery, Southern Health and Social Care Trust (SHSCT), Northern Ireland; GP, SHSCT GP Out of Hours Service; Member, Medical Protection Society.

Dr Becky (Rebecca) McGee

BMedSci, BMBS, DCH, DRCOG, RCGP, Dip Ther

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security Appeals; GP Locum, South-East Wales; Medical Advisor to Public Services Ombudsman for Wales; Medical Advisor, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman; Section 12(2) approved Doctor, MHA assessments; Former GP Partner, Oak Street Surgery, Cwmbran, Torfaen (2012-2022).

Professor Alastair McGowan 

MBChB, FRCP (Ed, Lond, Glas), FRCS (Ed), FCEH, FRCA, FRCEM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Associate Director, Medical Education, Ayrshire and Arran Health Board; Former President, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (formerly Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine); Retired Postgraduate Dean, NHS Education for Scotland; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Mrs Deborah McInerny 

MBBS, FRCSEd, FFPHM, FCIArb

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Area Visitor, Royal Medical Benevolent Fund; Former Medically Qualified Panel Member, Social Security and Child Support and Criminal Injury Compensation Tribunals; Former Justice of the Peace; Former Associate Postgraduate Dean, Northern Deanery, Newcastle; Former Consultant, Regional Health Authority; Former Policy Advisor, Department of Health; Former Clinical Work, A&E and Orthopaedics.

Mr Rob (Robert) McKeon

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Independent Member (Chair), The Parole Board; Member, Parole Board, Management Committee; Retired Magistrate, since 2016.

Mr David McLean

LLB (Hons), Dip (LP), LLM (Commercial Law) (Distinction)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Advocate; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Member of Panel, Counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Scotland; Standing Junior Counsel, Scottish Government; Legal Assessor, General Teaching Council, Scotland; Member, International Cricket Council’s Panel of Development Umpires; Member, Faculty of Advocates.

Mr George McLean

BSc, LLB, Solicitor 

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Former Scientific Officer, Medical Laboratory (1976-1987); Former Lay Representative, NICE Glaucoma Working Group.

Mr Andrew Mcloughlin

MA (Cantab)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Recorder; Consultant Solicitor; Legal Adviser. 

Ms Sharmistha Michaels

BSc (Hons) (Chemistry), LLM, Barrister

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Barrister, 5 St Andrew’s Hill Chambers; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panel; Former Barrister, Drystone Chambers; Former Trustee, 28 Too Many; Member, Middle Temple.

Mrs Becky (Rebecca) Miller

LLB (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister (Self-employed); Trustee & Governor, The Education Alliance; Member, Bar Council.

Dr Rachel Miller

BDS, MFDS (RCSEd), DSCD (RCSEd), GDL, LLM, DLM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Dental Officer, Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust since 2005; Clinical Case Examiner, General Dental Council since 2016; Dental Tutor, NHS England since 2023; Former Dental Practitioner (2001 – 2005).

Mrs Alison Miller-Varey 

LLB (First Class), BVC

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Civil and Commercial Mediator; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge; Independent Assessor, Student Loans Company; Independent Member, Need to Sell Panel HS2; Former Barrister at the employed and self-employed Bar.

Dr Paul Mitchell

MA, PGCE, MBChB, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Salaried GP, Edinburgh; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Mohamed Mohamed 

MBBS, FRCS, MS, FRCS (Gen Surg)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Vascular Surgeon, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust; Consultant General Surgeon, Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre, Gillingham; Former Surgical Registrar, South-East England (1996-2006); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Medical Protection Society; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Ms Christina (Alice) Moller 

MA, LLM (Medical Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Director, Fifth House Limited; Barrister, Middle Temple; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Associate Panel Member, Health and Care Professions Council; Tenant, Nexus Chambers; Former Tenant, Alexander Chambers. 

Mr Keith Moore 

BSc

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Retired Deputy Director, Specialist Investigations, HM Revenue and Customs.

Ms Elspeth Moncrieff

MA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Associate Solicitor, Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP.

Professor Marsha Morgan 

MBChB, FRCP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Liver & Digestive Health, University College London; Member of the Board of Trustees and Director, Institute for Alcohol Studies; Member of the Board of Trustees and Director, Medical Council on Alcohol; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Royal College of Physicians; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG); Member, British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL); Member, European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL); Member, American Association for the Study of the Liver Diseases (AASLD); Member, European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA); Member, International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcohol (ISBRA); Member, International Society for Hepatic Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism; Member, Medical Council on Alcohol. 

Dr John Moriarty 

BA, MBBCh, BAO, FRCPI, MRCPsych, MD

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Fee-Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Health Education and Social Care Chamber (Mental Health), England; Honorary Senior Lecturer, King's College London; Former Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of Medical Education, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (2003-2018); Former Consultant Psychiatrist, Central & Northwest London, NHS Foundation Trust (1996-2003). 

Ms Gail Mortimer 

BA (Hons), MA, PGCE

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Retired Teacher; Former Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Panels, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2013-2021); Former Lay Chair, General Chiropractic Council Conduct and Competence Committee (2013-2021); Former Lay Chair, Quality Assurance Inspection Panels, General Dental Council (2012-2022); Former Chair, General Teaching Council of England; Former Teach First Professional Tutor. 

Mr Paul Moulder 

LLB (Hons), BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2012; Barrister in Private Practice; Legally Qualified Panellist, Professional Committees, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Adviser, General Optical Council; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Legal Adviser, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Former Chair, Conduct & Competence Committees, General Chiropractic Council; Former Panellist, Conduct, Competence and Health Committees and Registration Appeals Committee, Nursing & Midwifery Council; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.

Dr Patricia Moultrie 

MBChB, LLM, FRCGP, DRCOG, DOccMed, DDAM

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2012; Sessional General Practitioner; Deputy Chair, Scottish General Practitioners Committee, British Medical Association; Medical Director, Glasgow Local Medical Committee; Medical Member, Pensions Appeal Tribunal Scotland; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber, War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber, HMCTS; Clinical Advisor, General Pharmaceutical Council; Former GP Appraiser, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (2004-2014); Former MPTS Committee Member; Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, BMA. 

