Who makes the decisions?
Tribunal members
Tribunal members make decisions at our hearings.
We have around 300 tribunal members, appointed through open competition, who have GMC registration or have lay backgrounds.
We appoint three tribunal members to each tribunal.
What they do
Tribunal members:
- make impartial decisions based on the evidence
- give reasons for their decisions and follow legislation.
Who they are
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Mrs Sirah Abraham
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Justice Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
Mrs Fareth Ahmed
BA (Hons)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Litigation Manager, Home Office.
Dr Iftikhar Ahmed
MA (Medical Ethics & Law), MBBS, MCPS, FCPS, FCARCSI, FRCA, MSc (Healthcare Leadership)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Anaesthetist, Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Former Consultant Anaesthetist, Hull & East Yorkshire NHS Trust (2009 – 2015); Member, Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association; Member, Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland.
Mrs Remi (Oluremi) Alabi
LLB (Law)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Crown Prosecuting Solicitor, Crown Prosecution Service; Panel Member, Teachers Regulatory Agency; Member, The Law Society.
Professor John (Juan) Alcolado
DM, BM (Hons), FRCP
Registrant
Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2015; Medical Examiner, NHS Wales Shared Services; Consultant Physician, Royal Derby Hospital; Interim Dean, Medical Education, Aston Medical School; Deputy Head, Aston Medical School; Former Head of Division, Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine; Former Executive Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Life Sciences, University of Chester (2020 – 2023); Former Deputy Head, School of Medicine, Nottingham University School of Medicine; Former Head, Graduate Entry Medicine, University of Nottingham.
Mrs Jillian Alderwick
BA (Hons), MSc
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Independent Member, Appeals Board, Ministry of Defence (MOD); Substantive career in NHS Public Health and General Management; Lay member for a variety of regulatory bodies.
Ms Sally Allbeury
BA (Hons)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Financial Ombudsman, Service Parole Board of England and Wales, Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Mrs Nasreen Anderson
BA (Hons) (Anthropology & Law), PG Dip (Legal Practice), Roll of Solicitors (2009)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Case Manager, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Lay Panel Member, General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS); Lay Representative, NHS Education for Scotland; Working Official (Judge), Boxing Scotland; Coach, Lochend Boxing Club; Former Legal Officer, The Royal College of Nursing (RCN); Former Lawyer, NMC; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL).
Dr Saqib (Mohammed) Anwar
MBChB, FRCGP, MASC, Dip (SpI), DFSRH, PG Dip (Med Ed)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2012; Associate Medical Director, NHS England (Central Midlands); GP Partner; Clinical Tutor & Honorary Fellow, University of Leicester; Council Member and Ex-officio Vice Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Leicester; GP and Foundation Trainer, HEEM; Specialist Advisor for Primary Care, Care Quality Commission (CQC); Member, Justice of the Peace; Member, Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee.
Ms Jenny Appleton
LLB, Bar Vocational Diploma, QLTS
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber (Mental Health and Care Standards); Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legally Qualified Chair, Health and Care Professions Council; Former Legal Adviser, HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS); Former Trustee, UK-Med; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL).
Mrs Catherine Audcent
LLB
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2012; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber (SEND); Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Social Work England; Lay Chair, Disciplinary Committee, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
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Dr Shri (Srinivasarao) Babarao
MBBS, MD (Paed), DCH, MSc, FRCPCH, PGCME, PGCML
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Neonatologist, Liverpool Neonatal Partnership, Liverpool Women’s Hospital & Alder Hey Children’s Hospital; Chair, Specialty Trainee Assessment of Readiness for Tenure (START) Committee, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); Independent Neonatal Care Reviewer, Maternity Investigations, Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust; Assessor, RCPCH START, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); Examiner (Membership Exam), RCPCH; PLAB-2 Examiner, GMC; Neonatal Subject Matter Advisor, Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB); Freedom-To-Speak-Up Guardian, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust; Appraiser, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust; Appointments Advisory Committee (AAC), RCPCH; Course Director & Instructor, Newborn Life Support (NLS), Resuscitation Council; Instructor, Generic Instructor Course (GIC), Resuscitation Council; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO); Member, Certificate of Eligibility to the Specialist Register (CESR) Committee, RCPCH; Member, TQB (Training & Quality Board), RCPCH.
Dr Marta Babores (Babores Raset)
LMS, MRCP, FRCP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Physician, East Cheshire NHS Trust; Member, Royal College of Physicians; Member, British Thoracic Society; Member, British Medical Association.
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
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant in Cardiac Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, University Hospitals Bristol, NHS Foundation Trust; Member, Royal Naval Reserve.
Miss Gill (Gillian) Batts
LLB (Law), BVC
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Self-Employed Barrister, Park Square Barristers; Former Member, New Park Court Chambers until 2012.
Dr Jennifer Bedford
MB ChB, MRCGP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, Stanhope Mews West Surgery, London; Performance Lead, NWL; Performance Lead, London Central and West Unscheduled Care Collaborative; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society.
Dr Jill Belch OBE
MBChB, MD (Hons), FRCP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Professor, University of Dundee; Member, Advisory and Speakers Boards, Amgen & Bayer Pharmaceutical Companies; Clinical Trail PI/adjudicator, Rexgenero; Trustee of Health-related charity, Scottish Heart and Arterial Risk Prevention (SHARP); Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences.
Dr Juliet Bennett
MBChB, MRCGP (Distinction), DRCOG, DFSRH, PGCME
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, The Meadows Medical Practice; GP Appraiser, Appraisal and Revalidation Team, NHS England Midlands (Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire); Former Salaried GP roles, Shropshire (2003-2011); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.
Miss Rachel Birks
LLB (Hons), Dip (Legal Practice), Dip (Management)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Partner, Ward Hadaway Law Firm; Chair, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Governor, Parrs Wood High School; Former Trustee, Greater Manchester Learning Trust; Former Volunteer, Quality and Assurance Team, St Johns Ambulance (2018-2019); Former Employee and Director, Fieldfisher LLP (2007-2016); Former employee, General Medical Council (2003-2007); Former employee, Berrymans Lace Mawer (1998-2003); Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, Women in the Law UK.
Mrs Ann Bishop
LLB (First Class Hons)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Retired Solicitor (1980-2010).
Dr Dawn Black
MBChB, MSc, MD, FRCPsych
Registrant
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.
Mr Simon Bond
LLB (Hons), LLM, FCIArb
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Director, Bond Legal Ltd; Associate Consultant, Ibex Gale Ltd; Licence Committee Member, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; Former Partner, Higgs & Sons solicitors; Member, Law Society, England and Wales; Member, Employment Lawyers Association; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Mrs Emma Boothroyd
LLB, BVC
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Non-Practising Barrister; Solicitor; Financial Ombudsman; Case Examiner, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Legal Assessor, General Optical Council; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council; Independent Complaints Assessor, Phone Paid Services Authority; Legally Qualified Chair, Conduct Competence Committee, Architects Registration Board; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels, Wales; Former Investigating Committee Member, General Medical Council; Former Chair, Fitness to Practice Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Adjudicator, Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Dr Candida Borsada
BSc, MBChB
Registrant
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.
Dr Ronan Brennan
MBBCh, FRCPsych
Registrant
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 Deborah Brooke
MRCGP, MRCPsych, MPhil, MD
Registrant
Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Appraisal Lead, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Former Psychiatrist, Practitioner Health Programme; Former Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (1996-2016); Former Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry (1994-1996); Former Senior Registrar, St George's Hospital (1990-1993); Former Psychiatric Registrar, Maudsley Hospital (1987-1990); Former Medical Examiner and Supervisor, General Medical Council; Nottingham Vocational Training Scheme for General Practice (1982-1987); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Dr Maria Broughton
MBChB, MA, FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Ed), MRCPsych
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2015; Medical Member, Mental Health, Social Entitlement & War Pensions, First-Tier Tribunal; Second Opinion Appointed Doctor, Healthcare Inspectorate, Wales; Medical Member, MHRT Wales; Former Mental Health Act Commissioner, Mental Health Act Commission.
Mr Philip Brown
BA, MA, CiLCA
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Committee Member, Dental Professionals Hearing Service since 2013; Lay Chair, Dental Professionals Hearing Service since 2015; Part-time Aerodrome Flight Information Services Officer, Shobdon Airfield since 2009; Acting Manager, Air Traffic Services Unit, Shobdon Airfield; Former Education Associate, General Medical Council (2003-2013); Former Education Inspector, General Dental Council (2012-2018); Former Academic Registrar, St George’s, University of London (1991-2004).
Dr Frances Burnett
MBChB, BSc, MD, FRCPsych
Medical
Tribunal Member since 2016; Retired Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist, Clinical Director and Associate Medical Director, Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (1999-2016); Former Elected Member, Eastern Division Executive Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2013-2016); Former Elected Member, General Adult Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2006-2012).
Dr Hazel Busby-Earle
DDS, MBBS, MRCS (Eng), FRCS (OMFS) (Eng), FFD (OSOM) (RCSI)
Registrant
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.
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Mr Colin Chapman
LLB, Solicitor
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panel; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration & Asylum Chamber, Ministry of Justice; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal, Ministry of Justice; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Security and Child Support.
Mr Stephen Chappell
LLB (Hons), Higher Courts Advocate (Criminal), Solicitor (Non-Practising)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant, Bar Standards Board; Board Member, Valuation Tribunal Service; Lay Panel Member, Primary Care Appeals Service; Associate, Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate; Associate, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services; Lay Panel Member, Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee and Magistrates Conduct Committee; Lay Panel Member, Teaching Regulation Agency; Senior Member, Valuation Tribunal for England; Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, CPS East Midlands (2013-2015); Former Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels (2016-2022); Member, Law Society.
Dr Rehanna Chaudhary
MB ChB, DFSRH, MRCGP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP, South Yorkshire Area since 2014; GP Appraiser, NHS England, North East and Yorkshire since 2021; Local Medical Committee Member, Doncaster since 2021; GP Mentor, Doncaster Local Medical Committee since 2021; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunals, Social Entitlement Chamber since 2021; GP Mentor, South Yorkshire Supporting Mentors Scheme since 2023; Justice of the Peace, Family Court since 2020; Member, Magistrates Recruitment Advisory Committee since 2021; Former Race Equality Lead, South Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce Training Hub (Mar 2022 – Dec 2022); Former Medicolegal Expert, Soft Tissue Injuries Medco (2019 – 2022); Former PLAB Examiner, General Medical Council (2022 – 2023); Diplomate, Faculty Sexual and Reproductive Health; Member, British Medical Association.
