Katy is a graduate of London University.  She subsequently worked for a firm of architects where she spent much time turning the partners’ terrible handwritten notes into polished letters.  She joined the membership body sector in 1999 and has been there ever since.  She began her time at BSH in November 2007 as Headquarters Manager and became Chief Executive in June 2017.

Current appointment: Co-Lead for Pathology “Getting it Right First Time” (GIRFT).
Consultant in Colchester (District General Hospital) 1992 - 2016.
Since January 2018: Co-Lead for the GIRFT Pathology project.

Alongside clinical work, Marion undertook several leadership and management roles, including:
Colchester:         College Tutor (RCP), lead clinician for Continuing Medical Education.
                                First HTA DI
                                First Organ Donation Clinical Lead                            
                                Deputy Medical Director 2001-4
                                Medical Director 2004 – 2008

East of England: part-time MD Blood sciences, the Pathology Partnership
                                (December 2015 – April 2017).
Honorary Chair, Association of Clinical Pathologists, 2013 – 2018.

Medical Director (retired) of the Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) national haemovigilance scheme (2011 to 2018).

Currently Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Manchester (since 2003).

Currently chair of the Transfusion Medicine Specialty Advisory Committee for the Royal College of Pathologists.

Relevant recent publications:

Transfusion errors: can they be eliminated? Editorial with Alison Watt, BJH early view 8 December 2019.

Electronic identification systems reduce the number of wrong

components transfused. Murphy et al. Transfusion 2019;59;3601–3607.

Staffing in hospital transfusion laboratories: UKTLC surveys show cause for concern

Bolton-Maggs et al. Transfusion Medicine 2019;29:95–102.

Tim Littlewood is vice-president for professionalism at the Royal College of Pathologists and ex-President of the British Society for Haematology.

He worked as an NHS haematology consultant in Oxford from 1989-2018 and is currently associate director of clinical studies at the clinical medical school of the University of Oxford.

He is also lecturer in medicine at Christ Church, University of Oxford.

He has published 135 peer-reviewed articles.

Dame Jane is an honorary consultant rheumatologist, at Whittington Health in London, Professor of Medical Education at UCL and the President of the Medical Protection Society. She is the immediate past president of the Royal College of Physicians and was also vice chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Director of UCL Medical School in London, medical director of MRCPUK examination and academic vice president of the RCP. Dame Jane was a GMC council member, and chaired the GMC education and training Committee (2008-2012) and leads a research programme in medical education focussing on assessment.

She was the clinical lead for the development of the first Clinical Skills Centre in the UK, and was a co-author of the GALS screen. She has been instrumental in the development, implementation and evaluation of several examinations in undergraduate and postgraduate medicine.

Dame Jane won the medicine and healthcare category for the 2012 Women in the City Woman of Achievement Award; was named on the Health Service Journal’s inaugural list of 50 inspirational women in healthcare in 2013; was named in the science and medicine category for people of influence Debrett’s 500 in 2015, 2016 and 2017; and was named on the Health service journal’s top 100 list from 2014 to 2017.

She is the independent lead for the Department of Health and Social Care review of the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine.

She has honorary doctorates from the University of Liverpool, and the University of Surrey, and eight honorary Fellowships from international medical  institutions

She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2018.

Deepti has been in her Haematology Consultant post at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust since 2002. She is passionate about ensuring postgraduate medical education is delivered to the highest standards possible to enable the development of capable and competent professionals in a constantly changing NHS service. She has been actively involved in postgraduate haematology training and education since 1997. Deepti has been an integral member of the Board of the London School of Pathology since its inception in 2008. Her roles include Professional development lead, joint development of virtual learning environment & supervision of medical education fellows.

Qualified at the University of London.

Consultant Haematologist at the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust since 2002 with a special interest in Haemostasis and Thrombosis. Actively involved in post graduate Haematology training locally and Nationally. Member of Haematology SAC since 2010: Training Programme Director for the Northern Deanery 2010-2014, National recruitment lead for SAC 2012-2018, Vice-Chair 2015 on and member of Curriculum sub-group 2017 on. FRCPath Coagulation examiner.

Professor John Snowden trained in Haematology in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He has been Chair of the Chair of the Intercollegiate Committee (ICH) on Haematology to the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Pathologists since 2017. He is also the President-Elect of the British Society for BMT (BSBMT), Chair of NHS England Clinical Reference Group (CRG) for BMT, a board member of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) and was Lead Clinician for the NICE Guidance in Haematological Cancers 2016. He is regionally active in NHSE Genomics for Haemato-oncology. He has published around 250 clinical and scientific articles, reviews and book chapters in haemato-oncology and BMT, and led on national and international clinical guidelines (H-index>40). He holds honorary professorships at The Univeristy of Sheffield and UCL.

I am a haematology specialty trainee based in the north east of England, where I take a particularly interest in clinical research through my role as the NIHR specialty trainee lead for haematology and regional representative of the HaemSTAR trainee clinical audit and research network. I represent haematology trainees on the Intercollegiate Committee on Haematology and RCPath Trainee Advisory Committee. I also have an interest in medical education and have previously completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education and contribute to the popular TeamHaem education resource on Twitter.