Directors & Founders
Dr Steve Davies MD, MRCP (Director)
Qualified with distinction in Medicine (University of Wales College of Medicine, 1989), currently a Consultant Endocrinologist at University Hospital of Wales. MD (University of Wales College of Medicine, 1999). Research Interests - Vascular effects of Metabolic and Endocrine disorders. Extensively published in the field of diabetes and endocrinology in journals such as Circulation, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and the BMJ. Research Awards: Has received research awards for Growth Hormone, prostate cancer and hyperparathyroidism.
Dr Dean Jenkins MRCP, DipMedEd (Director)
Qualified from University of Wales College of Medicine (UWCM) in 1990. He is a director of Medelect Limited and Senior Lecturer at the Diabetes Research Unit, Cardiff University. His interests are the education of health professionals and pateints on the Internet. He is currently developing a web-based Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes for Cardiff University. He has clinical interests in Geriatric Medicine and Diabetes. He chairs the All Wales Consensus group on Standard 4 of the Diabetes NSF and was until recently the Chair of Bridgend LDSAG. He has published a popular Electrocardiography book ECGs by Example, several books of MCQ collections, review articles on Medicine and the Internet in Hospital Medicine and Reviews in Clinical Gerontology and a quarterly review article in Hospital Medicine called 'web watch'. He is a co-founder of the Llandough Hospital MRCP PACES course. He has run the successful 12-lead ECG webpage (www.ecglibrary.com) since 1996 and founded the on-line MRCP part 1 question bank in the same year.
Editorial Board
Dr Richard H. Evans, MRCP (UK) (Medical editor)
Richard Evans is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General (Internal) Medicine at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. Dr. Evans qualified from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 1991, obtained his MRCP (UK) diploma in 1994 and has also completed the USMLE examinations. He undertook his clinical training in Infectious Diseases as a Specialist Registrar at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and as a Clinical Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA. He worked as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School for three years, where he developed his research interest in tissue engineering and human immune reconstitution using stem cell technologies. His research has been published widely and includes papers in Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Evans has extensive experience in teaching for MRCP Part 1, Part 2 and PACES. He has co-authored two MCQ books: ‘MCQs in the Basic Sciences for MRCP Part 1’, with Professor Stuart Elborn, (Arnold, 1997); and the multiple choice questions that accompany Souhami & Moxham’s ‘Textbook of Medicine’ (Churchill Livingstone, 2002).
Dr Geraint Preest BSc(Hons) MB BCh DRCOG MRCGP (Primary Care editor)
Geraint completed a degree at University College Cardiff in Pharmacology prior to studying medicine at University of Wales College of Medicine as a postgraduate. He completed house jobs with Prof Mansel and Prof JD Williams then Bridgend Vocational Training Scheme. He is now a Principal at Pencoed and Llanharan Medical centres. He frequently writes articles on General Practice and the Internet for the medical press. He is "Mr Web Man" for pencoedmedical and Bridgend VTS and won the GP/NHSnet Progress Achievement award 2003 for the general practice websites.
Dr Kofi Obuobie MRCP
Consultant endocrinologist and diabetologist at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. Qualified in Ghana and obtained the PLAB exam followed by membership. Undertook research on vascular changes associated with thyroid disorders upon which he has based his MD. Experienced teacher on PLAB and MRCP courses.
Dr Aled Roberts
Currently Research Registrar at Cardiff in Diabetes and Endocrinology. Regular tutor on the Llandough MRCP course and on the postgraduate and undergraduate training programme.
Paediatrics
Dr Colin Melville
Colin Melville is Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics, Dept of Postgraduate Medicine, Keele University.
Nia Fraser SpR in Paediatric Surgery, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham
Trained at St Mary`s Hospital Medical School (Imperial College), interests are Paediatric Surgery, particularly neonates. Publications include a study on appendicular colic in children and neonatal case reports.
Surgery
Mr Jon Barry MB BCh MRCS (Eng)
Jon Barry is currently an SpR in general surgery on the All Wales General Surgical rotation. His interest lies in Upper GI cancer surgery and has just completed his MCh thesis in gastric cancer.
Mr Kevin Conway
Kevin Conway qualified from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 1997. He obtained the USMLE in 1998 and the MRCSEd and AFRCSI in 2000. He was appointed to the All Wales Higher Surgical Training Programme as a Specialist Registrar in general surgery in 2001. At present he is working towards an MD thesis in the Wound Healing Research Unit in Cardiff. He has a keen interest in medical education demonstrating in anatomy and giving undergraduate lectures. He has recently completed the second edition of a popular undergraduate textbook Crash Course in Surgery. At the postgraduate level he has been involved in the organisation of the MRCS (England and Edinburgh) clinical examinations.
