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Janet Barter (Member Trustee, Chair and President of FSRH) Following undergraduate training in Sheffield, Janet switched to obstetrics and gynaecology from GP training after realising from work in UK and West Africa the crucial importance of women’s health. Training in O&G included endocrinology, fertility, menopause, PMS, menstrual disorders and medical gynaecology, as well as contraception and abortion. She has expertise in sexual problems work and care of women who have been affected by FGM. During three London Consultant SRH posts Janet has developed clinical and teaching skills across the whole of SRH, and is now Training Programme Director for CSRH in London, and she was Chair of FSRH’s Specialty Advisory Committee. Dr Janet Barter was confirmed as FSRH President in June 2022. |
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Dr Zara Haider (Member Trustee, Vice Chair and Senior Vice President of FSRH) Having completed subspecialty training at the Margaret Pyke Centre and a Darzi Fellowship I was appointed Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare at the Wolverton Centre, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in October 2012. I am the London CSRH Training Programme Director (elect) and Educational Supervisor to a CSRH trainee. I am the immediate past Chair of the FSRH Meetings Committee and past chair of the FSRH Trainees Committee. |
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Kate Guthrie (Member Trustee) Kate started her career specialising in Obstetrics and Gynaecology but her consultant appointment was to establish community based Gynaecology within Family Planning services in Hull. She ultimately led what became the Hull and East Riding Integrated Sexual Health Service, including community gynaecology, abortion, HIV, vasectomy and men’s sexual health care, until she retired from the NHS in 2016. Past responsibilities include being a Faculty Treasurer and Vice President and secondments to the Department of Health and Public Health England. Current responsibilities lie within the charitable sector and for NHS England. She is delighted to be appointed as a Faculty Trustee in such interesting times for public health care. |
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Dr Harriet Edge Since qualifying as a GP in 2017, Harriet has developed an interest in Sexual and Reproductive Health. She is passionate about minimising barriers for women accessing abortion care and improving access to long-active reversible contraception.
Harriet is also currently undertaking a Masters' degree in Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. She feels that data driven insights and technology can be leveraged to create improvements in the quality, efficiency and inclusivity of healthcare services.
She has always had a deep appreciation of the work FSRH does to provide clinicians with the high-quality guidance and training they need to deliver excellent SRH care. She is very pleased to be appointed to serve on the Board of Trustees and will work to ensure that the FSRH continues to support the needs of both patients and healthcare professionals. |
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Dr Emmert Roberts (Member Trustee) Emmert is a Clinical Research Fellow in the National Addiction Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and an Honorary Specialist Registrar in General Adult Psychiatry at the South London and the Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust. He graduated with a distinction in medicine from the University of Oxford in 2010 and is a member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Psychiatrists. He has previously worked as a Research Fellow at the National Clinical Guideline Centre, contributing to national NICE guidance in the diagnosis and management of osteoarthritis, acute heart failure and hepatitis C. During 2012 he worked at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute in Bermuda conducting research into stigmatisation of mental health conditions in print media. His is currently undertaking a PhD and his research focus is on drug and alcohol service provision and its impact on hospitalisation and mortality. He has a strong interest in substance misuse, sexual health and the overlap of physical and mental health conditions and is a Diplomate member of the FSRH. |
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Dr Sylvia Kama-Kieghe Sylvia is passionate about promoting women's health and uses her platform as a GP in Sheffield to deliver care and support to people and their families around their sexual and reproductive health. Sylvia's areas of interest are to provide much-needed awareness and guidance for women and their families in low and middle-income countries around both general and reproductive health issues. To this end, she developed a health information platform, Askawayhealth, which she signposts users to appropriate treatment. Sylvia is an out of hours GP supervisor, GP tutor and examiner for the University of Sheffield Medical School. Sylvia has been a diplomate member of FSRH since qualifying as a GP in 2009 and is enthusiastic about working with the FSRH Trustee board to promote its objectives, especially in its quest to promote sexual and reproductive health awareness in all UK communities. |
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Anne Godfrey (Lay Trustee) Anne is chief executive of GS1 UK, a 58,000 strong membership and standards body that helps organisations keep consumers and patients informed and protected through the use of data and standards. Anne specialises in change management within the not-for-profit space, she has a proven track record of delivering challenging targets while harnessing the skills, knowledge and passion of members, staff and external stakeholders. Previously, Anne held leadership roles across a diverse range of membership organisations, including time as CEO at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) and Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). Anne’s earlier career was in academic and professional publishing and included sales, marketing and product development roles for publishers such as Prentice Hall and Thomson Reuters. Anne is a passionate advocate for women and girls and looks forward to working with the FSRH to promote awareness of women’s sexual and reproductive health. |