Mrs Catherine Moxon

BA (Hons) (Law & Business Studies), BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Visiting Lecturer; Chair, School Exclusions Panel; Chair, School Admissions Appeal Panel; Panelist, British Psychoanalytic Council.

Mr Nathan Moxon 

BVC, CPE, BA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Called to the bar 2006; Legal Adviser, Social Work England fitness to practice hearings since 2019; CPD Assessor, Social Work England since 2021; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Social Entitlement Chamber since 2013; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Immigration and Asylum Chamber since 2014; Fee-Paid Judge, Employment Tribunal since 2021; Fee-Paid Judge, Court of Protection since 2022; Recorder, Crime since 2023; Former Visiting Lecturer, University of Law, Leeds and Sheffield Hallam University since 2017; Former Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings; Former External Examiner, Bar Standard Board since 2013; Former Member, KBW Chambers Leeds.

Mr Gulzar (Ghulam) Mufti 

MBBS, MS, MCh, FRCSE

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Appraiser & Case Investigator, Private Plus Group (PPG); Former Independent Clinician Member (Secondary Care), East Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG); Former IRM Reviewer, The Royal College of Surgeons England; Former Adviser, British Kashmiri Medical Association; Former Medical Director and Former Consultant Urological Surgeon, Medway NHS Foundation Trust; Former Director, Medical Services Queen Elizabeth Hospital Barbados; Former Medical Director and Former Consultant Urological, Surgeon Care UK; Former Interim National Medical Director, BMI Healthcare Limited; Former Specialist Professional Adviser, Care Quality Commission (CQC); Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh; Regional Fellow, The Royal Society of Medicine; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, American Urological Association; Member, British Association of Urological Surgeons; Founding Secretary, Asian British Urological Society.

Dr Farhan Munawar 

MBChB, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; GP Partner, Halliwell Surgery, Bolton; Former Sub-Committee Chair, British Medical Association (BMA). 

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Mr Zia Nabi

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Member, Administrative Law Bar Association; Member, Court of Protection Bar Association.

Dr Mahesh Nagar

MBBS, MD (Anaes), FCARSI, FRCA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2014; Associate Medical Director, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Trustee, Yorkshire Indian Society Charitable Trust; Member, International Advisory Board, Indian Journal of Anaesthesia; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI).

Dr Vidhya Nagaratnam

MBBS, MRCS, FRCA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Anaesthetist, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust; Expert Anaesthesiologist, Mercy Ships Anaesthesia Consultant, Gondar University Hospital; Member, Medical Defence Union (MDU); Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCOA); Member, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI); Member, Neuro Anaesthesia and Critical Care Society (NACCS).

Dr Prashanth Nandhabalan

MBBS, BSc, MRCP, FRCA, FFICM, EDIC, MA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Consultant Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Intensive Care Society; Member, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, British Society of Echocardiography; Member, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

Ms Karen Naya 

BSc (Hons), PGDip

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Company Director, Deep Dive Consulting Limited; Associate Consultant, Royal College of Nursing.

Ms Colette Neville 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Adjudicator, Social Work England since 2019; Volunteer Newsreader, Charity for the visually impaired people; Former Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Dental Council; Former Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Osteopathic Council; Former Chair of the Investigation Committee, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. 

Mr James Newton-Price KC

BA (Hons), Dip (Law), Bar Examination

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Queen's Counsel; Head of Criminal and Regulatory Team, Pump Court Chambers, Temple, London; Legal Assessor, Health & Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS); Recorder, Crown Court.

Dr Janet Nicholls 

MBBS, FRCP, FRCPCH

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2013; Tribunal Member since 2012; Retired Consultant Paediatrician; Former Clinical Director, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Examination Board Article 14 Assessor, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Former Associate Postgraduate Dean, The London Deanery; Former Chair, BMA Local Negotiating Committee, British Medical Association.

Dr Paul (Christopher) Nolan 

MD, FRCS (Trauma and Orthopaedics)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Clinical and Medicolegal Practice, Ulster Independent Clinic Belfast, Kingsbridge Private Hospital Belfast, Malone Medical Chambers Belfast; Former Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, the Belfast Trust (1999–2014); Former Member, Belfast Orthopaedic Training Programme; Member, British Medical Association; Member, British Orthopaedic Association; Member, British Association of Spine Surgeons; Member, British Spinal Study Group; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland.

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Mr Mark O’Brien 

MSc, PGDip, PGCert, GIFireE

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Director, Skylark Consulting Solutions Limited; Appropriate Adult, The Appropriate Adult Service; Former, Deputy Chief Fire Officer, East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service; Graduate Member, Institution of Fire Engineers.

Dr Susan O'Connor 

BA, MBBChir, FRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2013; Tribunal Member since 2012; Chair, Citizens Advice Bureau (North Somerset Branch); Medical Panellist, Social Entitlement Chamber; Fellow, Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Ms Marianne O'Kane 

LLB, MBA

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2011; Solicitor; Civil Servant; Senior Assistant Director, Public Prosecution Service Northern Ireland; Member, Law Society of Northern Ireland. 

Dr Matthew John O'Meara 

FRCA, MBChB, DRTM, DIMC, RCS (Ed), BSc (Hons)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Honorary Contract, East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Air Ambulance, The Air Ambulance Service (TAAS); Accredited Doctor, British Association of Immediate Care Schemes (BASICS); Consultant, Anaesthesia and Pre-Hospital Care, University Hospitals North Midland. Member, Pre-Hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Mrs Julia Oakford

BA (Hons), LLM, DMS

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2009; Legal Assessor, General Dental Council since 2004; Solicitor; Member, Law Society.

