Speakers from previous Medical Success events are included below. Please enjoy listening to a complimentary introduction podcast from their presentation.

Giles P. Croft
Royal College of Physicians iLab
Welcome Podcast

Giles qualified from Leeds in 1998, having undertaken an intercalated degree in Psychology. Staying in the Yorkshire region for a basic surgical training rotation, he attained membership in 2001. After a period of locuming, he took a four month sabbatical during which he cycled 4300 miles to Turkey and back, returning to a Senior SHO post in Orthopaedics with an acute and personal understanding of knee pain. In 2003, disenchanted with hospital medicine and the impact of the EWTD on surgical training, he left clinical practice to work full time for the Health Informatics Unit at the Royal College of Physicians, where he set up and managed the Information Laboratory (iLab), a facility for senior clinicians to explore the uses of hospital activity data held in their name.
Giles is medical advisor for a cycling magazine and a qualified cycle coach. His time is now divided between health informatics consultancy, coaching of aspirational cyclists, cycle photo-journalism and motivational speaking.
Giles strongly believes that continual change promotes personal growth. A world-record attempt circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle is on a near horizon.

Carol Cooper
Five News resident doctor, The Sun newspaper health journalist

Carol Cooper graduated from Cambridge University and spent several years in hospital specialties, including rheumatology at senior registrar level. Opting for general practice when her first son was born (twins followed two years later), she now works part-time as a sessional GP, and teaches at Imperial College Medical School.
She is The Sun newspaper's doctor, and also contributes to other titles including the Lancet. Most of her 9 published books are related to parenting and child health, and are selling gratifyingly well both here and abroad. With over 12 years in TV and radio, Carol is an accomplished broadcaster. She is currently the resident doctor for Five News.

Chris Llewellyn
Engagement Manager, McKinsey and Company

Chris Llewellyn trained as a doctor at Oxford University and Imperial College School of Medicine before undertaking basic surgical training in London. He joined McKinsey & Company‘s London office in summer 2004 where he is now an Engagement Manager, leading teams serving clients on some of the highest priority issues facing their organisations. Since joining McKinsey, Chris has spent the majority of his time in healthcare and the remainder in financial services. Examples of work he has been involved with include:

• Defining the 20 year healthcare strategy for a large metropolitan city
• Writing the business case for investment in a world class cancer centre
• Developing a growth strategy for a chain of private hospitals prior to private equity trade sale

Colonel Simon Miller
Head of Recruiting, Army Medical Services
Welcome Podcast

Colonel Simon Miller was accepted for a Short Service Commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1972 while a medical student at Cambridge University.
After qualifying in medicine he served as a Regimental Medical Officer in Germany, Cyprus and Northern Ireland and during this time completed General Practice Vocational Training and passed the MRCGP . The hospital part of the training was carried out in a British Military Hospital in Germany and the remainder as a trainee GP in a large family practice in Cyprus.
After a period of two years as a principal in general practice in Germany, during which time he was also Regimental Medical Officer to the Life Guards, he was accepted for specialist training in public health medicine. He was accredited in 1990 and worked as a consultant until retiring from the Army in January to take over as Head of Recruiting for the Army Medical Services.

David Gillen
UK Medical Director, Pfizer

David qualified in Medicine from St Mary's Hospital in 1992. During his undergraduate medical training he completed a BSc in Physiology and Clinical Pharmacology. He retained this interest during his postgraduate training in Medicine, Cardiology and General Practice and decided to join Pfizer Global Research and Development in Sandwich in 1998.
At Pfizer David has worked in R and D and in Medical Affairs for the UK and globally in New York for 3 years. He rejoined Pfizer UK in April 2007 having spent 2 years at Wyeth UK as Medical Director from 2005. The Medical department at Pfizer UK is staffed by approximately 200 people in total. It is a traditional Medical Department with Medical & Scientific Affairs, Clinical Research, Regulatory affairs, Medical Information and Pharmacovigilance.
The Medical Director is a member of the UK Board of Directors and a part of the European Medical Leadership Team. David is currently an active member of the ABPI medical committee, the MISG for Clinical Research as well being a member of an external reference group for UKCRC. On the health technology side he is a member of a NICE topic selection panel and also a NICE Guideline Review Committee.

Eric Louie
Vice President, SG2x

Eric Louie was educated in the USA at Harvard University (AB, summa cum laude, in Biochemical Sciences and MD). He trained in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women‘s Hospital and in cardiovascular diseases at the University of Chicago and the National Institutes of Health. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association. Eric also completed an MBA at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
At Sg2, Eric leads strategy consulting engagements which involve demand forecasting, facility planning, and physician alignment issues. Clients within and outside the USA have included academic medical centres, integrated delivery networks, and medical device companies.
While a tenured Professor of Medicine at Loyola, Eric was the Associate Director of the Cardiology Division. Eric has also been a consultant for ZS Associates, specializing in pharmaceutical sales force and marketing strategies.

