Speaker Profiles

GP

Clinical Professor of Medical Education

Associate Dean for Medicine

Professor Kamila Hawthorne has been a GP in South Wales for 24 years, having originally qualified from Oxford University in 1984, and completed her GP training in Nottingham in 1988.

She is an academic medical educator, Head of the Graduate Entry Medicine Programme at Swansea University. She is also a past Vice Chair (Professional Development) at the RCGP, a Nationally Elected Member of RCGP Council and on the RCGP Ethics Committee, an MRCGP Examiner and a Bevan Commissioner.  

Professor Hawthorne has a real interest in the social accountability of medical schools, and believes that we should be training excellent clinicians who understand people, and the communities in which we all live. She is also believes contemporary curricula should include Leadership and Management skills, Digital and Communications Technology, and ‘One Health in a global community’. She has expertise in designing ‘community facing’ medical curricula. 

Her research and clinical working interests have been in health inequalities and access to health services, (her MD was based on working with BAME groups with Type 2 diabetes in Manchester). With wide experience of running community projects in diabetes and heart disease, she has been named ‘GP of the Year’ twice for her work with BAME communities and with patients, and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List 2017 for services to General Practice.

GP at Charlotte Keel Medical Practice

Prescribing lead for BNSSG CCG

Columnist for Pulse Magazine

Training Program Director

Chair of LMC Conference

Dr Shaba Nabi is the Lead GP at Charlotte Keel Medical Practice, an inner- city practice in Bristol. She followed a convoluted route to general practice which included Psychiatry, Neurology, Ship’s Doctor and Civilian Medical Officer for the RAF.  Shaba has a portfolio career which includes Education, Prescribing Lead for the CCG, Medical Politics and being a columnist for Pulse magazine.  When she is not working, she enjoys hanging out with her 3 kids and dancing to 90’s club music.

Gallup Accredited Strengths Coach- hellosidekick.co

Hannah Miller is a speaker, trainer and coach, who combines her own personal experiences of leadership with a tried and tested focus on people’s Strengths. Her fundamental belief in the importance of developing the individual and investing in the team, and her passion for progress is evident in all she does.

She has worked with teams and professionals in all sectors, large and small organisations to charities and universities. Whatever the brief, whatever the size, the focus is always the same – focus on where you are strong and build from there. Understanding who you are, how you lead, and how you think is key to both self development and the team around you.

Hannah knows that an investment in people’s strengths will in turn impact upon engagement, productivity and efficiency – some of the key issues facing leaders today.

Hannah is a Gallup Accredited Strengths Coach, and has worked with a wide variety high profile clients.

In a nutshell: Hannah is a business graduate, trained teacher, previous assistant head teacher, charity founder, senior leader of education, Gallup-accredited Strengths coach, SSAT trainer, experienced mentor and public speaker.

GP Partner at Greystone house Surgery

Clinical Director fro Care Collaborative Primary Care Network in East Surrey

Founder of Alliance for Better Care GP Fed.

Current Chair of the PCN Network

NHS Confed.

Pramit has been a GP since 2011 and is a Partner at Greystone House Surgery in Redhill, Clinical Director for Care Collaborative Primary Care Network in East Surrey, Founder of Alliance for Better Care GP Federation, currently Chair of the PCN Network, NHS Confederation and is on the board of Trustees of NHS Confederation.

As a GP, Pramit always champions high quality integrated care, with primary and community care being front and centre for care outside hospital and working alongside hospital colleagues to integrate whole system patient pathways. He leads on the development of our 25 Primary Care Networks locally with our primary care directorate as well as nationally having strong connections with NHS England. As a clinician he has a particular interest in care of the elderly as well as managing complex care and minor surgery procedures and also trains junior doctors.

Pramit will be leading implementation of the Fuller Stocktake for Surrey Heartlands which focusses on creating thriving neighbourhood teams bringing health, care, voluntary sector and local authority colleagues together to serve the needs of our residents

Retired GP

Vice President of the Patients Association

Advisor for the Association of Young People with ME

Champion for the Point of Care Foundation

Hammond is a doctor, journalist, broadcaster, campaigner and comedian. He qualified as a GP in 1991 and is currently works in a specialist NHS centre for children and adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome/ME.

Phil is also a presenter on BBC Radio Bristol and has been Private Eye’s medical correspondent since 1992, campaigning for patient empowerment, open data in healthcare and for the NHS to be honest and transparent about the harm it causes as well as the good it does. 

In 2012, he was shortlisted with Andrew Bousfield for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Investigative Journalism for a Private Eye Special Report about the shocking treatment of NHS Whistleblowers. Phil has also won awards for broadcasting, popular health journalism, comedy and teaching. 

He is Vice President of the Patients’ Association and a patron of Meningitis UK, the Doctors’ Support Network, the Herpes Viruses Association, Patients First and Kissing It Better.

GP & Occupational Health Doctor turned Coach & Trainer

Shapes Coach & Shapes Toolkit Trainer

Head of Training and Coach at Joyful Doctor

Katya is a GP and Occupational Health Doctor turned Coach & Trainer.She loves encouraging others in her work as a Joyful Doctor and Shapes Coach and as Head of Training at Joyful Doctor.

She focuses on Leadership, Career Development & Wellbeing coaching to empower overloaded professionals to thrive. Having journeyed through Burnout, she resolved to help people like her avoid the mistakes she made. This passion drove her to set up The Working Well Doctor where she uses her professional expertise and personal experience to deliver inspiring and enabling coaching to groups and individuals.

Katya believes solutions are most effective when evidence-supported approaches are tailored to the needs of teams and individuals.

She has worked at the Mayo Clinic, USA & in the UK as a GP for both civilians & the Armed Forces, as well as in Occupational Health.

She loves a good natter on a podcast & writes for the BMJ & Medic Footprints and is often found sharing ideas with her Thrive Well email community.