Dr Tim (Timothy) Oakley

BMedSc, MBChB, MMedSc, MRCPsych

Medical 

Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Psychiatrist, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust; Second Opinion Doctor, Care Quality Commission; Ministry of Justice (MoJ); Member, Electroconvulsive Therapy Accreditation Service (ECTAS) Standards Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, British Medical Association (BMA).

Ms Margaret Obi

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Solicitor; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Assessor, General Osteopathic Council; Legal Assessor, General Optical Council; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professionals Council; Independent Assessor, Student Loan Company; Deputy High Court Judge; Former Legal Assessor, MPTS (2010-2018).

Ms Ijeoma Omambala KC

BA (Hons) (Law), MPhil

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Barrister at Law; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS); Member, Association of Regulatory Lawyers; Member, Professional Negligence Bar Association.

Ms Liz (Eizabeth) Ord

LLB, LLM, MA, DipTUS

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Principal Inspector, Planning Inspectorate; Fee-Paid Judge, Employment Tribunal; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Tribunal, General Regulatory Chamber; Member, The Law Society.

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Ms Jo (Giovanna) Palmiero

LLM, LPC

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023;Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service; Freelance Trainer, K D Training Consultants; Freelance Trainer, LimeCulture CIC.

Dr Julius Parker

BA, MBChB, LLB, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2011; Chief Executive, Surrey and Sussex Local Medical Committees; Medical Director, Out of Hours Service, East Berkshire Primary Care; Medical Adviser, Medical Solutions Ltd; Sessional General Practitioner, Farnham Road Surgery, Slough; Representative for Surrey and Croydon Constituency, General Practitioners Committee (GPC) and British Medical Association (BMA); Policy Lead, GPC Contracts and Regulations Policy Group; Discipline Specific Practitioner, NHS England Performers List Decision-Making Group; Member, BMA.

Mrs Kim Parsons (Steel)

LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; Accredited Mediator; Deputy District Judge, County Court; Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service; Former Deputy Pensions Ombudsman; Former Casework Director, Pensions Ombudsman; Former Head of Legal, Pensions Regulator; Former Legal Director, Occupational Pensions Regulator.

Mr Dharmesh Patel 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; Special educational needs and disability (SEND), Health, Education and Social Care Chamber; First-Tier Tribunal Judge; Environment and Traffic Adjudicator, London Tribunals; Recorder, Family Court; Financial Ombudsman; Former Legal Adviser, HM Court Tribunal Service; Former Chair, Valuation Tribunal England.

Mrs Valerie Paterson 

LLB, Dip (LP), LLM, NP, WS

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Legally Qualified Chair, Scottish Social Services Commission; Chair, General Optical Council; Legal Assessor, General Dental Council; Legal Assessor, Health Care Professions Council; Legal Assessor, Social Work England; Legal Adviser, Institute & Faculty of Actuaries; Legal Adviser, General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS); Chair, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Lay Observer, Annual Fitness to Practise Meeting, Scottish Deans (Medical Schools); Former Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Legal Chair, General Chiropractic Council; Former Public Interest Member, Discipline Panel, Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland; Former Panel Member and Chair, Council's Conduct Committee Royal Pharmaceutical Society, GB; Former Tutor, University of Edinburgh; Former Chair, General Dental Council (2006-2016); Former Chair, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Disciplinary Committees; Member, Law Society of Scotland; Member, Independent Legal Assessors; Writer to Her Majesty's Signet, Solicitor and Notary Public.

Mrs Laura Paul

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber since 2013; Former First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber (2014-2016); Former Solicitor, specialising in Family Law (1990-2013).

Ms Debra Pearlman 

BSc (Hons) (Econ), Common Professional Exam (Law), Dip (Social Work), Cert Qual (Social Work), Cert (Spanish)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Mental Health Act Manager, Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust; Screener, Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers; Director and Trustee, Burmantofts Community Nursery Leeds; Former Panel Member, Bar Standards Board Independent Decision-Making Body (IDB); Former Lay Member, Mental Health Review Tribunal, Wales; Former Professional Member, Health and Care Professions Tribunal; Former Contract Manager, Independent Review Mechanism (for Adopters and Foster Carers); Former Service Manager, Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS); Former Voluntary Joint Coordinator, SSWIM (Supporting Social Work in Malawi).

Dr Fiona Pettet

MB ChB, BSc, MRCPCH, MRCGP (2015), MFFLM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Specialty Doctor, Community Paediatrics and Paediatric Sexual Assault Referral Service, Royal Devon University Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Small Group Facilitator and Academic Tutor, University of Plymouth; Former Forensic Medical Examiner, G4S, Devon and Cornwall; Former GP, Bruner Medical Practice (2015-2019); Former GP Provider, Devon Doctors (2015-2019); Former GP, Emergency Department, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust; Former GP Trainee, Severn Deanery (2010-2015); Former Paediatric Trainee, Severn Deanery (2009-2010); Various Former ED roles, South Australia (2007-2009); Former Foundation Doctor, Weston and Bristol (2005-2007); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Member, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.  

Dr Jeffrey Phillips 

BSc, MBBS, FRCA, FFICM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthetics; Tutor, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow; Consultant Anaesthetist, Rivers Hospital; Consultant Anaesthetist, Spire London East Hospital; Consultant Anaesthetist, The Holly Private Hospital; Consultant Anaesthetist, Herts and Essex Fertility Centre; Trustee, St Clare Hospice; Former Deputy Responsible Officer, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Former National Clinical Champion, Healthcare Acquired Infections Programme, Department of Health; Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member,  Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine; Member, Intensive Care Society.

Ms Morgan Phillips 

LLM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Patient Complaints Investigator, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Magistrate, HM Courts and Tribunals Service.

Ms Jenny (Jennifer) Portway 

LLB (Hons) 

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2012; Independent Member and Chair, Parole Board; Lay Member, Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Tribunal; Lay Member, Police Misconduct Panel; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Solicitor (non-practicing); Former Commissioner, Criminal Cases Review Commission; Former Prosecutor and Senior Policy Advisor, Crown Prosecution Service.

Mrs Helen Potts

BA (Hons) (Chinese Studies) (Durham University), LLM (Medical Practice) (Cardiff University)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Independent Member, Parole Board; Contract Case Examiner, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Chair, Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council (GCC); Former Panel Chair, Fitness to Practice (FTP), NMC; Former FTP Panel Chair, Social Care Wales; Former FTP Panel Chair, General Dental Council (GDC); Former Lay Member, Investigation Committee (IC), General Medical Council (GMC); Former Chair, Disciplinary Committee, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); Former International Policy Executive, The Law Society; Former Solicitor, Clifford Chance; Member, Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers.

Mr David Propert

BSc (Hons) (OST)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Osteopath, Calmer Clinics; Panellist, Fitness to Practise (PCC), General Osteopathic Council; Part-time Lecturer, University College of Osteopathy; Former Vaccinator, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (2020-2021); Former Director, The Health Equation; Former Agency Care Worker, St George’s and Wandsworth (1990-1993); Member, General Osteopathic Council; Member, Institute of Osteopathy; Member, Royal Society of Medicine; Member, FHEA; Member, British Association for Performing Arts Medicine; Member, British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine.

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Dr Wasim Qayum

MB ChB, MRCPCH, MSc

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Paediatric Consultant, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust; Member, British Medical Association; Member, British Paediatric Respiratory Society; Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

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Mr David Raff

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Consultant, DLA Piper UK LLP; Lay Panellist, Teaching Regulation Agency; Chair, NNLS Destitute Asylum Seekers Drop-in (charity); Partner, DLA Piper UK LLP; Member, The Law Society.

Dr Raghu (Thandla) Raghavendra

MBBS, MD (Anaesthesia), FRCA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant, Paediatric Anaesthetist Royal Manchester Children's Hospital; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security; Examiner, Primary FRCA, Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA); Member, Association of Anaesthetists, Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, British Medical Association.

Dr Sheena Raja

BMedSci (Hons), BMBS, MRCGP (2016)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP and Health Assessor, Nuffield Health since 2023; Locum GP, Edinburgh and Lothians since 2016; Private GP, Spire Hospitals, Edinburgh since 2021; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Mr Tanveer Rakhim

BA (Hons), LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Tribunal Judge; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panel; Former Solicitor, Kennedys Law LLP.

Ms Rama Krishnan (Lakshmi) Ramakrishnan

BSc (Social Science), CQSW, CASS, DMS

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Chair, Audit Registration Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales); Chair, Investigations Committee, Nursing & Midwifery Council; Chair and Lay member, Professional Conduct Committee, General Osteopathic Council; Lay Member, Bar Tribunal & Adjudication Services; Lay Member, Investigations Panel, Architects Registration Board; Lay Member, Professional Conduct Committee, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives; Lay Member, Adjudication Panel, Landscape Institute; Former Chair & Registrant, Fitness to Practise, Health & Care Professions Council (2012 – 2019); Former Specialist Advisor, Care Quality Commission; Former Inspector & Senior Performance Specialist, Audit Commission (2003 – 2011); Former Lay Chair, Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council (2019–2022); Former Associate Hospital Manager, North East London Foundation Trust.

Dr Ranjana Rani

MBBS, MS

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Former Consultant, Genitourinary Medicine.

Dr Pavan Rao 

MBBS, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Freelance GP; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG); Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Ms Morag Rea

BA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Legal Manager, Crown Prosecution Service.

Dr Sid (David) Riddington 

MBChB, FRCA, MSc, FFICM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham; Associate Medical Director, NHS Foundation Trust; Private Medical Services for Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, BMI Hospitals (Private Practice); Director, Riddington Medical Consulting; Medical Expert Witness; Medical Examiner, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, British Medical Association (BMA).

Mr James William Riley

BSc

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Associate Inspector, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services; Lay Member, Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service.

Mr Duncan Ritchie

BA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister-at-law; Crown Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service; Assistant Coroner, Stoke-on-Trent, North Staffordshire & South Staffordshire.

Mr George Ritchie 

LLB

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Board Member, Guernsey Competition and Regulatory Authority; Independent Member, Audit and Risk Committee, Health Research Authority; Lay Public Interest Observer, Association of Taxation Technicians; Director, G D Ritchie Consulting Limited; Member, Law Society.

Dr Carol Roberts 

BA, BCh, MSc, FRCPCH

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Associate Medical Director, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust since 2022; Associate Advisor, Teams Review Service, NHS Resolution; Regional and National Appraiser, NHS England; Former Associate Specialist Community Paediatrician, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (1998-2018); Former Deputy Medical Director, Professional Standards, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (2018-2022); Former Member Trustee, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (2016-2021); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Member, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

Professor William Roche 

MSc, MD, FRCPath, SFFFMLM, MBBCh, BAO

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2015; Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Southampton; Honorary Consultant, University Hospitals Southampton; Chair, Revalidation and Appraisal Advisory Group, Faculty of Medical Management and Leadership; Former Chief Medical Officer, University Hospitals Sussex (Interim); Former Chair, Wessex Clinical Senate, NHS England (2013-2020); Former Responsible Officer, South East and South Central Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs); Former Medical Director, South East Coast SHA (2009-2013); Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists; Founding Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

Dr Loralie Rodrigues

MB ChB, MRCGP, DFSRH, ILM5, FHEA

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2023; Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow, Warwick University; Urgent Care GP, Oxford Health Foundation Trust; Coach and Mentor, NHS South-East Leadership Academy; Former Locum GP, Chipping Norton Health Centre (2021-2022); Former GP Registrar, North Oxfordshire (2016-2021); Former FY1 Doctor, Kettering General Hospital (2011-2012); Former FY2 Doctor, Leicester Medical School and Leicester Royal Infirmary; Member, GMC Medical Protection Society.