Mr Kamran Choudhry
LLB, MPhil (Criminology), LLM, BVC, Bar of England & Wales, New York Bar, Bar of Republic of Ireland
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Trial Lawyer, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Mr Andrew Clemes
MA (Hons) (Oxon)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; Barrister at Law since 1984; Lay Panelist, General Dental Council (GDC) since 2021; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels, Wales since 2020, North East of England since 2020, East of England since 2019; Associate Tenant, Angel Chambers, Swansea; Independent Member, Service Complaints Panel, Ministry of Defence (MOD) since 2018; Tribunal Judge, Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeal Tribunal, HM Courts and Tribunals Service since 2018; Legal Assessor, General Pharmaceutical Council since 2018; Tribunal Judge, Asylum and Immigration Chamber since 2014; Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber since 2013; Editor and Marker, National Association of Paralegals; Former Associate Professor, Swansea University; Former Lay Panellist, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Former Chief Examiner, Criminal Litigation, Bar Standards Board; Member, The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.
Dr Andy (Andrew) Cohen
MBChB (Hons), BSc (Hons), FFICM
Registrant
Tribunal Chair since 2014; Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Fellow, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, British Medical Association.
Dr Caroline Colaco
MBChB, BSc (Hons), DFSRH, ECFMG
Registrant
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).
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.
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).
Mr Michael Crewe
MA
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2012; Member, Parole Board; Financial Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service; Member, Appeals Panel, CILEX Professional Standards; Member, Need to Sell Panel, HS2; Member, Copyright Tribunal; Magistrate, North West London Bench.
Dr Ian Crighton
MB Chb, FRCS (ENG), FRCS (GEN)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Fee Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security and Child Support; Former Consultant Surgeon, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (2001 – 2023); Former Consultant Surgeon, City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Trust (1996 – 2001); Member, British Medical Association.
Dr Emily Crosse
BSc (Hons), MB ChB (Hons), DFSRH, DRCOG, MRCGP, PGCME, FHEA
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow, Warwick Medical School; GP, Taurus Healthcare; Medical Member, SEC, Ministry of Justice; Former GP, Hau Green Health; Former GP, Granton Medical Centre; Former role, South Worcester VTS Training (2010 – 2014); Former Role, Birmingham Women’s Hospital; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.
Mr Vince Cullen
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Registrant Member, Investigating Committee, General Osteopathic Council; Registration Assessor, General Osteopathic Council; Education Visitor, General Osteopathic Council; Education Visitor, Mott MacDonald; Education Visitor, General Chiropractic Council; Independent Panel Member, Police Misconduct Panel, Northamptonshire Police; Lay Member, The Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service; Magistrate, North London Local Justice Area.
Mr Paul Curtis
MA
Lay
Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Hearing Panel Lay Member, Fitness to Practice, General Optical Council; Lay Chair, School Admission Appeals Panel and Lay Chair Independent Review Panel (School Exclusions), East Sussex County Council; Former Lay Member, Disciplinary Panel, Judicial Conduct Investigations Office.
Mrs Ruth Curtis (Sloan)
LLB, PGCE
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022.
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Dr Muhammad Dadibhai
MB ChB, MRCS, MRCGP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Director, Eightlands Surgery; Clinical Advisor for Diabetes, Community Care and Medicine Management, West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board; GP Specialist Advisor, Care Quality Commission; Treasurer, Kirklees LMC; Former GP Principal, Brisbane, QLD Australia; Former Locum GP, West Yorkshire (2008-2010).
Mr Neil Dalton
BA (Hons), Cert (Operational Management)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels, Eastern, North-Eastern and East-Midlands Regions; Legally Qualified Chair, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Former Senior Specialist Prosecutor, Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, Crown Prosecution Service; Member, Law Society; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Former Committee Member, NALQC.
Ms Liz (Elizabeth) Daughters
BA (Hons), CPID (Assoc)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Chair, Appeals Committee, Women's Equality Party; Former Local Government Manager.
Dr Bryn Davies
BSc, MBChB, MRCGP, FRCOphth
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Ophthalmologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; General Practitioner, West Yorkshire; Director, Bryn Davies Limited; Director, Clinicare Health Support Services; Fellow, Royal College of Ophthalmologists; Member, British Medical Association.
Mr Gareth Davies
BSc (Hons), CeFa, DipFa
Lay
Tribunal Chair since 2012; Tribunal Member since 2011.
Dr Jonathan Davies
MBBS, FRCS, FRCS (Ed)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; Former Member, Working Party, Provision of Vascular Services, Vascular Society, Great Britain and Ireland; Member and Fellow, The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng); Member and Fellow, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RSCEd); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Vascular Society for Great Britain and Ireland.
Dr Katherine Davies
MB ChB, MRCP, FRCEM
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust; Former Registrar Training, Emergency Medicine, Leeds; Former SHO Positions, York and Leeds (1998 – 2004); Former House Jobs, Bristol (1995 – 1996); Fellow, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Member, Medical Defence Union.
Mr Lee Davies
LLB, PG Dip (Law)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Deputy District Judge, Magistrates’ Courts since 2022; Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Director and Solicitor Advocate, Goldstones Solicitors; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Member, Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates (SAHCA).
Mrs Hannah De Merode
MA (Hons), CPE (College of Law), LPC (College of Law), Qualified Solicitor (Non-practising)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Performance Advisory Group, NHS England London & South; Lay Chair, Performers List Decision Panel, NHS England London & South; Public Member, NIHR Health Technology Assessment Funding Committee (Clinical Evaluation & Trials); Former Lay Representative, Health Education England, Wessex (2013-2021).
Mrs Suzi (Suzanne) Denton
BA, LLB, GDL, LPC
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Former Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service; Former Freelance Law Tutor, BPP University; Former Practice Development Lawyer, Irwin Mitchell; Member, Resolution; Member, Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
Dr Paul Diprose
BM, FRCS (Ed), FRCA, FFICM
Registrant
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).
Mr Malcolm Dodds
LLM
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Treasurer, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church; Trustee, Milton Keynes Child Contact Centre; Trustee, Eynsham Museum and Heritage Centre; Volunteer Driver, Eynsham Driver Scheme; Retired District Judge, Magistrates Court (2012-2021); Member, National Trust; Member, English Heritage; Member, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB); Member, Greenpeace.
Mr Piers Doggart
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010.
Mr Andy (Andrew) Donovan
LLB
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Solicitor; Founder and Managing Director, Compliance Office Ltd; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber, HM Courts and Tribunal Service; Former Director, Cilex Regulation Limited; Former Legal Policy Manager, Law Society, Solicitors Regulation Authority; Former Trustee of Appeal.
Miss Gabrielle Downey (Luesley)
MBBCh, BAO, MD, FRCOG
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Peer review, NHS Wales; Former Consultant, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust; Member, Royal College of Obstetricians.
Mr Stephen Downing
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor Advocate, Criminal and Civil Proceedings; Lecturer, Professional Legal Training, BPP University; Freelance Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service; Member, The Law Society.
Dr Stephen Duxbury
BSc, MBChB, Dip (OM), DDAM
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2015; Medical Adviser, Defence Business Services (DBS), Veterans UK; Medical Panellist, Social Entitlement Chamber, HM Courts and Tribunal Service; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member and Branch Secretary, Prospect Trade Union.
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Dr Jill Edwards
MBBS, MSc, FRCGP, DRCOG, DA
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; External Advisor, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP); Retired Principal GP, White House Surgery, Chipping Norton; Former Prescribing Support, Gloucester CCG; Former GP Dean, HEE Thames Valley; Former Medical Director, Quality and Standards, RCGP.
Dr Carl Egdell
MB ChB, DCH, DRCOG
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, Meadowgreen Health Centre; GP Lead Appraiser, NHS England Midlands; Former Locum GP and Salaried GP Positions, Sheffield and Derbyshire (2000-2005).
Mr Sean Ell
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2011; Barrister at Law; Barrister, Garden Court North Chambers; Former Councillor, Wigan MBC; Former Authority Member, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue; Member, Immigration Lawyers Practitioner's Association.
Dr Susan Ellerby
MBChB, MSc, MBA, FFPH
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber; Panel Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Company Secretary, LRB Consulting Ltd; Former Deputy Director of Public Health and Health Improvement, Leicester City; Former Public Health Adviser, 3M Healthcare; Former Medical Adviser, Ashfield Intermediate Healthcare; Former Medical Director, Parkwood Healthcare; Retired Consultant Clinical Adviser, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union; Former Fellow, Faculty of Public Health.
Professor (Emeritus) Aneez Esmail
LRCP, MRCS, MFPHM, MRCGP, FRCP, PhD
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Non-Executive Director, North-West Ambulance Service; Locum GP, Better Health Manchester; Trustee, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust; Board Member, Dignity in Dying; Former Professor, General Practice, University of Manchester (2005-2022); Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester (1992-2005); Member, Labour Party.
Ms Val (Glenys) Evans
MSc, BA (Hons), CQSW
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Dental Professionals Hearings Service; Former Lay Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Social Care Member, Camden Primary Care Trust Professional Executive Committee; Former Registrant Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Health and Social Care Professions Council; Former Lay Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Health Professions Council.
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Dr Matthew Fiander
BA, MSc, PhD
Lay
Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2012; Specialist Tribunal Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Health Education and Social Care Chamber; Former Chair Adjudicator, Social Work England.
Dr Róisín Finn
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Distinction), MSc (Distinction)
Registrant
Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2015; Specialty Training Registrar Neurosurgery, Health Education Thames Valley, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford; National Medical Director's Clinical Fellow, NHS England; Specialist Adviser, Care Quality Commission (CQC); Post-Graduate Tutor, University of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; Education QA Associate, GMC; Former StR Neurosurgery, Health Education North East (HENE), James Cooke University Hospital, Middlesbrough; Former Academic Foundation Doctor, Peninsula SW Foundation School; Former Research Foundation Doctor, Exeter, Clinical Research Facility, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR); Former Honorary University Fellow, University of Exeter; Former Medical Student Elective, Blond McIndoe Research Foundation.
Mrs Sue (Susan) Fishburn
BSc, JP, BA (Hons), BSc (First Class Hons), BA (First Class Hons)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2012; Former Head, Leeds Girls' High School; Former Head, Dean Grammar School, Leeds; Former Justice of the Peace, Leeds Bench; Former Co-Chair, University Subcommittee, Girl’s School Association (GSA); Former Co-Chair, Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC); Former Council Member, University of Leeds; Former Lay Member, Ethics Committee, University of Leeds; Former Member, Representative of Independent Schools, National Council Association of School and College Leaders; Former General Commissioner of Taxes.
