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My links with ASME extend over many years, as a reviewer, Council member, conference organiser, and more recently as a researcher and member of the Executive committee. I have a wealth of experience teaching, designing, quality assuring and researching medical education - including the development of the first taught Masters programme in Medical Education in the UK. My commitment to ASME goals, values and aspirations remains as high today as ever and I would welcome the opportunity to continue to work with the Executive to further the strategic development of ASME.

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I have been on ASME Council as an elected member for a number of years and was delighted to be appointed to the Executive committee. I believe that educational environment is at an exciting and potentially historical point in its evolution. I have a fundamental belief that high quality healthcare is based on a foundation of high quality healthcare education. ASME needs to be a key influence in developments relating to the professionalism, recognition and research of healthcare education in order to hold and retain a world leading reputation in the discipline.

Professor John N Baxter

I was born and educated in New Zealand and completed higher surgical training in New Zealand and came to the UK to Liverpool where I became senior lecturer and the associate professor of surgery returning to New Zealand in 1987. I then took up a post in Glasgow and was promoted to reader and professor of general surgery in the University of Wales, Swansea in 1996. My main research and clinical interests are portal hypertension, laparoscopic surgery, obesity and antireflex surgery. I have taught undergraduates for over 20 years and was until recently the quality assurance officer for teaching in the faculty of medicine at the University of Glasgow.  I was also course organiser and teacher of a taught MSc course for several years. My current educational interest is in establishing new taught MSc courses for surgical trainees.

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I became Chief Executive of ASME, taking over from Professor Frank Smith, in July 2007. My clinical background is in GP having worked as a rural GP in Killin, Perthshire.  I am currently Undergraduate Medical Dean at Hull York Medical School, based in York.  I have a Mmed from the University of Dundee and an EdD from the University of Stirling. I co-direct the eMSC in clinical education University of Edinburgh and I am an external examiner for the University of Dundee. My main interests are in assessment, doctors with performance issues, curriculum development and the learning experiences of doctors in training.

Dr Paul Booton

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Practice at King's and Undergraduate Sub-Dean for the school.  My main work in recent years has been developing and co-ordinating the King's New Curriculum. Now the school is to merge with UMDS I will chair the New Year 5 committee, responsible for the development and implementation of the year. Previously I developed the "King's Medical Firm in the Community" which transferred a general medical firm to a general practice setting and has proved an influential model nationally

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Elected to the Chair of ASME in 2004 on stepping down from my post as Chief Executive of NHS Education for Scotland I was Honorary Secretary of the Association from 1995 - 2001. I was previously the Editor of Medical Education.

My clinical background is in General Practice and Geriatric Medicine as a member of the Livingston Experimental Health Service from 1974 - 1993. During this time I was initially an Associate Adviser, then Regional Adviser in Postgraduate Medical Education. During the 1980s I edited the British Journal of General Practice.  My MD thesis explored the multi-professional aspects of the clinical assessment of frail elderly people living at home.

From 1993 - 2002 I was the Chief Executive of The Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education.

My publications have focused on medical education, clinical audit, care of the elderly and medical workforce planning.

Dr Jennifer Cleland

Since 2000 I have been a member of the team responsible for strategic management and delivery of the Aberdeen MBChB with specific responsibility for communication skills. My research interests are: communication skills and co-ordinating the PG/UG communication skills programmes; e-learning; implementing effective feedback and support systems in education and practice. I am known locally for enthusiastically supporting junior teaching staff research. I lead the Scottish Doctor Communication Skills Standard Setting Sub-group on a recently funded HEA grant, with Peninsula Medical School. My goals are to support best practice and promote high quality research in medical education.

Dr G M Cochrane

I am a Consultant Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Guy's Hospital, London and Dean/Director of Postgraduate Medicine, Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals Trust and United Medical and Dental Schools. I qualified from Guy's Hospital and trained in general and respiratory medicine at the Brompton Hospital. My research interests include the pathophysiology of asthma and the psychological aspects of compliance with therapy in asthma and chronic bronchitis. I was Deputy Director of Medicine, Guy's Hospital and Clinical Adviser/Senior Clinical Adviser to undergraduate students at Guy's.

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I graduated in 1973 and have been involved in medical education since 1989. I gained a Masters in Medical Education in 2001 and am a member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Dr Phillip Cotton

I am a senior lecturer in general practice and co-ordinate vocational studies in years 1 & 2 of the undergraduate curriculum. I am interested in communication skills, clinical skills and professionalism. I co-ordinate community based medical education chair the Education Management Group in general practice. I am involved in education research and have taken the lead in personal and professional development in the curriculum.

