Consultant Conversations

Dr. Liddicoat studied at Imperial College London, achieving a 1st Class Honours degree in Medical Sciences with Immunology and Pathology, before graduating in Medicine in 2004. She trained in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine in North-East London, completing her rotation at Barts and The Royal London. Dr. Liddicoat completed a year as a prestigious Darzi Fellow in Clinical Leadership and Quality Improvement during this time, through which was awarded a PGCert from the King's Fund and Manchester Business School.

Starting as a Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at Ninewells Hospital in 2018, she has sub-speciality interests in Pleural Disease and Lung Cancer, and is a Quality Improvement Fellow at NHS Tayside. Dr. Liddicoat is Training Programme Director for Respiratory Medicine in East of Scotland, and a Council member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh as well as Chair of the Recently Appointed Consultants' Committee.

She is passionate about treating patients with a person-centred and holistic approach.

Dr Caroline Scally is a Consultant Cardiologist in NHS Lothian and Co-Chair of RCPE's Recently Appointed Consultants' Committee (RAC).

Cosmas Anazodo is Stroke Consultant and general Physician with Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Preston. He is the Directorate Training Lead in Medicine and Principal Investigator for international stroke clinical trials and is an accredited Educational and Clinical supervisor. He is an MRCP PACES Examiner and a member of the Recently Appointed Consultants (RAC) Committee of RCPE.

Dr Nimmo is a kidney consultant with an interest in transplantation, vasculitis, and training and education. She also has experience in epidemiology and is enjoying gaining experience in clinical trials now as a consultant.

She has previously been on the RCPE Trainee and Members Committee (T&MC).

Dr Yates is a consultant Physician in Stroke Medicine and Geriatrics in NHS Lanarkshire, working in acute stroke and our Frailty Assessment Unit. As a trainee, he was a member of the RCPE Trainee and Members' Committee and Chair of the Scottish Academy Trainee Doctors Group.

Kevin Conroy is a Respiratory and GIM physician at North Tees and Hartlepool and is a member of the Recently Appointed Consultants Committee (RAC) of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Previously of RCPE's Recently Appointed Consultants' Committee.

Previously of RCPE's Recently Appointed Consultants' Committee.

With thanks to staff (past and present): Natasha Armstrong, Russell Davidson, Chris Graham, Perrin Grant, Alice Heywood, Charlotte Holmes, Isobel Macdonald Powney, Thais Poyo Gonzalez, Colin Reekie, Laura Stenhouse.