Who makes the decisions?

A

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 & 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. 

Professor John (Juan) Alcolado

DM, BM (Hons), FRCP

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2015; Executive Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Life Sciences, University of Chester; Consultant Physician, Royal Derby Hospital; Former Head of Division, Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine; 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.

Dr Nicola Aloysius

MBBS, BSc (Hons), DRCOG, DFSRH, PG Cert (Leadership in Health)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Locum General Practitioner; Clinical Support, Referral Support Service, Surrey Heartlands Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG); Former Respiratory Clinical Lead, Surrey Downs CCG; Former Darzi Fellow, Surrey Heartlands Academy; Former Salaried GP and Locum Practitioner, Surrey Heartlands CCG; Member, Medical Defence Union (MDU); Member, British Medical Association (BMA).

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.

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 (Appleton-Buckle)

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; 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; Teaching Assistant.

B

Dr Shri (Srinivasarao) Babarao

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

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Neonatologist, Liverpool Women’s Hospital since 2021; Chair, Specialty Trainee Assessment of Readiness for Tenure (START) Committee, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); Assessor, RCPCH START, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); Examiner (Membership Exam), RCPCH; Examiner, Diploma of Child Health (DCH); PLAB-2 Examiner, GMC; Specialist Neonatal Reviewer, Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB); Freedom-To-Speak-Up Guardian, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust; Member, BAME staff network, Wirral University Teaching Hospital, NHS Trust; Appraiser, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS 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, North-West BAME Network.

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; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX).

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; Clinical Adviser, General Pharmaceutical Council; Clinical Adviser, General Optical Council; Former Tribunal Chair, MPTS (2014-2019); Member, Royal College of GPs; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union (MDU).  

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.

Dr Jill Belch

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, Green Party; Member, BMA; Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences; OBE.

Professor Irving Benjamin

BSc (Hons), MBChB, MD, FRCS (RCPSG), FRCS (Eng)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Former Head of Department of Surgery, King's College London; Former Associate Dean, HEE; Former PLAB Assessor; Former FTP Assessor; Associate, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, RCP.

Dr Noel Bevan

MBBS, FRCGP, FHEA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Former Director, Royal Naval Medical Service (2009-2011); Former Defence Postgraduate Medical Dean, Defence Medical Services (2005-2009); Brother Officer, The Order of St John.

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; Vice Chair, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; 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).

Dr Arsinah Boles

MBBS

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; GP Registrar, Kent Sussex Surrey Deanery; Associate in Training, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP); Member, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM).

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; Consultant, Portfolio Legal Ltd; Licence Committee Member, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; Director, Black Country Chamber of Commerce and Industry; 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; Psychiatrist, Practitioner Health Programme; Former Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (1996-2016); Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry (1994-1996); Senior Registrar, St George's Hospital (1990-1993); 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; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons.

Mr Philip Brown

BA, MA, CiLCA

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Committee Member, Fitness to Practise, General Dental Council, since 2013; Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise, General Dental Council, since 2015; Aerodrome Flight Information Service Officer, Shobdon Airfield, since 2009; 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).

Mr Paul Burns

LLB (Hons), PG Dip (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister, Head of Local Government and Social Housing and Member, Management Board, Exchange Chambers since 2010; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings since 2016; Vice-Chair, Torus 62 Limited since 2019; Recorder (civil) since 2019; Former Junior Counsel to the Crown (2015-2021); Former Non-Executive Director (2010-2017) and Senior Independent Director (2012-2017), Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust; Former Non-Executive Director, First Ark Limited (2015-2017); Former Chair, The LMH Group (2017-2019); Member, Chartered Institute of Housing since 2017.

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

Dr Karen Cane (Slade)

MFPHM, MPH, BM, MA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Medical Tribunal Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber; Medical Advisor, Veterans UK; Former Medical Director, Bridgewater Community Healthcare, NHS Foundation Trust (2016-2017); Former Consultant Clinical Adviser, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2015-2016); Former Consultant in Public Health, Lancashire County Council, NHS North Lancashire PCT (2007-2015).