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I am a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in nephrology, with clinical duties at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Since 1998 I have led the introduction of the new Edinburgh undergraduate medical curriculum as Associate Dean, and as Director of the Medical Teaching Organisation established a programme of educational research and development. Following University restructuring I am responsible for medical and veterinary teaching. I served on the QAA benchmarking group for medicine and the GMC PLAB OSCE panel. My interests are in competency-related learning outcomes and assessment; medical error; simulated patients; virtual learning environments in medicine and the undergraduate-PRHO transition.

Dr Deborah Gill

I qualified as a doctor in 1990. Following an academic training year in the department of primary care at Bart's I was appointed lecturer on the pan-Thames CeMENT Project developing and evaluating community-based education. I became senior lecturer in medical education in 2002. I am responsible for the staff development of over 3,000 teachers. I am academic lead for professional development and have established an extensive peer assisted learning programme developing tomorrow's teachers. I completed a Masters in education in 2002. I am HEA advocate for the school. I combine my academic work with a day a week in general practice.

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I am a senior research associate with a background in psychology and mental health. I joined the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Newcastle in 1998 and in 2000 was awarded one of the first ASME Research Fellowships. I have a varied research background and am involved in several projects on medical education and am a member of a research Ethics Committee. I joined ASME Council in 2002 and am seriously addicted to conferences.  I am particularly interested in the role that ASME plays in facilitating medical education and developing research expertise.

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I am the Director of a leading multiprofessional skills centre. I continue to have a part-time clinical commitment in general practice. She has helped to establish a successful Clinical Skills Network in Scotland and is enthusiastic in promoting medical education in its broader sense, to all healthcare professionals.  Through involvement in a number of medical education projects abroad in Bangladesh, Latvia and Moldova, Jean has developed interests in clinical skills, professionalism, reflection and assessment. I am keen to further the aims of ASME to incorporate high standards of educational practice in to the professional practice of medicine.

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I am by profession a biochemist, but my academic life really began at 40 when I became interested in medical education. I co-ordinated the planning of the new medical curriculum at St Bartholomew's and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry from 1988 until I became Director of the Centre for Medical and Dental Education in 1997. In 1999 I was appointed Director of the new 4-year MBBS Graduate Entry Programme at St George's, University of London (SGUL) and have from that time been involved in its design, organisation and implementation. I am now Head of the Centre for Medical and Health Care Education at SGUL.

My main interest is in curriculum development and all it entails, in particular assessment, problem based learning, community-oriented learning, interprofessional education and graduate entry. Since 1997 I have been involved in the training of assessors for the GMC Performance Procedures and am myself a Lay Assessor. I am a GMC visitor and have been involved in the validation of five UK medical schools. I have also carried out quality assurance of other medical courses (e.g. Edinburgh, Liverpool and Dublin) and of the Royal College of Surgeons intercollegiate examinations. I am assessor trainer for the National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS). I have led a team from St George's working with the University of Brunei Darussalam to help develop a Bachelor of Health Science degree feeding into clinical medical courses in the UK, Australia and Canada and have a wider remit within St George's towards expanding its international medical education profile.

Dr Jane Metcalf

I have been a Senior Lecturer in medical education at Newcastle University and Consultant Gastroenterologist at University Hospital of North Tees since 2000. I am a Fellow for CETL4HEALTHNE. I am on the editorial sub-board for The Clinical Teacher. My interests include interprofessional education (IPE), peer teaching and professionalism. I have collaboratively developed IPE an undergraduate and postgraduate level including training in patient safety, chronic disease management and end of life care. I am keen to develop multi-centre projects in clinical education and embed IPE with curricula for healthcare students.

Professor Debbie Murdoch-Eaton

I joined the Medical Education Unit in Leeds in 1995 in a new clinical academic post with an educational remit, allowing me to develop expertise in medical education. I have been involved in a range of educational initiatives ranging from SSCs through to appraisal and assessment. My research interests are in the field of how students develop life-long learning skills, and areas of student support and development. I am increasingly involved in international medical education, assisting schools in developing countries. I would like to continue membership of ASME Council for a further term to contribute to national debates.

Professor Gillian Needham

I am the Postgraduate Medical Dean for the North East Region of NHS Education for Scotland and am a Consultant in Diagnostic Radiology at Aberdeen Royal Hospitals Trust, and Flexible Training adviser at North East Scotland Postgraduate Medical Centre, Aberdeen. My interests include appropriate extension of opportunities for Flexible Training and Working in General And Specialist Training in Radiology, in particular. In the last five years I have co-authored two books, 13 papers and 14 presentations to learned societies on Radiological Anatomy, Breast Imaging, Image analysis, and Clinical Guidelines.

Dr David Pearson

I believe ASME has an important continuing role to play in promoting high quality undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, and in helping medical education gain and share ideas with other professional groups.  ASME's strength lies in being responsive to the wishes of its membership - we need to be careful to seek and listen to those ideas.  I believe we should:

• encourage junior medical educators through involvement at conferences and meetings
• remain small and with a mainly UK focus - never slow to share ideas with international colleagues, but neither seeking to compete with AMEE or similar organisations.
• encourage the dissemination of good practice in education, however embryonic or innovative, as well as encouraging high quality research into educational methods.

