| 21 P R O G R A M M E Professor Lucy Chappell Department of Health and Social Care Chief Scientific Adviser and CEO, NIHR Professor Lucy Chappell is Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care and Chief Executive Officer of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the UK’s largest funder of health and care research. The Chief Scientific Adviser has overall responsibility for DHSC research and development and for supporting analysis and life sciences across the Department. Prof Chappell provides science advice to ministers across the range of health topics and is involved in cross-government science policy. Prof Chappell is also Professor of Obstetrics at King’s College London, working mainly in clinical trials in pregnancy, and a practising Consultant Obstetrician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Dame Jane Dacre DBE, MD, FRCP President of the Medical Women’s Federation Dame Jane leads the Phase 2 Medical Education and Training review. She is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education at UCL; President of the Medical Women’s Federation, Medical Protection Society, and Royal Medical Benevolent Fund; and a specialist adviser to Parliament’s Health and Care Committee, where she chairs the Independent Expert Panel evaluating Government pledges. She led the Department of Health and Social Care review of the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine—Mend the Gap (December 2020)—and now chairs the DHSC gender pay gap implementation advisory group. She co-chaired the Commission on Professional Leadership in Pharmacy (2023), leading to the creation of the Royal College of Pharmacy. A former Director of UCL Medical School, she is also an honorary consultant physician and rheumatologist at Whittington Health, London. She is a past President of the Royal College of Physicians of London—the third woman in its 500-year history—and has served as vice chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, medical director of the MRCP(UK) examination, academic vice president of the RCP, and a GMC council member. Her research focuses on medical education, assessment, gender, and equality in healthcare.
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