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Meet The Team

Forgotten Patients, Overlooked Diseases brings together people from medicine, science, ethics, advocacy, research and lived experience.

Our international, multidisciplinary community reflects the complexity of the problems we are trying to address: no single profession, specialty or perspective has all the answers.

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Different expertise. Shared purpose. Better recognition and care for overlooked patients.

​​Chair ​​​​​

  • Dr Adrian Tookman – Palliative Medicine Physician (retired), Lead Field Editor Cochrane PaPaS review group, former Medical Director NHS Foundation Trust, London

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Trustees

  • Dr. Adrian Tookman- Retired Palliative Care Physician, 

  • Dr. Steven Walker- Director, St Giles Medical

  • Richard Stephens- Patient Advocate and Journal Editor

  • Ros Caffyn- Financial expert

  • Jennifer McCallum- Translational scientist

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Founding Members

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  • Dr Eva Diehl-Wiesenecker – Emergency physician, Charité Hospital, Germany

  • Dr Kiran Jani – Anaesthetist with a focus on ethics

  • Katharina Klesper – Health economist, Germany

  • Fiona Lapraik – Lay member, voluntary sector experience

  • Dr Carlos Lifschitz – Paediatric gastroenterologist, USA & Argentina

  • Dr Philip Lodge – Consultant in palliative medicine at the Royal Free London

  • Prof Bill Noble – Palliative care expert, academic

  • Dr Chantal Patel – Associate professor in medical ethics, Swansea University

  • Dr Minha Rajput-Ray – Chronic disease specialist with lived experience

  • Dr Donna Sagar – Retired Public health specialist

  • Dr Carmen Schmechel – Medical historian, Germany

  • Dr Leena Sinha – Gastroenterologist and ethics lead

  • Prof Rajan Somasundaram – Emergency medicine and hepatology, Germany

  • Rev Dr Peter Speck – Chaplain, researcher in spirituality, King’s College London

  • Dr Selena Stellman – Member of Nuffield Council of Bioethics and a GP

  • Richard Stephens – Patient advocate and journal editor

  • Dr Jacques Tamin – Occupational physician and ethics lecturer

  • Dr Adrian Tookman- Retired Palliative Medicine Physician

  • Dr Steven Walker – Director, St GilesMedical, UK & Germany

  • Dr Christina Weiler-Normann – Internist and rare disease specialist, Germany

  • Natalie Woods – Researcher and Lived Experience Partner, NHS England

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  • Dr Steven Walker – St GilesMedical London & Berlin

  • Daniel Roberts – St GilesMedical London & Berlin​​​​​

Administrative Support

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