Mr Stuart Enoch, MBBS, MRCSEd, MRCS (Eng)
Stuart Enoch is currently a PhD Research Fellow in Surgery (Wound Healing) in the Wound Healing Research Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff. Mr. Enoch completed his Basic Surgical Training Rotation from the University Hospitals of South Manchester and obtained memberships (MRCS) from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He has also completed an MSc in Medical Sciences course from the University of Liverpool. Mr Enoch is a tutor in the Intercollegiate Basic Surgical Skills Course. He has published original papers and review articles in various scientific journals including the British Journal of Surgery and the European Journal of Plastic Surgery. He has presented papers to the Society of Academic and Research Surgeons, British Association of Plastic Surgeons, World Congress of International Union of Phlebologists, and The Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. He was awarded the joint first prize for best oral presentation at the British Burn Association annual meeting (2003). Mr Enoch's research interests are in scarring versus scarless healing, and he will be pursuing an academic surgical career in Burns and Plastic Surgery after obtaining his PhD.
Miss Sarah Farmer BSc(Hons) MB BCh(Hons) MRCS DO-HNS
Miss Sarah Farmer is a Specialist Registrar on the All Wales Higher Surgical Training Programme in Otolaryngology. She graduated from the University of Wales, College of Medicine in Cardiff in 2001 obtaining MB BCh with Honours and a First Class Honours degree in Pharmacology. She has worked as a demonstrator in anatomy and has a genuine interest in medical education. She has experience of full-time research having recently taken a year out of clinical work to complete an M.Phil. at the renowned Common Cold Centre in Cardiff. Her research interests include the use of electrosurgery, inferior turbinate enlargement and the objective measurement of nasal obstruction.
Anaesthetics
Dr Jeff Tong, MB ChB, FRCA
Editor and tutor of the Primary FRCA anaesthesia section of onexamination.com. Qualified from the University of Birmingham in 1991. Spent 2 years in primary healthcare before completing anaesthetic training in: South West Thames, Belfast, Bristol, Oxford, London and Birmingham. Appointed in 2000 as an Associate Professor (visiting instructor) in anesthesia at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, and has been a Consultant anaesthetist at the University Hospital Birmingham (Royal Centre for Defence Medicine) since April 2002. Research interests include fibreoptic intubation and his clinical interests are endocrine and vascular anaesthesia.
Dr Simon Burnell, BSc, MB BCh, FRCA
Qualified from the University of Wales College of Medicine (UWCM) in 1996. Appointed as an SpR on the West Midlands (Birmingham School) rotation in 2001. Involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and is coordinator of the 2004 Primary FRCA OSCE practice for the Birmingham School of Anaesthesia.
Dr. Egidio Joseph da Silva, MB ChB, D.A (Zim), FRCA
Qualified from the University of Zimbabwe in 1995. Is a Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive care on the West Midlands (Birmingham School) rotation. He is currently involved in teaching medical students and candidates for the Primary FRCA, and organising practice exams for both the Primary and Final FRCA examinations. Academic interests include laryngeal mask airways and thoracic paravertebral blocks. Clinical interests include neuroanaesthesia and critical care.
Dr John Clift, MB ChB, FRCA
Qualified at Leeds University in 1989. My registrar training in anaesthesia was on the Birmingham Specialist Registrar training programme. At present I am a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at City Hospital, Birmingham. I am also Lead Obstetric Anaesthetist.
Katie Clift, MB ChB, MRCS, FRCA
Qualified at Birmingham University in 1996. I completed Basic Surgical Training prior to training in anaesthetics. At present I am a Specialist Registrar in the Birmingham School of anaesthesia. I have considerable personal experience of postgraduate exams and take an active role helping candidates to prepare for them.
Dr Julia Ely, MB ChB, FRCA
Graduated from Birmingham University Medical School. Has recently completed her SpR training in anaesthesia in the West Midlands and a Clinical Research Fellowship in Paediatric Anaesthesia at Birmingham Children's Hospital. Her research interests include paediatric epidural anaesthesia.
Dr Mark Barley BMedSci, BM BS, MRCP
Qualified from the University of Nottingham in 1999, and completed MRCP before joining the Nottingham Anaesthesia Rotation and passing the Primary FRCA. My academic interests include Critical Care, and undergraduate medical education. I plan to complete the dual CCT in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine.
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Mr Gareth Edwards MBBS MRCOG
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the Royal Gwent and Caerphilly Hospitals. Gareth has extensive experience in MRCOG and DRCOG teaching, organises the successful and established Newport MRCOG course and is a tutor for the Cardiff DRCOG course. He is also the programme and educational organiser of the Welsh Obstetrics and Gynaecology Society. Specialist interests include web-based learning and female incontinence.
