Keynote Speaker
Kate Morrissey
Kate is the lead for the National Implementation of care after custody services - RECONNECT and Enhanced RECONNECT services. She is also the National Lead for Immigration Removal Centre Health in England. With significant experience in the commissioning and performance management of high-value Public Health and NHS contracts. This is in the community, within prison and immigration removal settings. She has also set up and delivered the Inclusive Workforce Programme for NHS England.
Kate has vast experience, over the past 10 years having worked and volunteered in Emergency Care, as both a CQC manager within a private ambulance service as well as a working frontline shifts for South East Coast Ambulance Service. She is a Panel Member of Health Practice Associates UK, a registration body for health professionals, and has responsibility for Quality Assurance..
She has also been the regional lead for Patient and Public Voice in Secure settings within the South- East, championing the views of service users and ensuring that they are involved in the development of services.
Kate has delivered a TEDxNHS talk on rehabilitation - https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_morrissey_do_we_truly_believe_in_rehabilitation and for the past two years has been the Co-Organiser of the TEDxNHS events.
Guest Speaker
Abbie Robinson
Abbie has been competing for the GB Para-climbing Team for 6 years, picking up ten international gold medals and four consecutive world championship titles for the B2 (visually impaired) category.
Abbie was diagnosed with Stargardt Macular Dystrophy at age 17, but has not let this get in the way of her passion for adventure, whether that be climbing, mountain biking or open water swimming.
She is also a qualified coach and sport psychology student, interested in the mental skills required for elite performance and the lessons we can all learn from sport to apply to everyday life.
Workshop Speakers
Dr Emily Langford
Dr Emily Langford is a Clinical Leadership Fellow (with the FLP) based at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, alongside working as an Anaesthetic Registrar within West Yorkshire and being an IDEALS module facilitator for medical students at the University of Leeds. She has a passion for education and workforce development - strongly believing that the NHS workforce is key to outstanding patient care. Consequently, she is part way through completing a Masters in Clinical Education at Queens University, Belfast and gaining an Accreditation in Coaching with the Association for Coaching.
Her main aim is to improve healthcare culture, focusing on improving collaboration, personal wellbeing and compassionate relationships. She aims to inspire others by providing 1:1 mentoring/coaching sessions and delivering educational events (lectures, workshops, conference talks) on building a positive culture and engaging workforce across Yorkshire.
Mr Waqas Din
Mr Waqas Din is an ST6 Otolaryngology surgical registrar in Yorkshire and Humber and 2022/23 Fellow to the NHS England Future Leaders Programme. He is currently the Yorkshire and Humber Trainee Executive Forum Quality Lead. As part of this role he looks to provide support and guidance to medical trainees in the region in improving their training experience. Alongside this, He is the Association of Otolaryngologist in Training (AOT) national secretary.
Waqas' personal interests lie in improving the workplace culture in Medicine and Surgery and to make it a more cohesive, compassionate and kind environment. He is undertaking a project looking at how enhanced modern leadership methods can improve staff well-being and patient outcomes.
He also provides training, lectures, conference talks and workshops on compassionate leadership, developing a positive workplace culture and improving communication on a regional and national scale at undergraduate and postgraduate level for doctors, nurses and physicians associates in training, post-CCT doctors and non-clinical hospital staff.
He is also the host of the podcast Defining your Success', in which he interviews a host of distinguished guest speakers, seeking to explore a wide range of possible responses to the question: 'What is success?'
Dr Kitty Summers
Kitty is a Future Leaders Programme (FLP) alumnus, and managed to span this over 2 years with a year of maternity leave thrown in! She is now working clinically as a Clinical Oncology Registrar alongside being Chief Registrar at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, which has been a great opportunity to build and develop all her learning from the FLP. Kitty's interests include medical education and junior doctor engagement. She really enjoys facilitating the ‘Creating Value within your Teams’ workshop and she think it’s so important to recognise the positive impact that psychological safety and collaborative culture has on both staff morale and patient safety.
