Excellence in Education Awards

2025 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 01/07/2025.

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:

City St Georges student nominees:

Best Peer Teacher –Zakariya Mouyer
Healthcare professional that has made the biggest educational impact on your training – Susannah La-Touche
Most Inspiring Lecturer – Omar Janneh
Best Project Supervisor –Abbas Ghazanfar

Resident Doctor nominees:

Best Peer Group Teacher / Mentor- Naomi Shaw
Clinician that has made the biggest educational impact on your training-Susannah La-Touche
Most Inspiring Lecturer- Kuven Moodle
Best Project Supervisor- Abbas Ghazanfar

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

Best practice educator in your department –Sophie Berry
Most Inspiring Lecturer – Catherine Jones

Nursing Midwifery and AHP student nominees:

Best student supervisor – Catherine Holland
Best student assessor – Megan Dave

Divisional Faculty Recognition & Awards:

Patrick Steptoe Award – Dr Charlotte Stockley
Henry Bence Jones Award – Dr Joao Albuquerque
Benjamin Brodie Award – Miss Sarah Tang

2024 GMC National Training Survey Recognition (Top Performing Departments in 2024):

Highest number of green flags achieved overall at SGH in the 2024 GMCNTS – 9 Green Flags – Vascular Surgery (2nd
consecutive year) Mr Mital Desai, Mr Iain Roy, Miss Katherine Stenson
Most improved GMCNTS results in 2024– 1) Infectious Diseases 0 to 7 Green 2) Amber Arnold Histopathology 4 Red to 5 Green, 3) Lida Alacron, Haematology 3 Red to 3 Green Catherine Cox & Nisha De Silva.
Most consistent GMCNTS results over a 5-year period –Neurosurgery (Nav Singh), Core) Surgery (Sarah Tang), Clinical Genetics (Nayana Lahiri & Avgi Andreou) Neurology (Anthony Pereira).

Undergraduate Faculty Recognition & Awards:

Patrick Steptoe Award –Dr Sophie Vaughan
Henry Bence Jones Award – Dr Arshia Panahloo
Benjamin Brodie Award (Surgery) – Mr Abbas Ghazanfar
Clinical Teaching Fellow Recognition Award in MedCard – Dr James Fuller
Clinical Teaching Fellow Recognition Award in Surgery – Dr Milad Sherafati
Clinical Teaching Fellow Recognition Award in CWTD– Dr Hannah Gil

IMG Recognition Awards:
Dr Jaspreet Sokhi & Dr Vishnudharen Sundararajan – for running the Communications module for the IMG induction with the GAPs team for the second year running.
Dr Vishnudharen Sundararajan & Dr Abdalla Kaware – for setting up the bi-monthly IMG forum.
Dr Silvana Alcala – for maintaining the IMG Welcome kit.
Dr Hariprasath Velmurugan – helping to set up the Simulation sessions for Locally Employed Doctors in medicine.

Winning Posters:

Best Educational Poster – Bridging the gap – A multidisciplinary community café connecting Afro-Caribbean communities to dementia research (S. Abdelmagid, M. Rowan, B. Fritsch, M. Khosla, J. Teixeira, P. Dawkins, J. Opoku, G. Silva Fortes).
Best Quality Improvement Project Poster – Early initiation of expression of maternal colostrum and feeding (R. Miles, H. Burgess, N. Crowley).

Top 10 posters in Education category:

Ready to rescue A community based initiative to improve paediatric (PDF) – Winning poster

Empowering junior nurses to use data to improve practice (PDF)

Evaluating the impact of a student led surgical conference (PDF)

Escape to patient safety (PDF)

Neonatal crash course (PDF)

The winning formula – experiences from the neurology and stroke (PDF)

Improving Foundation Doctors’ understanding of the application (PDF)

The 15th national genitourinary medicine taster day questionnaire (PDF)

Combating neurophobia and addressing the challenges in neurology (PDF)

Radiology education QIP Bringing foundation doctors out of the da (PDF)

Top 10 posters in QI category: