Excellence in Education Awards 2023

2023 Excellence in Healthcare Education Award winners:

The Post Graduate Medical Education Team at St George’s host their annual Excellence in Healthcare Education Awards on 20/06/2023.

We were celebrating the many impressive initiatives, innovations and examples of high quality education and training taking place across the Trust and the Medical School/SGUL. As well as recognising colleagues’ contribution to education & training, this was a forum to recognise the excellent work trainees and students have done in areas of Quality Improvement and Education, through poster submission. Members of the Trust Executive and SGUL teams were issuing the awards to winners at the event.

Recognition and Awards:

SGUL student nominees:

Best Peer Teacher – Hussain Memon – SGUL Medical Student
Healthcare professional that has made the biggest educational impact on your training – Miss Yael Gelfer – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Most Inspiring Lecturer – Dr James Buckley – Respiratory Lecturer, SGUL
Best Project Supervisor – Dr Thushari Welikala – Senior Lecturer in higher education, Innovation & Development

Postgraduate Trainees/Junior Doctors:

Best Peer Group Teacher / Mentor – Dr Ahmed Abbas – ST6 Neurology
Clinician that has made the biggest educational impact on your training – Dr Anthony Pereira – Neurology and Stroke Consultant, SGH
Most Inspiring Lecturer – Dr Argyro Zoumprouli – Consultant in Neuro-anaesthesia and Neuro Intensive Care
Best Project Supervisor – Prof Asma Khalil – Professor of Obstetrics and Maternal-Foetal Medicine

Nurses, Nursing Associates, Healthcare Support workers, Midwives and Allied Health Professional:

Best practice educator in your department – Salvatore Patinella – Practice Educator in Acute Medicine
Staff member with the biggest educational impact on your learning and development – Claire Borrelli – Head of Education & Training – Breast Unit
Most Inspiring Lecturer – Kathy Dalley – Lead Practice Educator – ICU

Nursing Midwifery and AHP student nominees:

Best clinical practice supervisor – Darius Leung-Kwok – Staff Nurse (Major Trauma)
Best clinical practice assessor – Cindy Sarzuelo – Junior sister Rodney Smith ward

Divisional Faculty Recognition & Awards:

Patrick Steptoe Award – Dr Alexander Frick – Consultant in Obstetrics & Foetal Medicine (Awarded for his contribution to excellence in education and training in the Children’s, Women’s, & Therapeutics Directorate in 2023)
Patrick Steptoe Award – Dr Rosy Wells – Paediatric Allergy Consultant, GOSW, SRTW lead (Awarded for her contribution to transforming the SuppoRTT program and supervisors’ development in 2023)
Henry Bence Jones Award – Dr Catherine Cox – Consultant in Haematology (Awarded for her contribution to excellence in education and training in the Medicine and Cardiovascular Directorate in 2023)
Henry Bence Jones Award – Dr Arshia Panahloo – Consultant Endocrinologist (Awarded for her contribution to excellence in education and training in the Medicine and Cardiovascular Directorate in 2023)
Benjamin Brodie Award – Mr Samer Saour – Consultant Plastic Surgeon (Awarded for his contribution to excellence in education and training in the Surgical Directorate in 2023)
Peter Kopelman Medal – Dr Jessica Moore – Consultant Obstetrician & CD for O&G (Awarded for her contribution to transformation in education and training in 2023)
Aggrey Washington Burke Award – Dr Elwinah Timehin – Consultant in Audiovestibular Medicine (Awarded for her contribution in transforming the SAS/LED and IMG experience at SGH in 2023)

Winning Posters:

Best Educational Poster – Investigating barriers to surgical careers and addressing the growing need for diverse role models in surgery through a mentoring event (Sabba A Hussain; Mona Jaffar-Karballai; Rebecca Beni; Anna Bridgens; Yael Gelfer)
Most Innovative Quality Improvement Project – Enhanced IMG Induction Programme at SGH and its outcomes (Sharon Fernandes; Muhammad Amaran; Afzal Latheef; Jomine Puthupparmbil; Kassiani Iliadou; Tanvi Kumar; Dhanya Saseendran; Silvana Alcala; Indranil Chakravorty)

Top 10 posters in Education category:

1. Investigating barriers to surgical careers and addressing the growing need for diverse role models in surgery through a mentoring event – Winner

2. ZOOMing Twin and Multiple pregnancies webinar series

3. NICU Bitesize Orientation Programme.

4. Moorfield inpatient waiting times.

5. Diversity of Speakers in Health and Social Care

6. Post Pandemic Era Online to Hybrid and F2F Teaching

7. Exploring the hot sharp stab of outrage in behaviours that challenge: pilot of an educational response to support patients and staff in Neuro

8. HoloLens in Plastic Surgery: What is the Future?

9. Complex Neuroscience Education Event Led By Clinical Nurse Specialists

10. Tracheostomy teaching

Top 10 posters in QI category: