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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).

Dr Adelina McLeod is a Newly Appointed Consultant in Geriatric Medicine in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a specialist interest in Dementia and Delirium. Dr McLeod is co-curator of the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) Delirium Hub and was past chair of RCPE's Trainees and Members' Committee (T&MC), 2019-2021.

Dr Craig Thurtell completed his undergraduate education in Edinburgh before moving to Tayside to undertake his postgraduate training in general (internal) medicine and endocrinology & diabetes. He was first appointed as a consultant in 2019 and took up his current post as a consultant physician at University Hospital Monklands, Lanarkshire, Scotland in July 2022. He served a number of terms on the Trainees and Members' Committee (2014-2019) and is currently a member of the Recently Appointed Consultants' Committee (2021-2024). His main clinical interests cover adult general endocrinology and diabetes (mainly type 1 and complex type 2). He regularly acts as an educational and clinical supervisor to all grades of junior medical staff, including medical undergraduates from the University of Glasgow. He has been a regular MRCP(UK) PACES examiner since February 2022.

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