Ms Alison Fisher
BA (Hons), Dip SW (Probation Studies), Cert Qual (Social Care), CMI Level 5 Management Dip, MA (HR Management)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Panellist, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Trustee, Home-Start, Kirklees; Trustee, St Hild’s Theological College; Lay Representative, General Synod, Leeds Diocese, Church of England; Former Non-Executive Director, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust (2005-2013); Former Member Panellist Conduct Hearings, General Teaching Council, England (2000-2011).
Mr David Fisher
MBA
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2012; Trust Member, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Trust Member, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Appeals Committee Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW); Former Lay Reviewer, Midwifery Supervision, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2009-2012); Former Audit Commission role inspecting public services (2001-2011); Various NHS positions in Pathology and in Training and Development (1972–1994).
Mr Nick (Nicholas) Flanagan
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister at Law, Lincoln's Inn; Tenant Barrister in Private Practice, Cobden House Chambers, Manchester; Recorder, Crime, Northern Circuit since 2023; Assistant Coroner, Manchester (North), Rochdale MBC on behalf of the Manchester (North) Coronial Area since 2015; Tribunal Judge, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber since 2019; Fee-Paid Employment Judge since 2021; 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 Laura Florence
MBChB, RCGP, GDL, RCPathME, JP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; GP; Clinical Lead, Derbyshire Health United; GP Appraiser, NHS England; Medical Examiner, University Hospitals of Northamptonshire; Clinical Director, Orbalis Healthcare; Justice of the Peace; Magistrate, Adult Criminal Court, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland; Former Acute Care Common Stem Trainee, University Hospitals Leicester (2006-2008); Former Anaesthetics Trainee, University Hospitals Leicester (2007-2014); Member, Magistrates Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.
Dr Caroline Friendship
BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Registrant Partner (Practitioner Psychologist), Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service; Specialist Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Health Education and Social Care Chamber; Lay Member, Fitness to Practice, Nursing and Midwifery Council.
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Mr Andrew Galliford-Yates
MA (Med Eth), BA (Hons), RMN, PGD (Psych SexTh), PGD (Med Hypno)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Clinical Nurse Specialist, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Trust; Specialist Member, Mental Health Tribunal, Ministry of Justice; Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Dr Mark Garfield
MB ChB, FRCA, FFICM, RCPathME
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust since 2000; Former Anaesthetic Registrar, East Anglia (1996-2000); Former Anaesthetic SHO, Birmingham (1994-1996); Former Pre-Registration House Officer, Birmingham (1993-1994); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, Faculty of Intensive Care; Member, Intensive Care Society; Member, Royal College of Pathologists.
Dr John Garner
MBChB, DRCOG, DCH, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Retired GP; Former Director and Vice Chairman, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Former Vice-Chairman, BMA Staff Pensions Trustee Board, British Medical Association; Former Performance Assessor Team Leader, Fitness to Practise, GMC; Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Mr Andrew Gell
BA, MA, MBA, BSc
Lay
Tribunal Chair since 2014; Tribunal Member since 2014; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Health and Care Professions Council; Panellist, Investigation Committee Taxation Disciplinary Board; Panellist, Disciplinary and Fitness to Practise Committee, Bar Tribunal and Adjudication Service; Director, Andrew Gell Limited; Advisory services to Industry on Defence and Logistics issues; Retired Air Commodore, Royal Air Force.
Mr Thomas George
MBBS, FRCS (Ed), FRCEM, Dip (HSM)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security and Child Support; Former PLAB OSCE Examiner (1998-2020); Former Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Director, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (1984-2012); Fellow and Member, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Fellow and Member, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Member, British Medical Association.
Ms Angela Georgiou
LLB (Hons), FRCS
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister, Cobden House Chambers, Manchester.
Dr Obadah Ghannam
MBBS, BSc, MRCGP, DRCOG, LLM, PGCert (Med Ed), DPH, FHEA
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP; Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber; Director, Circumcision Clinic; Former Trustee, Centre for Islam and Medicine; Former GP, Midlands Medical Partnership; Former Locum GP, Birmingham, Solihull, Warwickshire and Coventry; Member, British Medical Association; Member, British Islamic Medical Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.
Dr Ammar Ghouri
MRCGP, MBChB, BSc (Hons)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; GP Partner, Lakeside Healthcare Group; Clinical Tutor, University of Leicester Medical School; Clinician, Derbyshire Health United (Out of Hours); Locality Chair for Corby, Northamptonshire Local Medical Committee since 2022; Specialist Advisor (Primary Care), Care Quality Commission; Former Locality Chair, Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Groups (2020-2022); Former Vice-Chair, Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Local Medical Committee (2014-2019); Former GP Partner, Washbrook Medical Group (2018-2019); Former GP Partner, South Wigston Health Centre (2014-2018); Member, Medical Defence Union (MDU) since 2014.
Mrs Emma Gilberthorpe
LLB
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service since 2021; School Governor, Woodthorpe Church of England Primary School; Former Legal Team Manager, HM Court Tribunal Service (HMCTS) (2005-2021).
Mr Inderjeet Gill
MA (Oxon) (Modern Languages & Literature), MA (History of Art), GDL, BVC
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Recorder, Crown Court since 2022; Barrister; Legal Adviser, Fitness to Practice Tribunal, Social Work England; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Mental Health Chamber; Fee-Paid Judge, Employment Tribunal.
Dr Mandeep Gill
MRCGP, MB ChB, BSc, DRCOG
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP; GP Appraiser; Medical Member, Tribunal Service, Social Security and Child Support; Medical Assessor, VDPS; Former Locum GP Positions, The Black Country (2021-2023); Former Salaried GP, Wolverhampton (2015-2021); Member, British Medical Association.
Professor Eilish Gilvarry
MB, MCh, BAO
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2024; Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictions, Deputy Responsible Officer, and Deputy Medical Director for Revalidation & CPD, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Professor of Addiction Psychiatry, Newcastle University; Former Chair on the Advisory Committee on Substance Use, Department for Transport; Former President, Society for the Study of Addiction; Trustee Member, Medical Council on Alcohol; Assessor (Health), Pharmaceutical Council; Member, Royal College of General Practice England; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists, England.
Mr Michael Glickman
MA (Hons)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Pharmaceutical Council; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Member, Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council; Lay Member, Joint Disciplinary Panel, Intellectual Property Regulation Board; Trustee, Gateshead Hatzola Community Ambulance Service; Former Public Governor, North-East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (2011-2020); Former Director, Healthwatch Gateshead (2015-2017).
Miss Debi (Deborah) Gould
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Principal Crown Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service; Deputy Chair Board of Trustees, Wirral Change; Safeguarding and Care Governor, West Kirby Residential School; Criminal Bar Association.
Mr Stephen Gowland
FCILEX
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Non-Executive Board Member, The Legal Services Board; Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings; Member, Joint Audit Committee, Durham PCC & Durham Chief Constable; In-house Counsel, Positive IT Consultants Ltd; Associate, College of Policing; Lay Member, Professional Standards Panel, Chartered Institute of Public Relations; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX).
Mr Alex Graham
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Partner, Heckford Norton Solicitors; Former Chair of Governors, Primary School, Hertfordshire.
Miss Samantha Gray
LLB
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Former Solicitor & Partner, Langleys Solicitors LLP (2000-2017).
Mr Martyn Green
BDS, MFGDP (UK), DPDS, FDS, RCPS (Glasgow)
Lay
Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Fee-Paid Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Primary Health Lists, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber; Non-Executive Director, Dentists' Provident; Member, Council of Reference, Bridge2Aid (Dental Charity); Former Dental Member, Appointments Committee, General Dental Council; Former Lay Member, Probate Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales; Former General Dental Practitioner, Senior Partner in NHS Practice; Former Vocational Training Adviser; Former Regional Adviser in General Dental Practice; Former Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean (DF1), S.W. Dental Postgraduate Deanery; Former Panel Member and Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, General Dental Council (2003-2013); Fellow, Dental Surgery, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; Member, Faculty of General Dental Practitioners, Royal College of Surgeons England.
Mr Alistair Griggs
MA (Social & Political Science), MA (Applied Social Studies), MBA, CQSW
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Trustee and Board Director, Sheffield Citizens Advice and Law Centre; Walking Holiday Leader, HF Holidays; Self-Employed Consultant; Former Director of Modern Governance, Sheffield Council; Former Director of Operations, British Refugee Council; Former Chair, Pitsmoor Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB); Former Service Manager, Wakefield Council Housing & Social Care.
Dr Tony Gu
BMedSci, MBChB, MRCGP
Registrant
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
Registrant
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.
Mr Christopher Harper
MA (Hons) (Economics), GDip (Law), Bar Professional Training Course
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Former Trustee, Royal Life Saving Society UK (2014-2017).
Dr Helen Hayhoe
MA (Oxon), MBBS, LLM, MRCP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Geriatrician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge; Former Geriatric Specialty Training Scheme, East Deanery (2017-2022); Member, BMA; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, British Geriatrics Society.
Mr Mike (John) Hayward
BMedSci, BMBS, FRCS, FRCOphth
Registrant
Tribunal Chair since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2015; Former Consultant Ophthalmologist, York Hospital; Former Team Leader, Performance Procedures, General Medical Council (1998-2015); Former Vice President and Chairman of Training Committee, Royal College of Ophthalmologists (2011-2015); Former Associate Postgraduate Dean, Health Education England Yorkshire and the Humber (2009-2018).
Ms Katherine Henderson
MA (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, The Immigration and Asylum Chamber.
Mr Paul Hepworth
FCMI
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; FtP Associate, General Dental Council; Former Member, Wakefield Child Safeguarding Board, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Member, Wakefield Health and Wellbeing Board, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mrs Debbie Hill
BSc (Social Policy and Social Work), Dip (Law), Bar Vocational Course
Lay
Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Non-Practising Barrister; Member, Parole Board for England and Wales; Parole Commissioner for Northern Ireland; Lay Member, Mental Health Review Tribunal; Lay Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Specialist Member, Criminal Injuries Compensation; Disability Member, Social Security Tribunals; Chair, Fitness to Practice Panels for Chiropractors.
Dr Leigh-Anne Hill
MBBS
Registrant
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 Medical Volunteer, Medical Research Centre, The Gambia; Former Student, Norwich Medical School; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.
Ms Annie Hockaday
MA (Cantab), LLM, BPTC
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2023; Deputy District Judge, His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service; Adjudicator, Traffic Penalty Tribunal.
Dr Emily Hubbard
BSc (Hons), MB ChB (Hons), FRCA (2014)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Education Fellow, Guy’s Cancer Academy; Clinical Educator, University of Buckingham Medical School; Former GP Trainee, Oxford Deanery (2015-2021); Former Anaesthetics Trainee, Oxford Deanery (2010-2015); Member, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.
