Professor Judith Ibison trained in medicine at Cambridge and the Royal London Hospital. After postgraduate training as a General Practitioner in Tower Hamlets, London, she has developed a portfolio career blending clinical work in general practice with clinical research, public health and latterly educational research..
She is currently Head for Primary Care @SGUL, representing the interests of academic primary care at St George's internally and externally and overseeing primary care education for medical undergraduates and GP Academic Clinical Fellows. She is Secretary to the Society of Academic Primary Care Head of Departments Group. She is a GP in Lambeth, London.
Academic Qualifications
MA (Cantab)
MBBS (University of London)
MRCGP (Distinction)
DRCOG
DCH
MSc Epidemiology
Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy
Biography
After postgraduate training, Judith Ibison worked as a GP in Hackney, completed an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She subsequently combined clinical work with a Lecturer post in epidemiology, public health training until appointment to clinical lecturer role in primary care at St George's, becoming Professor of Practice in 2022.
Since 1993 she has been working in Lambeth, London, as a GP.
Academic roles at SGUL have included professionalism teaching and assessment development, Deputy Dean for Students, with collaborators in 2016 gained national funding and developed peer led sexual consent and bystander training for new students. Recent roles have been Deputy Course Director for Medicine and Course Director for the International MBBS programme, prior to being appointed Primary Care Education lead.
Academic scholarship interests include educational innovations on quality improvement, leadership and management, patient cohort handover.
Externally she has enjoyed appointments as External Examiner for external MBBS programmes, a panellist for Fitness to Practise investigations. She chaired the Board of a social enterprise providing talking therapies Compass Wellbeing and is a clinical advisor to the Charity 'Verity' which promotes the wellbeing of women with polycystic ovaries.
She is a keen hiker, reader and swimmer.
Dr Ibison has been involved in research throughout her portfolio career using epidemiological methodology and qualitative approaches, collaborating with SGUL principal investigator Mrs Sally Kerry and colleagues on studies relating to a trial of home blood pressure monitoring in stroke patients, and colleagues in PHRI on the Pace-Up study of physical activity using pedometers and structured support to increase physical activity levels in older people.
Her current research is educational in focus, currently looking at leadership skill acquisition developing effective online teaching, and improving effective teaching of handover.
Dr Ibison has has created undergraduate lectures in reproductive health, academic integrity, managing uncertainty, the health of doctors, professional boundaries, quality improvement, communicating numerical risk, leadership and service improvement and contributes to an iBSc primary care module with a session on mental health. Most recently she devised learning resources and assessment project to facilitate the understanding of the costs of healthcare. She supervises undergraduate and postgraduate research.
She has contributed to SGUL MBBS partnership developments abroad and in the UK.
Dr Ibison has presented educational innovations and/or run workshops at AMEE, ASME, SAPC and DEMEC as well as internal events such as the SGUL annual clinical teachers' day and Education Day.
She became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2015