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 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), FRCA, FFICM

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2014; Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Fellow, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists; 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), MRPharmS

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Independent Commercial Lawyer and Director, Damian Cooper Associates Limited; Senior Legal Adviser, Bupa UK Insurance; Former Commercial Partner, DWF LLP; Former Legal Manager, Bupa UK; Former Solicitor, Addleshaw Goddard LLP; Former Regulatory Pharmacist, Zeneca Pharma UK; Former Pharmacist, NHS, DoH, Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA); Member, The Law Society; Member, The Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

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 Jane (Pamela) Cowan 

MBBS

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber; Former Consultant Paediatrician, East Cheshire NHS Trust (1993-1998); Former Medical Legal Advisor, MPS (1995-2008); Former Non-Executive Director, East Cheshire NHS Trust (2012-2018). 

Ms Polly Cowan 

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

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh; Senior Practitioner, Scottish Adoption; Tribunal Member, Additional Support Needs Tribunals, Scotland; 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 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.

Mr Paul Curtis 

MA

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, Disciplinary Panel, Judicial Conduct Investigations Office; 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.

D

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 Region Police Forces; Legally Qualified Chair, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Former Senior Specialist Prosecutor with special interests in Medical Manslaughter, Assisted Suicide, Deaths in Custody, Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, Crown Prosecution Service; Member, Law Society; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL).

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; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Gareth Davies 

BSc (Hons), CeFa, DipFa

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2012; Tribunal Member since 2011; Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Police.

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.

Mr Lee Davies

LLB, PG Dip (Law)

Lay

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

Dr Paolo De Marco 

DCH, DRCOG, State Exam (Naples)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Associate Tutor, Norwich Medical School; Medical Member, Social Security Tribunal; Former Partner, Fakenham Medical Practice; Former General Practitioner in Norwich and Norfolk (1987-2018).

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).

Dr Paul Divall 

MA, MBBChir, FRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Mental Health Tribunal; Co-opted Member, Executive Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists South West Division; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy; Former Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, AWP Trust; Former Member, Panel for Psychiatric Disorders and Driving, DVLA; Fellow, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, South of England Approvals Panel; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Medical Protection Society (MPS).

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; Director and Shareholder, Compliance Office Ltd; Director, Cilex Regulation Limited; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber, HM Courts and Tribunal Service; 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.

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; Occupational Health Adviser, Self-Employed; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member and Branch Secretary, Prospect Trade Union.

Dr Maria Dyban 

Vrach, FRCGP, DRCOG, DFFP, LLM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; GP Partner, Kings Road Surgery, Cardiff; Senior GP Clinical Editor for Health Pathways, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Section 12 approved Doctor; PLAB Examiner, General Medical Council; Member of Editorial Board, Guidelines in Practice Magazine; Annual tutorials on Medical Tribunal work, Legal Aspects of Medical Practice Master Degree, Cardiff University; Former Board Member, Royal College of General Practitioners, South East Wales Faculty (2010-2020); 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; Prescribing Support, Gloucester CCG; External Advisor, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP); Retired Principal GP, White House Surgery, Chipping Norton; Former GP Dean, HEE Thames Valley; Former Medical Director, Quality and Standards, RCGP.

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; Fellow, Faculty of Public Health; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union.

Mr John Elliott

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

Ms Val (Glenys) Evans 

MSc, BA (Hons), CQSW

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, General Dental Council; Former Lay Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Retired Senior Manager, Local Authority Adult Social Care Services; Former Social Care Member, Camden Primary Care Trust Professional Executive Committee; Former Registrant Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Health and 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; Chair Adjudicator, Social Work England; Specialist Tribunal Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Health Education and Social Care Chamber.

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; Appeals Committee Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW); Trust Member, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Trust Member, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; 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; 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; Member, British Medical Association; Member, British Geriatrics Society.

Dr Laura Florence

MBChB, RCGP, JP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; GP; Clinical Lead, Derbyshire Health Union; GP Appraiser, NHS England; 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.

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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.

Dr David Geddes 

MBBS, DRCOG, DCH, DPD, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; National Director of Primary Care Commissioning (NHS England); GP Partner, York Medical Group, Acomb, York; Former Medical Director and RO, NHS North Yorkshire and York (2007-2012); Former Director of Primary Care, Selby and York PCT (2004-2007), Member, British Medical Association; Trustee, 'The Hut' Mental Health Charity, York.

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.

Dr Moji (Mojisola) Gesinde 

MBBS, FRCPath

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Retired Consultant, Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, NHS Blood and Transplant Service (NHSBT); Member, British Society of Haematology; Member, British Blood Transfusion Society (BBTS); Member, Medical Defence Union (MDU); Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath).

