Fellows and Scholars

Alice is a consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist who since CCST has worked in The Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone as a specialist and educator, and with Chelsea and Westminster NHS trust and Betsi Cadwaladr NHS trust as a Locum Consultant. She will be supporting the CSH's SusQI Education project, which seeks to promote, and support the inclusion of SusQI into postgraduate and undergraduate clinical education. Alice has a background in climate activism, and is currently working with other Obstetricians and the RCOG to create a movement towards sustainable Obstetric care. 

Joshua is a doctor working at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has a background in Physics and worked in the energy sector before studying medicine. His interests lie at the intersection of transport, health and the environment. During his fellowship year supported by Newcastle Hospitals Charity, Joshua will be carbon footprinting patient pathways within the Oncology service and identifying opportunities for improvement.

Robin is a specialist registrar in gastroenterology, and research fellow at St Marks and Kings College Hospitals. He is undertaking a dedicated period of research on the topic of sustainability in endoscopy.

Joanne is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner who works in Renal Services at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust in the North West of England. Her background is in dialysis and most recently in peritoneal dialysis. Joanne has been selected as s a Scholar in Sustainable Kidney Care as part of CSH's and UKKA's group scholar programme to look at the patient pathway in peritoneal dialysis, identifying hotspots and looking at ways of improving the carbon footprint.

Dr. Rosa Montero, a Kidney Consultant at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has been appointed as a Scholar in Sustainable Kidney Care as part of CSH's and UKKA's group scholar programme. She is currently focused on driving sustainable changes in dialysis and kidney transplantation both locally and nationally.

Emily is a junior doctor working at the Great North Children's Hospital in Newcastle. She has a background in Social Anthropology and has volunteered providing medical care to refugees across Europe. She is interested in the links between migration, public health and climate change. During her fellowship year supported by Newcastle Hospitals Charity, she plans to focus on sustainable paediatric asthma care, green spaces, and carbon footprinting medicines.

Becca is a Junior Clinical Fellow in Anaesthetics/ICU at East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust. She is passionate about delivering more sustainable healthcare to improve the long term health of patients and the planet. She has a particular interest in the carbon footprint of anaesthesia and how we can improve our practice in theatres and ICU to minimise healthcare’s impact on the environment.

Victoria is a junior doctor trained in Severn Deanery and has recently completed a Masters of Public Health at the French National School of Public Health(EHESP). She will be supporting the SusQI Education project in delivering SusQI training in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Victoria has a background in advocacy and is an active member of Medact, having previously led Medact Bristol and their clean air campaign.  

Shashank is a Senior Lecturer (on leave) at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India. He coordinated the 2020 launch of CSH's online courses and is conducting his PhD dissertation research "Enacting Medical Education for Climate Change Mitigation in England: Lessons from Professional Practice" for CSH and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Sian Jones is the Interim Operational Manager within Clinical, Diagnostics and Therapeutics Clinical Board. She has been in post since February 2021, coming from a role in the health board’s HR department.  She attended the Green Health Wales awareness session in 2021 and this inspired her to help bring sustainability to the board and incorporate it into the IMTP agenda and plans for CD&T. Plans include setting up Sustainability Champions within departments and integrate this thinking into working practice.

Originally from Glasgow in Scotland I have lived and worked in Wales for almost 4 years now and very much see Wales as ‘Home’. Currently working in a dual role as the Dragons Heart Institute Innovation and Leadership Fellow and ENT Registrar at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. I am interested in the development of sustainable working within ENT and the wider surgical team. My aim is to help enact real-world changes which improve the service and experience for both our patients and staff within the NHS.

Jennifer Jenkins is an Anaesthetic Operating Department Practitioner (ODP), working in main theatres in Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. Jennifer’s interests lie in sustainable healthcare and making more sustainable choices in the theatre environment. 

NHS is the biggest employer in the UK and Jessica thinks our current working practices mean we are a good distance away from net zero. Her area of interest is the amount of refuse we create and the lack of correct disposal. She works in ICU and renal medicine and sees every day what gets put in orange bins, items which could be recycled or disposed of in ‘alternative’ bin. She believes that to become carbon neutral we need to do the big things, but starting to change attitudes on smaller things, such as waste disposal will make a massive difference. 

