Professor Marilyn Hammick

BEME Consultant

Marilyn advises and supports international review groups in medical and health care sciences & practice education, training and development and has a major role in taking forward developments in evidence informed education practice and policy. She works independently providing research and educational consultancy to international projects in higher education.

Marilyn has written widely on educational systematic review research from her work with review teams that include veterinary medical educators and those across Europe. Her scholarly work includes a series of systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interprofessional education as a member of the Interprofessional Education Joint Evaluation Team. She led the work of the most recent review of the 21 most robust and recent IPE evaluations for Best Evidence Medical Education. Her other roles include Associate Editor, Journal of Interprofessional Care, membership of the WHO Study Group on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Care and immediate past Chair of the UK Centre for Interprofessional Education. She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Marilyn has a Doctorate of Education, a MSc. Sociology & Social Policy; following professional qualification in therapeutic radiography she practiced in the UK and Iran. In 2006, she completed a Diploma in Creative Writing at Oxford University.

Dr Ronald Harden

Postgraduate Dean
Director, Centre for Medical Education, University of Dundee 
 

Professor Ronald Harden is editor of Medical Teacher and General Secretary and Treasurer of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). 

Professor Harden was formerly Professor of Medical Education, Teaching Dean and Director of the Centre for Medical Education at the University of Dundee, Consultant Physician, and Director of the Educational Development Unit of the Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education. He is recognised as one of the leading international authorities in medical education with unparalleled experience in undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education.  He brings to medical education a unique blend of theoretical and practical experience. 

Professor Harden is committed to developing new approaches to medical education, curriculum planning and to teaching and learning.  Ideas which he has pioneered include the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) which has been universally adopted as a standard approach to assessment of clinical competence.  He is currently leading work related to outcome-based education, curriculum mapping, and the application of new learning technologies.  Professor Harden has published more than 400 papers in leading journals.  He is co-editor of the best-selling book – “A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers”.

He has served as a consultant and visiting professor in Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, India and the Far East.  His contributions to excellence in medical education have attracted numerous awards including an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, Surgeons of Canada, the prestigious Hubbard Award by the National Board of Medical Examiners in the USA and recognition by the Kellogg Foundation for his contributions to medical education in South America.  He was awarded by the Queen the OBE for his services to medical education.  He was presented in Singapore in February 2006 with the ‘Mentoring, Innovation and Leadership in Education Scholarship' (MILES) award for ‘outstanding contributions to the advancement of global medical education and academic medicine’.

In 2006 Professor Harden was the winner of the Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education. In 2009 he was awarded the ASME Richard Farrow Gold Medal, and in 2010 he was the recipient of the AMEE 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of his contributions to medical education and the work of the Association.

Professor Jill Thistlethwaite

Director of the Institute of Clinical Education, Warwick Medical School
 

Professor Jill Thistlethwaite became a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners with distinction in 1985.

In 1996 Jill became senior lecturer in community-based education at Leeds Medical School, obtained a Masters in Medical Education from Dundee in 1998 and her PhD in medical education from Maastricht in 2004. During her time in Leeds she ran the Personal and Professional Development core unit, set up early patient contact experiences for students and with colleagues developed interprofessional learning opportunities in medicine, nursing and pharmacy.

Professor Thistlethwaite has also worked as associate professor in general practice and rural medicine at James Cook University medical school in Townsville, North Queensland, and associate professor in medical education in the Office of Postgraduate Medical Education, where she was academic lead for the Masters of Medical Education, at the University of Sydney. In 2007 she was awarded the NICS (National Institute of Clinical Studies) Evidence into Action prize with Rebecca Stewart & Rebecca Evans for work on women's health research.

Currently at Warwick UNiversity, she is associate editor of the Journal of Interprofessional Care, deputy editor of InnovAiT and on the editorial board of the Clinical Teacher. She is president of InterEd, a board member of CAIPE and is a member of the World Health Organisation supported IPE study group exploring the scope and practice of IPE and defining international and national learning outcomes for interprofessional education.

Professor Neil Johnson

Pro Dean of Education, Warwick Medical School 

Professor Dale Dauphinee

Interim Director of the Toronto Network for Excellence in Simulation Learning and Teaching

 Professor Dauphinee is the former Chair and Professor in the Department of Medicine at McGill University and was the founding Director of the Division of Clinical Epidemiology at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Previously he served as the Associate Dean of Medicine (Medical Education) and the Director of the McGill Center for Medical Education Research. From 1993-2006 he was the Executive Director of the Medical Council of Canada where he established its first in-house research program, an external research grants program, directed their pioneering move adaptive on-line assessment methods, and created the national physician identifier and physician credential verification services. During that time he received many awards for distinguished service, including the John Hubbard Award for excellence in his contributions to medical assessment and evaluation. He sits on several editorial boards and national and international advisory boards. He continues research into workforce production, developing informatics infrastructure, and assessment outcomes strategies, as well as consulting and advising universities, national professional bodies, governments, and health sciences educational programs internationally.

Mrs Pat Lilley

AMEE Administrator

 Pat is an AMEE Administrator, and manages all aspects of AMEE work including conferences, courses and publications. She is also Managing Editor of journal Medical Teacher, and BEME Coordinator.