Mrs Meloney Hughes
LLB (Hons), PG Dip (Legal Practice)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor, District Crown Court; Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service.
Ms Susan Hurds
MSc, HDCR, CHSM
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, Employment Tribunal Service (Wales Region); Lay Member, Adjudication Panel for Wales; Lay Member, Residential Property Tribunal Wales; Lay Panellist, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; Former Director of Primary Care and Planning, Former Deputy Chief Executive and Former Acting Chief Executive - Ceredigion Local Health Board; Former General Manager, Clinical Support Services, Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust; Various Radiography positions in North Wales, Warwickshire and Mid Wales.
Mr Gul Nawaz Hussain KC
LLB, BVC
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Non-Executive Director, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2022; Freelance Presenter, BBC; Member, Advisory Board.
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Miss Ruona (Ogheneruona) Iguyovwe OBE
LLB, BL
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Senior Specialist Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels; Member, The Law Society, England and Wales; Member, CPS.
Mr Robin Ince
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2010; Tribunal Member since 2015; Fee-Paid First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, Ministry of Justice; Legal Assessor, Nursing & Midwifery Council; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings, Police and Crime Commissioners, Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Merseyside; Member and Former President, Manchester Law Society; Member, The Law Society.
Mr Lindsay Irvine CB
MA (Oxon), MA (London), Dip (Law)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister; Former Commissioned Officer, RAF Legal Branch (1986-2017); Retired Air Vice-Marshal, Royal Air Force; Former Director, Royal Air Force Legal Services and Legal Adviser to the Air Force Board (2009-2017); Fellow and Former Member, Air Law Group, Royal Aeronautical Society.
Mrs Zeenat Islam
LLB, LLM
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Panel Member, Redress Scotland; Race Trainer, Bar Council; Associate Tutor, University of Warwick Law School; Member, The Honourable Society of Inner Temple; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Member, Muslim Lawyers Action Group; Member, Bar Human Rights Committee; Member, Administrative Law Bar Association.
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Dr Sarah Jeffery
MB ChB, BSc (Hons)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; GPST3, North-West Deanery; Former CMT Trainee, North-West Deanery; Member, Royal College of General Practice.
Dr Angela Jesudason
MB ChB (Hons), BSc, MRCP, MRCPCH, FRCPCH
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh; Panel Member, Children’s Hearing Scotland; Honorary Senior Lecturer; Former National Clinical Director, Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer; Former Clinical Lead roles, TYAC and MSNCYPC (2009-2019); Former Co-Chair, NCRI TYA GCT Clinical Studies Group (2017-2018); Former Chair, NCRI TYA Clinical Studies Group (2014-2017); Former Specialist Registrar in Paediatric Oncology, North Thames Grid Trainee, UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital (2004-2006); Member, Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group; Member, Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer.
Dr Amit Jinabhai
BSc (Hons), PhD, FBCLA, FEAOO, SFHEA, MCOptom
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Hearings Panel Registrant Member, The General Optical Council (GOC); Lay Regulatory Tribunal Member, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); Lay Disciplinary Committee Member, The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA); Lay Chairperson, The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP); Final Assessment OSCEs External Examiner, The College of Optometrists; Programme External Examiner (Optometry), Bradford University; Programme External Examiner (Optometry), Teesside University; Programme External Examiner (Optometry), The University of Central Lancashire; Independent Chair of the Disciplinary Panel, The UK College of Optometrists; Independent Fellowship Assessor, EAOO; Former Senior Lecturer in Optometry, The University of Manchester (Dec 2012 - May 2024); Member, The UK College of Optometrists; Member, The Association of Optometrists (AOP); Fellow, The British Contact Lens Association (BCLA); Fellow, The European Academy of Optometry and Optics (EAOO); Registered Optometrist, The General Optical Council; Senior Fellow, The Higher Education Academy.
Dr Suzanne Joels
BSc, MBBS, MRCGP, MRCPsych
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Clinical Lead, Dementia Clinical Network NHS London; Former Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (2002-2022); Former Clinical Director, Aging and Perinatal Mental Health, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (2010-2022); Member, British Medical Association.
Mrs Jane Johnson QPM
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Health and Care Professionals Council; Former Police Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police (1987-2021).
Ms Cerys Jones
LLB
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; Senior Associate Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service; Tribunal Clerk, British Association of Counsellors & Psychotherapists; Chair and Panel Member, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Disciplinary Committee; External Member, Human Fertilisation & Embryology Committee; Trustee, Arthritis Action UK; Member, Valuation Tribunal for England; Former Lead Ombudsman, Office of Legal Complaints (2010-2016); Former Head of Office of Independent Commissioner; Former Lay Member, Investigating Committee, General Dental Council (GDC) (2009-2014); Former Member, NHS Complaints Panel, South West; Member, The Law Society; Member, Association of Women Solicitors.
Ms Rachel Jones
BA, LLM, BPTC
LayLegally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister (full time); Member, Administrative Law Bar Association; Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, Bar European Group.
Mr Vijay Joshi
MB ChB, LLB (Hons), FRCSEd (C-Th), PGCert (Medical Law)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Surgeon, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Former Clinical Fellow, James Cook Hospital, Middlesbrough; Former Clinical Fellow, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; Former Cardiothoracic Registrar, East Midlands; Member, Royal College of Surgeon of Edinburgh; Member, European Society of Thoracic Surgery; Member, Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Hospital Consultants Specialist Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Ontario Bar Association.
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Ms Miriam Karp
MSc, BA (Hons), Cert (Ed)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2011; 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 Non-Executive Director, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust; Former Chair, Interim Orders Hearings, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Lay Representative, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency; Former Fitness to Practise Panellist, Northern Ireland Pharmaceutical Society; Former Non-Executive Director, Public Health Agency; Former Non-Executive Director, Northern Ireland Social Care Council; Former Non-Executive Director, Northern Ireland Teaching Council.
Ms Chitra Karve
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Practising Solicitor; Panel Chair, Parole Board of England and Wales; Chair, Board of Trustees, Action for Southern Africa; Former Lay Member, Disciplinary Committee Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Mr John Kelly
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Company Director and Consultant in Forensics, Policing, Justice and Defence Sectors, International Capacity Building; Retired Police Officer and Former Director of Forensic Services and Intelligence, Greater Manchester Police; Member, Chetham’s School of Music Independent Safeguarding Commission.
Dr Marianne Kennedy
MBBS, PhD, MA, MSc
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Ophthalmology Specialist Registrar, Manchester Eye Hospital; Population Health Fellow, Health Education England; Former Foundation Doctor, Southampton General Hospital; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
Mrs Aaminah Khan
LLB (Hons), Bar Vocational Course
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Legal Adviser, Fitness to Practice Panel, General Optical Council; Tenant, St John's Buildings; Former Enforcement Lawyer, Information Commissioner's Office; Former Tenant, New Bailey Chambers.
Dr Aamna Khan
MB ChB, MRCGP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Sessional GP, BARDOC; Medical Director, BARDOC; Clinical Lecturer, University of Manchester; Former Locum GP, Greater Manchester (2017-2022).
Dr Shehleen Khan
MBChB, MRCGP, DFSRH, SFHEA, MSc (Med Ed)
Registrant
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
Registrant
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
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; General Practitioner, Bolton Community Practice; Out of Hours GP, BARDOC; Out of Hours GP, Mastercall; OSCE Examiner; Former Special Constable, Greater Manchester Police; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.
Ms Jane Kilgannon
BA (Hons), GDL, BVC, DLM, DipFMS
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Lay Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council since 2022; Lay Member, Appeal Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales since 2022; Legal Adviser, Social Work England since 2022; Legal Adviser, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants since 2022; Legally Qualified Chair, Heath and Care Professionals Council since 2021; Adjudicator, Office of the Schools Adjudicator since 2021; Adjudicator, Road User Charging Adjudicators Tribunal since 2019; Tribunal Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council since 2019; Tribunal Member, Employment Tribunal since 2019; Former Community Member, Audit Committee, North Central London NHS Clinical Commissioning Group.
Mr Stephen Killen
LLB (Law), GDip (Legal Practice)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal member since 2014; Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, IAC; Legally Qualified Chair of the Appeals Tribunal (Social Entitlement); Legally Qualified Chair of the Review Tribunal (Mental Health); Member of the Statutory Fitness to Practice Committee of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; Member, Law Society of Northern Ireland; Member, Law Society of England & Wales; New York State Bar.
Mr Birju Kotecha
LLB (Hons), Called to Bar (Middle Temple), PGCE, MA, PhD
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Assistant Professor, University of Northumbria; FtP Panel Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Partner, Health and Care Professions Council.
Mr Sean Kyne
BA (Hons), PG Dip (Legal Practice)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service.
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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 Bridget Langham
MBChB, DA (UK), FRCA, MMedSci (Med Ed), FAcadMEd
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Retired Consultant Anaesthetist, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Retired Director of Foundation Training for the East Midlands, Health Education England.
Mrs Barbara Larkin
Bachelor of Financial Services
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014.
Miss Megan Larrinaga
LLB (Hons), LLM, Dip (Legal Practice)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Senior Legal Adviser, Oil and Gas Authority; Deputy District Judge, South Eastern Circuit; Chair, Appeals Panel, England Infected Blood Support Scheme; Chair, Appeals Panel, Infected Blood Payment Scheme, Northern Ireland; Former Adviser, CCGs and PCIs, NHS England (2014-2017); Former Secondee, Professional Standards Authority and NHS England; Former Assistant Legal Adviser, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman; Member, Law Society.
Dr Jonathan (Andrew) Leach OBE
MB ChB, MRCGP, FRCGP, MSc (Med), DRCOG, DIMC
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; GP, Davenal House Surgery, Bromsgrove; Associate Medical Director, Military and Veterans Health, NHS England; ICB, NHS Hertfordshire and NHS Worcestershire; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation; Governing Body Member, PCC; Former National Medical Director, Covid 19 Vaccination, NHS England (Sept 2020 – Sept 2022); Former Joint Secretary, Royal College of General Practitioners (2017-2021); Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, British Medical Association.