Mrs Emma Duffy
After enjoying 12 years working as a children’s cardiac nurse with the latter half as a cardiac nurse specialist, Emma successfully applied to the NHSE Future Leaders Programme, where she was able to develop my leadership skills further by leading on a variety of projects and spend time reflecting on her core values, compassionate leadership and inclusion. Aligning with her desire to tackle health inequalities and passion for service development, Emma is now enjoying a project manager role within the WY&H Cancer Alliance. Within this role she has also developed and lead an imposter syndrome and resilience forum with the WY&H ICB Women’s network.
Professor Sujesh Bansal
Professor Sujesh Bansal is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and MAHSC Honorary Clinical Professor at Manchester. He has a busy educational portfolio and is the Director of Manchester International Fellowship Scheme, a multi-speciality scheme and is also Associate Director of Medical Education for the Trust with remit of about 800 Locally Employed Doctors in the Trust.
He has specific interest in induction, supervision, support and career progression of overseas doctors and LEDs. He is regularly invited all over the UK to train Educational Supervisors in the field of ‘Supporting and Supervising International Doctors’. He is one of the collaborators for the national guidance document ‘Welcoming and Valuing International Medical Graduates: A guide to induction for IMGs recruited to the NHS’ which was launched nationally in June 2022.
Sujesh is member of AoMRC's MTI Steering Group, NHSE_WTE IMG Wellbeing Steering Group and sits in the council of MedEdLeaders-UK.
Mia Ali
Having worked for 15 years at a senior level in humanitarian aid crises, creating a successful business and dealing with a pile of personal challenges (burnout, infertility, bereavement, serious health issues, divorce), Mia has become good - REALLY good - at thriving when the sh*t hits the fan.
She creates safe spaces for successful professionals working in high stress environments, in which they can be their true selves and get vulnerable about their challenges. She helps them to meet those challenges and get better prepared for the next one (there's always a next one...), while creating space for the things that are truly important to them.
Dr Tim Williams MB ChB, DTM&H, MRCGP
Qualifying as a doctor from Sheffield University in 1996, Tim has been a GP for over 20 years. Alongside an interest in pain management, he also developed skills in NLP and Coaching which he has used within and alongside his work, in primary care. He has trained as a Time to Think Coach, Coach Supervisor and Meetings Facilitator and his portfolio of work includes the coaching and education of doctors in training through the SY&H Post Graduate Deanery and especially, GP Trailblazers and Leadership Fellows.
As one of the clinical directors of Peak Health Coaching, his current work is training health, social and community care professionals in personalised care with an emphasis on health coaching. He believes that a coaching mindset and accompanying skills are some of the approaches needed for a healthier population together with an energised and thriving NHS workforce.
He is passionate about teaching and creating environments where individuals, teams and organisations can think brilliantly and find the best solutions.
The Yorkshire and Humber (YH) Trainee Forum
The YH Trainee Forum is run by our executive committee (TEF - Trainee Executive Forum)
The TEF is composed of 14 doctors and dentists in training to represent the 7000+ doctors and dentists in training over the whole of Yorkshire & The Humber (YH)
The YH Trainee Forum is your Forum to...
- Have face-to-face contact with the leadership team at the Deanery including Jon Cooper, Postgraduate Dean.
- Learn more about the different members of the team by clicking here
- Have a two-way conversations about your 'on the ground' training experience share your ideas to help create meaningful change for training.
- Discuss what is important to you, in a safe space with people who care about your training experience and wellbeing.
https://www.yorksandhumberdeanery.nhs.uk/medical_and_dental_training/trainee-forum-yh
Dr Rammina Yassaie
Rammina is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership at the Centre for Leadership in Health and Social Care at Sheffield Hallam University. Prior to this, she worked as an NHS doctor for over a decade and is alumni of both the Yorkshire and Humber Future Leaders Programme and the FMLM NHS Regional Clinical Leadership Programme.
She is an editorial fellow with BMJ Leader, curating the BMJ Leader Greener Leader blog series in light of her passion for leading for planetary health. She enjoys exploring ways to make leadership learning creative and accessible for all, and strongly believes in leading with and for humanity, whilst cultivating leaders who do the same.
