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Cardiff Medical Society Committee

Dr Kamila Hawthorne MD MRCP(UK) FRCGP (President)

Kamila Hawthorne is a GP and Trainer in central Cardiff, and a Reader in the Dept of Primary Care and Public Health at Cardiff University. She has recently been appointed as Director of Community Education for the new undergraduate MBBCh course being designed to start in 2013. She has been an examiner for the MRCGP examinations since 1997, and over the last 3 years has been closely involved in the development and implementation of the Clinical Skills Assessment module of the MRCGP. She serves on RCGP Council as SE Wales Faculty Representative.

Mr Jared Torkington (Vice President)

Professor Andrew Finlay CBE FRCP (Immediate Past President)

Appointed Professor of Dermatology Cardiff University School of Medicine and Head of Department of Dermatology in 1999. Major research theme has been the development of techniques to measure disability caused by skin disease and currently involved in research in field of clinical decision taking. 1987-2009 Director of major programme of undergraduate and postgraduate dermatology education, including the Diploma in Clinical Dermatology, MSc in Dermatology and the international e-learning programme.

Dr Les Dingley MBBCh MRCGP D(Obst)RCOG (Treasurer)

Mr Ron Ley (Executive Secretary)

Dr Damian Pathy FRCP MRCGP

General practitioner, Cathays Surgery, Cardiff since 1994. Qualified St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1987. Interested in community based general medicine and the use of IT in medical practice.

Dr Hamsaraj Shetty BSc MBBS FRCP

Consultant physician with a special interest in stroke medicine University Hospital of Wales(UHW) appointed 1993. Currently lead clinician for stroke medicine at UHW.

Dr Andrew Freedman MA, MB,BChir, MD, FRCP.
Dr Andrew Freeman

Has been a Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine in Cardiff since 1994. He undertook his speciality training in London and Boston, USA. His major interest is in HIV Medicine & he is currently Hon. Secretary of the British HIV Association. He was President of the Cardiff Medical Society in 2007/08 & has been on the Society’s Committee for over 5 years.

Dr Alison McLain

Graduated from Cardiff Medical School in 1988. Joined Woodlands Medical Centre as a GP principal in 1994. Left Woodlands in 2008 to deal with a failing practice in the Rhondda on behalf of the RCT Primary Care Support Unit. In 2010 started work for Cardiff and Vale uLHB as a specialty doctor in Psychiatry.

Mr Kadaba N Rajkumar

Consultant Ophthalmologist University Hospital of Wales & Princess of Wales Hospital Bridgend. Specialising in Cataract and Glaucoma
Co advisor to Welsh Assembly government- glaucoma treatment pathways
Co advisor and committee member, Glaucoma alliance Wales

Professor Phil Smith