Mrs Linda Lee
BA (Law) (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Licence Committee Member, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority since 2021; Consultant Solicitor, Weightmans (Formerly Radcliffes LeBrasseur) since 2012; ICP Chair, Health and Care Professions Council since 2023; Assistant Coroner, Coventry and Warwickshire since 2021; Deputy District Judge since 2021; Commissioner, Criminal Cases Review Commission since 2017; Board Member and Deputy Chair, Body Corporate, Criminal Cases Review Commission; Panel Member, East West Rail Need to Sell Panel since 2023; Panel Member, HS2 Need To Sell Panel since 2017; Committee Chair and Adjudicator, Primary Care Appeals Service (PCAS) since 2014; Lecturer, MBL Seminars (2006-2010, Resumed 2012); Incorporated Council of Law Reporting since 2016; Trustee of the pension scheme, Law Society; Council Member, Medico-Legal Society since 2008; Chair, Solicitors Assistance Scheme since 2014; Committee Member, Solicitors Assistance Scheme since 2013; Chair, Professional Indemnity Insurance Committee of the Law Society since 2021; Former Contributing Editor, Cordery on Legal Services since 2014; Former Council Member, Law Society of England and Wales since 2003; Former Committee Member, Northamptonshire Law Society since 2003; Former roles, Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) (2006-2010); Former President, Law Society of England and Wales (2010-2011); Former President, Northamptonshire Law Society (2013-2015); Former President, Medico-Legal Society (2014-2016); Former Consultant, Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) (2013-2015); Former Solicitor Member, Queens Counsel Selection Panel (2011-2015); Member and Former Chair of the Regulatory Process Committee; Member, Policy and Regulatory Affairs Committee; Member, Access to Justice Committee; Member, Law Society.
Mr Andrew Lewis
MA (Jurisprudence), Barrister
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; Barrister; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge (Mental Health); Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Reserve List, Deputy Legally Qualified Chair, General Pharmaceutical Council since 2018; Legal Adviser, Social Work England since 2019; Former Deputy District Judge, Magistrates Courts; Member, Criminal Bar Association.
Dr Harriet Leyland
BSc (Pharmacology & Physiology), MBChB, FRCA, MSc (Global Health Policy), FFMLM, MFCI
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Director, HML Health Ltd – Healthcare Consultancy; Principal Clinical Safety Officer, Ethos Ltd; Former Head of Operations, TCC-CASEMIX Ltd; Former Partner, Datalla Group; Former Strategic Clinical Lead, Care Visions Group; Former Medical Director, Qured; Former Healthcare Specialist, Healthcare UK, Department for International Trade; Founding Fellow, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FFMLM); Member, Faculty of Clinical Informatics.
Mrs Claire Lindley
LLB, LLM
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister Member of the Independent Decision Making Body, Bar Standard Board; Bencher at Gray’s Inn; Trustee, Slynn Foundation; Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Dr Gillian Livesey
MB ChB, MRCGP, DFSRH, DOccMed
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Sessional GP, West Midlands Deanery, Shropshire; Medically Qualified Member, Social Entitlement Chamber, HM Courts and Tribunal Service; Regional Medical Appraiser; Former Occupational Health Director, Birmingham and Chester; Member, MDDUS.
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Dr David Mabin
MBChB, LLM, MD, MRCP (UK), FRCPCH
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Paediatrician and Deputy Medical Director, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust; Former Associate Dean, University of Exeter Medical School; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Member, Medical & Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS); Member, Paediatricians with Expertise in Cardiology Special Interest Group (PECSiG).
Mr John MacGregor KC
LLB (Hons), BCL, Dip (LP)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Self Employed Advocate (King’s Counsel), Axiom Advocates; Deputy Counsel to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry; Chair, Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland; Legally Qualified Chair, Scottish Social Services Council; Legal Assessor, Healthcare and Care Professions Council; Equality and Human Rights Commission, Panel of Counsel; Member, Faculty of Advocates, Free Legal Services Unit.
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; Committee Member, Northern Ireland Social Care Council since 2022; Board Member, Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland; Lay Chair, Quality Assurance Inspector, General Dental Council (GDC) Education Programmes, UK; Lay Examiner, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; School Governor, Special School, Northern Ireland; Retired Civil Servant; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008-2017); Former experience on integrated regional children's services committees.
Mr Angus Macpherson
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Barrister.
Dr Jane Mamelok
BSc (Hons), MBBS, MRCGP, FRCGP, DRCOG, DFFP, MMEd
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Postgraduate Medical Dean, NHS England North-West; Former Hon. Civilian Consultant Adviser, GP Education Committee, Defense Medical Services, British Army (2013-2022); Panelist, RCGP Examination Panel (2000-2013); Member, British Medical Association.
Dr Jane Margetts
BA, MBBS, DRCOG, PGCME, MRCGP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Sessional GP; Medically Qualified Tribunal Member, Social Security and Criminal Injuries Jurisdictions; GP Appraiser; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society.
Ms April Marland
LLB (Hons) (University of Bristol), LLM (Health Care Ethics and Law) (University of Manchester), Professional Workplace Mediator ILM, The City and Guilds of London Institute
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Solicitor; Solicitor Consultant, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Member, The Law Society.
Dr Sarah Marwick
MBChB (Birmingham), FRCGP, DFFP, DRCOG
Registrant
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.
Ms Sarah McAnulty
BSc (Hons)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Panel Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Panel Member, Social Work England; Lay Panel Member, HCPC; Vice Chair, CIMA; Education Inspector and CPD Assessor, Social Work England; Service User Expert, HCPC; Former Case Review Officer, Former Associate Appraisal and Training Senior Officer, Former Project Manager, Former Continuous Improvement Manager, General Medical Council (2013 – 2023).
Dr William McClune
PhD, MEd, BSc, PGCE
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023.
Dr Helen McCormack
BM, Soton, MRCPsych, FRCPsych
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2015; Member, Parole Board since 2021; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Ministry of Justice; Executive Member, Old Age Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Former Tribunal Chair, MPTS (2015-2019).
Ms Hermione McEwen
BSc, Solicitor (Non-practising)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security and Child Support; Chair, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Social Work England; Director, TortureID.
Dr Becky (Rebecca) McGee
BMedSci, BMBS, DCH, DRCOG, RCGP, Dip Ther
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security Appeals; GP Locum, South-East Wales; Medical Advisor to Public Services Ombudsman for Wales; Medical Advisor, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman; Section 12(2) approved Doctor, MHA assessments; Former GP Partner, Oak Street Surgery, Cwmbran, Torfaen (2012-2022).
Mr Rob (Robert) McKeon
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Independent Member and Chair, The Parole Board; Member, Parole Board, Management Committee; Retired Magistrate, since 2016.
Mr David McLean
LLB (Hons), Dip (LP), LLM (Commercial Law) (Distinction)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Advocate; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Member of Panel, Counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Scotland; Standing Junior Counsel, Scottish Government; Legal Assessor, General Teaching Council, Scotland; Member, International Cricket Council’s Panel of Development Umpires; Member, Faculty of Advocates.
Mr George McLean
BSc, LLB, Solicitor
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Former Scientific Officer, Medical Laboratory (1976-1987); Former Lay Representative, NICE Glaucoma Working Group.
Ms Sharmistha Michaels
BSc (Hons) (Chemistry), LLM, Barrister
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Barrister, 5 St Andrew’s Hill Chambers; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panel; Former Barrister, Drystone Chambers; Former Trustee, 28 Too Many; Member, Middle Temple.
Mrs Becky (Rebecca) Miller
LLB (Law)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister (Self-employed); Trustee & Governor, The Education Alliance; Member, Bar Council.
Dr Rachel Miller
BDS, MFDS (RCSEd), DSCD (RCSEd), GDL, LLM, DLM
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Dental Officer, Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust since 2005; Clinical Case Examiner, General Dental Council since 2016; Dental Tutor, NHS England since 2023; Former Dental Practitioner (2001 – 2005).
Mrs Alison Miller-Varey
LLB (First Class), BVC
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Civil and Commercial Mediator; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge; Independent Assessor, Student Loans Company; Independent Member, Need to Sell Panel HS2; Former Barrister at the employed and self-employed Bar.
Dr Paul Mitchell
MA, PGCE, MBChB, MRCGP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; Salaried GP, Edinburgh; Member, British Medical Association.
Mr Mohamed Mohamed
MBBS, FRCS, MS, FRCS (Gen Surg)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Vascular Surgeon, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust; Consultant General Surgeon, Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre, Gillingham; Former Surgical Registrar, South-East England (1996-2006); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Medical Protection Society; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Ms Christina (Alice) Moller
MA, LLM (Medical Law)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister, Nexus Chambers; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Legally Qualified Chair, Health and Care Professions Council (IC); Legal Adviser, General Optical Council; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Former Tenant, Alexander Chambers.
Ms Elspeth Moncrieff
MA (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Associate Solicitor, Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP.
Dr John Moriarty
BA, MBBCh, BAO, FRCPI, MRCPsych, MD
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2015; Fee-Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Health Education and Social Care Chamber (Mental Health), England; Honorary Senior Lecturer, King's College London; Former Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of Medical Education, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (2003-2018); Former Consultant Psychiatrist, Central & Northwest London, NHS Foundation Trust (1996-2003).
Ms Gail Mortimer
BA (Hons), MA, PGCE
Lay
Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Retired Teacher; Former Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Panels, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2013-2021); Former Lay Chair, General Chiropractic Council Conduct and Competence Committee (2013-2021); Former Lay Chair, Quality Assurance Inspection Panels, General Dental Council (2012-2022); Former Chair, General Teaching Council of England; Former Teach First Professional Tutor.
Mr Paul Moulder
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2012; Barrister in Private Practice; Legal Adviser, Professional Conduct Committee, General Dental Council; Legal Adviser, General Optical Council; Legal Adviser, Adjudicatory Panels, Social Work England; Legal Assessor, Disciplinary Committee, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Legal Adviser, Conduct & Competence Committees, General Chiropractic Council; Legal Adviser, Chartered Institute of Management Accountant; Former Panellist, Conduct, Competence and Health Committees and Registration Appeals Committee, Nursing & Midwifery Council; Former Legally Qualified Panellist, Professional Committees, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.
Dr Patricia Moultrie
MBChB, LLM, FRCGP, DRCOG, DOccMed, DDAM
Registrant
Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2012; Sessional General Practitioner; Deputy Chair, Scottish General Practitioners Committee, British Medical Association; Medical Director, Glasgow Local Medical Committee; Medical Member, Pensions Appeal Tribunal Scotland; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber, War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber, HMCTS; Clinical Advisor, General Pharmaceutical Council; Former GP Appraiser, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (2004-2014); Former MPTS Committee Member; Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, BMA.
Mrs Catherine Moxon
BA (Hons) (Law & Business Studies), BVC
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister, Park Square Barristers; Visiting Lecturer, University of Law; Deputy Traffic Commissioner, Office of the Traffic Commissioner; Chair, School Exclusions Panel; Chair, School Admissions Panel; Panelist, British Psychoanalytic Council.
