Programme Director: Professor Sanjeev Krishna
Programme Leader (SGUL): Dr. Yolanda Augustin
Programme Coordinator (SGUL): Dr. Nafeesa Mat Ali
Programme Leader (Ministry of Health Malaysia): Dr. Rafidah Abdullah
Members:
Professor Sanjeev Krishna
Programme Director
Tel: +44 (0) 208 725 5836
Email: s.krishna@sgul.ac.uk
Twitter@ProfSKrishna
Professor Sanjeev Krishna is Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine at St. George's University of London. After completing a degree at Cambridge and medical degree at Oxford, he studied malaria in Thailand before completing a DPhil at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford.
Prof Krishna joined St George's in 2000. He was an MRC Training Fellow and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science (1994–2001). He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2004 and awarded an ScD by the University of Cambridge in 2007. He is also an honorary consultant physician in infectious disease and medicine. Professsor Krishna has been an advisor to multiple international bodies, including the World Health Organisation, and major international funders including the US National Institutes of Health, the UK's Wellcome Trust and others.
He also chair the Infectious Disease Advisory Committee of QuantuMDx, and is an advisor to the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), a not-for-profit organisation promoting the development of new diagnostic tools for resource-poor countries.
Dr Yolanda Augustin
Email: yaugusti@sgul.ac.uk
Twitter: @DrYolandaAugus1
Dr. Yolanda is a registrar in Clinical Oncology. She graduated in 2004 with a MBBS from Guy's, King's and St Thomas Medical School, University of London and did a medical elective in oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She went on to do Core Medical Training at King's College Hospital in South London and also did a year of palliative medicine at St Joseph's Hospice in East London. During this time Dr. Yolanda obtained MRCP (Member of the Royal College of Physicians) and did an MSc in Palliative Care(Merit) at King's College London. Following this she obtained a South London training number in Clinical Oncology and rotated through the Royal Marsden, Royal Surrey County and Guy's and St Thomas Hospitals, obtaining a Diploma in Oncology and FRCR ( Fellow of the Royal College of Radiology).
She had a special interest in colorectal cancer and research, looking at novel ways of improving patient survival, care and quality of life and presented a poster on anal cancer recurrence after chemoradiation at the Gastrointestinal Cancer ASCO symposium in 2012. I She is also passionate about social justice and healthcare equity and been actively involved with healthcare activist movements the Global Healthwatch and Medact, having researched and written a chapter on healthcare in prisons for ‘Global Healthwatch 2: An alternative health report' and compiled a country case study as part of a report on medical complicity in torture by global health charity Medact published in the Lancet.
Dr Rafidah Abdullah
Twitter: @rafidah72
Instagram: @rafidah72
Dr. Rafidah Abdullah is a Consultant Nephrologists at Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Hospital in Temerloh, Pahang. She is the only Nephrology consultant at the hospital that covers around one million population. Dr. Rafidah trained in Edinburgh, Bristol, Malaysia and recently attained an MSc at King's College in Palliative Care. She has big social media followers on Twitter and Instagram and helped to educate the Malaysian public about health issues.
Dr Nafeesa Mat Ali
Email: nafeesaakama@yahoo.com
Dr. Nafeesa graduated with MBBS in 2004 from University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and continued with ‘Housemanship training' at UMMC. She continued her training as a Medical Officer in Anaesthesiology at Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang before moving to the UK in 2007. She now works as a Programme Coordinator at SUMMIT on a part-time basis and the main point of contact between the doctors in Malaysia and the consultants within the SUMMIT network.
Mr Ramesan Navaratnarajah
Mr. Ram Navaratnarajah is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital in a High-Risk Obstetrics and a Tertiary Level Gynaecology unit. He is an Irish trained doctor, and a UK trained specialist with an interest in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery.
Dr Gerard Meachery
Dr. Gerry is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne NHS Trust. He is a keen medical educator and has experience in training many Malaysian doctors in the UK.
Dr Zainab Kassim
Dr. Zainab Kassim is a Neonatologist at King's College, London. She has worked in various public sector institutions in Malaysia and the UK.
Dr Burhanuddin Busu
Dr. Burhan is an Orthopaedic doctor at King's College Hospital, London.