Mr Sean Watermeyer BSc(Hons) DRCOG MRCGP MRCOG MD
Obtained a First Class honours degree in Genetics at the University College of Swansea in 1985 before going onto to do Medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine, obtaining an MBBCh in 1990. He worked as GP for a time before retraining in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and is currently applying for a NHS consultant post. He has completed an MD in transvaginal power Doppler ultrasound and has wide ranging research interests and publications.
Mr K. Bahl MBBCh MRCOG
Mr Bahl is a consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Cardiff and the Vale NHS Trust. He has extensive experience in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level and is involved in the successful Cardiff MRCOG course. Extensivly published in the field with specialist areas of interest including Medical Obstetrics and Urodynamics.
General Practice
Dr Geraint Preest BSc(Hons) MB BCh DRCOG MRCGP (Primary Care editor)
Geraint completed a degree at University College Cardiff in Pharmacology prior to studying medicine at University of Wales College of Medicine as a postgraduate. He completed house jobs with Prof Mansel and Prof JD Williams then Bridgend Vocational Training Scheme. He is now a Principal at Pencoed and Llanharan Medical centres. He frequently writes articles on General Practice and the Internet for the medical press. He is "Mr Web Man" for pencoedmedical and Bridgend VTS and won the GP/NHSnet Progress Achievement award 2003 for the general practice websites.
Dr Bob Mortimer
Bob has been a GP for 17 years, a GP Trainer for 10, and has been a member of the Panel of Examiners for the MRCGP for 10 years. Together with colleague Keith Richards he has run the popular Swansea MRCGP Course for 10 years.
Dr Chris Price MRCGP Dip Med Ed
Qualified from University of Wales College of Medicine (UWCM) in 1985. He is a GP in Cwmbran Gwent and a director of Tripdatabase Ltd. His interests include medical education, evidence based medicine and electronic access to quality (as opposed to quantity) medical information.
Psychiatry
Dr Mike Dilley BSc MB BS MRCPsych
Mike is a Consultant Psychiatrist at The West End Community Mental Health Team and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London. After medical training at King's College and a First in the History of Medicine at UCL, he completed his specialist training at The Maudsley Hospital and National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square. He continues to provide honorary sessions at Queen Square in the Department of Neuropsychiatry, having a special/research interest in conversion disorders and epilepsy. He regularly teaches undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as routinely lecturing on a popular MRCPsych revision course.
Dr Julian Stern BA MB ChB FRCPsych
Julian Stern is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at St Mark's Hospital in Harrow having trained for 8 years at the Maudsley Hospital. He previously organised, for over a decade, the popular BBR Revision Courses in Psychiatry. He has taught and written widely, and has published in the fields of psychotherapy, psychosomatics as well as co-editing the popular Core Psychiatry (2nd Edition) textbook.
Dr Emma Janes
Dr Emma Janes completed her Basic Specialist Training in Psychiatry in Belfast, and is currently training as a Specialist Registrar in Psychotherapy at the Maudsley Hospital, London. She has recently been accepted to train at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. She presently sits on the Conference Organising Committee of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the NHS and has recently been co-opted to represent Specialist Registrars in the London division of the Collegiate Trainees Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. In her current post, Dr Janes has teaching commitments which include psychotherapy teaching on an MRCPsych course, and in house teaching and supervision of SHOs as part of their psychotherapy experience in the Bethlem & Maudsley rotation. She also works as a role play facilitator in the teaching of communication skills to undergraduate medical, dental, physiotherapy and nursing students at Guys Hospital.
Tennyson Lee MRCPsych FFCH (SA)
Tennyson Lee is a specialist registrar in psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Maudsley Hospital. He previously trained in public health in South Africa. His present research interest is in personality disorder and the application of psychodynamic thinking in psychiatry. He has taught on a number of different MRCPsych courses.
Dr Seth A. Mensah MB ChB MSc DPM MRCPsych
Seth is a Staff Grade Neuropsychiatrist at the Academic department of Neuropsychiatry, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff, Wales. He qualified from the University of Ghana Medical School in 1994 and trained as a psychiatrist in South Wales. His special interest areas are the psychiatric aspects of epilepsy and has published in this area as well as the neuropsychiatric sequelae of acquired brain injury. He is actively involved in MRCPsych examination teaching.