Dr Ammar Ghouri 

MRCGP, MBChB, BSc (Hons)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; GP Partner; Clinical Tutor, University of Leicester Medical School; Clinician, Derbyshire Health United (Out of Hours); Locality Chair, Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs); 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.

Mr Inderjeet Gill

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

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; 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 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.

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; Lay Member, Probate Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales; Non-Executive Director, Dentists' Provident; Member, Council of Reference, Bridge2Aid (Dental Charity); Dental Member, Appointments Committee, General Dental Council; 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; Non-Executive Director, Spectrum Community Health; 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 Helen Grote 

MBBChir, DPhil, MRCP (Neurol)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Consultant Neurologist, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust & Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Specialist Adviser, Care Quality Commission; Genomics Clinical Reference Group, NHS England; Neurology Clinical Reference Group, NHS England; Former Clinical Fellow, Care Quality Commission; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Physicians; Member, Royal Society of Medicine; Member, Association of British Neurologists; Member, Medical Women’s Federation; Member, Christian Medical Fellowship

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).

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).

Dr Andy (Andrew) Heeps 

BSc (Hons), MBBS (Lond), MRCOG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Divisional Director, Specialist in Medicine, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, University Hospitals NHS Trust (Barking, Havering & Redbridge); Member, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; Member, British Medical Association.

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.

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.

Dr Josanne Holloway 

MBChB, FRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Associate Medical Director, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust; Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust; Chair, Manchester Medical Society; Deputy Chief Examiner, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Chair, Forensic Faculty Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, Manchester Medical Society; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr William Hoskins

MA (Oxon), Dip (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Barrister in private practice; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Adviser, General Optical Council; Legal Adviser, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Legal Adviser, Farriers Registration Council.

Dr Andrew Hoyle 

MBBS, LLM, MRCGP, FRAeS (Hons), FFFLM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; General Practitioner, Her Majesty's Government; Medico-Legal Adviser, Her Majesty's Government; Barrister, Her Majesty's Government; Private General Practitioner, King Edward VII Hospital, London; Former Registration Tribunal Member, General Medical Council; Former Expert Witness in General Practice, General Medical Council; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society; Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians; The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

Dr Sarah Hull 

BMBCh, MA (Oxon), FFFLM, LLM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Clinical Director, The Rowan SARC (Sexual Assault Referral Centre); Forensic Medical Officer, Northern Ireland; Lead Clinician, Capita; Lead Medical Examiner, Diploma of Legal Medicine (Part 1 MFFLM-FFLM); Former Assistant Medical Director, NHS East England; Former Deputy Medical Director, Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust; Member, Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine (FFLM); Member, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM).

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.

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Dr Fade Ibitoye

Vrach, FMCPsych, DPsych, DPM, MRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant Psychiatrist, Former Medical Director and Former Responsible Officer, Northwest Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; 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 Union; Member, British Medical Association.

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; Visiting Fellowship, Staffordshire University School of Law, Policing and Forensics.

Dr Priya Iyer

MBBS, MS (Surgery), LRCP, LRCS, LMSSA, MBA (Healthcare & Pub Sec), DFMS FFFLM (Forensic Med)

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2013; Tribunal Member since 2012; Lead Medical Examiner, Morecambe Bay NHS Trust and Wirral University Hospital Trust; Trustee, Ryecroft Children’s Charity; Fellow, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.

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Ms Carol Jackson (Douglas)

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

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Tribunal Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Retired Senior Lawyer, Crown Prosecution Service; Former Financial Ombudsman.

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.

Dr Ernesto Jones

MBBCh, MRCP, MRCS, MRCGP, DFSRH, DiMM, MA (Medical Ethics & Law)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Salaried GP, NHS; Medico-legal Adviser, Her Majesty’s Government; Out of Hours Sessional GP, Practice Plus Group; External Tutor for Medical Ethics, University of Bristol; Academic Mentor, University of Bristol; Shareholder and Former Online Private GP, Doctor Care Anywhere; Former PLAB Examiner, GMC; Member, Royal College of Physicians; Member, Royal College of Surgeons; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Bristol Medico-legal Society.

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Ms Miriam Karp

MSc, BA (Hons), Cert (Ed)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2011; Chair, Interim Orders Hearings, Nursing and Midwifery Council; 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 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.

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 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; Ad-Hoc Lecturer, Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bolton; OSCE Examiner; Medical School Entrance Interviewer; Former Special Constable, Greater Manchester Police; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

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.

