Tomorrow's surgeons

Simon is a London-based Trauma and Orthopaedic registrar. He is a co-chair for the International Conference in Residency Education (ICRE), on the advisory board for the NIHR Clinical Education Incubator, Associate Editor for Medical Education and The Clinical Teacher and a PhD candidate in Medical Education at Barts & The London Medical School. He is also past Vice-Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Trainee Doctors’ Group (ATDG) and a Past President of the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association (BOTA).

While passionate about Orthopaedics, surgical training and mentoring future surgeons, he has special interests in hand surgery, competency decisions and combating bullying, undermining, harassment and the lack of diversity and equity in healthcare, through the award-winning #HammerItOut and #CutItOut campaigns, on which he has delivered a TEDx talk and spoken internationally.

He undoes all the good work he does in the gym with a love of great food and tries to change the world in his spare time

Martha completed her medical training in an EU recognised medical school, and both her foundation and core surgical training years in London. She was competitively selected as the first-ever clinical translational research fellow in breast cancer surgery and is currently in the third year of her PhD at Imperial College London.

In collaboration with the Hamlyn Centre for Surgical Robotics, she is studying Fluorescence Guided Breast Conserving Surgery, and how this can positively impact the prevalent issue of positive margins and re-operative rates. She has been invited to speak at both clinical and technical conferences worldwide, and her work within this remit has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Annals of Surgical Oncology and the Journal of Physics.

Furthermore, she has been featured on podcasts, science cafés, and has won various competitions and grants in support of this pivotal research. In addition to this, Martha is also the Chief Medical Officer of AI-healthcare start-up Third Eye Intelligence. The company’s aims are to use AI to predict organ failure and mortality in critically unwell patients, with plans to expand its evolutionary algorithm to applications in disease mapping and prognostication, costings, and service overhaul.

Lastly, Martha assists in teaching the next generation of healthcare innovators in the Healthcare design MSc run jointly by Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. It is here that her artistic skill and knowledge of healthcare are used to guide those looking to redesign healthcare as we know it. 

Dr Amalina Bakri is a Clinical Research Fellow at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London. She moved to the UK at the age of 17 after receiving a prestigious scholarship from the Central Bank of Malaysia to pursue her studies in the UK.

Dr Bakri graduated as a medical doctor from Edinburgh Medical School, The University of Edinburgh in 2013 where she also intercalated in BMedSc Pharmacology with ERASMUS exchange at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She did a sub-internship at Harvard Medical School, USA followed by a foundation year training (FY1-FY2) in Cambridge. She also completed her Master's in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics from the University of Cambridge during her foundation years.

She moved to London to do her surgical training in North West and North Central/East London Deanery. She won a Clinical Research Fellowship with Prof Lord Ara Darzi at Imperial College London and is currently doing a PhD in surgical innovation and breast cancer using wearable activity monitors in order to improve patient outcomes. She is supervised by Prof Lord Ara Darzi, Mr Daniel Leff and Mr Richard Kwasnicki. Additionally, she is an academic supervisor for BSc and MEng students at Imperial College London. She presented her research projects at many international conferences including the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS), the Miami Breast Cancer Conference and the American Society of Breast Surgeons Conference. Aside from her academic and clinical work, she is also passionate about public health education and medical teaching as well as empowering women. She has over 1 million followers across Instagram and Twitter where she regularly shares educational posts and does interactive teaching sessions with her followers. She had received multiple awards including the Inspirational Youth Award from the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Malaysia, 40 under 40 by Prestige Malaysia and was recently nominated for the “Women of the Future Award” in South East Asia.