Finn Morgan
Chief Medical Officer, Healix
Welcome Podcast

Finn qualified from Saint Bartholomew‘s Hospital Medical College in 1994. After house jobs he was appointed anatomy demonstrator at Guy‘s under Professor Harold Ellis; at this time he was awarded the Hallett Prize for the best performance in the Primary FRCS examinations.
He continued basic surgical training in London and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1998. After this he spent two and a half years as a research fellow at the Hammersmith working on xenotransplantation.
Finn was appointed to the Royal Free urology specialist registrar training programme in 2001 and completed two years of this before taking a sabbatical to write his MD thesis. However he never returned to the NHS and was appointed Chief Medical Officer at the Healix Group of Companies in 2004.

Fraser Walker
Associate, Deloitte

Fraser attended the University of Bristol from 1999 to 2005 having graduated in Medicine, also gaining an intercalated BSc in Neuroscience.
He decided to leave the profession at the end of his foundation year in August 2006 and now works as an associate in the audit branch of the professional services firm, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu at head office in London.
Fraser is undertaking a three-year training programme towards the ACA (Association of Chartered Accountants). He works for the Products and Services sector. His top clients include Alliance Boots, Arsenal Football Club, Ferrari Maserati, Carphone Warehouse and WPP .

Gary Crotaz
Senior Consultant, Maddox Consulting

Gary qualifi ed from the MB PhD Programme in Cambridge in 2004, having completed his pre-clinical training and an intercalated BSc in Bristol in 1999. He moved directly into strategy consulting from Cambridge, as a result of the emerging issues around post-graduate training and job selection.
Gary spent three years with L.E.K. Consulting LLP, a top-tier strategy fi rm, and worked across a diverse range of markets including immunotherapy, rail franchise bids, luxury cosmetics and children‘s television. He now works part-time in the boutique strategy fi rm Maddox Consulting Ltd., currently focusing on carbon reduction and climate change as well as a number of start-up businesses. He also provides individual advice to doctors looking to transition from medicine to consulting.
In his other life, Gary is a championship-level ballroom dancer and, with his partner, is ranked in the top 20 in the UK.

Graham Rich
Chief Executive, United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust

Graham Rich qualified in medicine in 1985 and then spent several years in hospital clinical roles as part of his training as a General Practitioner. He completed an MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France in 1992 before joining the Department of Health in performance management of the NHS. He spent two and a half years in the USA working on managed care and system reform with the Jackson Hole Group and management consultancy with the Boston Consulting Group.
In 1997 he returned to the UK to become Director of Commissioning and Primary Care for Newcastle and North Tyneside Health Authority. Graham joined the United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust in September 2004 as the Chief Operating Officer and was appointed Chief Executive in October 2007.

Jane Grewar
Executive Assistant to MD of Consumer Banking, Lloyds TSB

Jane Grewar graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 2002. She left medicine after her fi rst SHO year to join management consultants McKinsey & Co in the summer of 2004. At McKinsey Jane started in the Healthcare practice as a natural progression from a medical background, before branching out through Pharma into retail, private equity, aero-defence and operations amongst other areas! After 2 years as a Business Analyst, Jane left to work with an alumnus at Lloyds TSB, where she is currently. Her role there as "Executive Assistant" involves her working closely with the MD and exec team to develop the business strategy and pick up projects that the MD doesn‘t have time to do.

Jeremy Stone
Group Chairman, Merchant Ventures
Serial Entrepreneur

Jeremy Stone is a physician, entrepreneur, CEO and professional investor.
After an academic hospital medicine career, research in aviation medicine (conducted at Farnborough and the European space Agency in Paris) and business school, he worked as a senior strategy consultant at Gemini Consulting, Inc. before becoming CEO of US-based global pharmaceutical outsourcing firm, Snyder Healthcare.
He was pivotal in carving the business out to become Ventiv Health, Inc (NASDAQ). Since 1999, he has created more than a dozen successful IP -rich healthcare and investment companies including OnMedica, Mediary® and Lattice Growth Partners, the latter a technology long equity/hedge fund-of-funds co-founded with Charles "Sandy" Schwab Jnr, headquartered in San Francisco.
He recently became Chairman of Communication Direct Ltd, the UK‘s leading 3g mobile reseller and HSBC Best New UK Company, 2006.
Jeremy maintains academic affiliations at the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, University of Glamorgan where he is visiting Professor in healthcare, technology and enterprise. He is a keen rotary pilot and turbine helicopter fleet owner.

