Professor Phil Bright FRCP

Professor Phil Bright is Associate Medical Director for Workforce at the Federation of Physician Colleges and head of school for medicine in NHS England, where he leads postgraduate medical education and training. He also chairs the national heads of school of medicine. He has extensive experience in clinical leadership, workforce development, educational governance, and the delivery of high-quality, learner-centred training pathways. His work focuses on supporting doctors in training and strengthening collaborative education across trusts and academic partners. Philip led the development of the advanced general internal medicine (GIM) programme and is now leading work on the standalone GIM training pathway, aligning training with evolving service delivery needs. His broader interests include the safe integration of artificial intelligence into medical education and training.

Dr Aklak Choudhury FRCP

Dr Aklak Choudhury is the clinical director for Improvement at Royal College of Physicians, and supports the RCP led National Audits NRAP and FFFAP, the Chief Registrar programme and supports improvement development for the college. He has held roles as associate editor for BMJ Open Quality and as a QSIR Associate. He is medical director for quality improvement, research and innovation at University Hospitals Derby and Burton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and a respiratory physician. He is passionate about developing an open learning culture and leads on quality improvement capability. He is the senior editor for the trust quality and safety learning platform (QSL) and is trust lead for clinical audit and outcomes. Through his MSc in medical education, he has facilitated many national face to face and online improvement workshops and coached doctors through improvement programmes. He is the co-founder of QIPstart, an educational platform to learn QI.

Dr Ak Maheswaran

Dr Ak Maheswaran is a consultant anaesthetist and head of service for theatres at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. He is also clinical lead for One NHS Finance, where he works to bridge the gap between frontline clinical practice and the financial decisions that shape it. He delivers NHS finance education nationally, with a focus on demystifying business cases, procurement, and organisational decision-making for clinical audiences. He holds an executive MBA and a Master's in medical law and ethics, bringing a rare combination of clinical, financial, and legal perspective to everything he teaches.He is interested in everything, commits to too much, and coaches junior football in whatever time remains.

Dr Stephen Joseph

Stephen is a respiratory and internal medicine registrar working in Northeast London. He holds a Master's in clinical education from King's College London, where his dissertation research examined how doctors make sense of unprofessional behaviour in clinical practice — work that formed the basis of his Turner-Warwick lecture for the Royal College of Physicians. He co-chairs the RCP's Resident Doctor Committee and has a particular interest in professional culture, the training environment, and how medical education can better reflect the complexity of real clinical work.

Professor Jo Szram FRCP

Dr Shruthi Konda FRCP

Dr Konda is a consultant respiratory physician at Royal Brompton Hospital, one of the UK’s leading centres for respiratory medicine. A graduate of Imperial College London, she trained in London in respiratory and general internal medicine and was appointed consultant in 2017. Her specialist expertise includes sleep disorders, respiratory failure, and complex lung disease. Alongside her clinical practice, Dr Konda is a respected medical educator and leader. She established a respiratory high dependency unit prior to the pandemic and is an MRCP PACES examiner for the Royal College of Physicians. As the RCP Linacre Fellow, she supports physician training nationally across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. She was an educational lead for the British Sleep Society and regularly chairs and speaks at national and international conferences, representing sleep education at a European level.

Rachael Daw

Rachael Daw trained as a physiotherapist at the University of Liverpool and worked for the NHS for nearly 20 years, eventually specialising in care and surveillance for upper limb arthroplasty. Rachael completed a Masters degree in Advanced Practice in Healthcare in 2016 and went on to be a lecturer in Advanced Clinical Practice at the University of Liverpool, before joining the RCP in 2022 where she is now a Senior Educationalist. Rachael is a trained workplace coach and also maintains keen interests in physiotherapy, rehabilitation and exercise medicine, alongside her current role in medical and multi-disciplinary education

Professor Kerry Calvo

Dr Kerry Calvo has a clinical background as a GP and has worked in medical education for over 20 years across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate contexts. She has held educational roles in multiple medical schools, supporting the development of clinicians in teaching and educational leadership roles. Kerry currently co leads a Master’s programme in education for health professionals, where she works with healthcare professionals from diverse disciplines and settings. Her educational interests centre on course and curriculum design, with a particular focus on inclusive and accessible approaches to learning. This interest underpins her ongoing doctoral research, which factors supporting effective learning for diverse learners in health professions education.