Update in medicine - London 2026

Imposter syndrome workshop

Examine imposter syndrome through an evidence-based lens; challenging the idea that it stems from individual deficit.

Registered delegates can sign up for a one-hour RCP education taster workshop between 8-9am on the day of the conference.

Places are limited and offered on a first come, first served basis. A link to register for this workshop will be sent in your joining email.

If you have registered for this workshop but can no longer attend, please email education.courses@rcp.ac.uk so your place can be offered to another delegate.

The session will highlight how systemic barriers and societal expectations may shape imposter feelings, particularly in medicine and leadership. Delegates will gain a clearer understanding of the research and practical ways to support themselves and others within these structures. The content is accredited for 1 CPD point.

Resident doctors - join our networking session

London representatives from the RCP’s Resident Doctor Committee will be hosting a special resident doctor networking session for registered attendees during the morning comfort break of this conference. Come along to this informal meeting to hear about the work of the committee and to share your thoughts about training, or any regional issues. 

There is no need to register for this in advance, simply book your place for this conference. The session will be held in the council chamber. 

Dr Ameet Bakhai

Dr Ameet Bakhai is a consultant cardiologist and clinical R&D director in the NHS in North London, a Harvard scholar, and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Ameet has enabled innovation of drugs, devices and diagnostics in multiple cardiac areas of heart failure, atrial fibrillation, acute coronary syndromes and risk factor reduction for cardiovascular events. 
He has over 150 publications and received a national award for a decade of work in clinical cardiovascular research from the Royal College of Physicians and is a recognised for clinical trials & research, technology innovation and medical education.

Dr Wisis Wedzicha

Wisia Wedzicha is professor of respiratory medicine, head of the respiratory division at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College,  clinical consul at Imperial College and honorary consultant at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. She qualified from Somerville College, Oxford University and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College. She was elected as fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) and is a fellow both of the American Thoracic Society (ATSF) and European Respiratory Society (FERS). She received the Helmholtz international fellow award in 2014.
Professor Wedzicha has a major interest in the causes, mechanisms, impact and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations; in the role of bacterial and viral infection in COPD exacerbations. She directs an active research group to study COPD exacerbations and has published extensively on these topic. She also directs the multi-centre British Early COPD Cohort (BEACON) designed to study the trajectory of the early stages of COPD.
Professor Wedzicha was Editor-in-Chief of Thorax from 2002 to 2010 and till March 2022 the Editor in Chief for the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. She was  the Lancet ombudsman till 2014, publications director for the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and has also previously been ERS guidelines director. She is a member of the GOLD Scientific Committee.

Mr Azar Khunda

Azar Khunda is a consultant gynaecologist and subspecialist urogynaecologist at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. He is the current clinical lead for gynaecology, he is also the chair of the british society of urogynaecology.

Azar completed his completed a urogyanecology subspecialty training programme at the University College Hospital London. His main interest is laparoscopic urogynaecology providing laparoscopic hysteropexy, laparoscopic sarcocolpopexy and laparoscopic colposuspension . He has also published in renowned international journal in areas related to pelvic floor diagnostics and procedures. He is also responsible educational supervisor for urogynaecology ATSM trainees at GSTT.

Dr Brianna Cloke

Brianna Cloke is a consultant gynaecologist with a special interest in early pregnancy and acute gynaecology at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She also works in the tertiary menopause and recurrent miscarriage services. In addition she is the lead for paediatric and adolescent gynaecology at Evelina Children’s Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital. She has published and presented in areas related to menopause and paediatric and adolescent gynaecology. She is also the lead for women’s health block (2^nd year medical students ) at Kings College Medical School.

Dr Hadi Manji

Dr Hadi Manji is consultant neurologist at the national hospital for neurology, Queen Square, London. After qualifying from Trinity Hall Cambridge and the Middlesex Hospital, in 1982, he trained as a GP in Edinburgh before returning to general medicine and neurology.

He has a specialist interest in neuro-infectious diseases including HIV, tropical infections and now COVID-19. He is also a senior member of the centre for neuromuscular diseases at the national hospital with an interest in peripheral nerve disorders. He is currently chair of the medical committee at queen square and a trustee of the National Brain appeal.

Dr Manji is chief author and editor of the oxford handbook of neurology (3^rd Edition in preparation). In 2022, he was awarded the association of British neurologists medal for services to national and international neurology. 

Currently, he is involved in setting up the Al-Hadi neuromuscular centre in Karbala, Iraq.

Professor Louisa Murdin

Professor Louisa Murdin has a strong clinical and research background in all types of audio vestibular medicine with special interests in vertigo, migraine and Meniere's disease. 

Louisa is an honorary associate professor at the University College London (UCL) ear institute. 

Dr Jaideep Dhariwal

Dr Jaideep Dhariwal is a consultant respiratory physician at Guy’s severe asthma centre, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Foundation Trust. He obtained a PhD investigating mechanisms of allergen and respiratory viral induced exacerbations of asthma in 2016, from Imperial College London. His PhD was funded by a grant from the medical research council and GSK, with a specific focus on the role of innate lymphoid cells in asthma. He is part of the specialist multi-disciplinary team who provide care for patients with severe eosinophilic asthma, EGPA and other eosinophilic lung diseases and has published in the field of biologic therapies in asthma and mechanisms of virus induced asthma exacerbations.

Dr Stephen Joseph

Stephen is the Royal College of Physicians’ Turner-Warwick Lecturer in medical education. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2015 and has since undertaken postgraduate training in London and the East of England. He currently works as a registrar in respiratory and internal medicine in East London.

Stephen has had a longstanding interest in education, and much of this lecture draws on work completed during his masters in clinical education at King’s College London between 2020 and 2024. He was elected co-chair of the RCP’s Resident Doctor Committee in 2025, where he uses his academic and professional experience to help ensure that policies and training initiatives reflect the needs of resident doctors.

Dr Joseph Tomson FRCP

Dr Tomson is a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Free London Hospitals NHS Trust with specialist interests in cardiac rhythm management, arrhythmias, and cardiac device therapy. He is the clinical lead for the atrial fibrillation clinical practice group and is actively involved in cardiovascular research, clinical trials, training, and medical education.

He was appointed as a consultant cardiologist in 2015 following completion of higher specialist cardiology training in the West Midlands and research at the University of Oxford for his MD thesis. Dr Tomson was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2019 and holds an honorary associate clinical professorship at UCL medical school. He has published widely in the cardiovascular sciences and contributes to national and international cardiovascular research initiatives