Professor Dame Lesley Southgate DBE DSc FRCP FMedSci FRCGP
Degrees, etc (subject, class, university and date) and honours
- MB ChB, Liverpool University Medical School, 1967
- M Clin Sci., University of Western Ontario, 1980
- DSc (Hon) University of Exeter. In recognition of several years of work preparing for the establishment of the Peninsula Medical School 2002
- ScD and Distinguished International Professor. Medical Academy of St Petersberg. Russia 2002
- DSc (Hon) University of Keele 2003
- Honorary Fellow Royal Society of Medicine 2006
Posts held (with dates)
- Principal in General Practice 1971-2000
- 2004--: Professor of Medical Education St Georges Hospital Medical School London
- 1995 to 2004: Professor of Primary Care and Medical Education, University College London.
- 1992-1995: Professor of General Practice, The Medical Colleges of St. Bart's and The London Hospitals.
- 1990-1995: Head of Department, The Medical Colleges of St. Bart's and The London Hospitals.
- 1985-1990: Senior Lecturer/Hon Consultant, The Medical Colleges of St. Bart's and The London Hospitals.
- 1979-1982: Lecturer in General Practice, The Medical Colleges of St. Bart's and The London Hospitals.
- 1978-1979: WK Kellogg Foundation Fellow, Department of Family Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
- 1971-1978 Principal in general practice Hoddesdon Herts
Recent roles and projects
- President Royal College of General Practitioners (2000-2003)
- Vice Chairman Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (June 2002-3
- Leader, General Medical Council Development Programme for Performance Procedures (1996 to 2004 ) Chair Performance Assessment Implementation Group
- Member vCJD clinical incidents panel (to 2004)
- Member PMETB, 2003-2006 Chair of Assessment Committee
- Leader project team working with Royal Colleges of Surgeons to establish the model for external QA for the MRCS 2004-2006
- Chairman Refugee Health Professionals Steering group (DH) 2002-6
- Leader project on devising a women's sexual health curriculum for St Petersburg Russia 2002-5
- Chair Three Royal Colleges Examination Board for Diploma in Prison Medicine 2000-04
Current roles
- President of the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) 2006-
- Chair Transition Council Academy of Medical Educators 2006-
- Member Modernising Medical Careers team Sept 2004- 7
- Member Health Care Assessment and Training; an academic group conducting QA of assessment of the foundation years for postgraduate training and advising Royal Colleges, Deaneries and NCAS 2005-
- Evaluator: ATOME project (Leonardo Programme EU) for assessment of Occupational Physicians 2006-
- Chairman: recertification technical group RCGP which will develop the specification for evidence for recertification for British GPs
Membership of boards, committees, working parties and task forces
During her 33 years in general practice and academic life Prof. Dame Lesley Southgate has been a member of numerous committees and working parties. During the last 15 years she has gained considerable experience of health service management at authority level. The list below comprises just some of those past activities.
Local: North and East London
- Local Medical Committee City and East London
- Member City & East London Family Practitioner Committee
- Non-Executive Member East London and City Health Authority until August 1995
- Non-Executive Member City and Hackney Community Trust until January 1999*
- Governors advisory committee Holloway prison 2000-2004
London University
- Special Advisory Committee for General Practice
- Assessment Working Group for Medical Education
Barts Medical College until 1 September 1995
- Member of College Council
- Member of Merger and Tomlinson strategy group
- Curriculum Management Group
- Chairman, Phase II of the Curriculum
- Chairman, Working Group on Assessment
University College London 1995-2004
- Member of the Curriculum Committee
- Member of the Teaching and Assessment Quality Assurance Committee
- Chairman curriculum committee for final year (new curriculum)
- Chairman Special Study Modules (new curriculum)
Regional
- Regional Research Committee
- Trainer Selection Committees. NETHRA
- Regional Advisory Committee in General Practice
RCGP
- Member of College Council to 2000
- Member of Heads of Assessments Group; leading on evaluation of RCGP assessment methods
- Chairman Inner city Task Force
- Chief examiner 1996- 9
- President 2000-2003 Elected Council member: Chair recertification technical group
RCP
- Member Education and Training Committee 1997-8
- Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills (PACES)
- Validation, Audit & Research Implementation Group
National
- Public Health Laboratory Service Board
- National Advisor, Sick Doctors Scheme
- Minister for Health's Support Force for Primary Care. Adviser to Dr Brian Mawhinney (while Minister of Health)
- London Implementation Group and its successors (Primary Health Care Forum)
- Member of the steering group for the education and training for doctors working in prisons. Home Office
- Consultant Adviser in General Practice to the Chief Medical Officer
- Member CMO's expert working group on screening for genital chlamydia infections
- Member of CMO's Communicable Disease Strategy Group
- Member vCJD clinical incidents panel
- Chairman AoMRC Postgraduate Education Committee
- Chairman Refugee Health Professional Steering group (DH
- Chairman PMETB Steering Group sub-group on assessment (DH)*
- Vice-chairman Professional and Linguistics Assessment Board (PLAB) and examiner
GMC
- Chairman: Performance Procedures Implementation Group (GMC)
- Chairman Education Research Committee (ASME) and Council member.
- Member Medicines Honours Committee; Chaired by Sir Richard Mottram to 2006.
View a list of Dame Lesley's recent publications.