Mr Nathan Moxon
BVC, CPE, BA (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Called to the bar 2006; Legal Adviser, Social Work England fitness to practice hearings since 2019; CPD Assessor, Social Work England since 2021; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Social Entitlement Chamber since 2013; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Immigration and Asylum Chamber since 2014; Fee-Paid Judge, Employment Tribunal since 2021; Fee-Paid Judge, Court of Protection since 2022; Recorder, Crime since 2023; Former Visiting Lecturer, University of Law, Leeds and Sheffield Hallam University since 2017; Former Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings; Former External Examiner, Bar Standard Board since 2013; Former Member, KBW Chambers Leeds.
Dr Farhan Munawar
MBChB, MRCGP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2015; GP Partner, Halliwell Surgery, Bolton; Former Sub-Committee Chair, British Medical Association (BMA).
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Mr Zia Nabi
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Recorder; Deputy District Judge; Member, Housing Law Practitioners Association; Member, Administrative Law Bar Association; Member, Court of Protection Bar Association.
Dr Mahesh Nagar
MBBS, MD (Anaes), FCARSI, FRCA
Registrant
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 Prashanth Nandhabalan
MBBS, BSc, MRCP, FRCA, FFICM, EDIC, MA
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2015; Consultant Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Intensive Care Society; Member, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, British Society of Echocardiography; Member, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
Ms Karen Naya
BSc (Hons), PGDip
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Panel Member, Fitness to Practice Committee - Nursing and Midwifery Council; Company Director, Deep Dive Consulting Limited; Associate Consultant, Royal College of Nursing.
Ms Colette Neville
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Adjudicator, Social Work England since 2019; Volunteer Newsreader, Charity for the visually impaired people; Former Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Dental Council; Former Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Osteopathic Council; Former Chair of the Investigation Committee, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Dr Janet Nicholls
MBBS, FRCP, FRCPCH
Registrant
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.
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Mr Mark O’Brien
MSc, PGDip, PGCert, GIFireE
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Director, Skylark Consulting Solutions Limited; Appropriate Adult, The Appropriate Adult Service; Former, Deputy Chief Fire Officer, East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service; Graduate Member, Institution of Fire Engineers.
Ms Marianne O'Kane
LLB, MBA
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2011; Solicitor; Civil Servant; Senior Assistant Director, Public Prosecution Service Northern Ireland; Member, Law Society of Northern Ireland.
Dr Matthew O'Meara
FRCA, MBChB, DRTM, DIMC, RCS (Ed), BSc (Hons)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2012; Honorary Contract, East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Air Ambulance, The Air Ambulance Service (TAAS); Accredited Doctor, British Association of Immediate Care Schemes (BASICS); Consultant, Anaesthesia and Pre-Hospital Care, University Hospitals North Midland. Member, Pre-Hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists.
Mrs Julia Oakford
BA (Hons), LLM, DMS
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2009; Legal Assessor, General Dental Council since 2004; Solicitor; Member, Law Society.
Dr Tim (Timothy) Oakley
BMedSc, MBChB, MMedSc, MRCPsych
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Psychiatrist, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust; Second Opinion Doctor, Care Quality Commission; Ministry of Justice (MoJ); Member, Electroconvulsive Therapy Accreditation Service (ECTAS) Standards Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, British Medical Association (BMA).
Ms Margaret Obi
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Solicitor; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Assessor, General Osteopathic Council; Legal Assessor, General Optical Council; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professionals Council; Independent Assessor, Student Loan Company; Deputy High Court Judge; Former Legal Assessor, MPTS (2010-2018).
Ms Ijeoma Omambala KC
BA (Hons) (Law), MPhil
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Barrister at Law; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS); Member, Association of Regulatory Lawyers; Member, Professional Negligence Bar Association.
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Ms Jo (Giovanna) Palmiero
LLM, LPC
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service; Legal Advisor, ACCA; Legal Advisor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Freelance Trainer, K D Training Consultants; Freelance Trainer, LimeCulture CIC.
Dr Julius Parker
BA, MBChB, LLB, MRCGP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2011; Chief Executive, Surrey and Sussex Local Medical Committees; Chair, Council East Berkshire Primary Care Out-of-Hours Service; Medical Adviser, HealthHero Ltd; Sessional General Practitioner, The Chapel Medical Centre, Slough; Representative for Surrey and Croydon Constituency, General Practitioners Committee (GPC) (England) at the British Medical Association (BMA); Deputy Chair, GPC England.
Mrs Kim Parsons
LLM
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; Accredited Mediator; Deputy District Judge, County Court; Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service; Former Deputy Pensions Ombudsman; Former Casework Director, Pensions Ombudsman; Former Head of Legal, Pensions Regulator; Former Legal Director, Occupational Pensions Regulator.
Mr Dharmesh Patel
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; Special educational needs and disability (SEND), Health, Education and Social Care Chamber; First-Tier Tribunal Judge; Environment and Traffic Adjudicator, London Tribunals; Recorder, Family Court; Financial Ombudsman; Former Legal Adviser, HM Court Tribunal Service; Former Chair, Valuation Tribunal England.
Mrs Valerie Paterson
LLB, Dip (LP), LLM, NP, WS
Lay
Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Legally Qualified Chair, Scottish Social Services Commission; Chair, General Optical Council; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Legal Assessor, Health Care Professions Council; Legal Assessor, Social Work England; Legal Adviser, Institute & Faculty of Actuaries; Legal Adviser, General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS); Chair, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Lay Observer, Annual Fitness to Practise Meeting, Scottish Deans (Medical Schools); Former Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Legal Chair, General Chiropractic Council; Former Public Interest Member, Discipline Panel, Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland; Former Panel Member and Chair, Council's Conduct Committee Royal Pharmaceutical Society, GB; Former Tutor, University of Edinburgh; Former Chair, General Dental Council (2006-2016); Former Chair, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Disciplinary Committees; Member, Law Society of Scotland; Member, Independent Legal Assessors; Writer to His 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).
Ms Catherine Pease
BSc, CPE/LPC
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Solicitor (Mental Health), Peter Edwards Law Solicitors; Lay Member (Fitness to Practice), General Dental Council; Chair (Fitness to Practice), Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists; Member, Mental Health Lawyers Association; Member, Law Society.
Dr Fiona Pettet
MB ChB, BSc, MRCPCH, MRCGP (2015), MFFLM
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Specialty Doctor, Community Paediatrics and Paediatric Sexual Assault Referral Service, Royal Devon University Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Small Group Facilitator and Academic Tutor, University of Plymouth; Former Forensic Medical Examiner, G4S, Devon and Cornwall; Former GP, Bruner Medical Practice (2015-2019); Former GP Provider, Devon Doctors (2015-2019); Former GP, Emergency Department, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust; Former GP Trainee, Severn Deanery (2010-2015); Former Paediatric Trainee, Severn Deanery (2009-2010); Various Former ED roles, South Australia (2007-2009); Former Foundation Doctor, Weston and Bristol (2005-2007); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Member, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.
Dr Jeffrey Phillips
BSc, MBBS, FRCA, FFICM
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Anaesthetist, The Ramsay Rivers Hospital; Consultant Anaesthetist, The Holly Private Hospital; Consultant Anaesthetist, The Herts and Essex Fertility Centre; Lead Appraiser, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow; Trustee, St Clare Hospice; Retired Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthetics; Former Tutor, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow; Former Deputy Responsible Officer, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Former National Clinical Champion, Healthcare Acquired Infections Programme, Department of Health; Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine; Member, Intensive Care Society.
Ms Morgan Phillips
LLM
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Patient Complaints Investigator, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Magistrate, HM Courts and Tribunals Service.
Mrs Helen Potts
BA (Hons) (Chinese Studies) (Durham University), LLM (Medical Practice) (Cardiff University)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Independent Member, Parole Board; Former Chair, Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council (GCC); Former Contract Case Examiner, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Former Panel Chair, Fitness to Practice (FTP), NMC; Former FTP Panel Chair, Social Care Wales; Former FTP Panel Chair, General Dental Council (GDC); Former Lay Member, Investigation Committee (IC), General Medical Council (GMC); Former Chair, Disciplinary Committee, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); Former International Policy Executive, The Law Society; Former Solicitor, Clifford Chance; Member, Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers.
Mr David Propert
BSc (Hons) (OST)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Osteopath, Calmer Clinics; Panellist, Fitness to Practise (PCC), General Osteopathic Council; Part-time Lecturer, University College of Osteopathy; Former Vaccinator, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (2020-2021); Former Director, The Health Equation; Former Agency Care Worker, St George’s and Wandsworth (1990-1993); Member, General Osteopathic Council; Member, Institute of Osteopathy; Member, Royal Society of Medicine; Member, FHEA; Member, British Association for Performing Arts Medicine; Member, British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine.
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Dr Wasim Qayum
MB ChB, MRCPCH, MSc
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Paediatric Consultant, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust; Member, British Medical Association; Member, British Paediatric Respiratory Society; Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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Mr David Raff
LLB
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Lay Panellist, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Consultant, DLA Piper UK LLP; Trustee, Barnet Home-Start; Former Panellist, Teaching Regulation Agency; Former Chair, NNLS Destitute Asylum Seekers Drop-in (charity); Member, The Law Society.
Dr Raghu (Thandla) Raghavendra
MBBS, MD (Anaesthesia), FRCA
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant, Paediatric Anaesthetist Royal Manchester Children's Hospital; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security; Examiner, Primary FRCA, Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA); Member, Association of Anaesthetists, Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, British Medical Association.
Dr Sheena Raja
BMedSci (Hons), BMBS, MRCGP (2016)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; GP and Health Assessor, Nuffield Health since 2023; Locum GP, Edinburgh and Lothians since 2016; Private GP, Spire Hospitals, Edinburgh since 2021; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.
Mr Tanveer Rakhim
BA (Hons), LLM
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Tribunal Judge; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panel; Former Solicitor, Kennedys Law LLP.
Ms Rama Krishnan (Lakshmi) Ramakrishnan
BSc (Social Science), CQSW, CASS, DMS
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Chair, Audit Registration Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales); Chair, Investigations Committee, Nursing & Midwifery Council; Chair, Investigations Committee, General Chiropractic Council; Chair and Lay member, Professional Conduct Committee, General Osteopathic Council; Lay Member, Bar Tribunal & Adjudication Services; Lay Member, Investigations Panel, Architects Registration Board; Lay Member, Professional Conduct Committee, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives; Lay Member, Adjudication Panel, Landscape Institute; Former Chair & Registrant, Fitness to Practise, Health & Care Professions Council (2012 – 2019); Former Specialist Advisor, Care Quality Commission; Former Inspector & Senior Performance Specialist, Audit Commission (2003 – 2011); Former Lay Chair, Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council (2019 – 2022); Former Associate Hospital Manager, North East London Foundation Trust.
