Who we are

Our primary care experts

The Academy brings together expertise in primary care research, education, clinical practice and scholarship, so we can champion the scholarly expertise that is essential to the redesign and delivery of the highest standards of person-centred primary care – locally, nationally and internationally.

Directors

Professor Joanne Reeve

Joanne is a practising GP and the Director of Research for the Academy of Primary Care.

As professor of primary care research, Joanne leads work to build the profile, capacity and impact of primary care and primary care scholarship – locally, nationally and internationally.

Joanne leads the Academy's Primary Care Redesign, Academy of Generalist Medicine and Championing Modern Primary Care research themes.

Education team

Our undergaduate Primary Care Education Teamis led by Dr Hisham Nobeebaccus (Interim Director of Education), working with a team of Associate Directors to support general practice teaching across our patch. We also support delivery of the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship programme.

Associate Directors

Dr Julian Clark
Dr Asif Firfirey
Dr David Hindmarsh
Dr Margaret Ikpoh
Dr Andrew Lee
Dr Judith Matthews

Assistant Director

Rolan Schreiber

Dr James Bennett, Dr Puja Verma and Dr Clare Fozard, our GP Portfolio Fellows lead the work to develop and deliver innovative research-led educational to undergraduate and postgraudte programme.

Dr Paul Whybrow is Health and Society lead for the MB BS Medicine programme, and co-leads the Gateway Programme with Dr Jason Boland.

Dr Aarti Bansal leads med ed research examining the delivery of PCC teaching, targeted at understanding support for IMG.

Dr Stephen Opare Sakyi is a CATALYST Fellow delivering the innovative postgraduate CATALYST programme.

Research team

Our research team is led by Professor Joanne Reeve, Director of Research for the Academy of Primary Care.

Dr James Bennett, GP Portfolio Fellow
Myriam Dell'Olio, Research Associate
Dr Clare Fozard, GP Portfolio Fellow
Dr Puja Verma, GP Portfolio Fellow
Dr Paul Whybrow, Academic Lead for Health and Society

PhD students

Steph Busby. Supervisors: Dr Paul Whybrow and Professor Tom Phillips
Rebecca Lee. Supervisors: Professor Liz Walker and Professor Joanne Reeve
Kristen Tabiner. Supervisors: Professor Joanne Reeve and Dr Paul Whybrow

Administrative team

Academic clinical trainees

Dr Aarti Bansal (NIHR In Practice Fellow)
Dr Laura Douglas (NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow)
Dr Charlotte Friend (NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow)
Dr Tom Johnson (Academic Foundation Fellow)
Dr Sian Reece (NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, currently an NIHR Doctoral Fellow)
Dr David Smith (NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow)
Dr Maria Spears (NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow)

Affiliated researchers

Dr Aarti Bansal (Honorary Senior Lecturer)
Professor Terry McCormack (Honorary Professor in Primary Care)
Dr David Pearson (Honorary Professor of Primary Care)