The Lady Estelle Wolfson: Advancing women in healthcare leadership conference

Since 1991, Lady Wolfson has, with her late husband, Lord Wolfson, been one of UK's leading philanthropists. Lady Wolfson is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, King's College, London, University College, London, the Ashmolean, Oxford, Imperial College, London and the Royal Albert Hall and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 2018.

Lady Wolfson is Patron of the Royal College of Surgeons, a Member of Cancer Research UK and has held trusteeships at the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Global eHealth Foundation and was a member of the Lord Major's Appeal Committee, The Red Cross International & Scientific Committee and the Campaign for Institute of Physics, Chair of the Committee for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

Lady Wolfson is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company Apothecaries, Honorary President of Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem and was awarded Freedom of City of London in 2013.

Professor Bowden-Jones is President of the RSM’s Psychiatry Section. A medical doctor and neuroscience researcher, she works as a consultant psychiatrist in addictions. She is the founder and clinical lead of two NHS national clinics in the UK. She is the Immediate Past President of the Medical Women’s Federation and a regular host of the RSM’s In Conversation Live series, interviewing high profile guests in the field of politics, technology, human rights and education. In her academic role she is Honorary Professor at UCL’s Faculty of Brain Sciences and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at Cambridge University.

Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Education, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. Honorary Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Barts & The London NHS Trust, Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust.

Her interests turned to education and she now teaches, lectures and examines for MBBS and postgraduate degrees in this country and many countries abroad on a regular basis. She developed the only MSc in Gastroenterology in the UK. 

She was a founding Non-Executive Director of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, at its inception and Chairman of the Medicines Commission UK. She was Vice President for the Royal College of Physicians and President of the British Medical Association. She was also Director of CPD and Assistant Director for International Education for the RCP and Chair of the BMJ eLearning committee. Currently, she is Chairman of BUPA Foundation Charity for Research, Trustee of many other charities and President of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Simon Fleming is a trainee Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon based in London who has a national, and growing international reputation, for his campaigning work to drive up standards in medical education and drive out bullying in the NHS and other healthcare organisations.

Jane trained as a doctor at UCH Medical School, qualifying in 1980. She undertook her postgraduate clinical training in General Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. She has recognised expertise in the scholarship of assessment, and has been instrumental in the development, implementation and evaluation of several undergraduate and postgraduate assessment systems in medicine.

Jane has a broad interest in all aspects of the performance of doctors. Recently this has included an evaluation of the effects of gender and ethnicity on the career trajectories, and performance of women and BME doctors.

She was Women in the City Woman of Achievement in medicine and healthcare in 2012, and was in the inaugural HSJ list if inspirational women in healthcare in 2013. In 2014 she was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians. The third female president in its 500 year history.

Dr Ebere Okereke is a public health physician specialising in global health security and health system strengthening. She has won awards for her work promoting women and under-represented groups in public health leadership, recognised by the British Medical Association as a role model for women in academic medicine, and by the UK Government Science and Engineering Profession as an Inspirational leader in Science and Engineering.

Ebere is currently a Senior Technical Adviser at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and honorary Senior Public Health Adviser to Africa CDC. She is co-leading the Africa CDC-led Partnership for African Vaccine Manufacturing

Ebere is currently on a career break from UK Health Security Agency where she led the UK-aid funded IHR strengthening project; a technical assistance project aimed at sustainably strengthening public health systems. The project works in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Zambia, Pakistan and with Africa CDC and WHO.

Ebere is a graduate of the University of Nigeria College of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health and of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Executive Leadership Programme, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House , and a foundational Faculty and Steering Committee member of the Africa CDC Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Programme