• Completed CCT and was appointed as a consultant in 2013 (Medway Maritime NHS Foundation Trust, Kent).
• Appointed as the RCoA College Tutor in 2015.
• RCoA member of the MTI Leadership Group in 2017.
• FRCA Examiner since 2018.
• Co Lead for National MTI simulation programme 2019 UK.
• Lead Tutor 2022.
• Passionate about supporting training.

Dr Sarah Thornton qualified from Leeds University in 1991. She created her own ACCS programme as a junior doctor, and then discovered the joy of anaesthetics – and never looked back.

She took up her consultant post with an interest in critical care in the year 2000 at Royal Bolton Hospital – a big district general hospital in a socially deprived area.

Sarah has always enjoyed education, and took on the role of trainee rep on the Specialty Training Committee during her anaesthetic training. As soon as she was able, she took on the role of College Tutor in 2003, in between fitting in three kids. After that she was appointed higher Training Programme Director in 2007, then in 2013 Head of School of Manchester for two years, and then Head of School for Manchester and Mersey from 2015. She is passionate about trainee wellbeing and has tried hard to look after her School during the pandemic.

Dr Oliver Daly is a consultant anaesthetist working at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh with interests in obstetric, emergency and trauma anaesthesia.

Oliver is a keen educator, and his other interests lie in behavioural sciences and how these relate to day-to-day anaesthetic practice and the management of emergencies.

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Dr Roger Sharpe is chair of the FRCA Examinations Committee and a Co-opted Council member representing FRCA examinations.

Roger still examines in the Primary FRCA and is also a member of the Exams Development and Assurance Group (EDAG) which is responsible for implementing the recommendations from the recent internal and independent exam reviews. Roger has retired and returned to part-time NHS practice as a generalist anaesthetist at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow.

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Dr Sophie Winter is an Academic Clinical Fellow with a research interest in medical education.

Sophie works as part of the Collaboration for Medical Education and Research at the University of Plymouth and is just finishing her 2nd year of anaesthetics training in Exeter.

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Dr Toni Brunning is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

She is a Council member and trustee of the RCoA and leads on the LLP workstream at the College. 

Dr Joe Lipton is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Guy's & St Thomas', where he has a generalist practice with a special interest in anaesthesia for vascular surgery. He helped devise the Assessment strategy for the 2021 Curriculum, leading on Entrustable Professional Activities for early milestones in the programme. He is now the lead for Assessment in the Anaesthetic Curriculum Development and Assurance Group.

Joe will be presenting the newly updated 'Novice Guide', along with an initiative that supports learning in the Generic Professional Capabilities domains of the new curriculum.

Dr Adam Brayne is an anaesthetic registrar from Peninsula Deanery. He has a basic programming background and is motivated to make the LLP faster and easier to use for both learners and assessors. He sits on the LLP management group and has a particular focus on improving the anaesthetic logbook.

Dr Tom Chambers is a CT2 anaesthetic trainee in North West London. He is one of the regional LLP leads and has setup a national LLP WhatsApp forum for local leads to co-ordinate communications and troubleshoot issues.

Tom helps on the London School of Anaesthesia induction and ARCP sessions to give tips and tricks for trainees on use of the LLP. 

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Mr Russell Ampofo is Director of Education, Training and Examinations. He is responsible for developing and delivering the College's education, training and examination strategy in the UK and overseas. Russell provides leadership across the following College functions:

• development of trusted and high-quality anaesthetic educational opportunities, resources and content for members and others practicing anaesthesia and perioperative medicine in the UK and overseas
• delivery of world class training and career support and guidance to our members
• development and maintenance of standards in training curricula, assessment, recruitment for training in the UK and internationally
• supplying high-quality professional examinations for the specialty of anaesthesia, critical care and pain medicine.

Dr Chris Carey trained at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, qualifiying in 1995. He undertook his anaesthetic training in the North West Thames (Imperial) region before being appointed as a consultant in 2004 to Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust where he specialises in neuroanaesthesia.  He served as College Tutor for BSUH from 2007 to 2010 before becoming Head of the Kent Surrey and Sussex (KSS) School of Anaesthesia from 2010 to 2016. In 2016 he was appointed as an Associate Postgraduate Dean for HEE KSS. 

He is a Senior Lecturer at Brighton & Sussex Medical School where he leads the MSc course in Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine. 

Dr Jon Chambers trained in Cornwall, Wessex and Michigan before taking up a consultant post in Dorset.

Jon has always taken an interest in issues relating to training and has undertaken roles including College Tutor, Regional Adviser (Wessex) and Lead RAA for the College.

In 2022 he was appointed by the College as their first Bernard Johnson Adviser for Training.

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Dr Emma Plunkett is a Consultant Anaesthetist in Birmingham and is in her second term as College Tutor. 

Emma is a trained mentor and MedTRiM practitioner and is Wellbeing Lead in her department. 

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Dr Nick Bishop is an ST7 Anaesthetic trainee/Education Fellow currently working with the College.

His current educational projects surround College examination validity and differential attainment in exam performance. Nick works in the North West Region of England.

Dr Paul Wilson is an ST7 trainee in the North West region, and outside of clinical work he is interested in education and wellbeing.

Dr Robert Fleming is a Specialist (SAS) Anaesthetist, and former SAS Committee chair at the Association of Anaesthetists. He is also a founding member of the SAS Collective, a group working to improve the careers and retention of doctors in the NHS

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Jenny started her career in communications, working in local newspapers; charity policy and campaigns on issues such as gender equality and homelessness; in public involvement engagement to enable people to influence decision makers. Jenny moved into the health and care sector through working on media and public understanding of how data can be used to improve health, care and services in ways that are safe, in line with public expectation and demonstrably trustworthy.

This led her to work for the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care, where she headed up the office supporting this statutory post until 2021. Jenny has also worked for the Department of Health and Social Care leading on strategy and ethics for its information risk management directorate.

Jenny is currently an independent member of NHS England’s interim data advisory group, a lay advisor to Health Education England, a member of the National Data Guardian’s advisory panel, and an associate of a commercial cyber security resilience consultancy.

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Dr Nicola Hickman is a consultant anaesthetist in Leicester, with a specialist interest in obstetric anaesthesia. She's been involved with education and training since the start of her consultant career – with ES, CT, TPD and more latterly Deputy Head of School roles.

Nicola has always championed the causes of LTFT trainees, before 'LTFT Champions' existed, and is now doing her best to do the same from the College as the Bernard Johnson Advisor for LTFT.