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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; Member, The Governing Body, South East Regional College, Bangor; Part-time Lecturer, Southern Regional College, Newry.

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 Jessica Lee 

BSc, MBBS, FRCA, MA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, Obstetric Anaesthetists Association; Member, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Medical Defence Union.

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, Radcliffes LeBrasseur since 2012; 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; Legal Chair, Disciplinary and Appeal Tribunals, Taxation Disciplinary Board since 2014; Legally Qualified Adjudicator, Phone-paid Services Authority (PSA) since 2013; Lecturer, MBL Seminars (2006-2010, Resumed 2012); Incorporated Council of Law Reporting since 2016; Director, Law Society; 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; Former Member, Executive Committee, Law Society (2010-2011); 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); 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); Deputy District Judge, Magistrates Courts; 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; Criminal Bar Association.

Miss Anya Lewis

QC, LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Barrister, Garden Court Chambers, London; Fee Paid Judge, Mental Health Tribunal; Recorder, Family Court; Recorder, Criminal Court; Chair, Mental Health Tribunal; Trustee, Child Rights and Youth Justice; Trustee, Women in Prison; 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; Clinical Safety Officer, Ethos Ltd; Partner, Datalla Group; Strategic Clinical Lead, Care Visions Group; Medical Director, Qured; Healthcare Specialist, Healthcare UK, Department for International Trade; Fellow, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FFMLM); Fellow, Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM).

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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

QC, 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); 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.

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.

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.

Miss Tarryn McCaffrey 

LLB, BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Specialist Crown Prosecutor, International Justice and Organised Crime Division, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

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).

Dr Damian McDermott 

MBChB, MRCGP, DRCOG

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Former Senior Partner, Tower House Practice, Runcorn; Former Chairman, Mid-Mersey Local Medical Committee; Former Governing Body Member and Clinical Lead, Halton Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs); Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union; Former Volunteer Medical Officer, Shrewsbury Diocesan Pilgrimage, Lourdes.

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.

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; Medically Qualified Panel Member, Social Security and Child Support and Criminal Injury Compensation Tribunals; Area Visitor, Royal Medical Benevolent Fund; 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.

Dr Alexandra McMillan

LLB, BSc, MBBS, Dip (OccMed), MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; Civil Servant; Member, Surrey Autism Partnership Board Reference Group; Various former locum positions in Suffolk, Hampshire, Cambridgeshire, Civil Service; Former Senior Medical Claims Manager, Medical Defence Union; Former locum GP, Falkland Islands; Former Clinical Research Officer, Drug Safety Research Unit; Member, Inner Temple; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS).

Mr Neil Mercer

LLB, BA

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Barrister; Legally Qualified Chair, Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA); Legally Qualified Chair, General Chiropractic Council (GCC); Legal Advisor, General Dental Council (GDC); Legal Assessor, Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC); Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Deacon, Diocese of Arundel & Brighton; Former Legal Assessor, MPTS (2007-2018); Member, Lincoln's Inn.

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 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

MBChB

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; GP Registrar, Abergele.

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.

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).

Dr Ed (Edmund) Morris 

BSc (Hons), MBBS, FRCA

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Anaesthetist, North Bristol NHS Trust; Member, Medical Advisory Committee, Spire Hospital Bristol; Non-Executive Director, Football Medicine and Performance Association (FMPA); Medical Governance Adviser, FA Premier League; Non-Executive Director, Medical Protection Society.

Ms Gail Mortimer 

BA (Hons), MA, PGCE

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Retired Teacher; Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Panels, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Panellist, General Chiropractic Council; Lay Chair, Quality Assurance Inspection Panels, General Dental Council; Lay Member, Disciplinary Committee, The Chartered Insurance Institute; 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; MPTS Committee Member; 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); Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, BMA. 

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; Visiting Lecturer, University of Law, Leeds and Sheffield Hallam University since 2017; External Examiner, Bar Standard Board since 2013; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Social Entitlement Chamber since 2013; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Immigration and Asylum Chamber since 2014; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings since 2016; Former Member, KBW Chambers Leeds.

Mr Gulzar (Ghulam) Mufti 

MBBS, MS, MCh, FRCSE

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Independent Clinician Member (Secondary Care), East Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG); Medical Appraiser & Case Investigator, Care UK; IRM Reviewer, The Royal College of Surgeons England; 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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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 Colette Neville 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Adjudicator, Social Work England since 2019; Volunteer Newsreader assisting visually impaired people, Local Charity; Former Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Dental Council; Former Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Osteopathic Council. 

