Prof Sinclair on the move again
but with new direction

Congratulations to Prof Sinclair who has been appointed to the key position of Associate Dean at the new Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Postgraduate Medical School.

The School is a joint venture between the Strategic Health Authority and the Universities of Luton, Hertfordshire, and Cranfield. This is a welcome extension of his postgraduate medical education career – Alan chaired the West Midlands regional training committee during the transition to Calman, and was also SAC Chair at the Royal College of Physicians. He has also been influential in driving forward European initiatives in education through his role as Academic Director of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS). Alan was formerly the second Charles Hayward Professor of Geriatric Medicine in Birmingham (1995-2001) having succeeded the late and eminent Bernard Isaacs.

Alan will have a strategic NHS role in Luton where his extensive medical and geriatric experience will help to support the modernisation of services to improve the health of older people. He will be working closely with his colleagues in both the Acute sector at the large Luton and Dunstable hospital and in the Primary Care Trust.

His research interests in Diabetes, nutrition and cognitive disorders will continue in his new post. Alan’s academic career has recently been boosted by his Visiting Professorship at Oxford Brookes University, and more importantly by the conferment of his Professor of Medicine title at the University of Luton when his new post starts.

Prof Sinclair commented: “My time in Coventry and Warwick has been very rewarding and challenging, but the balance between academic time and NHS work was not right. This situation is not unique to many clinical academics. This new position will allow me more time to spend in postgraduate medical education and research, and at the same time, give me an opportunity to influence change in the NHS locally. I also intend to offer my direct support to the BGS locally and nationally, having spent the last 6 years working very much at the European level”.