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Medical Manager - Frontier Medical Services

Frontier Medical is a specialist company in the provision of remote site medical support and Dr Phil Sharples is Frontier's Medical Manager.  On hand to provide both general and specific occupational health support to Frontier Medical clients, he also conducts site audits and assessments worldwide.  Dr Shaprles is also responsible for management of clinical governance within Frontier and assists with company business development.  Prior to joining Frontier Medical, Dr Sharples worked extensively as a medical and clinical consultant in the oil industry.  This included appointment as Clinical Standards Advisor with Chevron in Nigeria, with primary responsibility for sponsoring department initiatives to ensure operational excellence, effective capital stewardship of resources and reducing costs effectively without compromise to patient care, along with appointment as medical director of Chevron production operations in Kazakhstan.  Previously Dr Sharples was a senior partner in an NHS GP practice after nine years service in the military.

Dr Sharples continues to act as an Advisory Board Member for the Health Care and Trauma at Remote Locations Conference and also represents Frontier at the joint International Association of Oil and Gas Producers and International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association Health Committee meetings. 

PACS Manager - Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust

Radiographer for over 30 years

Early interest in digital imaging going back to the 1990's

Worked asa Clinical Tutor, Superintendent and Business Manager

PACS Manager since 2002

Implemented installation in 300 bed DGH then integrated 600 bed DGH 17 miles apart

More recently integrated 3 community sites

Now covers a county-wide PACS system

Consultant Radiologist - Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust - London

Dr Nicola Strickland trained in Natural Science and Medicine at the University of Oxford and in Radiology at the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust where she is now a Consultant Radiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College.

She has been in charge of the clinical aspects of the PACS project at the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust since its inception in the early 1990s.

She is the current Chairman of the IT Subcommittee of The Royal College of Radiologists, and of the pan-European IT Group (Management in Radiology) and also is the ex-President of EuroPACS and of the radiological section of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Consultant in Nuclear Medicine - Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children - London

Consultant in Nuclear Medicine since 1998 (at GOSH since 2002)

Chairman of the Paediatric Committee, European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Secretary of the Nuclear Medicine Committee, British Institute of Radiology

Special interest: paediatric nuclear medicine

Teaching activities:

- MSc in Nuclear Medicine, King's College London
- Annual Paediatric Radiology study day, RCR
- Annual GOSH Paediatric Radiology Course

Consultant Paediatric Radiologist - Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children - London

Over the last 12 years she has become an international leader in paediatric radiology, building a world-renowned team at GOSH.

She has been Radiology Director for 6 years, appointing 8 new consultants (now a total of 16 consultant staff), 1 senior lecturer, led installation of PACS, developed state of art body MRI and 16 slice MDCT and introduced cardiac MRCT to the Trust, reducing the radiation burden to children.

Nationally she is on the College teaching faculty and is the radiologist for UKCCSG Wilms' tumour group and the National Obliterative Bronchiolitis/Orphan Lung Disease Study Group. She has a major international role as a teacher within paediatric radiology and has set up websites and links via the hospital and the European Community to facilitate guideline/protocol sharing to standardise and improve the care of children. Her roles as Treasurer and now Secretary of the European Society of Paediatric Radiologists (ESPR) since 2003 facilitated the set up of European Oncology and Cardiothoracic CT and MR task forces encouraging collaboration and setting guidelines under EU directives to optimise and standardise care of children. She was scientific co-organiser of the International Paediatric Radiology (IPR) meeting in 2006 (Montreal) and president-elect for IPR London 2011 and ECR Vienna 2006 as well as Vice-President United Kingdom Radiological Committee 2008 and 2009. She has an international profile in paediatric radiology with 49 major papers, 15 chapters and over 100 lectures and important peer-reviewed grants.

Consultant Radiologist - Queens Medical Center, Nottingham

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Scientific Track Record:

He works at the Nottingham University Hospitals as a Consultant Radiologist, which is a recently merged trust comprising of Queens Medical Center and the Nottingham City Hospital.

His main interets are thoracic imaging and cross sectional imaging. He leads the thoracic imaging services at the QMC campus of the NUH. He also leads the radiology for Lung Cancer at the QMC campus of NUH.
His work includes imaging and interventional diagnostic procedures for lung cancer, including CT/US guided biopsy and drainage procedures. He has successfully introduced US guided lymph node sampling for lung cancer staging at the QMC. He has also introduced and helps establish a hot report service for the Acute Medical Admissions Unit at the QMC.

He has a wide Radiology experience and contributes to the general cross sectional imaging service with associated image guided procedures at the QMC.

He also partakes in the teaching activities involving the undergraduates and registrars.