Humana Europe Advisory Board
- Baroness Julia Cumberlege, CBE, DL, FRCP, FRGP
- Sir Jonathan Michael. Deputy Managing Director of Healthcare, British Telecom
- Dr Michael Dixon MA, FRCGP, OBE – Chair, NHS Alliance
- Mr Ken Anderson, Managing Director, USB Investment Bank
- Professor Judith Petts, Professor of Environmental Risk Management
- Professor Michael Deighan, Associate Director, National Clinical Governance Support Team
- Dr Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Chair, Deparment of Bioethics, The National Institutes of Health in the US
- Baroness Sally Morgan
Baroness Julia Cumberlege, CBE, DL, FRCP, FRGP
Baroness Cumberlege has extensive experience of working at all levels in the NHS and in 2001 founded Cumberlege Connections, a specialist consultancy to the health sector.
Julia has worked in several positions within local government and in 1992 was appointed a Junior Health Minister covering health and social services issues in the House of Lords. Julia has produced national reports for two governments including 'Neighbourhood Nursing – a Focus for Care and Changing Childbirth', in addition to her work with the Royal College of Physicians to produce the report 'Doctors in Society', published in 2005 in partnership with the King's Fund.
Since Julia parted with government in 1997 she sought to “close the loop” between government and the NHS through her flagship programme titled 'The Westminster Experience'. Julia has also chaired the medical school council of St. George's, University of London and the Royal College of Physicians and has been awarded Honorary Degrees from the University of London, University of Surrey and University of Brighton. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of General Practitioners, and is a Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives.
Sir Jonathan Michael. Deputy Managing Director of Healthcare, British Telecom
Sir Jonathan Michael MB, BS, FRCP, FKC was appointed Chief Executive of Guy's and St Thomas' in November 2000. Jonathan was awarded his Knighthood in 2005 in recognition of his lifetime commitment to the National Health Service. In the same year he was appointed a Fellow of Kings College London (FKC) in recognition of his contribution to the relationship between the health service and higher education.
Jonathan trained as a doctor at St Thomas', qualifying in 1970, and worked as a junior doctor at both St Thomas' and Guy's. in 1980 he became a Consultant Physician at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham where he was responsible for the development of what is now one of the largest kidney units in the UK. During the 1990s he became more involved in hospital management, serving as Clinical Director, then Medical Director, and finally Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust.
Jonathan left Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust on the 17th May 2007 and has now joined BT as their deputy managing director of healthcare.
Dr Michael Dixon MA, FRCG, OBE – Chair, NHS Alliance
Dr Michael Dixon has been a GP in Cullompton, Devon for the past seventeen years. In 1993, he co-founded the Mid Devon Commissioning Group and is now commissioning chair for the Mid Devon PCT. Since May 1998, he has been chair of NHS Alliance, which is the national representative organisation of PCTs and the individual health professionals, managers and lay people within them.
His national roles currently include membership of: - The National Quality Task Force, the Primary Care Workforce Review, the Cabinet Committee on Bureaucracy in General Practice, the National Demand Management “think Tank” of the Modernisation Agency and the National Medicines Management Advisory Grouped.
His publications include: - The Locality Commissioning Handbook (Radcliffe Press 199), The Human Effect (Radcliffe Press 2000) and A practical Guide to Primary Care Groups and Truest (Radcliffe Press 2000) and he was a co-author of NHS Alliance's documents Restoring the Vision (1997) and Implementing the Vision (2000). As a fellow of Exeter University, he had written a number of research papers on complementary medicine and the therapeutic relationship.
Awarded an O.B.E. in June 2001, he remains a dissident committed to championing frontline professionals, managers and people in their quest to improve local health and services.
When time allows, he is to be found digging in the garden or fishing on the river. He has three children and his wife, Joanna, is a professional artist.
Mr Ken Anderson, Managing Director, USB Investment Bank
In 2003, Ken Anderson was appointed as the first Commercial Director in the history of the Department of Health. In this role, he was responsible for driving efficiency and smart procurement from the private sector. Ken has over 16 years experience within healthcare operations in the USA, UK and continental Europe. Ken worked closely with Ministers, other DH officials and the NHS to gain the best value for money in areas of expenditure and to provide a core interface for negotiations with private and voluntary organisations, collectively referred to as the independent sector.
Ken left the Department of Health in January 2007 to join UBS Investment Bank as a Managing Director.
Judith Petts, Professor of Environmental Risk Management, Head of the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Training at the University of Birmingham.
Professor Petts has over 20 years experience in applied research and advisory work on environmental risk management with a particular current focus on waste management, contaminated land and environmental health. Particular interests are in science-society and science-policy relationships, public perceptions of risks, risk literacy and public engagement in environmental decision-making. Over 70 publications in the subject.
She is a Council Member of NERC and has been a specialist advisor to House of Commons and House of Lords Select Committee inquiries.
Research Interest: Environmental risk and governance, Public communication and engagement, Use of formal assessment tools in environmental decision-making, Science-society relationships, Science-policy interface.
Professor Michael Deighan, Associate Director, National Clinical Governance Support Team
Professor Deighan has worked in healthcare governance and quality for the past 20 years. Currently with the NHS Clinical Governance Support Team working with NHS boards and on policy development, heis co-author of the Department of Health “Integrated Governance Handbook”. He has recently been commissioned to develop the policy on governance between organisations jointly with Dr. John Bullivant. Michael has worked with many boards and top teams, is a WHO International Fellow, and worked with various FTSE100 companies and leading NHS Trusts.
He is co-author of "Delivering Reform on Two and a Half Days a Month", published by HFMA in 2007, which outlines the contribution to the modernisation of UK healthcare which better governance will make. Previous high level programmes he has directed include the Royal College of Physicians Action on Clinical Audit Programme, and the development of clinical governance nationally.
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Chair, Department of Bioethics, The National Institutes of Health in the US
Ezekiel Emanuel earned his PhD and MD degrees from Harvard University where his doctoral dissertation received the Toppan Award for the finest political science dissertation of the year. After earning his MD PhD, he was a Fellow in the Programme in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Before accepting his current position as the Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in 1998, Dr. Emanuel was an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
Widely published on the ethics of clinical research, advance care directives, end-of-life issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship, Dr. Emanuel’s articles have appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Journal of American Medical Association, and many other medical and ethics journals. His book, “The Ends of Human Life”, has been widely praised and was awarded the Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Dr. Emanuel served on the ethics section of former President Clinton’s Health Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and the International Advisory Board on Bioethics of the Pan American Health Organization. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UCLA, and Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He is an oncologist.
Baroness Morgan has extensive knowledge of Government, politics and health and social care. Sally was Political Secretary to Prime Minister Rt Hon Tony Blair after the 1997 general election until being made a peer in 2001. Sally served as Minister for Women before rejoining Downing Street as Director of Government Relations until 2005.
In April 2006 Sally was appointed a Board Member of the Olympic Delivery Authority. She is a non-executive director of The Carphone Warehouse Group plc and Southern Cross Healthcare, a member of the UK Advisory panel of LloydsPharmacy and Patron of the Heart Failure Foundation. Sally currently works as advisor to the Board of the children’s charity Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) – the UK charity funded by the hedge fund industry. Sally is also chair of Future Leaders, a government-supported UK charity, training potential head teachers for challenging urban schools.
As a member of the House of Lords, Sally’s interests are public services and equality issues. Sally is Chair of the Morgan Inquiry, established by the Scout Association to encourage volunteering opportunities by 18-24 year olds. Sally started her working life as a secondary school teacher.
