Physical Activity Study Day: Movement for All

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• More details about Dr Alex Maxwell

  Dr Alex Maxwell

  Alex is a GP, School Doctor, Social Prescribing Clinical Director, Lifestyle Medic and Sports Medic working in London. He qualified from St George's Hospital Medical School in 2011 (Cor Blimey!). As a passionate Lifestyle Medic, he is involved with education through events, Student and Junior Doctor teaching and Conferences. He is Harrow School and Whitgift School doctor and absolutely loves these roles. He was amongst the first in the UK to do group consultations in Lifestyle medicine. He is clinical director of Croydon SocialP, the social prescribing endeavour in Croydon and is involved at a local, regional and national level with social prescribing. A keen amateur sportsman himself, he enjoys many types of Sports & Fitness. Alex believes that Social Prescribing and Lifestyle medicine have unparalleled power to create real change in the UK's current healthcare system and is working to unite and promote the two.

• More details about Dr Deepak Ravindran

  Dr Deepak Ravindran

  A BSLM 2020 diplomate, Deepak is Honorary Professor at Teesside University, a full time NHS Consultant in Pain, MSK and Lifestyle Medicine, and Consultant for Pain Medicine and Longcovid service at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading and Author of the Amazon Bestseller “Pain Free Mindset”. He serves as the Deputy Editor of E-Pain Platform at Health Education England and The Chief Medical officer at Boutros Bear, a digital rehab platform. Dr Deepak Ravindran adopts a trauma informed ‘upstreamist’ approach to pain practice and has helped set up award winning community pain service in Berkshire (IPASS) in 2015 and the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated Service (BLIS) in 2020. A Management Honours graduate from Henley Business School, he has been awarded the National Apprentice of the Year(2021) by Chartered Management Institute (CMI). He is part of the scientific advisory board at Curable, MyPain, PainD and also part of the Footsteps Festival team and a FlippinPain Friend.

• More details about Dr Callum Leese

  Dr Callum Leese

  Medically qualified at the University of Edinburgh, now training in general practice in Aberfeldy, whilst working part-time at the University of Dundee undertaking research with the division of population health and genomics. He is co-founder of the community-based initiative 'Healthiest Town' in Aberfeldy, Scotland where they try to enact and inspire local change and involved with the charity RunTalkRun. Callum is an honorary support fellow in physical activity and lifestyle medicine at the RCGP, and spent time in 2023 with WHO Regional Office for Europe addressing physical activity promotion in primary care. He has also recently taken on lead of the BLSM physical activity specialist interest group. His research interest is physical activity, and specifically physical activity promotion in primary care.

• More details about Dr Rob Bird

  Dr Rob Bird

• More details about Dr Seb Gray

  Dr Seb Gray

  Seb is a general paediatric consultant in Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust with RCPCH-accredited specialist interests (SPINs) in respiratory medicine and high dependency care. He is a clinical advisor and RCPCH ambassador for Bath and North-East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICS and is passionate about advocating for CYP and improving care for all. He was selected to represent the UK and Europe in the inaugural International Paediatric Association & Yale Global Health Paediatric Emerging Leaders Programme. He was the lead for the Wellbeing sub-group of Paediatrics 2040 and has completed a quality improvement fellowship with Health Education England with subsequent successful QI funding support grants. He follows the ethos of sharing seamlessly and stealing shamelessly and loves doing this through his role as an editor for RCPCH Milestones. His interest in Lifestyle Medicine was sparked by his wife’s passion from completing the BSLM diploma as a GP and the huge potential that all aspects of LM could be adapted to have an even more profound benefit to children and young people.

• More details about Dr Emad George

  Dr Emad George

  A Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology since 1998. After 26 years in the NHS I moved to Abu Dhabi in 2015 where I work for Imperial College London Diabetes Centre. Was MD for 3 years but now focus on Lifestyle Medicine (Dip IBLM in 2024 at age 60) and Bariatrics (SCOPE Certified) within my specialty. Extensive experience of GLP 1 use - very ware of pitfalls as well as pluses.

• More details about Dr Hugh Bethell

  Dr Hugh Bethell

  I qualified in medicine in 1966. My early career included a stint as a Cardiac Registrar at Charing Cross Hospital where I first encountered the use of exercise for treating heart disease – ground breaking at the time. In 1974 I abandoned cardiology and entered general practice in Alton in Hampshire. There I set up an exercise programme in the Alton Sports Centre for patients recovering from heart attacks and other cardiac ailments and operations. Since then I have written extensively on exercise for heart disease. In the early 90s I was the driver for setting up the British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation (now the British Association for Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation) and became its first President. Over the past 12 years I have expanded the Cardiac Rehab of our CR Centre activities to embrace those with other problems, particularly those which increase the risk of coronary disease – high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes et al. I have also become particularly interested in the exercise treatment of degenerative diseases, disability and frailty in later life, all of which are promoted by an inactive lifestyle. My aim is to encourage regular physical activity for all for disease prevention, increasing longevity and most of all leading to a healthy and enjoyable old age.