Fiona Moss is Director of Medical and Dental Education Commissioning. This role involves commissioning, managing and quality controlling training for over 13,000 doctors and dentist.

Fiona was a consultant respiratory physician at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London between 1991 and 2006. During this time she was director of clinical studies for undergraduates at Central Middlesex and chaired the Imperial College DCS committee. She is a former member of London's Education Strategy reference group and, from 1992 until 2004, performed the role of founder editor for Quality and Safety in Healthcare, a BMJ Publishing group journal. Since 1994 Fiona has been on the Strategic Advisory Group of the International (previously European) Quality Forum. She became one of London's Postgraduate Deans in 2004. Her current work includes setting up and developing London's specialty schools and, this year, launching the London Deanery / NHS London Darzi Fellowship Programme. In 2006 Fiona was awarded a CBE for services to medicine.

Fiona’s interests include education, the quality and safety of health care and the relationships between organisational development, education and quality improvement. Fiona is the editor of the Postgraduate Medical Journal, another BMJ group publication, and sits on the Royal Society of Medicine press board. 

John Pope is London Commissioner for Medical and Dental Education (LCMDE) Managing Director at London Deanery.

John oversees the development of commissioning and provision of medical and dental training education. John has a finance background and between 1994 -2005 was Chief Executive of Central Middlesex Hospital. In 1999 he became CEO of North West Hospitals after it merged with Northwick Park and St Marks Hospital. During his time there the Trust opened the first purpose built NHS Diagnostic and Treatment Centre and completed the redevelopment of the Central Middlesex Hospital site with the building of an £85 million Private Finance Initiative hospital.

John worked at the Department of Health from 2005 - 2008 in the Foundation Trust Unit preparing trusts to be ready to apply for Foundation Trust status (FT). During 2005­06 he was part of a team involving; Monitor, management consultants and strategic health authorities, delivering the whole Health Community Diagnostic which reviewed 120 organisations’ fitness for purpose to become FTs. In August 2006 John led the following programmes - Community Hospitals, Care Closer to Home and New Forms of Care, including Foundation Trusts for community

Elizabeth Chan is the Acting Managing Director Provider Shared Services at London Deanery. She has held this position since June 2011 and is also Director of Medical Workforce since March 2009. She has worked in the field of Medical and Dental Education for the past twenty years.

Elizabeth’s initial roles were with the Yorkshire Deanery, where she gained experience in recruitment and information.  Keen to develop her career in Medical and Dental Education, Elizabeth moved to London to pursue this area of work and joined the Medical Personnel Department of the North Thames Deanery in 1997 as Medical Personnel Manager.  She was subsequently appointed Deputy Director of Medical Workforce with the London Deanery.  In her early career Elizabeth trained and worked as a nurse.

Elizabeth is a member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development and gained an MBA from Leeds University.

Dr Elizabeth Jones is Postgraduate Dean for Dentistry at London Deanery. She has been in post since 2003. Prior to 2009 she was Consultant Orthodontist at Ashford & St Peters NHS Trust and Kingston Hospital.

Elizabeth is Lead Dean for Orthodontics, was previously examiner for the Membership in Orthodontics and is a member of the SAC in Orthodontics. She is an appointed member of the Specialist Dental Education Board of the General Dental Council (GDC) and is CoPDEND member on the Advisory Board for Specialty Training in Dentistry.

Since her appointment as Post Graduate Dental Dean she has overseen the opening of a 26 bay dental skills centre for London (LonDEC), has introduced pan-London recruitment to Dental Foundation Year 1 which was introduced nationally in 2011. She has introduced a Quality Management framework for dentistry which has led to the Deanery having visited all dental specialty training programmes. In 2010 the Dental Department introduced eWisdom, a web-based continuing professional development tool for the dental team which includes a facility for individuals to set a personal development plan. There are currently just under 9,000 registrants.

Under Elizabeth’s guidance the Dental Department now delivers inter and multi-professional education and training. Her facilitation has been instrumental in the appointment of dental care professionals as tutors.

Dr Nav Chana is Dean of General Practice and Community Based Education at London Deanery. He is responsible for the Schools of General Practice and Public Health.

Nav is a GP and senior partner at the Cricket Green Medical Practice in Mitcham, Surrey and an executive member of the Merton Clinical Commissioning Group. He is also Vice Chairman of the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC).

Nav has been an Associate Director for Postgraduate GP Education for many years. He was also involved in establishing the first validated programme for training physician assistants in London at St George’s University of London.

Nav has been involved in many aspects of medical education including the development of the RCGP’s workplace based assessment component of the MRCGP.
Until recently, Nav has been an examiner of for the RCGP’s Membership Examination and the International Development Adviser to the Egyptian Family Medicine Fellowship Programme.

Nav’s interests include driving quality in primary care, aligning service with education and population health medicine.

