The Future of Medicine – Innovation, Ethics, & Impact
Wednesday 26 November 7pm – 9.30pm
St Thomas’ Hospital

In collaboration with The Wright Society for young medics, and supported by the Old Caterhamians’ Association.

Step into the future of healthcare and discover how technology is reshaping the world of medicine. From AI-assisted surgery to data-driven diagnostics, this event explores how innovation is transforming patient care and the ethical questions that come with it.

Join us to uncover how the role of medics is evolving in this new era, and how you can prepare to be part of it. Don’t miss out, secure your place early and get ahead in understanding the future of medicine.

Our Guest Speakers feature:

Dr Suneil Ramessur, MBBS, BSc(hons), FRCA, DipHEP, FFPMRCA
Dr Ramessur has been a consultant anaesthetist at Guys & St Thomas’ since 2012 and was appointed as the deputy clinical lead to theatres, anaesthetics and perioperative medicine in 2021. The directorate oversees over 60,000 anaesthetic procedures per year with over 800 members of staff. He has a diploma from the Health Protection Agency & Cabinet Office in Emergency Health Care Planning and was on the COVID tactical team at Guys & St Thomas.

He is a member of the GSTT sedation committee and has previously sat on the Anaesthetic committee of the Royal Society of Medicine and on the conscious sedation committee at the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

He is also currently the Inpatient Pain lead where his team are developing artificial intelligence algorithms to assist in the management of pain. He lectures on pain at Kings College Medical School.

He has published peer reviewed articles across a range of topics including a series on COVID safety with computer engineers at Formula 1.

Professor Nicholas Hart, MB BS BSc MRCP PhD FFICM FERS
Professor Hart was appointed as Deputy Medical Director of the Heart, Lung and Critical Care Clinical Group at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in May 2022.  This follows his role as Clinical Director of Sleep, Respiratory and Critical Care from February 2020 in which he directed the critical care response to the COVID-19 pandemic with 1297 patients admitted to the critical care with an overall critical care survival of 76% since March 2^nd 2020, including the previous Prime Minister.  From 2012 to 2020, he was Head of the Lane Fox Respiratory Service, which is an internationally recognised clinical-academic weaning, rehabilitation and home mechanical ventilation service, which currently houses the largest weaning and rehabilitation unit in the UK and supports over 2700 patients with chronic respiratory failure.  From 2015 to 2022, he was Joint Editor-in-Chief of Thorax with the impact factor increasing to above 10.

In 2021 he awarded Fellowship of the European Respiratory Society and in 2022 he was awarded the British Thoracic Society Meritorious Service Award.  Professor Hart is R&D Director of Delivery at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and he established the Lane Fox Clinical Respiratory Physiology Research Centre in 2007 with his own research group focused on reducing hospital admission in COPD and enhancing outcome in chronic respiratory failure and sleep disordered breathing.  Professor Hart has an H-index of 55 and he is currently Co-Lead of the King’s Health Partners Respiratory & Allergy Clinical-Academic Group.

Dr Karthiga Gengatharan
GP and Medical Director for Surrey and Sussex Local Medical Committees (SSLMCs), where she represents Kingston & Richmond and East Elmbridge, and is currently providing interim cover in the Croydon area. She is the founder and facilitator of SSLMCs’ Maternity and Parental Leave Workshops, which offer vital support to clinicians navigating the transition back to work after parental leave.

Dr Hannah Wright
Dr. Hannah Wright is a GP Registrar in Reading. She left Caterham School in 2010 to study Medicine at the University of Oxford, before completing Foundation Training and Core Medical Training in London. Subsequently, she spent a year as a National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow where her work focused on driving Quality Improvement in healthcare. Hannah then spent a year as a Clinical Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London, on their novel ‘Lifestyle Medicine and Prevention’ course. Her interests include Medical Education, Preventative Medicine and Quality Improvement.  She has recently returned back to work after having her first child and learning to balance GP work and motherhood!

Simon Miles
Simon is the Chief Operating Officer of Health Partners Group Ltd, the UK’s leading occupational health company and has worked this field for almost twenty years. Health Partners delivers multi-disciplinary clinical support to three million employees at some of the UK’s largest corporate and public sector clients, employing nine hundred clinicans, including forty at Consultant level, the largest group of Consultants in this field of medicine in the UK. Simon helped found Health Partners in 2016 and it has grown rapidly since then, winning Sunday Times Hundred Fastest Growing Private Company Awards in 2022 and 2023. Simon’s role encompasses the delivery of all clinical services and relationship management to clients and he has also led the successful blending of three competitor businesses with existing teams and the development of specialist mental health, neurodiversity and rehabilitation services. Health Partners recently received a major investment from a world leading private equity firm specialising in the development of healthcare and technology companies. Simon attended both Caterham Preparatory and Caterham School, leaving in 1986. Following a degree in International Relations at Keele University he had a career as an Army Officer serving in the UK, Africa, USA and Hong Kong. On leaving the Army Simon worked in the City supporting investment banking clients develop their structured product team development.

Dr Doreen Attard
Dr Attard is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist with expertise in Adult Forensic Mental Health. She is the Responsible Clinician on Saltwood Ward, the Adult Male Low Secure (LSU) service at Cygnet Hospital Maidstone. Dr Attard joined Cygnet Health Care in February 2017 and has been based at Cygnet Maidstone since December 2018, appointed as the site Medical Director in June 2020. She is also the Regional Medical Director for the Central South Region. Dr Attard completed her medical degree training in Malta, and then moved to the UK in 2003 to embark onto her psychiatric training. She achieved her core and senior psychiatric qualifications within the South West London and St Georges training scheme. She has significant experience in working within various different specialties and levels of security within forensic mental health, as well as within the criminal justice system and prisons. Over the years, she has worked both within the NHS and the independent sector. Dr Attard has been involved in various service development projects within the general adult services, as well as male and female forensic services, and has significant training and experience in management. Dr Attard has a special interest in medicolegal practice and a passion for mental health law, as well as other areas of law in general. She has significant experience in conducting expert witness reports for the Courts, as well as independent reports for defense and prosecution cases. She holds a Masters Degree with Commendation in Mental Health Law, a Bachelors Degree in Law, as well as a Masters Degree in Medical Law and Ethics.

Dr James Ovens
Dr Ovens is a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist, currently working as a Responsible Clinician within the in-patient acute services at Priory Dorking.  He joined this service earlier this year, following a period of time working within other independent sectors, and many years within the National Health Service (NHS).

Dr Ovens completed his medical degree training with the St George’s Medical School in London, and a few years later embarked onto his core psychiatry training posts at South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust.  He gained experience in general adult, child and adolescent psychiatry, old age and substance misuse specialties.

Dr Ovens achieved his senior training at East London Mental Health Services and has been practicing as a consultant since 2010.   A huge part of his career as a general adult psychiatrist so far has been within the Community Mental Health Recovery Service in Tandridge, where he spent over 10 years and was deemed to be an esteemed community psychiatrist, very well loved and respected by colleagues, staff and patients.  To this effect, Dr Ovens was awarded a bronze award in February 2019, for his kind and approachable manner, as well as his exceptional support to people using the service.

Over the most recent years, Dr Ovens has worked within in-patient acute independent service and as a Section 12 approved doctor under the MHA, he has ample experience in conducting mental health assessments.

When not working – and weather permitting – Dr Ovens would be mostly found on a cricket field, practicing the game he feels so passionate about!

Dr Sara Ko

Plus more from a range of medical professions.

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