Ms Rosemary Rollason

LLB (Hons), Solicitor

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2023; Principal, RJ Rollason Law; Legal Adviser, GDC; Legal Adviser, Health and Care Professions Council; Legal Adviser, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Member, Discipline Committee, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy; Committee Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, Law Society; Member, Association of Women Solicitors.

Ms Wanda Rossiter 

BA (Hons), ACG, FCCA

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Member, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Disciplinary and Regulatory Committees since 2016; Former Non-Executive Director and Chair, Audit Committee, Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (2013-2017); Former Employee, Audit Commission (1999-2011); Various Former Director and Senior Management Roles (private and not-for-profit); Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Mrs Helen Russell 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Practising Lawyer since 2004; Legal Consultant in Commercial Business since 2013; Former Associate, Halliwells LLP and Gateley LLP with special interest in Hotel and Commercial Land Development (2004-2013); Member, Law Society.

Mr Evan Ruth 

BA, LLB, LLM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Adjudicator, Torture Claims Appeal Board, Non-Refoulment Claims Petition Office, Hong Kong; Former First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber.

Mrs Carrie (Carol-Anna) Ryan-Palmer 

GDL, JP, BA (QTS) Hons

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2012; Tribunal Member since 2011; Teacher; Justice of the Peace, Lancashire Bench; Ambassador for Burnley.

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Dr Clive Saffer

BSc, MBChB, LLM, DRCOG, DOccMed

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber; Former Clinical and Professional Adviser, Care Quality Commission; Retired General Practitioner; Member British Medical Association.

Ms Amarjit Sagar

LLB (Hons) (Sp)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Legal Adviser, Magistrates Court; Independent Complaints Board, Labour Party; Chair, Valuation Tribunal; Legal Adviser, Westminster Magistrates Court; Member, Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).

Mr Ali Sarwar

LLB (Hons) (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Fee-Paid Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Dr Louis Savage

MBChB, BSc (Hons), MRCS (Eng), MRCGP, PG Cert (Med Ed), DLM (Distinction), PG Dip (Distinction)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Sessional/Locum GP, NHS Gloucestershire; Guideline Committee Member, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; Former Specialist Adviser, Care Quality Commission (2014–2018).

Miss Leena Savjani

LLB (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Partner, Irwin Mitchell LLP; Member, The Law Society; Member, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).

Mr Peter Scofield 

BA (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2013; Tribunal Member since 2012; Simulated patient, Manchester University Medical School; Member, audio newspaper for the blind, Bolton Newstalk; Member, 'Friends of Smithills Hall'; Co-director of Drama, Bolton Little Theatre; Member, Farnworth Little Theatre; Member, Whitefield Garrick Theatre; Former Superintendent, Greater Manchester Police.

Mr Mark Scott

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Head of Legal Team, Independent Neurology Inquiry since 2018; Fee-Paid Appeal Tribunal, Northern Ireland; Victim’s Payment Board; Former Solicitor, Directorate of Legal Services, Northern Ireland.

Mr Barrie Searle 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2002; Recorder since 2000; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council (GDC) since 2010; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) since 2013; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) since 2007; Legal Assessor, Social Work England (SWE); Former Barrister in Practice (1976-2015).

Dr William Seligman

BA (Hons) Oxon, BMBCh, MPH, MRCP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Head of Corporate Services, Critical Care International; Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London; Former Specialist Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London (2019-2020); Former Core Trainee in Anaesthesia, The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London (2018-2019); Former Core Trainee in Anaesthesia, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London (2018); Former Core Trainee in Anaesthesia, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London (2017-2018); Former Foundation Year 2 Doctor, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol (2015-2016); Former Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Swindon (2014-2015); Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Royal College of Physicians; Member, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

Mr Mohammad Shahid 

MB ChB, MRCSed, FRCS (Tr & Orth), MSc (Orth Eng), Dip (Football Med)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Practice Plus Group Hospital, Shepton Mallet; Major Trauma Consultant, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham; Team Doctor, Solihull Football Club; Interview Panel Member, Undergraduate Admissions for Medicine, University of Birmingham; Former Trainee Surgeon, West Midlands (2011-2018); Former Post CCT Fellow (Orthopaedic), Barts Hospital NHS Trust (2019-2020); Former Post CCT Fellow (Orthopaedic), Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust (2020-2021); Former Consultant (Orthopaedic); Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust (2021-2022); Member, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Member, Canadian Arthroplasty Society. 

Mrs Nessa Sharkett 

LLB (Hons), PGDL, SCM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; Employment Judge.

Ms Joanne Shelley

BSc (Hons), Dip (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Partner at Law Firm; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge.

Mr Darren Shenton

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Panel Member, Conduct and Competence Committee, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Detective Chief Superintendent, Greater Manchester Police.

Dr Alan Shepherd 

BSc, MBChB, MRCP, FRCP (Edin)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Former Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Clinical Director and NHS Board Member, NHS Tayside; Member and Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Member, Medical Defence Union of Scotland; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Jetinder Shergill 

LLB (Hons), LLM (KCL), MInstLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Chair since 2013; Tribunal Member since 2011; Barrister; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Employment Tribunal Judge; Legally Qualified Chair, Financial Reporting Council; Former Home Office Lawyer, advising on prison law including prisons healthcare; Former Lawyer, advising on miscarriages of justice, Scottish and UK criminal and prisons law, Scottish Government; Former Adjudicator, Financial Ombudsman Service; Former Part-time Public Law Lecturer, King’s College London; Former Independent Disciplinary Assessor, Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants; Former Adjudicator, Solicitors Regulation Authority (2008-2013); Former Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2012-2016); Member, Institute of Leadership and Management; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Associate Full Member, Institute of Directors. 

Dr Anup Singh 

BSc, MB ChB, CCT (General Practice)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP since 2016; Medical Tribunal Member, Social Entitlement Chamber; Committee Member, Doctors Association UK; Report Writer and Assessor, Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme; Former GP, Prison Medicine; Former Salaried GP; Member, Medical Protection Society. 