Mr James Newton-Price

QC, 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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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; 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

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2009; Solicitor.

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

QC, 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.

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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; Appeals Panel, School Admissions; Criminal Law Committee, The Law Society; Former Legal Adviser, HM Court Tribunal Service; Legally Qualified Chair, Valuation Tribunal England.

Mrs Valerie Paterson 

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

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Legally Qualified Chair, Scottish Social Services Commission; Legal Chair, General Chiropractic Council; Chair, General Optical Council; Legal Assessor, General Dental Council; Legal Assessor, Health Care Professions Council; Legal Assessor, Social Work England; Public Interest Member, Discipline Panel, Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland; Chair, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Lay Observer, Annual Fitness to Practise Meeting, Scottish Deans (Medical Schools); Former Legal Chair, General Chiropractic Council; 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 Jeffrey Phillips 

BSc, MBBS, FRCA, FFICM

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthetics, Deputy Responsible Officer, Royal College of Anaesthetists Tutor, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow; Consultant Anaesthetist, Rivers Hospital; Consultant Anaesthetist, Spire London East Hospital (Formerly Spire Roding Hospital); Consultant Anaesthetist, The Holly Private Hospital; Consultant Anaesthetist, Herts and Essex Fertility Centre; 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; Member,  European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

Dr Rosalind Piper 

MBBS, MRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Appraisal Lead, NHS England; Training Programme Director, Health Education England; GP, GP Health Service; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).

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.

Dr Aparna Prasanna 

MBBS, MRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Psychiatrist, Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Health Education and Social Care; College Assessor, Appointments Advisory Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Medical Volunteer, Balaji Youth Camp; Former Consultant Psychiatrist, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists.

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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 Nitesh Raithatha

MBBS, MSc 

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2015; GP Tutor and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Norwich Medical School (UEA); GP Appraiser, NHS England (East Anglia); GP Coach, Akeso Coaching and Mentoring Network; Fee-Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal Service, Social Entitlement Chamber; Specialist Lay Member, Mental Health Tribunal (2018); Former GP Partner, University Medical Centre (UEA) (1992-2010); Former Executive Medical Member, Norwich PCT (1998-2005).

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. 

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).

Professor William Roche 

MSc, MD, FRCPath, SFFFMLM, MBBCh, BAO

Medical

Tribunal Chair since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2015; Chief Medical Officer, University Hospitals Sussex (Interim); 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 Chair, Wessex Clinical Senate, NHS England (2013-2020); Former Trustee and Board Member, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management; Former Medical Director (Interim), Health and Social Service Department, Guernsey (2015); Former Responsible Officer, South East and South Central Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs); Former Medical Director, Western Sussex Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2013); Former Special Adviser, South East London NHS Trust (2011-2013); Former Medical Director, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust (2006-2009); Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists; Founding Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

Ms Wanda Rossiter 

BA (Hons), ACIS, 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; Member, Independent Doctors Federation.

Dr Priyanka Saigal 

LLB, MBBS, MA, MRCP (UK), Dip (GUM), DFSRH, Dip (HIV)

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Physician in HIV and Sexual Health, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; Chair, Clinical Ethics Committee, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; Specialist Registrar (SpR) HIV/GUM, King's College Hospital; Member and Trainee Representative, British Association of Sexual Health and HIV; Member, Royal College of Physicians; Member, British HIV Association.

Dr Louis Savage

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

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Sessional/Locum GP, NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG); Borough Councillor, Cheltenham Borough Council; Specialist Adviser, Care Quality Commission.

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 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; 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.

Dr Vivek Sen 

MBBS, FRCP, FRCPath

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Former Consultant Haematologist, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Greater Manchester (1992–2014); Former Royal College Regional Speciality Adviser in Haematology, North West England (2011–2014); Former Vice-Chair, Clinical Sub Group in Haematological Oncology, Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network (2004–2013); Former Divisional Medical Director, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Greater Manchester (2002–2009); Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London; Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists, London; Senior Member, British Society for Haematology; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society.

