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Meet the team : Exec Group

    Dr Julia Moore FRCA MBA

    Chair, Executive Group

    Julia Moore is a consultant anaesthetist on Merseyside, with a long standing interest in health service management in general, and in change management in particular. She has been on half-time secondment to the Department of Health since 1999, as Senior Medical Officer for Strategic Medical Workforce Issues. In addition to providing wide ranging policy advice, she has extensive experience in NHS change management, and undertakes collaborative work with many NHS stakeholders. She came to the Radiology ITI through her chairmanship of the expansion and reformation of Histopathology training: developing a new curriculum and a national network of training schools to train more histopathologists. She generated DH support to fund the ITI and continues to drive this very complex project forward at many levels.

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    Dr Erika Denton, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR

    National Clinical Lead for Diagnostic Imaging

    As head of the Radiology Academy project in Norwich from 2002-2004 Erika developed the complex infrastructure for this important new training facility. Her role in the Integrated Training Initiative also includes being editor of the breast modules of the e-learning component of the project. She is a general radiologist in Norwich with a specific interest in Breast Imaging. She is the current vice chair and next chairman of the Royal College of Radiologists Breast Group. In January 2005 Erika was appointed as National Clinical Lead for Diagnostic Imaging.

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    Shelley Heard

    Executive Group

    Shelley is Deputy Dean Director of Postgraduate Medicine in London, and is leading on the implementation of Modernising Medical Careers in London. She recently joined MMC to work on the operational framework for the foundation programme. Shelley trained as a medical microbiologist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School. As a Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant at Barts and the Homerton in Microbiology, she developed managerial and educational interests which resulted in her being appointed Chief Executive of the Homerton Hospital in the east end of London. She became Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, initially for North Central London, and then for the London Deanery. Professor Heard is also the Lead Postgraduate Dean for the Pathology specialties and for Radiology.

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    Professor Janet Husband OBE, Fmedsci, FRCP, PRCR

    Executive Group

    Professor Husband is President of the Royal College of Radiologists (2004 to 2007) and head of the Academic Department of Radiology at the Royal Marsden Hospital as well as being Medical Director at the Royal Marsden. Professor Husband has undertaken pioneering work in cross sectional imaging in cancer, initially in computer tomography and later in magnetic resonance imaging. She is immediate past President of the British Institute of Radiology and co-founder and first President of the International CAT Imaging Society.

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    David May

    Assistant Director of Finance

    David joined the NHS in June 2002, initially working within Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire WDC undertaking various regional projects and then moving to Devon and Cornwall in December 2002.

    David is now the Assistant Director of Finance for the South West Peninsula Strategic Health Authority that is hosting the financial management of the ITI project funding from Department of Health.

    He is responsible for the financial management of the multi-professional education and training levy to the South West Peninsula (formerly Devon and Cornwall Workforce Development Confederation). In 2004-2005 the funding to support education and learning across the SW Peninsula is ££92m.

    He was appointed to the ITI Executive group in October 2004 and has developed the financial framework to manage the overall project funding involving the three new Radiology Academies, Curriculum Content and Validated Case Archive workstreams.

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    Donald Videlo

    Lay member

    Donald spent his career in the Aerospace Industry serving many years firstly as Engineering Director which for a period incorporated the role of Quality Director and in later years Project Director. Since retirement he has been a lay member on the Clinical Radiology Patient Liaison Group of the RCR and is now the Lay Member on the Council of the RCR.

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    Carol Wilby

    Executive Group

    Carol has a clinical background in nursing and specialised in operating theatre care and trauma. She managed a theatre suite and was senior nurse with responsibility for education, training and staff development.

    Carol led the national development programme that introduced operating department practitioners (ODP) into theatres. This included the creation of a career, education and state regulation framework. She also introduced strategic workforce planning into a local NHS trust (Dewsbury) and as a result was asked to work at regional and national level on workforce planning education and training.

    Carol developed and managed the first NHS Workforce Development Confederation in England. She was responsible for £53m education contracts with universities and colleges. Carol managed the transfer of £65m clinical education from DfES to DH. She developed and introduced the tiered skill mix model in radiography (breast screening, diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy services).

    Carol is DH sponsor for the development and introduction of radiology academies in England. Carol is currently Policy and Implementation Manager for Diagnostic Imaging and Deputy head Diagnostic Services Branch.

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