Dental Exams
Liz Hooper
Originally qualified as a Dental Surgery Assistant in 1969, Liz has a wealth of experience and a keen interest in teaching and assessing in which she is involved at both local and National level. An Examiner for the National Examining Board for Dental Nurses since 1981, Liz is involved in examining for the National Examination and the Post qualification Certificate in Oral Health Education. She is also a marker for the NVQ Level 3 Oral Health Care: Dental Nursing Independent Assessment.
Based at University Dental Hospital - Cardiff, Liz is part of the Dental Nurse Training Team in her post of Senior Dental Nurse / Trainer and Appraiser. Liz is also the Organiser / Tutor responsible for a local Dental Nurse evening training course and is also a Tutor for an Open Learning Dental Nurse training programm.
Lucy Reed
Lucy trained as a dental nurse at The London Hospital, Whitechapel in 1988 and completed her certificate in Oral Health Education in 1991. She has worked as a DSA in Hospital, Community and GDP and qualified as a Dental Hygienist at Cardiff Dental School in 1992. She has worked extensively in GDP both for the NHS and currently part-time in Private practice. Her main interest is preventative dentistry and the care of nervous patients!
International Exams
Dr Abtan AL-Talafeh MB ChB MD
Dr Al-Talafeh qualified from Basra University, Iraq in 1990. He is a Major in the Jordanian army and achieved his MD from the Jordanian Board of Internal Medicine in 1996. His special interests include medical education and gasteroenterology.
Dr Mukesh Jaradi MD
Editor and tutor of the DNB Primary section of onexamination.com. He is currently a Staff Grade at Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend.
Dr Sujit Battacharya DM MRCP
Editor and tutor of the DNB Primary section of onexamination.com. He is currently a Specialist Registrar in Endocrinology at University Hospital of Wales.
Radiology
Dr Allan C. Andi BSc(Hons) MB ChB MRCS (Ed)
Allan is a Specialist Registrar in Clinical Radiology at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Working as an anatomy demonstrator and throughout his Basic Surgical Training at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust he developed a genuine interest in undergraduate and postgraduate education. He has since organised and taken active participation in undergraduate Radiology educational seminars with medical students at Leicester, GKT and Brighton & Sussex Medical Schools.
Proficient in web informatics development, design and implementation he resides on a number of strategic committees (Regional Committee Head - London Deanery, The British Journal of Hospital Medicine; Young Fellow's Senior Committee Member, The Royal Society of Medicine); has provided consultancy with online technologies (BMJ Learning Multimedia, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Streaming Digital Video); and currently holds online administrator and editorial roles with The Radiology Integrated Training Initiative (www.riti.org.uk) and Hospital Doctor.
Clinical interests include gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal imaging and interventional Radiology.
Mr David Gallacher BSc MPhil CPhys MInstP
David is a Consultant Medical Physicist with twenty years experience in the areas of diagnostic radiology physics, radiation protection and radiotherapy physics. He has acted as the tutor and local co-ordinator for the Royal College of Radiologists Part 1 tutorials at Guys and St Thomas’ for several years, and has taught groups of FRCR Part 1 candidates separately and on a one-to-one bases over the years.
David acts as a Radiation Protection Adviser and a Medical Physics Expert under the IR(ME)R Regulations. Co-author of the popular book ‘MCQs for the FRCR Part 1’ he has brought his vast knowledge and experience to develop the new online resource.
Dr Dhiren Shah MA (Cantab) MRCS (Eng)
Dhiren qualified from Cambridge University in 1999 with a first class honours degree whilst completing a research project in cognitive neuropsychology as a component of his Part II (Neuroscience) course. In 2002 he qualified with distinction from St George’s Hospital, University of London.
At medical school he was privileged to have received numerous prizes including the Robinson College Prize in Medicine 1997, St George’s Cordiner Radiological Award 2001, Royal College of Radiologists Elective Prize 2001, University of London Convocation Trust Award 2001 and St George’s Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Prize 2002. In 2004 he was anatomy demonstrator to medical, dental, physiotherapy, biomedical and osteopath students at King’s College London, the largest anatomy department in the UK, and has maintained interest in teaching anatomy to medical students and junior surgical trainees. His training in Surgery in London and Bristol culminated in the award of Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2006.
He has produced publications in anatomy, urology and breast surgery. These have often led to presentations that include the 5th World Congress of Urological Research, London, 2003; Winter Meeting of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists, Newcastle, 2004 and San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, USA, 2005.
Dhiren is a Specialist Registrar in Clinical Radiology based at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London. His clinical interests include Interventional, Cardiac, Musculoskeletal and Neuroradiology. He is presently involved in a new initiative at Eastbourne Hospital educating Brighton and King’s College medical students in basic interpretation skills and developing assessment e-Learning clinical cases.