Dr Lesley Pugsley

I am an active member of the Association and a keen supporter of its aims and objectives.  A senior lecturer in Medical Education at Cardiff University, with a background in policy sociology, I really enjoy both teaching and research.  I contribute to the Medical Education courses that are offered at Cardiff and I have been involved with a broad spectrum of research projects looking at a variety of different aspects of medical education.

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After spending twenty years in further education, I joined the University of Liverpool in 1999 as the Staff Development Officer for the Faculty of Medicine. Since then I have been extensively involved in the teacher training of hospital doctors and GPs and in a range of initiatives in the field of medical education. I regularly contribute to workshops at Annual Conference and helped develop an ASME seminar on 'Standards for Clinical Educators'. My main interest is in promoting and enhancing teaching quality, particularly in the clinical environment.

Dr Iain Robbé

I qualified in medicine in 1980. My current post is within the School of Medicine, Cardiff University (since 1993). I completed the Masters in Medical Education Course in 2000 with distinction degree award. The philosophies underpinning my educational practices are humanism and andragogy. Current teaching involves medical undergraduates and postgraduates. I am also an external examiner.  My research includes personal and professional development; teaching governance and curriculum evaluation. I am co-holder of grants from The Royal College of Surgeons (England), The Faculty of Public Health Medicine and The Welsh Assembly Government. I have presented papers, posters and workshops at medical education meetings.

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I qualified from Manchester University and became a Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Transplant Immunology in 1995.  I have always had an interest in medical education, both undergraduate and postgraduate. In 2000 I moved into medical education full-time, taking up the Chair of Medical Education and Director of the Medical Education Unit in Leeds. I currently chair the MB ChB committee, have a major responsibility for assessment and have a key role in the quality management and enhancement programme. I continue to pursue and publish in my area of research interest in assessment, widening access and participation and inter-professional learning.  I am currently Chair of ASME's Education Research Group (ERG).

Professor D A Shaw

Professor Shaw, Vice President of ASME, is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of Newcastle. He was Dean of Medicine until 1989 and was Chairman of the GMC Education Committee until 1994. Since then he has been the Medical Co-ordinator Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training.

Professor Patsy Stark

I am Professor of Medical Education at the University of Sheffield. I have led on many key areas of curriculum development and implementation in Sheffield and overseas where I am a consultant to several medical schools and NGOs. I lead the SSC and Personal and Professional Development themes of the curriculum and am Director of Clinical Skills and the Patients as Educator programme.  I hold a University Senate Award for Excellence and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I have an academic interest in the interface between health policy and medical education, curriculum evaluation and professionalism.

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I have a broad range of experience in medical education and educational leadership. I am faculty development lead for the London Deanery and Director of Postgraduate General Practice Education. I am also the Editor of the Understanding Medical Education series of ASME publications; course leader for an MA in Clinical Education, Institute of Education, London University; Honorary Senior Lecture, Imperial College and Visiting Lecturer Universities of Westminster and Bedfordshire.

Recent research includes evaluations of RCGP workplace-based assessment package; general practice placements in Foundation and the accreditation of training practices. Publications include: The Study Guide for GP Training (2003), The General Practice Journey (2003), The Management Handbook for Primary Care (2004), Educational Leadership (2006).

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I have been a medical teacher for 20 years and active in ASME for 10 years. I hold a Masters Degrees in education and have published in Medical Education. I have been Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, a College Tutor, a Programme Director and a Dean for Admissions.  I am currently an honorary university reader in medical education, an external examiner at UEA, an examiner for Higher Degrees at Newcastle University and examiner for the RCP. I have been an education visitor for the GMC (QABME) for 6 years and am a deputy team leader.  My current interests are in mentoring, competence-based models of medical education and learner-centered education.

Professor Val Wass

My work for ASME has strengthened my belief that this important academic body has a crucial role in promoting evidence based medical education and supporting the development of future educators. I offer my experience in community based medical education to the innovations needed to address change in health care. My research expertise, particularly in assessment and diversity, contribute to the ASME education research group. Through my increasingly international educational profile I promote the work of ASME to colleagues abroad. It is crucial ASME has a strong profile and leadership and I offer my skills to support this.

Professor Olwyn Westwood

I am currently a reader in medical education at the University of Surrey. I have worked in medical education for more than 20 years and have been chief examiner in Biomedical Sciences. I previously co-ordinated the set up of the graduate entry medical programme at Swansea in collaboration with Cardiff University. I am presently setting up the UK equivalent of US Physician's Assistants and Chair the interim Examination Board that is developing the National Accreditation Examination for this new role. I am a GMC Visitor for Quality Assurance and Basic Medical Education.