Mr Gurpreet Singh 

MBBS, FRCS (Ed), FRCS (G), Dip (Urol), FRCS (Urol), PG Cert, TLCP

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2015; Honorary Consultant (Neurology), Walton Neurosciences; Lead Assessor, Practitioner Performance Advice service (formerly National Clinical Assessment Service, NCAS); Former Associate PG Dean, HEE North West; Former Consultant Urologist, Southport NHS Trust; Former Chair, Mersey Consultants Committee.

Dr Pranveer Singh 

Vrach, MS, MRCPsych, MRes, MSc, PG Cert, DLM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Consultant Psychiatrist, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Member, Medical and Defence Union of Scotland; Member, Royal College of Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Dr Shopitha Sivaranjan

MBBS, BSc, MSc, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP, London; Former Locum GP (Various locations), London (2018-2023); Former Salaried GP, Ruislip (2021-2022); Former Salaried GP, Hillingdon (2021); Former GP Trainee, London (2015-2018); Former Locum SHO (Various Hospitals), London (2014-2015); Former Foundation Doctor, Essex and East London (2011-2013); Member, British Medical Association. 

Mr Tim (Timothy) Skelton

BSc (London University)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Social Work England; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Health Care Service Corporation; Former Senior NHS Management posts, South of England (1991-2007).

Dr Ann Smalldridge

BMedSci, BMBS, FRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; International GP Trainer in Myanmar and Palestine; Former GP, Manchester, Salford and Bury; Former GP Tutor, Refugee and Asylum Seeker Centre for Healthcare Professional Education (Reache Northwest), Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; Former Medicolegal Report Writer, Freedom from Torture; Former Associate Medical Director, Salford Primary Care Trust; Former GP Specialist Adviser (SpA), Care Quality Commission (CQC); Former GP Special Measures Project, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP); Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Doctors for the NHS; Member, Labour Party; Fellow, RCGP.

Dr Neil Smart 

MBChB, BSc (Hons), FCAI, MBA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Anaesthetist, NHS Glasgow and Clyde; Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow; Chair, Scottish Health Technologies Council, Healthcare Improvement Scotland; Adviser, European Commission, Medical Devices and In-Vitro Diagnostic Devices; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Association of Anesthetists, Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS).

Dr Alan Smith

BSc (Hons), MB ChB, MPhil, MRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Medical member, First-tier tribunal (Mental Health); Specialist member, Parole Board for England and Wales; Former, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, St Andrews Healthcare, Northampton (April  2020 - March 2021); Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Dr John (Edward) Smith 

MBBChir, MA, MD, FRCS

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2015; Former Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, St George's Hospital; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons.

Ms Deborah Spring 

BA (Hons) (Cantab), MA (London), MA (UEA)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Former Magistrate, West and Central Hertfordshire; Former Lay Tribunal Member, Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service; Former Justice of the Peace, West and Central Herts; Former Trustee, Victim Support.

Dame Nicola Stephenson DBE 

M.Ed, B.Ed

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; CEO, Valour Multi Academy Trust; Member, National Association of Head Teachers.

Mrs Alison Storey

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Senior Specialist Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Mr Jonathan Storey

MA, MSc (Oxon)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Lay Panel Member & Chair, Fitness to Practice Committee, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Member and Chair, Fitness to Practice Panel, Social Care Wales; Chair of Standards Committee, Salford City Council; Independent Person, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council; Regional Director, Lawyers' Christian Fellowship; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Member, Criminal Bar Association.

Dr Euan Strachan-Orr 

BSc (Med Sci) (Hons), MB ChB, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP, Merseyside since 2022; Agenda Committee Member, Conference of UK LMCs; Member, Liverpool LMC; Interviewer, University of Liverpool MB ChB; Former Chair, BMA GP Trainees Committee (2021-2022); Former Deputy Chair, BMA GP Trainees Committee (2020-2021); Former Committee Member, BMA GP Committee (2020-2022); Former Elected Member, BMA GP Trainees Committee (2019-2022); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Medical Defence Union.

Mr Colin Sturgeon 

BA (Hons), MSc

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Member, Registration and Fitness to Practise Committee, Northern Ireland Social Care Council; School Governor, Special School.

Dr Ashish Sukthankar 

FRCP, MD (Dermatology and Venereology, Mumbai), Dip (GUM) (Society of Apothecaries), DNB, FCPA, DVD

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine, Clinical Lead for the Northern Contraception, Sexual Health and HIV Services and Group Associate Medical Director for Medical Workforce, Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust; Former Medical Lead, Greater Manchester Sexual Health Network; Member, British Association of Sexual Health and HIV; Member, British HIV Association; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society.

Ms Louise Sweet KC

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister, Queen's Counsel.

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Dr Michelle Taggart

MBChB, DRCOG

Medical 

Tribunal Member since 2016; Medical Examiner, Bradford District; Associate Fellow, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Former Associate Specialist in Emergency Medicine, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Roberto Tamsanguan

MBBS, DRCOG, DFSRH, MRCGP, PG Cert

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; GP, Bromley By Bow Health Centre; Programme Clinical Lead (Outpatient Transformation), Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs); Clinical Advisor, NHS; Clinical Lead, Tower Hamlets Digital Accelerator, Tower Hamlets GP Care Group; Special Constable, Metropolitan Police; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Mrs Lorna Taylor

RN, BSc

Lay 

Tribunal Member since 2023; Registrant Panel Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Adjudicator, Social Work England; Lay Panel Member, Scottish Social Services Council; Non-Legal Member, Employment Tribunal Scotland (Glasgow); Non-Legal Member, Employment Tribunal England and Wales (North-West); Former Nurse Practitioner, Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Trust; Member, Royal College of Nursing.

Mrs Jacqueline Telfer

BA, MA (Social Work), CQSW, Dip (Public Services Management)

Lay 

Tribunal Member since 2014; General Visitor, Court of Protection (COP); Registrant Adjudicator, Social Work England; Former Non-Executive Director, University Hospitals of Morecombe Bay NHS Trust.

