MB ChB
Associate Dean
23 years
Early cohorts at WMS - many are now consultant collegues. Pic not great quality - but is cohort 1 in temporary (portakabin) teaching space at the old Walsgrave Hospital. The student on the right (white T shirt) is Debborah Hilton - a well established paediatric consultant and collegue at UHCW
Health Innovation, Registrar's Business Group
Director, Health Innovation
I don't work at WMS - University for 30 years
I am probably one of the very few UoW staff remaining who was involved directly in the formation of the Leicester Warwick Medical School, as it was initially called. It was my job to provide HR expertise during its formation and bring the existing staff from different centres/departments across the University into the new entity. I worked with the DVC, Stuart Palmer, to recruit the senior team and a number of early Professors, including Sudhesh (to whom I now report in his VP role, 20+ years later)! My most vivid memories of WMS in its early years are of working with Yvonne Carter, the first Warwick-based Dean; she was a force of nature, huge fun to work with and was an inspiration to all around her, especially as she continued to work alongside her cancer treatment. It has been a pleasure to watch the School develop and grow over the last 25 years, and I am delighted to be working so closely with many WMS colleagues again in my current role.
Phase II Team
Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow
3 years
I remember graduating from Warwick MBChB in 2011. I was given a small brown envelope which I had been asked to fill in on my first week at WMS. Inside it I needed to write a message to myself which I would then read just prior to Final Professional Examinations. When I received the envelope I had completely forgotten all about it and what was in it. I'll never forget the day I opened it though. Inside I had written 'Happiness is a choice. Remember how much they is to be happy about. You can do anything if you put your mind to it! Anything!'. It really gave me a final boost to revise for those final exams and I thought it was a brilliant exercise for Warwick to do. Now I teach at WMS and work as Academic lead for CCE in Phase II. It's been an amazing journey from that first acceptance letter to Warwick (another day I'll never forget- and I still have it) to now standing behind the desk in the main lecture theatre and being the one lucky enough to teach our students!
