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Alma Mata is a not-for-profit organisation for those interested in further education, research and careers in global health.
Speakers & Workshop Facilitators
Alma Mata is currently confirming our list of inspirational, expert speakers. They will be listed here as and when we confirm their attendance
Mr Andy Leather, Consultant Surgeon, King's College Hospital International Development Unit, London and Trustee of THET.
A Consultant Surgeon at King's College Hospital since 1996, he has held various positions in the hospital including Surgical Tutor, Deputy Director of Postgraduate Medical Education, Lead Clinician for General Surgery and Clinical Director for Surgery. He has worked with THET for 11 years, started the King's THET Somaliland Partnership (KTSP) in 2000 and remains the UK KTSP Lead. Andy Leather founded the International Development Unit at King's in 2006.
Dr John Richens, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, UCL, London
John Richens obtained the MRCP and an MSc in Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (LSHTM) in 1983. From 1984-1990 he worked as a general physician at Goroka Base Hospital in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea where he conducted research on typhoid, reactive arthritis and donovanosis with colleagues from the Papua New Guinea Institute for Medical Research. After returning to the UK he worked for two years at the LSHTM teaching on the DTM&H and MSc in Clinical Tropical Medicine and carrying out further research on donovanosis before joining the Department in 1993.
Since joining the Centre he has divided his time between clinical work in sexually transmitted infections and HIV, teaching on the MSc in STIs and HIV (for which he is currently course organizer) and international health consultancies on sexual health. He has worked extensively in Asia (China, India, Bangladesh and Central Asian Republics) and Africa (South Africa, Uganda, Cameroon, Nigeria) on the design and evaluation of intervention projects for the control of STIs and HIV as well as developing training programmes on clinical and public health aspects of STI/HIV control. He has contributed to the UK National Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections and reviews papers for the Lancet, AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections and tropical medicine journals.
Dr Ruth Stern, Medact Trustee
Ruth Stern trained and practised as a physiotherapist in South Africa before moving to London where she worked as a health promotion officer, as the coordinator of a WHO designated Healthy Cities Project and latterly, as a researcher and lecturer. She has practical and academic experience in health promotion, health partnerships, equity and community participation in the UK and South Africa. Her international activities include working with the Global Equity Gauge Alliance and the coordinatiors of the UK Peoples Health Movement International Peoples Health University short course in March/April 2009 and she has participated in various Medsin events.
Dr Jonathan Fluxman, GP in Paddington, London and Steering Committee member for Medical Justice.
Originally from South Afria, Jonathan now combines full-time work in an inner-city general practice with clinical work for Medical Justice, a network of volunteers who expose and challenge medical abuse in immigration detention.
Dr James Jobanputra
James is a GP with an interest in International Health. He has worked as a medical doctor with Medecins sans Frontieres in Somalia, Kenya and Niger. Clinical interests include primary health care and control of tuberculosis.
Mr George Fowlis, Urolink Committee Member and Consultant Urological Surgeon, North Middlesex Hospital, London.
George Fowlis is a consultant urological surgeon at The North Middlesex University Hospital in London. His clinical interest is urological oncology, particularly prostate cancer. He is involved in the teaching and training of SpRs in the London deanery. He is currently President of the Section of Black and Ethnic Health at the RSM.
George is also honorary consultant in the Department of Surgery, Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital, Banjul, The Gambia, which he visits several times a year with other colleagues to teach and train. As well as standard urology, the major focus is on VVF repair and reconstructive surgery.
George is interested in cooperation with units abroad. He is currently researching prostate cancer genetics (PROGRES) in Africa with colleagues at the Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
Professor Sebastian Lucas, Head of Histopathology, St Thomas' Hospital, London
A world-renowned expert in infection diseases and lung and liver pathology, Professor Lucas has had a varied career which has included long periods in Kenya and the Ivory Coast and time spent in India and Pakistan undertaking leprosy research. He is now Head of Histopathology at St Thomas' Hospital in central London.
Dr Sarah Finer, Clinical Research Fellow, Bart's and the London Hospitals, London
Sarah was one of three early Medsin members who campaigned for the incorporation of International Health in the undergraduate curriculum at UCL. In joining forces with John Yudkin, their efforts were realised through the setting up of the International Health and Medical Education Centre (IHMEC), the first centre to incorporate global health issues into the medical student curriculum. During her elective in Dar-es-Salaam, she joined with the Tanzanian Association of Medical Students' in designing peer-led education projects and starting the first Nuffield Trust-funded International Health exchange programme.
Since qualifiying and becoming a Specialist Registrar in Diabetes and Endocrinology in North-East London, she has moved into the academic world, first as an Academic Clinical Fellow, and second as an MRC-funded Clinical Research Fellow at the Blizard Institute, Barts and the London. She is doing a PhD in fetal programming of Type 2 diabetes, identifiying how maternal nutritional factors in pregnancy affect the risk of disease in offspring as they grow up. Her research translates basic molecular mechanisms to population-based cohorts in East London, India, Bangladesh and Taiwan with the potential to guide public health strategies in the future. She has been involved in setting up research collaborations and exchanges in partnership with these countries.
Dr Fred Martineau, Paediatric Trainee, London Deanery
Fred Martineau has worked with the Alma Mata Global Health Network for four years and has taken a special interest in including global health in the postgraduate training of doctors in the UK. He has recently returned from out of programme experience (OOPE) in Tibet.
Dr Kate Mandeville, Programme Director, Medic to Medic
Kate Mandeville is an academic clinical fellow in public health in London. She also runs the charity Medic to Medic which sponsors medical students in low income countries and is writing a guide to working in ïnternational health for Oxford University Press.
Dr Raúl Pardíñaz-Solís, Educationalist, Skillshare International
Dr. Pardíñaz-Solís is a Mexican educationalist with a M.Ed. and Ph.D. from Birmingham (UK), with wide experience inMexico, the United States, and Europe. His last post in Mexico City was Director of Education at Cuauhtemoc City Council (Delegacion Cuauhtemoc). His work helped to tackle issues such as school democratisation, decentralization of schooling, citizenship and cultural diversity at schools. Dr. Pardíñaz-Solís international experience began in Philadelphia (USA) as trainer and researcher in disability; later as facilitator of human rights workshops in Geneva, and trainer in Development Education for Sustainable Development in Germany and Austria.
Since March 2002 Dr. Pardíñaz-Solís has worked in development education and global health education in the UK and Republic of Ireland. First, at Centre for Citizenship Studies in Education (CCSE) at the University of Leicester, delivering global citizenship training for educators and PGCE students. He is currently working for an international NGO - Skillshare International- leading its Development Awareness Programme in two sectors: Global Health Education and Development Education in UK, Ireland, Africa and Asia. Dr. Pardíñaz-Solís coordinates three undergraduate courses on global health education one in each of the following institutions, Leicester Medical School, Nottingham Medical School and School of Medicines at Trinity College Dublin.
Dr Deborah Cohen, Assistant Editor, BMJ
Deborah Cohen is assistant editor of the BMJ, which she joined after qualifying from Manchester University and Rennes University in France. Whilst at university she intercalated in medical journalism, edited her university publication and worked on a newspaper in Ghana covering health and human rights.
She has a keen interest in global health and human rights in part fuelled not only by her time in Ghana, but also by trips to the West Bank to report on Palestinian health care; Kenya to assess food security; and Ethiopia to report on the development on primary care.
Deborah is currently features editor with a remit to incorporate more investigative journalism into the journal. She has also written for other publications, including the Guardian and is currently working on a joint project with Channel 4 News.