Miss Gillian Temple-Bone

BA (Hons) (Law), MA

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister since 1978.

Dr Nagarajah Theva (Thevamanoharan) 

MRCGP, MBBS, LMSSA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Medical Member, First-Tier Social Security Appeals Tribunal, HM Court Tribunal Service.

Mr Charles Thomas

BA (Hons) (Oxon), GDip (Law)

Lay 

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Barrister at Law; Self-Employed Barrister, Guildhall Chambers, Bristol; Recorder, Bristol Crown Court; Legally Qualified Chair, National Safeguarding Panel, Sport Resolutions UK.

Dr Kate Thomas

MBChB, BSc, FRCR

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Radiology Registrar, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh; Former Radiology Registrar, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, North Wales Clinical Radiology Training Scheme (2015 – 2023); Fellow, Royal College of Radiologists.

Mr Tony Thomas

MBBS, FRCOG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Director, Thomas Paul Associate; Consultant, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust; Senior Clinical Examiner, University of Birmingham Medical School; PLAB Panellist, GMC; Examiner, MRCOG Part 3; Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, New Vision University Georgia; Consultant Gynaecologist, Spire Little Aston Hospital; Consultant Gynaecologist, Health Harmonie; Member, ARCP Panel Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Health Education England (West Midlands); Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Rawal Medical Journal; Member, Expert Advisory Group, Gynaecological Cancer West Midlands; Member, West Midlands Clinical Assembly; Workplace Behaviours Champion (West Midlands), RCOG.

Mr Duncan Toole

LLB, Higher Rights of Audience (Criminal Courts)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Principal Legal Adviser for Enforcement, Office for Students; Mentor at General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) via Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Former Senior Regulatory Enforcement Lawyer (Ofsted); Member, ARDL.

Dr Joanne Topping

MBChB, FRCOG

Medical 

Tribunal Member since 2016; Specialist Advisor (Maternity), Care Quality Commission; Bank Vaccinator (COVID-19), St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospital NHS Trust; Former Consultant Obstetrician, Former Associate Medical Director and Former Responsible Officer, Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Trust; Former Trustee and Treasurer, Female Mutilation National Clinical Group (Charity); Fellow, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Dr Alice Trant

MBChB, MRCP, DTM&H

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; HIV and Medical Specialist Registrar (SpR), Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Former Senior House Officer (SHO) and SpR, Barts Health NHS Trust and Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust.

Mr Niamat Tullah

MRPharmS

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Director, Shukr Consulting Limited.

Mr Richard Tutt

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister at Law; Self-Employed Barrister, Pump Court Chambers; Recorder, Western Circuit.

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Mr David Urpeth 

LLB (Hons), PG Dip (Legal Practice)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister, Bank House Chambers Sheffield; Assessor, Personal Injury Panel, The Law Society; Retired HM Coroner, The Coroner Service; Former Non-Executive, Chesterfield Royal Hospital. 

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Dr Richard Vautrey

MB ChB (Hons), MRCGP, DRCOG, DCH

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, Meanwood Group Practice; Clinical Director, Central North Leeds Primary Care Network; Assistant Medical Secretary, Leeds Local Medical Committee; GP Appraiser, NHS England; Primary Medical Services Partner Representative, West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board; Elected Member, Royal College of General Practitioners Council; Elected Member, British Medical Association Council; Member, BMA GP Committee; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Meenakshi Verma

MBChB, MRCP (London)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Specialist Registrar, Dermatology; Honorary Clinical Tutor, University of Birmingham since 2012; Former Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University of Birmingham (2012-2013); Member, British Association of Dermatologists; Member, British Society for Paediatric Dermatology (BSPD); Member, Dowling Club; Member, British Society for Dermatological Surgery (BSDS); Member, European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union.

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Mrs Sue Wadham

BSc (Hons), PGCE, Dip (Clin Psych)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Former Panellist, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008-2016); Former Director of Specialist Services, North Warwickshire NHS Trust; Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust.

Mr Andrew Waite

PPQ

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, General Dental Council; Director of Rugby and Academy Chair, Andover Rugby Football Club; Retired Detective Chief Inspector, Hampshire Constabulary; Retired Member, Police Federation.

Mrs Judith Walker OBE

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2002; Solicitor; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, East Midlands, Crown Prosecution Service (2007-2013); Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service, South Yorkshire (1999-2007); Member, Law Society.

Mr Gerry Wareham

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister at Law; Member, Governance, Audit and Scrutiny Committee, Humberside Fire and Rescue Service; Joint Independent Audit Committee, Humberside Police Force; Chair of Trustees, Young People Count (registered charity); Former, Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service.

Mrs Tehniat Watson

LLB, LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair (LQC) since 2022; Principal Solicitor; LQC, West Midlands Police; Arbitrator & Panel Member, WC Athletics; Chair & Senior Member, Valuation Tribunal; Member, National Association of Legally Qualified Chairs.

Mrs Amanda Webster

LLB (Hons), DIP ClinNeg

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Deputy District Judge (Civil and Family); Chair, Police Appeals Tribunal; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council; QA Lead, Quality Assurance Board, Witness Intermediary Service; Vice Chair, Red Rose Recovery.

Mr Andrew Webster KC

LLB (Hons), DLP

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Queens Council; Part-time Sheriff, Scottish Judiciary; Chair, Police Appeals Tribunal, Scottish Judiciary; Legal Member, Pensions Appeal Tribunal, Scottish Judiciary; Legal Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security Chamber, Scotland; Legally Qualified Chair, Scottish Social Services Council; Legal Assessor, General Osteopathic Council; Independent Reviewer of Complaints, Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board, Ireland; Independent Examiner of Complaints, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland; External Examiner, University of Glasgow; Director, Faculty Services Limited; Former Chair, Ministerial Panel under NHS Scotland Consultant Grade Contract Terms of Service; Advocate, Faculty of Advocates.