Mrs Nessa Sharkett 

LLB (Hons), PGDL, SCM

Lay

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

Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst

BMedSci (Hons), BMBS, MRCS, DMCC, PGDip, DLM, FRSPH

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Barrister, No5 Chambers; Former Honorary Consultant Trauma Co-ordinator, Department of Major Trauma, University Hospitals Birmingham (2016-2020); Former Medical Adviser, Department of Work and Pensions (2016-2017); Former West Midlands Deanery (2011-2016); Former South Tees NHS Foundation Trust (2007-2010); Former Medical Officer, Royal Army Medical Corps (2006-2014); Member, Royal College of Surgeons; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society.

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; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Independent Disciplinary Assessor, Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants; Qualified Workplace Mediator; Barrister in prison law including prisons healthcare, large criminal chambers and the Home Office; Lawyer, advising on miscarriages of justice, Scottish and UK criminal and prisons law, Scottish Government; Adjudicator, Financial Ombudsman Service; Part-time Public Law Lecturer, King’s College London; 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. 

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 Ann Smalldridge

BMedSci, BMBS, FRCGP

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2019; Sessional GP; GP Tutor, Refugee and Asylum Seeker Centre for Healthcare Professional Education (Reache Northwest), Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; Medicolegal Report Writer, Freedom from Torture; International GP Trainer in Myanmar and Palestine; Former GP, Manchester, Salford and Bury; 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); 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 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 Lisa (Elisabeth) Smith 

BA (Hons), MBA

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2014; Tribunal Member since 2011; Director, Equal to the Occasion Ltd; Former Civil Servant, Department for Work and Pensions. 

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.

Mr Colin Sturgeon 

BA (Hons), MSc

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery 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

QC, 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; Associate Specialist in Emergency Medicine, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Associate Fellow, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, British Medical Association; 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 Jacqueline Telfer

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

Lay 

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, General Osteopathic Council Investigating Committee; 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, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, North Wales Training Scheme since 2015; Fellow, Royal College of Radiologists.

Mr Tony Thomas

MBBS, MRCOG

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; Training Programme Director, F1 Programme, Health Education England; Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, New Vision University Georgia; Faculty Member, Enhanced Revision Programme; Faculty Member, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) OSCE Course; Faculty Member, MTI Induction Programme; Faculty Member, SBA Question Writing Sub Committee; Consultant Gynaecologist, Spire Little Aston Hospital; Consultant Gynaecologist, Health Harmonie; Consultant Gynaecologist, Alliance Medical; Member, ARCP Panel Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Health Education England (West Midlands); Member, RCOG Council; Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Rawal Medical Journal; Member, Expert Advisory Group, Gynaecological Cancer West Midlands; Member, West Midlands Clinical Assembly.

Mr Duncan Toole

LLB, Higher Rights of Audience (Criminal Courts)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Senior Regulatory Enforcement Lawyer (Ofsted); Mentor at General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) via Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); 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 Richard Tutt

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister at Law.

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Mr Miran Uddin

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Barrister; Deputy District Judge; Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge; Chair, Professional Practice Committee, General Dental Council; Assessor, Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme, The Law Society; Legally Qualified Chair, General Chiropractic Council; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels; Chair, British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy; Former Panellist, Conduct and Competence Committee, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008-2016).

Mr David Urpeth 

LLB (Hons), PG Dip (Legal Practice)

Lay

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

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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.

Dr Tushar Vince

MBBS (Hons), MSc, FRCPCH

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant Paediatric Intensivist; Head of Clinical Assessment & Academic Support Lead, Kings College London; Vice Chair, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Specialty Trainee Assessment of Readiness for Tenure (RCPCHSTART); Fellow, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

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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 Andrew Webster

QC, 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); 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; Lay Inspector, Education Quality Assurance, Social Work England; Independent Panel Member, Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime; Lay Panel Adjudicator and Panel Chair, Solicitor's Regulation Authority; 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; Fee-Paid Judge, Employment Tribunal since 2020; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber since 2020; 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 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 Asela (Thivanka) Wimalaratne

MBBS, FRCA, FCAI

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant Anaesthetist, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust; Consultant Anaesthetist, Aspen Healthcare; Consultant Anaesthetist, BMI Hospitals; Consultant Anaesthetist, Various fertility clinics in the London area; Director, Lancam Care Services Ltd; Director, Anaesthesia London Services Ltd; Former Locum Consultant Anaesthetist, Whittington Health (2016-2019); Various Former Trainee Anaesthetist posts, London (2008-2016); Member, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland; Member, Medical Protection Society; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Fellow, College of Anaesthetists of Ireland.

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).

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.