Dr Rosie Spooner is a Paediatric Trainee (St5) in Severn Deanery who has taken up the post of QI Education Fellow at CSH from 2020-2021, working with universities and postgraduate education programmes to support the integration of sustainable healthcare into Quality Improvement teaching. She comes from a background in environmental activism and previously established a hospital allotment society whilst a medical student in London.

Chris is an anaesthetics and intensive care medicine trainee, currently undertaking the Fellowship in Environmentally Sustainable Anaesthesia with the CSH and the Association of Anaesthetists in Newcastle upon Tyne. Chris will be continuing to promote strategies to reduce the impact of anaesthesia on the environment, with areas of focus including nitrous oxide usage, alternatives to anaesthetic gases, and reusable vs disposable equipment. He will also work with the Association's

Cathy is an anaesthetic and intensive care medicine trainee in the North East. Her interest in environmental sustainability took off when she was elected as a member of the Group of Anaesthetists in Training (GAT) committee at the Association of Anaesthetists (AoA). Cathy sat on the AoA Environmental Task group  for three years, and through this learnt about how the anaesthetic speciality impacts on the environment and sustainability.

Alexander was appointed in August 2019 to CSH as the first Welsh Scholar in Sustainable Ophthalmology as part of CSH's W.I.S.E. (Welsh Ireland Scotland England) scholarship programme, sponsored by Thea pharmaceuticals. He is currently a ST6 trainee in wales deanery. Alexander will be involved in rolling out the use of the Sustainable Cataract Surgical Services Auditing tool ‘Eyefficiency’ in the ophthalmology departments in Wales, helping units to improve productivity, cost, and carbon footprint of their cataract care.

Clare was appointed in March 2019 to CSH as the first Scottish Scholar in Sustainable Ophthalmology as part of CSH's W.I.S.E. (Welsh Ireland Scotland England) scholarship programme. Her scholarship is sponsored by Bausch + Lomb. As her scholarship project, Clare will roll-out the Eyefficiency tool across a few Scottish sites to measure productivity, carbon and cost of their cataract surgery.

Sara is a practising dentist working for the community dental service and in general dental practice, with a special interest in anxiety management and conscious sedation. Through this scholarship hosted by CSH and Health Education England she is keen to explore ways into how dental care provision can become more sustainable and enhance her knowledge of Dental Public Health and policy change.

Dr Emma Brandish is a higher trainee in General Adult Psychiatry, based in Salisbury. Her scholarship is hosted by Wiltshire County Council working with both the local Public Health team and the Clinical Commissioning Group. Clinically she has interests in quality improvement, behavioural change and the comorbidity between mental health problems and substance use...

Shiva is a higher trainee in Psychiatry of Learning Disabilities in Oxford and previously worked in emergency services for a number of years prior to joining Psychiatry training. She is one of five Scholars working one day per week on sustainability in mental health in 2016-17, and is looking forward to applying sustainability principles to the bio-psycho-social model of psychiatric care, as well as in clinical leadership and management.

Jonathan is a GPST3 trainee. Currently based in Somerset, he is very keen to discover more about sustainability in primary care and in turn have an impact in this area. Jonathan is on the South West GP trainee committee and also represents trainees at the Somerset LMC. He has recently completed an MSc in topical medicine and international health. 

Suhana is a dual higher trainee in old age and adult psychiatry, based in South London. Prior to working in mental health, she spent a few years training in A&E. Through the Scholarship, she worked with Brighton & Hove CCG to incorporate aspects of sustainability into their commissioning for homeless people...

Through the scholarship, Charlie worked with the National Union of Students to lead the development of Green Impact for Health, an online evidence-based toolkit for sustainable action in general practice. He also formed a quality improvement team within his own practice which ran a project to improve the pre-operative care pathway for their patients.

Mark co-designed the National Union of Students'  Green Impact for Health online toolkit, which provides a programme for sustainable action in general practice. The team successfully piloted the scheme with seven GP practices in the South West, and presented 2 posters at the RCGP annual conference, as part of a national roll-out.

Divya is a dentist working within community and  prison dental services. Among her achievements as Sustainable Dentistry Scholar 2015-16 was the successful integration of sustainability across a number of the e-Learning for Healthcare dentistry modules. Other sustainable dentistry interests include the collection/recycling of nitrous oxide, and tele-dentistry. 

Tara continued the work in kidney care through a six-month Fellowship in 2010. She supported ongoing work by Green Nephrology local representatives, documented additional case studies, organised a joint meeting on telemedicine with the RSM Nephrology Section...