Update in medicine - Reading 2025

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Professor Roy Taylor FRCP

Roy qualified in medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He founded the Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre in 2006 to develop innovative research techniques. Using these new methods, he tested and confirmed his 2008 twin cycle hypothesis of the aetiology of type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a reversible condition of excess fat within liver and pancreas. This revolution in understanding has led to widespread practical application, including in the NHS England type 2 diabetes path to remission programme. Between 1985 and 2002 he developed and validated the method of screening for diabetic retinopathy and established the profession of retinal screeners with recognised training and qualification. He has published books in lay language explaining type 2 diabetes (eg Life without diabetes) and interpreting retinal images. He was awarded an MBE in 2023. His work cumulated in the 2024 Claude Bernard prize lecture of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.

Sir Andrew Goddard FRCP

Andrew is a consultant physician and gastroenterologist at the Royal Derby Hospital. He qualified in Cambridge and trained in East Anglia and the East Midlands before becoming a consultant in 2002. He was director of the RCP’s Medical Workforce Unit for 5 years until being appointed RCP registrar in 2014, overseeing professional and clinical affairs in the UK and internationally. In 2018 he was elected the 121st RCP president, the youngest for 400 years and first from the East Midlands. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was instrumental in influencing the national response and representing the profession. As PRCP, he championed the areas of health inequalities, workforce, wellbeing and research. He is currently chair of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) expert advisory group on AI and software, and oversees the governance of the MHRA AI Airlock. He was knighted in the Platinum Jubilee Birthday Honours list for services to medicine and social care.

Professor Onn Min Kon FRCP

Onn Min Kon is a respiratory physician and head of the tuberculosis service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is professor of respiratory medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. He is past chair of the UK National Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Clinical Advice Service and also the UK Joint Tuberculosis Committee. He is a past president of the British Thoracic Society and chair of the London TB Clinical Leadership Group. Professor Kon organises the London advanced tuberculosis course.

Professor Andrew Seaton

Andrew graduated in medicine in 1989 in Aberdeen and trained in general medicine and infectious diseases in Dundee and Papua New Guinea, where he studied cryptococcal meningitis and severe malaria as a visiting University of Oxford lecturer. Since 2000 he has been a consultant in infectious disease and general medicine in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, where he leads the antimicrobial stewardship programme and outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT). He has been chair of the Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group since 2017 and he is the current president of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC), where he also is the co-lead of the BSAC OPAT initiative.

Dr Janet Costa FRCP

Janet completed specialty training in geriatric and stroke medicine in the Oxford deanery, working in Milton Keynes University Hospital since 2008. She has particular interest in hyperacute stroke care, AI development in stroke care and initiated AI in stroke and CT perfusion service in Milton Keynes University Hospital.

Dr Waleed Fateen

Waleed is a consultant hepatologist at Oxford University Hospitals, where he co-leads the multidisciplinary team for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). He is also the regional specialty lead for gastroenterology and hepatology in the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research Delivery Network. Waleed has a leading role in the care of patients with advanced liver and pancreaticobiliary cancers and is actively involved in service development, including the trust’s response to the GIRFT review of pancreatic cancer care. He collaborates closely with academic and industry partners in Oxford and is funded by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (cancer theme) to develop affordable, blood-based molecular diagnostics for the early detection and monitoring of liver cancer.

Dr Richard Butterworth FRCP

Richard has been a consultant neurologist at Milton Keynes University Hospital with links to the Oxford Neuroscience Centre since 2001. While practising as a general neurologist, he has a sub-specialty interest in stroke disease. Separately, Richard has had a long and keen interest in postgraduate medical education resulting in several leadership roles, including chairpersonship of the national Specialty Advisory Committee (SAC) in neurology. During this time, he oversaw the development of the current neurology training curriculum and was involved in the changes as part of shape of training. Most recently he has been the director of medical education at Milton Keynes University Hospital since 2019.

Professor Theresa McDonagh FRCP

Theresa leads the heart failure service at King’s College Hospital, London. Her main research interests are in novel biomarkers for heart failure, delivery of heart failure services, registry-based research and trials. She is a past chair of the British Society for Heart Failure and a past chair of the clinical section of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). She is the clinical lead for the National Heart Failure Audit. Most recently, she served as a co-chair of the ESC 2021 heart failure guideline and its 2023 focused update. She is currently a councillor on the ESC Board (2024–26).

Dr Shoma Banerjee FRCP

Shoma has been a substantive consultant in Milton Keynes University Hospital since 2017 and is the clinical lead for the rheumatology department. She is an honorary senior clinical lecturer for the University of Buckingham. She has undertaken further studies through the Faculty of Occupational Medicine in order to help her patients remain at work despite having chronic health conditions. Shoma is a fellow of the RCP and a member of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. Outside medicine, she has a passion for yoga and mindfulness.