UCL MEDICAL SCHOOL

Professor Sir John Tooke
is Head of the School of Life & Medical Sciences and Head of UCL Medical School. He is also President of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He was the Founding Dean of Peninsula Medical School in the UK, which was an entirely new Medical School and had its first successful cohort of graduates in 2007. Professor Tooke is on several government committees and was the author of the highly influential Tooke Report, which has changed the face of postgraduate medical education in England.

Professor Jane Dacre
is Director of UCL Medical School. She is very well known in medical education in the UK and has run the MBBS programme at UCL since 2007. She is an appointed member of the UK’s General Medical Council, and Chairs the Education and Training Comittee. She is also the Medical Director of the MRCP(UK) examination, a well known international examination for physicians with over 22,000 candidates per year. This examination is regularly run internationally. Since 2004 she has also been the main assessment consultant to the GMC for their fitness to practise procedures, giving advice on assessment of competence for poorly performing doctors. She is also on the PLAB review working group, and was on the Patel review working group which made recommendations on the future of the regulation of medical education in the UK

Dr Deborah Gill
is lead for the current MBBS programme and for the development and delivery of the new MBBS 2012. She is an experienced curriculum developer and staff development leader and an active education researcher. Her research expertise is in the domain of professional development, education supervision and qualitative education research methods. She is programme director for the blended learning MSc in International Primary Health Care, a teacher and examiner on the UCL MSc in Medical Education, and external examiner on the Cambridge and Imperial Medical Schools undergraduate programmes and at the Postgraduate Medical School at Brighton, Sussex.

Dr Ann Griffin
is lead for the postgraduate courses run from UCL Medical School. She is a General Practitioner with particular expertise in the Quality Assurance of Medical Education and has responsibility for the overall quality of the student experience at UCL.

Professor Jean McEwan
is Professor of Clinical Education at UCL. She is an academic cardiologist with over 30 years’ experience in vascular disease research, who now leads the UCL Division of Medicine integrated clinical academic training programme. In the MBBS programme, she leads for Year 4 of MBBS 2012, where her particular interest is the educational employment of new technologies and blended teaching tools, and in the engagement and development of the NHS teaching faculty. Jean is a facilitator in the Harvard Macy programme, Leading Innovation in Healthcare and Education, directed by Professors Clayton Christensen and Elizabeth Armstrong 

Professor Tim McHugh
is Graduate Tutor for UCL’s Faculty of Medical Sciences, responsible for all aspects of postgraduate taught provision, including online distance and continuing professional development. A particular emphasis has been the development of postgraduate programmes drawing on the research and clinical strengths of UCL to deliver the professional training needs of clinicians. As part of his international collaborations Professor McHugh has supported capacity development programmes including training the trainers courses, practical training in microbiology and development of diploma, bachelors and masters programmes in Health Sciences, providing context-appropriate curriculum development.

Professor Chris McManus
is Professor of Psychology and Medical Education at UCL. Trained both as a doctor and a psychologist, he is particularly known for his large-scale longitudinal studies of cohorts of medical students and doctors from 1980 to the present. A particular interest is in the statistical analysis and psychometrics of examinations and clinical assessments, and he has worked particularly on Part 1, Part 2 and the new PACES examination of the MRCP(UK). He has also advised a range of other undergraduate and postgraduate medical institutions.

Professor Chris O’Callaghan
is Professor of Respiratory and Paediatric Medicine at the Institute of Child Health, UCL and Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. He has a major interest in the development of video intense multimedia programs for medical education. He is currently working in collaboration with the World Health Organisation to harness the potential of multimedia training for health care workers in resource-poor countries.

Dr Caroline Aspinwall,
Principal Admissions Officer

Dr Brenda Cross,
Faculty Tutor (Years 1-2 & IBSc)

Ms Shirley Cupit,
Academic Lead, Target Medicine

Ms Vicky Edwards,
Clinical Assessment Centre Manager

Dr Gavin Johnson,
Consultant Gastroenterologist, Senior Lecturer in Medical Education

Mrs Gaynor Jones,
Head of Medical Student Administration

Dr Jayne Kavanagh,
Tutor in Medical Ethics and Law; Academic Lead, Target Medicine

Dr Lorraine Noble,
Communication Skills Tutor

Dr Peter Raven,
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Mental Health Sciences Unit

Ms Jane Richardson,
Senior Lecturer, Academic Centre for Medical Education

Dr Alison Sturrock,
Sub Dean (Assessments)

Professor Irving Taylor,
Vice Dean (Professional Affairs)

Ms Deirdre Wallace,
Clinical Skills Centre Manager

Dr Katherine Woolf,
Lecturer in Medical Education

Professor Janet Grant,
is an educational psychologist and Honorary Professor at UCL Medical School. She is also Director of CenMEDIC (the Centre for Medical Education in Context) and the FAIMER Centre for Distance Learning. She is Emeritus Professor of Education in Medicine at the Open University in the UK and Special Adviser to the World Federation for Medical Education. Janet has over 35 years of experience in medical education development and policy, working with governments, national institutions and medical schools. 

Dr David Sales,
has a background in primary care and medical education, particularly the design and delivery of up-to-date assessment instruments. He works as an education consultant and is Chair of both the GMC Quality Scrutiny Group and the GMC Curriculum Advisory Group, former Chair of the GMC’s Part 1 PLAB written examination and a former assessment fellow, RCGP.