Professor Wendy Reid is the Dean of Postgraduate Medicine at London Deanery. She is a Consultant Gynaecologist at the Royal Free Hospital and has been an Associate Dean and Postgraduate Dean in London since 2001. Clinically she has an international reputation in the management of Vulval Disease and was responsible in setting up the first child birth trauma service in North London. Her interest in medical education began during her own training when she began teaching Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) students about ethical issues. 

During her time at the London Deanery she has been an Associate Dean responsible for Anaesthetics and Paediatric training across London and as a Postgraduate Dean responsible for sector development across North Central and North East London.

Wendy has academic interests in assessment and standard setting and was the O&G representative on the General Medical Council PLAB examination for several years. She has extensive experience in postgraduate examinations and introduced new techniques to the Member Royal College of Gynaecologists (MRCG) examination. She chaired the Royal College of Gynaecology (RCOG) working party on Advanced Training which uniquely introduced innovative training modules linked to workforce planning within training programmes. She was the first chair of the Curriculum Committee at the RCOG and was jointly responsible for the new curriculum launched in 2007.

Dr Tim Swanwick is the Dean of Professional Development at London Deanery. Tim has a broad range of experience in medical education and holds a varied portfolio including faculty development, academic training, professional support and clinical leadership. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Bedfordshire and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London. A General Practitioner by background, Tim has researched and published widely in both his specialty and medical education. Recent publications include the textbook Understanding Medical Education (2010) and the books Clinical Teaching Made Easy (2010) and the ABC of Clinical Leadership (2010).

Julia is experienced in supporting professional development in doctors from across all specialities and all career stages including interprofessional education and community development.

Julia is particularly interested in the part appraisal and reflective practice can play in enabling a practitioner to effect change to improve their practice and the quality of their working life.
She was the Clinical Lead for the Revalidation Support Team’s Pilots site in London during 2010-11. 

Beverley Gainey is Director of Educational Resources Development at London Deanery. Beverley joined London Deanery in 2003.  She was an Executive Board member from 1992 when she was the North East Thames Regional Health Authority representative.

She lived abroad until 1976 when she returned to the UK to take a degree in Business Studies prior to working for the Inland Revenue and then the National Audit Office. She is a qualified accountant and has an MBA from Cranfield.

Gill Hooper is the Director of Commissioning, Quality and Transition at London Deanery. Gill has extensive board level experience in both primary and secondary care trusts. Her first board position was Director of Nursing/Quality and Community Services at Northern Devon Healthcare Trust from 1994–1999, where she was the dedicated board director accountable for the Mental Health Act, and responsible for implementation of the Care Programme Approach across North Devon. From 1999 – 2002 she was Director of Nursing, Director of Operations and  Deputy CEO  where she was central to the development of the financial and clinical case for merging the West Hertfordshire Acute Trust. Appointed as the Director Performance Improvement for the Modernisation Agency

Gill led a national team of Service Improvement Managers supporting delivery of key performance targets, focusing on providing support to zero star Trusts. She has a track record of proven leadership through complex organisational mergers and achieving organisational turnaround within demanding environments.

John Callery is the Director of Information Management at London Deanery. Most of his career has been spent in the private sector (Financial Services and Utilities), where he has held a number of senior executive positions responsible for formulating strategy, delivering transformational business change, and managing delivery of the full range of information and technology services. More recently he has worked in Central Government as CTO, leading a number of initiatives to enable joined up service delivery to citizens.

He holds postgraduate degrees in Computer Science, Law, and Business Administration, and is a member of the Institute of Directors, and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

Dr Ian Curran is Dean of Educational Excellence and Head of Innovation at London Deanery. He is also the Clinical Lead for London’s award- winning Simulation and Technology-enhanced Learning Initiative (STeLI).

STeLI promotes patient safety and excellence in education by harnessing advanced educational techniques and technologies such as simulation and e-learning.

Dr Curran is a consultant anaesthetist with sub-speciality interest in chronic pain management at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he is also Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Education and Senior Examiner at the Bart’s and the London Hospital.

Dr Diana Hamilton-Fairley is the Dean of Secondary Care Specialties at London Deanery. She is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (O&G) at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Postgraduate Dean of Secondary Care Specialties for London. She was previously Deputy Medical Director and then Acting Medical Director for Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust (GSTT).

Diana’s main clinical interests are reproductive endocrinology, establishing in 2003 a unique early pregnancy assessment unit which developed into a nurse led 24 hour emergency gynaecology unit which sees 9000 women per year.

As Head of Service for gynaecology Diana introduced one stop diagnostic and treatment clinics for women suffering with abnormal bleeding and an increase in day surgery from 32% to 65%. She was Clinical Director of Women’s Health at GSTT from 2004-2007 introducing 13 hour shift working for consultants, a clinical governance system and a new way of working that led to GSTT being awarded CNST 3 in 2007 and again in 2010. In 2008, GSTT was cited by the HCC as the best performing unit in London.