Kate Hillier
Trainee Solicitor, LOVELLS LLP

Kate graduated in medicine from Adelaide University, following which she completed training in Anaesthesia, receiving her Fellowship in 2002. As a medical student and during training, she was involved in medical politics and the Australian Medical Association, and was part of a national review and restructuring of postgraduate medical training following major legislative changes in Australia. She worked for a year as a locum consultant at the Royal United Hospital in Bath before commencing a degree in Law over two years at Cambridge, graduating in 2005. Whilst at Cambridge she competed in two Women‘s Boat Races, and worked intermittently as the medical advisor for Holby City.
Kate is now completing the penultimate seat of a two year training contract at Lovells, a large international corporate firm, where she has worked in Product Liability litigation on the MMR and Vioxx litigations and in contentious Intellectual Property, particularly in relation to pharmaceutical and telecommunications patents, as well as contributing extensively to the firm‘s pro bono legal advice practice. She hopes to spend the next six months seconded to one of the firm‘s international offices in Hong Kong or Dubai, and to qualify into IP in August 2008.

Katie Abouzahr
Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group

Katie qualified from St Mary's Hospital Medical School (now Imperial College) in 2003, having also completed an intercalated BSc in Chemical Pathology in 2001. She spent four years practicing in central London, mainly at the Hammersmith and Whittington Hospitals, and completed Membership to the Royal College of Physicians in 2006. She was due to start a Radiology training number at St Mary's in August 2007, but decided instead to accept an offer from the Boston Consulting Group, where she has spent the past year. Since joining BCG Katie has spent the majority of her time in healthcare, working for both pharmaceutical firms and private hospital groups.

Mark Rogers
Solicitor, Capsticks
Welcome Podcast

Mark Rogers is a solicitor at Capsticks, London‘s leading Healthcare Law firm.
Prior to qualifying as a solicitor, Mark qualified as a doctor from Nottingham University in 1996 and obtained the MRCS in 1999. He worked at registrar level in Thoracic Surgery before deciding to pursue a career in medical law.
Mark specialises in regulatory law, namely the legal regulation of healthcare professionals at local and national level. This involves the prosecution of practitioners before their regulatory bodies in fitness to practise or misconduct proceedings and advising Primary Care Trusts on managing the performance of primary care practitioners at a local level.

Matthew Harris
Healthcare Studies and Innovation Research Fellow, Said Business School

Matthew qualified in medicine from UCL, in 1998 and after house jobs in Luton and Welwyn he moved to Brazil and spent several years working as a general practitioner in a small rural government health post in the north-east. After completing his Masters in Public Health in Developing Countries at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2004, he worked for the WHO as a Polio Eradication Consultant in Ethiopia, and then for a small HIV/AIDS NGO in Central Mozambique as a Technical Advisor. He is currently completing his DPhil in Public Health at the Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Oxford University, where the focus of his research is the Strategic Management of International Non-governmental Development Organisations.

Matt Shaw
Orthopaedic SpR and founder of Remedy UK
Welcome Podcast

Matt Shaw is an orthopaedic SpR and founder of Remedy UK.
Prior to his SpR training he worked in both Australia and New Zealand. During his time there he ran the medical recruitment company Dr Switch.
He is an expert in how to obtain a job in New Zealand or Australia and how to obtain prospective or retrospective accreditation for that job. In his current role with Remedy UK he is acutely aware of the current problems facing doctors.

Nicholas Moore
Cross Divisional Analyst, Morgan Stanley
Welcome Podcast

Nick read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1997- 2000. He continued his studies at the Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine between 2000 and 2002.
Nick completed house jobs at Addenbrooke‘s Hospital, Cambridge 2003-2004 and demonstrated at the Department of Anatomy in Cambridge in early 2004 before undertaking the Cambridge Basic Surgical Training rotation.
In 2006, Nick joined Morgan Stanley & Company in London‘s Canary Wharf on a new rotational programme. Nick initially worked in Healthcare Investment Banking both originating and executing Shire PL C‘s $2.4 Bn acquisition of New River Pharmaceuticals amongst other transactions. Nick rotated to the Securitised Products Group within Fixed Income in May 2007 and currently works on the origination and securitisation of large real estate loans as well as OpCo/PropCo restructurings. Nick enjoys his new career enormously.