Mr Chris Weigh

QPM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Retired Deputy Chief Constable, Lancashire Constabulary.

Mr Julian Weinberg

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; Higher Court Advocate (Criminal); Legally Qualified Chair, General Pharmaceutical Council; Legally Qualified Chair, Phone-paid Services Agency; Legally Qualified Chair, Mayors Office for Policing and Crime Police Disciplinary Panel; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC); Tribunal Clerk, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries; Third Party Reviewer, Architects Registration Board (ARB); Independent External Auditor, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); Consultant, Shaw Graham Kersh Solicitors; Trustee, The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund; Former Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Chair, General Teaching Council; Former Adjudicator, Solicitors Regulation Authority; Former Case Examiner, General Optical Council; Former LQC, Architects Registration Board (ARB); Former Chair, Disciplinary Panel, RICS.

Dr Nigel Westwood

MA, MSc, PhD, FIBMS

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Adjudication Panel Chair, Solicitor's Regulation Authority; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel and Inspector, Education Quality Assurance, Social Work England; Independent Panel Member, Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime; Non-Legal Member, Employment Tribunals, HM Courts & Tribunal Service; Former Consultant Biomedical Scientist, King's College London; Former Lay Member and Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Registrant Education Visitor, Fitness to Practise Panel Member and Registration Assessor, Health & Care Professions Council; Former Specialist Adviser, Care Quality Commission; Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences.

Mrs Jayne Wheat

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Chair and Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council since 2015; Lay Member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, various committees since 2017; Lay Panel Chair, Social Work England since 2019; Former First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber (2020-2023); Former Fee-Paid Judge, Employment Tribunal (2020-2023); Former Legal Adviser, HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), Criminal and Family Law (1996-2011).

Mr Graham White

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015, Legal Assessor since 2015; Solicitor; Judicial Member, Parole Board, England and Wales; Lay Chair, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA); Lay Chair, General Optical Council; Lay Chair, Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service; Panel Member and Chair, HS2 and Heathrow Airport Compensation Panels.

Mr Julian Williams

MBChB, MD, FRCS

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospital; Internal Professional Adviser (Surgery), Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Association Coloproctology Great Britain and Ireland; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Dr Ann Wolton

MBChB, DCH, MRCPsych, LLM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Somerset Foundation Trust; Second Opinion Appointed Doctor (SOAD), Care Quality Commission (CQC); Member, Safeguarding and Protection Committee, Lawn Tennis Association; Member, British Medical Association (BMA).

Ms Emily Wood KC

MA (Cantab), BCL (Oxon)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Barrister, Essex Court Chambers; Member, COMBAR. 

Mr Richard Wood

BA (Hons) (History), BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Fee-Paid Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Fee-Paid Judge Employment Tribunal Former Barrister.

Dr Sarah Woodford

MA, MB, BChir, MRCGP, MPH, DFPH, DOccMed, DFSRH, RCPathME

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023; General Visitor, Court of Protection; Medical Examiner, Warrington & Halton Hospitals; GP Locum, Morecambe Bay CCG; GP Appraiser, NHS England North West; Specialist Advisor, Royal College of General Practitioners; Fee-Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support); Fee-Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit; Regional Medical Appraiser, North-West Region; Former Medical Examiner, UHMBT (2020-2022); Former Complaints Advisor, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (2020-2022); Former GP Complaints Reviewer & Clinical Investigator, NHS England North-West (2018-2021); Former CQC Specialist Advisor, National QA Panel (2014-2021); Former GP Partner, Station House Surgery, Kendal (2006-2016); GP Research Champion, National Institute for Health and Care Research (2012-2015); Former GP Adult Safeguarding Lead, NHS Cumbria (2012-2013); GP Registrar (2004-2005); Specialist Registrar, Public Health (2002-2004); Former SHO, Training in Psychiatry (Leeds, Wakefield & Pontefract); Former SHO, Training in General Medicine (Norfolk & Norwich); Sign/BTS Asthma Guidelines (2014); NHS 111 Covid Clinical Assessment Service (South-Central Ambulance) (2020-2022); Coach, North-East and Yorkshire Leadership Academy; Coach, North-West Leadership Academy; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Pathologists; Member, Medical Protection Society.

Dr David Wrigley

MBChB, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; GP Partner, Ash Trees Surgery, Carnforth, Lancashire; Elected Council Member and Deputy Chair, BMA Council, British Medical Association since 2018; Vice Chair, Morecambe Bay Local Medical Committee; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Morecambe Bay Local Medical Committee.

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Dr Farah Yusuf

MBChB, MRCGP, MFFLM, FFFLM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Forensic Physician, Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) contracted by Greater Manchester Police, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Tutor and Trainer of Forensic Doctors; Examiner, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine; Examiner, Manchester Medical School; PLAB Examiner, GMC; Former General Practitioner, Manchester; Fellow, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians.

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Dr Amir Zafar

MRCGP, MBBCh, ACA, DRCOG, DCH, BSc (Econ)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Partner, Charles Road Surgery, Birmingham; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Association of Chartered Accountants; Member, British Medical Association.

Dr Jamal (Syed) Zaidi

MBBS, MRCOG, MD, FRCOG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2023: Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; Visiting Consultant, Sussex Premier Health; Visiting Consultant, Agora Clinic Sussex; Advisor, NHS England; Assessor, NHS Resolution; Former Assistant Medical Director and Former Deputy Responsible Officer, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (2013-2023); Member, British Fertility Society; Member, British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Expert Witness Institute. 

Miss Sadia Zouq

MSc (Oxon), LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Legally Qualified Chair, Architects Registration Board; Legal Assessor, Social Work England; Legal Assessor, General Optical Council; Legal Assessor, General Pharmaceutical Council; Barrister Member, Bar Tribunal Adjudication Service; Lay Panel Member, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA); Lay Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Chair, Health & Care Professions Council; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Member, Lincoln’s Inn.