Dr Ranjana Rani
MBBS, MS
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2015; Former Consultant, Genitourinary Medicine.
Dr Pavan Rao
MBBS, MRCGP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2012; Freelance GP; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG); Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.
Ms Morag Rea
BA (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Panel Chair, HCPC; Legally Qualified Chair, Eastern Region OPCC; Legally Qualified Chair, MOPAC.
Mr James Riley
BSc
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Associate Inspector, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services; Lay Member, Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service.
Mr Duncan Ritchie
BA (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister-at-law; Crown Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service; Assistant Coroner, West Yorkshire (Western) and Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent.
Mr George Ritchie
LLB
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Health and Care Professions Tribunal; Board Member, Guernsey Competition and Regulatory Authority; Independent Member, Audit and Risk Committee, Health Research Authority; Lay Public Interest Observer, Association of Taxation Technicians; Director, G D Ritchie Consulting Limited; Member, Law Society.
Dr Carol Roberts
BA, BCh, MSc, FRCPCH
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Associate Medical Director, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust since 2022; Associate Advisor, Teams Review Service, NHS Resolution; Regional and National Appraiser, NHS England; Former Associate Specialist Community Paediatrician, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (1998-2018); Former Deputy Medical Director, Professional Standards, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (2018-2022); Former Member Trustee, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (2016-2021); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Member, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.
Professor William Roche
MSc, MD, FRCPath, SFFFMLM, MBBCh, BAO
Registrant
Tribunal Chair since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2015; Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Southampton; Honorary Consultant, University Hospitals Southampton; Chair, Revalidation and Appraisal Advisory Group, Faculty of Medical Management and Leadership; Former Chief Medical Officer, University Hospitals Sussex (Interim); Former Chair, Wessex Clinical Senate, NHS England (2013-2020); Former Responsible Officer, South East and South Central Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs); Former Medical Director, South East Coast SHA (2009-2013); Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists; Founding Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.
Dr Loralie Rodrigues
MB ChB, MRCGP, DFSRH, ILM5, FHEA
Registrant
Tribunal Chair since 2023; Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow, Warwick University; Urgent Care GP, Oxford Health Foundation Trust; Coach and Mentor, NHS South-East Leadership Academy; Former Locum GP, Chipping Norton Health Centre (2021-2022); Former GP Registrar, North Oxfordshire (2016-2021); Former FY1 Doctor, Kettering General Hospital (2011-2012); Former FY2 Doctor, Leicester Medical School and Leicester Royal Infirmary; Member, GMC Medical Protection Society.
Ms Rosemary Rollason
LLB (Hons), Solicitor
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2023; Principal, RJ Rollason Law; Legal Adviser, GDC; Legal Adviser, Health and Care Professions Council; Legal Adviser, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Member, Discipline Committee, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy; Committee Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, Law Society; Member, Association of Women Solicitors.
Ms Wanda Rossiter
BA (Hons), ACG, FCCA
Lay
Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Member, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Disciplinary and Regulatory Committees since 2016; Former Non-Executive Director and Chair, Audit Committee, Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (2013-2017); Former Employee, Audit Commission (1999-2011); Various Former Director and Senior Management Roles (private and not-for-profit); Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Mrs Helen Russell
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Practising Lawyer since 2004; Legal Consultant in Commercial Business since 2013; Former Associate, Halliwells LLP and Gateley LLP with special interest in Hotel and Commercial Land Development (2004-2013); Member, Law Society.
Mr Evan Ruth
BA, LLB, LLM
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Deputy Judge, Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum); Adjudicator, Torture Claims Appeal Board, Non-Refoulment Claims Petition Office, Hong Kong; Former First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber.
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Ms Amarjit Sagar
LLB (Hons) (Sp)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Legal Adviser, Magistrates Court; Independent Complaints Board, Labour Party; Chair, Valuation Tribunal; Legal Adviser, Westminster Magistrates Court; Member, Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
Mr Ali Sarwar
LLB (Hons) (Law)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Fee-Paid Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Dr Louis Savage
MBChB, BSc, MRCS, MRCGP, PGCME, DLM, MSc
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; Sessional/locum GP NHS Gloucestershire ICB/Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Speciality doctor Elderly Care Medicine, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Guideline Committee Member, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); Quality Standards Committee Member, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); Former Specialist Adviser/Inspector, Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Miss Leena Savjani
LLB (Law)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Partner, Irwin Mitchell LLP; Member, The Law Society; Member, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).
Mr Mark Scott
LLB
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Legal Assessor, Northern Ireland Social Care Council; Legally Qualified Member, Social Security Appeal Tribunal, Northern Ireland; President, Northern Ireland Review Tribunal (Mental Health); Chair, Health and Care Professions Council Investigating Committee; Chair, Northern Ireland Victims' Payment Board Panels; Deputy Chair, Statutory Committee of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland; Former Head of Legal Team, Independent Neurology Public Inquiry (2018-2022); Former Solicitor, Directorate of Legal Services, Northern Ireland.
Mr Barrie Searle
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2002; Recorder since 2000; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council (GDC) since 2010; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) since 2013; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) since 2007; Legal Assessor, Social Work England (SWE); Former Barrister in Practice (1976-2015).
Dr William Seligman
BA (Hons) Oxon, BMBCh, MPH, MRCP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; Head of Corporate Services, Critical Care International; Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London; Former Specialist Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London (2019-2020); Former Core Trainee in Anaesthesia, The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London (2018-2019); Former Core Trainee in Anaesthesia, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London (2018); Former Core Trainee in Anaesthesia, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London (2017-2018); Former Foundation Year 2 Doctor, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol (2015-2016); Former Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Swindon (2014-2015); Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Royal College of Physicians; Member, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
Mr Mohammad Shahid
MB ChB, MRCSed, FRCS (Tr & Orth), MSc (Orth Eng), Dip (Football Med)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Practice Plus Group Hospital, Shepton Mallet; Major Trauma Consultant, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham; Team Doctor, Solihull Football Club; Interview Panel Member, Undergraduate Admissions for Medicine, University of Birmingham; Former Trainee Surgeon, West Midlands (2011-2018); Former Post CCT Fellow (Orthopaedic), Barts Hospital NHS Trust (2019-2020); Former Post CCT Fellow (Orthopaedic), Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust (2020-2021); Former Consultant (Orthopaedic); Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust (2021-2022); Member, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Member, Canadian Arthroplasty Society.
Mrs Nessa Sharkett
LLB (Hons), PGDL, SCM
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; Employment Judge.
Ms Joanne Shelley
BSc (Hons), Dip (Law)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Partner at Law Firm; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge.
Mr Darren Shenton
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Panel Member, Conduct and Competence Committee, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Detective Chief Superintendent, Greater Manchester Police.
Dr Alan Shepherd
BSc, MBChB, MRCP, FRCP (Edin)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2012; Former Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Clinical Director and NHS Board Member, NHS Tayside; Member and Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Member, Medical Defence Union of Scotland; Member, British Medical Association.
Mr Jetinder Shergill
LLB (Hons), LLM (KCL), MInstLM
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Chair since 2013; Tribunal Member since 2011; Barrister; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Employment Tribunal Judge; Legally Qualified Chair, Financial Reporting Council; Former Home Office Lawyer, advising on prison law including prisons healthcare; Former Lawyer, advising on miscarriages of justice, Scottish and UK criminal and prisons law, Scottish Government; Former Adjudicator, Financial Ombudsman Service; Former Part-time Public Law Lecturer, King’s College London; Former Independent Disciplinary Assessor, Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants; Former Adjudicator, Solicitors Regulation Authority (2008-2013); Former Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2012-2016); Member, Institute of Leadership and Management; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Associate Full Member, Institute of Directors.
Dr Anup Singh
BSc, MB ChB, CCT (General Practice)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP since 2016; Medical Tribunal Member, Social Entitlement Chamber; Former GP, Prison Medicine; Former Salaried GP; Member, Medical Protection Society.
Mr Gurpreet Singh
MBBS, FRCS (Ed), FRCS (G), Dip (Urol), FRCS (Urol), PG Cert, TLCP
Registrant
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 Shopitha Sivaranjan
MBBS, BSc, MSc, MRCGP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Salaried GP, Holland Park Surgery, London since 2023; Locum GP, London; Former Locum GP (Various locations), London (2018-2023); Former Salaried GP, Ruislip (2021-2022); Former Salaried GP, Hillingdon (2021); Former GP Trainee, London (2015-2018); Former Locum SHO (Various Hospitals), London (2014-2015); Former Foundation Doctor, Essex and East London (2011-2013); Member, British Medical Association.
Mr Tim (Timothy) Skelton
BSc (London University)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Social Work England; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Health Care Service Corporation; Former Senior NHS Management posts, South of England (1991-2007).
Dr Neil Smart
MBChB, BSc (Hons), FCAI, MBA
Registrant
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; Member, Interim Devices Working Group, MHRA; Former Adviser, European Commission, Medical Devices and In-Vitro Diagnostic Devices; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Association of Anesthetists, Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS).
Dr Alan Smith
BSc (Hons), MB ChB, MPhil, MRCPsych
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health); Specialist Member, Parole Board for England and Wales; Former Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton (April 2020 – March 2021); Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Dr John (Edward) Smith
MBBChir, MA, MD, FRCS
Registrant
Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2015; Former Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, St George's Hospital; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons.
Ms Deborah Spring
BA (Hons) (Cantab), MA (London), MA (UEA)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Former Magistrate, West and Central Hertfordshire; Former Lay Tribunal Member, Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service; Former Justice of the Peace, West and Central Herts; Former Trustee, Victim Support.
Dame Nicola Stephenson DBE
M.Ed, B.Ed
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; CEO, Valour Multi Academy Trust; Member, National Association of Head Teachers.
Mrs Alison Storey
LLB
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Senior Specialist Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Mr Jonathan Storey
MA, MSc (Oxon)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Lay Panel Member & Chair, Fitness to Practice Committee, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Member and Chair, Fitness to Practice Panel, Social Care Wales; Chair of Standards Committee, Salford City Council; Independent Person, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council; Regional Director, Lawyers' Christian Fellowship; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Member, Criminal Bar Association.
Dr Euan Strachan-Orr
BSc (Med Sci) (Hons), MB ChB, MRCGP
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, Greenbank Road Surgery, Liverpool; Bank GP and Clinical Coordinator, Primary Care 24; Bank GP, Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Agenda Committee Member, Conference of UK Local Medical Committees; Member, Liverpool LMC; Interviewer and OSCE Examiner, University of Liverpool MBChB Course; Honorary Treasurer and Board Member, Royal College of General Practitioners Mersey Faculty; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union.