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Mr Martyn Booth (Externally Appointed Trustee) Martyn is an information security leader at a FTSE 250 company. He has responsibility for the areas of information security and privacy across the group. He also works closely with the risk team. He's dedicated to making organisations more secure and to implementing governance structures that support the business but also make it more accountable to its various stakeholders. He's been working with senior leadership on security initiatives for over 15 years and has a strong track record of improving the governance of organisations but without inhibiting their business initiatives. |
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Ms Nikki Patel Arjuna (Externally Appointed Trustee) Treasurer Nikki has a strong financial services background, managing market-facing roles combined with senior level internal-facing responsibilities. This has recently been complemented by personal and professional experiences in the social and health care sectors. Nikki has over 15 years’ experience in financial services and is currently working at HSBC, as Director, Head of Portfolio & Analytics for their Balance Sheet Management team for the UK. Previous to her current role, she was MD, Head of International Portfolio Management at State Street Bank & Trust, Global Treasury, where she reported into the CIO and International Treasurer aligning the portfolio with corporate strategy and held various internal governance roles. Nikki also holds a non-executive board position with Avante, a large social care service provider in the South East; and owns a family residential care business. Nikki is excited to lend her expertise to the FSRH and be part of a platform where she can make a difference to an important, far-reaching, life-changing cause - as this area of science has traditionally been seen as an area of taboo and addressed mainly behind closed doors hindering the ability to make positive changes; and sees establishments, such as FSRH, making huge strides to bring this topic out into the light in recent years and changing perceptions towards the subject. |
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Ruth Bailey MSc BSc (Hons) RGN DFSRH Onc Cert FRT QN Ruth Bailey is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Sexual Health in primary care, providing clinical expertise in contraception, sexual health, cervical screening and menopause care. She holds the DFSRH, letters of competence in LARC procedures and is a non-medical prescriber and a newly accredited Faculty Registered Trainer. Ruth has been a member of the RCN Women’s health forum steering committee for the last 4 years, where she has contributed to a broad range of campaigns, projects and resources which include highlighting period poverty, pocket guides to women’s health, menstrual wellbeing, RCN guidance on FGM, Abortion and genital examination and most recently leading a joint project with NAPS to highlight PMS/PMDD. Ruth is passionate about developing the role of Nursing in SRH and contributed to the RCN/HEE careers guidance and directory in sexual health. Ruth is looking forward to working with colleagues across organisations to amplify nurse engagement within the FSRH. |
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Stephen Bowen (External Trustee) Stephen is a social justice and human rights advocate, lawyer and academic with over 30 years' experience of human rights work internationally, as well as here in the United Kingdom. He originally trained as a barrister, and practised from the Chambers of Michael Mansfield QC, before leaving to join the United Nations. Stephen was Chief Human Rights Officer to the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, with lead responsibility for implementing the mandate for human rights investigations under UN Security Council Resolution 1088 (1996). He was also Chief Legal Counsel to the Election Appeals Sub-Commission, the quasi-judicial body created under Annex 6 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (The Dayton Agreement). Stephen has held senior positions within a number of leading human rights NGOs, including: Campaigns Director, Amnesty International UK; Chief Executive Officer, British Institute of Human Rights; Legal Adviser to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; Director, Sigrid Rausing Trust; Programme Director, International Human Rights Law Group, and Director of FIELD (The Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development). Stephen was Visiting Professor of International Human Rights Law at Queen Mary, University of London between 2010 and 2017, teaching on their LL.M. Programme. He has been a Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Politics and International Relations at Kingston University since 2004, teaching on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, with an emphasis on the intersection between human rights theory and practice. He is also a Trustee of Manchester Pride. |

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Dariel Burdass (Lay Trustee) Dariel is Chief Executive of The Physiological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. She has worked for over 20 years in the learned society sector initially for the Microbiology Society and now The Physiological Society. She has a broad portfolio across the complete range of functions that underpin the position of Chief Executive from strengthening strategic direction, delivering major governance reforms, performance measurement, stakeholder engagement, digital leadership through to oversight of major operational initiatives. With a post graduate qualification in communications, Dariel has key strengths in digital transformation having overseen the rebranding of the Microbiology Society as well as the launch of two corporate and one educational website. She has gained extensive experience of working with and influencing a diverse group of stakeholders including members, policymakers, politicians and funders. With a successful track record in guiding the direction of public affairs strategy which has enabled the organisations she has works for to be viewed as the primary source and conduit of information for their discipline. Dariel is also a Trustee of the Science Council. She is excited to be joining the Trustee Board bringing her skills and experience in governance and strategy to help deliver the FSRH’s strategic plan. |