The Officer for Scotland who represents you at Council is Dr Steve Turner, and your Regional Lead is Dr Carol Dryden. Find out useful contacts and activity in your RCPCH area and region.
Your RCPCH regional lead
Your elected 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.
- Dr Carol Dryden - carol.dryden@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
Other contacts for your RCPCH region
- Specialty Training Committee Chair: Dr Laura Cassidy - laura.cassidy@nes.scot.nhs.uk
- Paediatric Subcommittee Chair: Dr Peter MacDonald - peter.macdonald3@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
- Officer for Scotland: Professor Steve Turner - s.w.turner@abdn.ac.uk
- RCPCH Administrator: Claire Burnett - claire.burnett@rcpch.ac.uk
- Less Than Full Time Training Advisor: Dr David Cordiner - dcordiner5@gmail.com
- Academic Regional Representative: Dr James Paton - james.paton@glasgow.ac.uk
- Trainee Representative: Dr Elise Weir - elise_yu@doctors.org.uk
- Principal Area Theory Lead - for theory exams: Dr Brian Kelly, brian.kelly2@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Contacts for your training at the deanery
- Scotland Deanery
- Glasgow University
- Head of School / Training Programme Director: Dr Chris Lilley - chris.lilley@ggc.scot.nhs.uk / paediatrictraining@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
- Training Programme Director: Dr Ben Smith - Ben.Smith@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
- Deanery Administrator: Laura Armstrong - laura.armstrong@nes.scot.nhs.uk
Council
Council is the members' representative body that reports directly to the Board of Trustees, which meets three times a year. It sets the College's overall strategy, in particular with regard to issues affecting members.