Mr Colin Sturgeon
BA (Hons), MSc
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Member, Registration and Fitness to Practise Committee, Northern Ireland Social Care Council; School Governor, Special School.
Mrs Helena Suffield-Thompson
BA (Hons)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Tribunal Judge, Ministry of Justice; Foster Panel Chair, Five Rivers; Former Panel Member, Health and Care Professions Council (2014 – 2017).
Ms Louise Sweet KC
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister, King's Counsel.
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Dr Michelle Taggart
MBChB, DRCOG
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Medical Examiner, Bradford District; Associate Fellow, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Former Associate Specialist in Emergency Medicine, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.
Mrs Lorna Taylor
RN, BSc
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Registrant Panel Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Adjudicator, Social Work England; Lay Panel Member, Scottish Social Services Council; Non-Legal Member, Employment Tribunal Scotland (Glasgow); Non-Legal Member, Employment Tribunal England and Wales (North-West); Former Nurse Practitioner, Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Trust; Member, Royal College of Nursing.
Mrs Jacqueline Telfer
BA, MA (Social Work), CQSW, Dip (Public Services Management)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; General Visitor, Court of Protection (COP); Registrant Adjudicator, Social Work England; Former Non-Executive Director, University Hospitals of Morecombe Bay NHS Trust.
Miss Gillian Temple-Bone
BA (Hons) (Law), MA
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister since 1978.
Dr Nagarajah Theva (Thevamanoharan)
MRCGP, MBBS, LMSSA
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Medical Member, First-Tier Social Security Appeals Tribunal, HM Court Tribunal Service.
Dr Kate Thomas
MBChB, BSc, FRCR
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2015; Consultant Radiologist, NHS Fife.
Mr Duncan Toole
LLB, Higher Rights of Audience (Criminal Courts)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Principal Legal Adviser for Enforcement, Office for Students; Mentor at General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) via Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Former Senior Regulatory Enforcement Lawyer (Ofsted); Member, ARDL.
Dr Joanne Topping
MBChB, FRCOG
Registrant
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
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; HIV and Medical Specialist Registrar (SpR), Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Former Senior House Officer (SHO) and SpR, Barts Health NHS Trust and Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust.
Mr Niamat Tullah
MRPharmS
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Director, Shukr Consulting Limited.
Mr Richard Tutt
LLB
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister at Law; Self-Employed Barrister, Pump Court Chambers; Recorder, Western Circuit.
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Mr David Urpeth
LLB (Hons), PG Dip (Legal Practice)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Assessor, Personal Injury Panel, The Law Society; Retired Barrister, Bank House Chambers Sheffield; Retired HM Coroner, The Coroner Service; Former Non-Executive, Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
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Dr Richard Vautrey
MB ChB (Hons), MRCGP, DRCOG, DCH
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, Meanwood Group Practice; Clinical Director, Central North Leeds Primary Care Network; Assistant Medical Secretary, Leeds Local Medical Committee; GP Appraiser, NHS England; Primary Medical Services Partner Representative, West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board; President, Royal College of General Practitioners; Elected Member, Royal College of General Practitioners Council; Elected Member, British Medical Association Council; Member, BMA GP Committee; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.
Dr Meenakshi Verma
MBChB, MRCP (London), ECEPC
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Registrar, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust; 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, Dowling Club; Member, British Society for Dermatological Surgery (BSDS); Member, European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union.
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Mrs Sue Wadham
BSc (Hons), PGCE, Dip (Clin Psych)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Former Panellist, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008-2016); Former Director of Specialist Services, North Warwickshire NHS Trust; Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust.
Mr Andrew Waite
PPQ
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, General Dental Council; Director of Rugby and Academy Chair, Andover Rugby Football Club; Retired Detective Chief Inspector, Hampshire Constabulary; Retired Member, Police Federation.
Mrs Judith Walker OBE
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2002; Solicitor; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, East Midlands, Crown Prosecution Service (2007-2013); Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service, South Yorkshire (1999-2007); Member, Law Society.
Mr Gerry Wareham
LLB
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister at Law; Member, Governance, Audit and Scrutiny Committee, Humberside Fire and Rescue Service; Joint Independent Audit Committee, Humberside Police Force; Chair of Trustees, Young People Count (registered charity); Former, Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service.
Mrs Tehniat Watson
LLB, LLM
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Anti-Discrimination Judicial Panel Member, the Football Association; Senior Solicitor Advocate, Child Protection and Adoption, Luton Borough; LQC, Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime; LQC, West Midlands Police; LQC, Avon and Somerset Police; LQC, Gloucestershire Police; Chair, Investigation Committee, General Chiropractic Council; Legal Advisor, Social Work England; Legal Assessor, General Dental Council; Arbitrator & Panel Member, UK Athletics; Chair & Senior Member, Valuation Tribunal; Former Associate Financial Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service; Former Principal Solicitor; Member, National Association of Legally Qualified Chairs; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.
Mrs Amanda Webster
LLB (Hons), DIP ClinNeg
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Deputy District Judge (Civil and Family); Chair, Police Appeals Tribunal; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council; QA Lead, Quality Assurance Board, Witness Intermediary Service; Vice Chair, Red Rose Recovery.
Mr Andrew Webster KC
LLB (Hons), DLP
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Queens Council; Part-time Sheriff, Scottish Judiciary; Chair, Police Appeals Tribunal, Scottish Judiciary; Legal Member, Pensions Appeal Tribunal, Scottish Judiciary; Legal Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security Chamber, Scotland; Legally Qualified Chair, Scottish Social Services Council; Legal Assessor, General Osteopathic Council; Independent Reviewer of Complaints, Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board, Ireland; Independent Examiner of Complaints, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland; External Examiner, University of Glasgow; Director, Faculty Services Limited; Former Chair, Ministerial Panel under NHS Scotland Consultant Grade Contract Terms of Service; Advocate, Faculty of Advocates.
Mr Chris Weigh KPM
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2014; FTP Panellist, General Dental Council; 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, General Dental Council; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC); Tribunal Clerk, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries; 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 Third Party Reviewer, Architects Registration Board (ARB); Former Case Examiner, General Optical Council; Former LQC, Architects Registration Board (ARB); Former Chair, Disciplinary Panel, RICS.
Dr Nigel Westwood
MA, MSc, PhD, FIBMS
Lay
Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Adjudication Panel Chair, Solicitor's Regulation Authority; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel and Inspector, Education Quality Assurance, Social Work England; Independent Panel Member, Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime; Non-Legal Member, Employment Tribunals, HM Courts & Tribunal Service; Former Consultant Biomedical Scientist, King's College London; Former Lay Member and Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Registrant Education Visitor, Fitness to Practise Panel Member and Registration Assessor, Health & Care Professions Council; Former Specialist Adviser, Care Quality Commission; Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences.
Ms Jayne Wheat
LLB (Hons)
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2014; Legally Qualified Person (LQP), Police Misconduct North West Region; Lay Chair and Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council since 2015; Lay Panel Chair, Social Work England since 2019; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council since 2023; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council since January 2024; Former Lay Member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2017-2022); Former First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber (2020-2023); Former Fee-Paid Judge, Employment Tribunal (2020-2023); Former Legal Adviser, HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), Criminal and Family Law (1996-2011).
Mr Graham White
LLB
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2015, Legal Assessor since 2015; Solicitor; Judicial Member, Parole Board, England and Wales; Lay Chair, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA); Lay Chair, General Optical Council; Lay Chair, Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service; Panel Member and Chair, HS2 and Heathrow Airport Compensation Panels.
Mr Julian Williams
MBChB, MD, FRCS
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospital; Internal Professional Adviser (Surgery), Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Association Coloproctology Great Britain and Ireland; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Dr Ann Wolton
MBChB, DCH, MRCPsych, LLM
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Somerset Foundation Trust; Second Opinion Appointed Doctor (SOAD), Care Quality Commission (CQC); Member, Safeguarding and Protection Committee, Lawn Tennis Association; Member, British Medical Association (BMA).
Ms Emily Wood KC
MA (Cantab), BCL (Oxon)
Lay
Tribunal Member since 2023; Barrister, Essex Court Chambers; Member, COMBAR.
Mr Richard Wood
BA (Hons) (History), BVC
Lay
Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Fee-Paid Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Fee-Paid Judge Employment Tribunal Former Barrister.
Dr Sarah Woodford
MA, MB, BChir, MRCGP, MPH, DFPH, DOccMed, DFSRH, RCPathME
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023; General Visitor, Court of Protection; Medical Examiner, Warrington & Halton Hospitals; GP Locum, Morecambe Bay CCG; GP Appraiser, NHS England North West; Specialist Advisor, Royal College of General Practitioners; Fee-Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support); Fee-Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit; Regional Medical Appraiser, North-West Region; Former Medical Examiner, UHMBT (2020-2022); Former Complaints Advisor, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (2020-2022); Former GP Complaints Reviewer & Clinical Investigator, NHS England North-West (2018-2021); Former CQC Specialist Advisor, National QA Panel (2014-2021); Former GP Partner, Station House Surgery, Kendal (2006-2016); GP Research Champion, National Institute for Health and Care Research (2012-2015); Former GP Adult Safeguarding Lead, NHS Cumbria (2012-2013); GP Registrar (2004-2005); Specialist Registrar, Public Health (2002-2004); Former SHO, Training in Psychiatry (Leeds, Wakefield & Pontefract); Former SHO, Training in General Medicine (Norfolk & Norwich); Sign/BTS Asthma Guidelines (2014); NHS 111 Covid Clinical Assessment Service (South-Central Ambulance) (2020-2022); Coach, North-East and Yorkshire Leadership Academy; Coach, North-West Leadership Academy; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Pathologists; Member, Medical Protection Society.
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Dr Farah Yusuf
MBChB, MRCGP, MFFLM, FFFLM
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2012; Forensic Physician, St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) contracted to Greater Manchester Police, and Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Tutor and Trainer of Forensic Examiners and Allied Professionals; Examiner and Fellow, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians; PLAB Examiner, GMC; Former General Practitioner, Manchester.
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Dr Amir Zafar
MRCGP, MBBCh, ACA, DRCOG, DCH, BSc (Econ)
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2019; Partner, Charles Road Surgery, Birmingham; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Association of Chartered Accountants; Member, British Medical Association.
Dr Jamal (Syed) Zaidi
MBBS, MRCOG, MD, FRCOG
Registrant
Tribunal Member since 2023: Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; Visiting Consultant, Sussex Premier Health; Visiting Consultant, Agora Clinic Sussex; Advisor, NHS England; Assessor, NHS Resolution; Former Assistant Medical Director and Former Deputy Responsible Officer, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (2013-2023); Member, British Fertility Society; Member, British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Expert Witness Institute.