Meet the Team

Academic and Support Staff

Contact

All questions related to the course should be directed to the CPD Team at: UEMS_CPD@exeter.ac.uk

Professor Alex Harding

Course Director, Family Practitioner, Co-Chair of UK Heads of Teachers and advisor to WHO education group

Alex Harding has been a Family Practitioner for 25 years and having worked in several countries, now works in Exeter in the South-West of England. He is currently involved in research on healthcare education policy, continuity and how clinical learning takes place. He is the Course Director for the programme and also Course Director for the Masters in Clinical Education. Alex is currently working with WHO and several other international bodies, to develop primary care and primary care education.

Dr Rob Daniels

Course Facilitator, Family Practitioner with experience of rural and remote medicine

Rob Daniels studied in Cambridge before post graduate training in Australia and the United Kingdom and for the last 20 years has worked in primary care, secondary care and urgent care. He has a passion for Rural and Remote Medicine and has worked for a number of years as an expedition doctor in Africa, South America and the Asia, as well as research trips to South America and Rwanda. He has an interest in supporting less advantaged students, both in UK and elsewhere, to meet their potential and teaches on post graduate courses for doctors and allied health professionals at the University of Exeter.

Tina Teague

Healthcare management consultant who specialises in service design and development

Tina Teague was born and educated in Harare, Zimbabwe and spent her early career working for international companies that specialised in infrastructure development across Southern and East Africa. Tina moved to the UK early 2000 and studied Managing Health and Social Care Systems and has worked in the health and care sector since then. Tina has held a range of senior management positions including commissioning healthcare services and acute hospital management. Tina now works as a healthcare management consultant who specialising in service design and development. Tina is passionate about social mobility, creating opportunities for all and finding ways to create sustainable communities.

Dr Kaitesi Batamuliza Mukara

Founder of Humanhood Clinics, Senior ENT Surgeon, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Rwanda

Kaitesi Batamuliza Mukara, the founder of Humanhood Clinics, is a senior ENT surgeon and honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Rwanda where she served as the Founding academic head and doubled up as clinical Head of the ENT department. She is also a trained audiologist and holds a PhD in Public health.

She is passionate about audio-otology and related implementational research. Kaitesi is the focal person for Ear and hearing health in Rwanda, and is involved in policy and advocacy for ear and hearing health on local, regional and global fronts. Kaitesi dreams of a time when no child will be denied equal opportunity of academic and social achievement on basis of hearing loss.

Dr Robin Peter Youngs

ENT Surgeon, Honorary Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Robin Youngs is an ENT Surgeon in West Suffolk, UK. He has been involved in global ENT initiatives for 25 years. He is the Director of The Britain Nepal Otology Service (BRINOS) and has close connections with ENT colleagues in Myanmar, having organized educational activities since 2002.

He established and led the Global Health Committee for ENTUK and is the Past President of the Otology Section of The Royal Society of Medicine. Until recently he was Editor in Chief of The Journal of Laryngology and Otology. He is Honorary Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he works with colleagues in The International Centre for Evidence in Disability.

Dr Adam Bitunguramye

Adam Bitunguramye is a Rwandan medical doctor who graduated from the University of Rwanda College of Medicine and Health Sciences and he has three years of clinical work experience. He has attended an international social medicine course entitled: “Beyond the biological basis of disease: Social and Economic causation” in Haiti in 2016 where he went back in the following year of 2017 as the Teacher Assistant in the same course. He is passionate about Primary care and Public Health besides Paediatrics.

Professor Sir Denis Pereira Gray

Sir Denis Pereira Gray worked for 38 years in the St Leonard’s Medical Practice Exeter, following his father and grandfather. He has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Hunterian Society, London, the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of Public Health, and Honorary Doctorates by three British universities.

He established the first postgraduate university department of general practice in Europe at the University of Exeter and was later appointed Professor and Director of the Exeter University Postgraduate Medical School, serving for ten years. He was twice elected by the registered medical practitioners in England to the General Medical Council. He has written/ edited four books and has had over 200 articles published in scientific medical journals.

He was elected Chairman of Council and later President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Chairman of the JCPTPGP, a medical regulatory body, and Chairman of the Trustees of the Nuffield Trust. He was knighted for services to quality assurance in medicine.

Sir Denis was Vice-Chairman and then Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges of Britain and Ireland, the only GP ever elected. He is one of 35 British doctors who have been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA.

He continues to undertake research at the St Leonard’s Research Practice, Exeter, is an Assessor for the Queen’s Award for Higher and Further Education, Patron of the National Association for Patient Participation, and President of the children’s charity, What About the Children?

Chukumeka (Chukes) Maxwell

Founding Director & CEO Action To Prevent Suicide CIC

Founder and Advisor Goodwill in action to prevent suicide CIO

Chukumeka Maxwell (Aka Chukes) is the founder of Action To Prevent Suicide CIC -a Devon based non-profit dedicated to raising funds for community-based programs focused on suicide prevention.

Born in London, to African and Caribbean parents, Chukumeka’s family emigrated back to Nigeria in 1965 but Chukumeka was then evacuated to the UK in 1967 as a refugee from the Biafran civil war. He has have also lived in Jamaica and Belize.

A part-time lecturer at the University of Plymouth, Chukumeka is a suicide prevention trainer specialising in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Trainer (ASIST) and SafeTalk as developed by LivingWorks. He is a trainer, consultant and wellbeing practitioner of Orchid community & Associates underpinned by the teachings of Christian and Buddhist psychology.

Action To Prevent Suicide CIC is committed to making Devon a suicide-safer community by helping to increase knowledge, debate and action on preventing suicide – whether that be within the South West, nationally or even globally. The idea is inspired by LivingWorks – an international organisation based in Canada.

Websites: www.actiontopreventsuicide.org

Charity Project: www.goodwillatps.org.uk

Cecilia Mañosa Nyblon

Education and Skills Partnership Development Manager

Cecilia Mañosa Nyblon worked as an anthropologist/archaeologist educator in Uruguay, the USA and Panama before moving to Exeter.

During her time at the Kentucky Archaeolgical Survey (USA) she was responsible for leading and developing a portfolio of public archaeology outreach initiatives of national and international scope. As an education consultant for the Indigenous Geography project of the Smithsonian Institution she developed bilingual (English and Spanish) educational resources about the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Whilst at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Panama she was responsible for planning, managing and leading different public outreach initiatives on biodiversity. She completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of Exeter and joined what was then the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry in 2010 working in different professional services’ roles.

In her role as Education and Skills Partnership Development Manager (IIB) she leads on the development of a portfolio of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities at the College of Medicine and Health. She is also directly engaged in shaping our CPD/Executive Education provision at a university wide level. She is passionate about working collaboratively and in interdisciplinary teams to develop impactful, innovative, and inspirational lifelong learning courses and training for regional and international learners. Cecilia is a member of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group of the University of Exeter Medical School and a member of the University of Sanctuary Working Group. In 2019, her CPD contribution was recognised with an Ambition Award by the University of Exeter.

Heather Hind

Impact and Partnership Development Officer

Heather is an Impact and Partnership Development Officer for the College of Medicine and Health CPD courses, having previously worked as a Digital Learning Developer for the college's PGT programmes.

Before taking on this role, she completed her PhD in Victorian Literature at the University of Exeter and has taught undergraduate literature courses at Exeter, Bristol, Lancaster and Manchester.

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