Nick Broughton
BroughtonWalker Medical
Welcome Podcast

Nick Broughton qualified at Nottingham University Medical School and worked in hospital medicine and primary care for a period of seven years before joining the pharmaceutical industry.
His first role was as a clinical research manager in phase II and III at studies Sanofi Winthrop before moving into a medical adviser role at MSD. The majority of his pharmaceutical career has been at AstraZeneca where he worked as a UK Medical Affairs Manager before becoming UK Head of Medical Affairs. He then gained over 2 years international experience as European Director of Regulatory Affairs.
Nick joined the new UK subsidiary of a US biopharmaceutical company as Medical Director. In this role he was responsible for establishing a complete medical department whilst preparing for the launch of a novel treatment for haematological malignancy.
Nick is co-founder of a medical affairs consultancy business — BroughtonWalker Medical which provides high quality medical affairs support to UK pharma.

Panna Erasmus
Medical Advisor, Merlin Emergency Relief International
Welcome Podcast

Panna qualified in medicine in Vellore, India and continued to work in India, before starting her career in delivering primary and public health care in developing countries. She has worked in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sudan and Kenya, for both Ministries of Health and non-governmental organisations. Her work has included both strengthening health systems and responding to emergency situations.
Panna gained a Masters in Mother and Child Health from London University, an area she has worked extensively as a consultant for Ministries of Health and in assisting the training of primary health care workers. Panna currently works as a Health Adviser for Merlin, the only specialist UK charity which responds worldwide with vital health care and medical relief for vulnerable people caught up in natural disasters, conflict, disease and health system collapse.

Richard Mason
Executive in Residence, Advent Venture Partners
CEO, Phoqus Pharmaceuticals
Welcome Podcast

Richard Mason graduated in Medicine from the Medical School of St Bartholomew‘s Hospital and also holds a degree in Immunology from University College London. He is a qualified physician and before entering the business world he worked for 5 years for the NHS in internal medicine.
Richard joined Advent Ventures and Phoqus Pharmaceuticals from Cambridge Antibody Technology plc (CAT) where he was Senior Vice President, Business Development and Commercial Operations. During his time at CAT, Richard led multiple transactions, including the negotiation of CAT‘s joint antibody discovery and development collaboration with AstraZeneca. Since 2005, he also chaired the R&D team responsible for CAT‘s establishment of a therapeutic focus in oncology and the subsequent in-licensing of a number of antibody product candidates. Prior to joining CAT in 2001, Richard co-founded the e-health company, Cambridge Health Informatics Limited, having previously gained an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

Richard Smith
CEO, UnitedHealth Europe
Welcome Podcast

Richard Smith is chief executive of UnitedHealth Europe, a subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group that works with public health systems in Europe.
A member of the board of the Public Library of Science, he is also a visiting professor at the London School of Tropical Medicine and a member of the governing council of St George‘s, University of London. Previously he was editor of the British Medical Journal and chief executive of the BMJ Publishing Group.
Having qualified in medicine in Edinburgh, he worked in hospital in Scotland and New Zealand before joining the BMJ. He also worked for six years as a television doctor with the BBC and TV-AM and has a degree in management science from the Stanford Business School.

Sneh Khemka
Assistant Global Medical Director, BUPA
Welcome Podcast

Sneh Khemka qualified from the University of Edinburgh. Following his house jobs, Sneh completed a Basic Surgical Training, and moved into Ophthalmology. He was awarded the Royal College of Ophthalmologists McCartney Prize for the final MRCOphth exam in 2004.
Having been a Specialist Registrar in Ophthalmology, Sneh explored a number of possibilities outside of a conventional medical career path. Sneh went on to work for a brief stint with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in an international capacity, but was approached for his current role as Assistant Global Medical Director for BUPA.
Sneh is responsible for clinical governance and quality across BUPA‘s business around the world. He inputs widely to NHS and UK government bodies, and provides consultancy services to other independent organisations. In his spare time, Sneh undertakes work as an expedition medic for a variety of charitable institutions.

Sonia Hutton-Taylor

Sonia is an experienced public speaker and a "certified" toastmaster, having chaired and facilitated a range of medical and business events. Sonia started her medical career in surgery, obtaining FRCS FRCOphth DO in the late 80‘s before making the radical change to setting up a business in 1990.
She has a passion for empowering doctors to grasp their true worth — whether that is within a clinical career route, non clinical, outside traditional medical roles altogether or somehow combining them all.

Tania Francis
Solicitor, Hempsons

Tania qualified as a doctor from Southampton University in 1997. After house jobs, she went on to complete a basic surgical training rotation and MRCS (Eng.) in 2001. She spent a year as a paralegal before undertaking her legal studies and a training contract, qualifying as a solicitor in 2006.
She now works at Hempsons, a leader in the health sector. Hempsons act for doctors and other clinicians, as well as NHS, public, private and third sector clients who plan, commission, regulate or provide health and social care services or operate within the supply chain.
Tania specialises in clinical negligence defence and in regulatory law, in which she acts for doctors and other healthcare professionals.