Your Area Officer who represents you at Council is Prof Rajat Gupta, and your Regional Leads are Dr Mohammad Sawal and Prof Rajat Gupta . Find out more about useful contacts and activity in your RCPCH region.
Your RCPCH
Council
Council is the members' representative body that reports directly to the Board of Trustees, and meets three times a year. Council sets the College's overall strategy, in particular with regard to issues affecting members. Find out more and read Council meeting minutes
Area Officer
The Midlands Area Officer sits on Council, and represents two RCPCH regions: West Midlands and Thames Valley.
- Area Officer - Prof Rajat Gupta - rajatgupta@nhs.net
Regional Lead
The West Midlands Regional Lead is the ambassador and advocate for your RCPCH region. Through the Area Officer, they represent you in Council and other meetings. They also liaise with specialty training bodies, to help ensure the quality of training. The Regional Lead is in this post for three years, with a possible extension for a further two years.
- Regional Lead: Dr Mohammad Sawal - mohammad.sawal@nhs.net
- Regional Lead: Professor Rajat Gupta - rajatgupta@nhs.net
- Deputy Regional Lead: Dr Tarak Desai - tarak.desai@nhs.net
Other contacts for your RCPCH region
- Academic Regional Representative: Please see Academic Training Committee page
- Less Than Full Time Training Adviser: Please see LTFT Network page
- Trainee Representative: Please see Trainee Network and Trainee Oversight Committee page
- Principal Area Theory Lead - for theory exams: Dr Chizo Agwu - chizo.agwu@nhs.net
Contacts for your training
- Health Education West Midlands (deanery)
- Birmingham University
- Keele University
- Warwick University
- Head of School: Dr Alex Philpott - alexphilpott@nhs.net - Please see Heads of School Committee page
- Training Programme Director (TPD) ST1-3: Dr Clare Onyon - clare.onyon@hee.nhs.uk
- Training Programme Director (TPD) ST4-8: Dr Matt Cawsey - matthew.cawsey@hee.nhs.uk
- Administrator - see HEEWM contacts