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Meet the Board

RNOH Trust Board Members:

Professor Anthony Goldstone

Portrait of Professor Anthony Goldstone
Title:
Chair
Voting member
In post since:
February, 2011
Trust Roles:
Chair - Trust Board, Service Transformation Committee, Foundation Trust Steering Group, Remuneration Committee, Children’s Services Strategy Group.
Experience:
Joined the NHS in 1969.
Consultant Haematologist at University College London Hospital (UCLH) from1976 to 2011.
Worked for UCLH in a clinical, academic and managerial capacity initially developing the leukaemia and transplant unit at UCLH, which is internationally recognised.
Medical Director of UCLH from 1992 to 2000.
Central figure in the planning, redevelopment and rebuild of the new UCLH hospital in Euston Road.
Directed the North London Cancer Network from 2000 to 2009 taking considerable responsibility for developing and rationalising super specialist activity and making many contacts across the North Central London region.
Published more than 330 papers.
Appointed as a personal Chair in Haematology at University College London in 1999.
Awarded a CBE for academic, clinical and managerial contributions to healthcare in June 2008.

Rob Hurd

Portrait of Rob Hurd
Title:
Chief Executive
Voting member
In post since:
August, 2008
Trust Roles:
Chair - Redevelopment Programme Board, IM& T Committee.
Member - Service Transformation Committee, Foundation Trust Steering Group, Audit Committee, Performance Committee, Risk Management Committee, Clinical Governance Committee, Fundraising Committee, Joint Academic Committee.
Experience:
Director of Finance at RNOH from September 2005 until August 2008.
Joined NHS in 1992 on the NHS Graduate Financial Management Training Scheme and worked at Southampton University Hospitals.
Previously worked as Deputy Finance Director of Whittington Hospital and later at UCLH where he was also Finance lead for the wave 1 UCLH Foundation Trust Application.
BSc (Social Science) Economics.
CPFA Qualified (Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy).

Anthony Watson

Portrait of Anthony Watson
Title:
Non-Executive Director
Voting member
In post since:
December, 2007
Trust Roles:
Chair - Risk Management Committee.
Co-Chair - Performance Committee.
Member - IM&T Committee, Redevelopment Programme Board, Remuneration Committee.
Design champion for RNOH Stanmore redevelopment.
Experience:
Engineering apprenticeship.
Royal Air Force Pilot and Flight Commander.
Police Officer.
Operations Director of Birmingham International Airport PLC.
Operations Director of Hong Kong Airport Authority.
Director of Operations Asia/Pacific - Vivid Technologies In.
Director of Customer Services/Director of Major Projects and Safety for Sydney Airports Corporation Ltd.
Managing Director - Airport Operations & Management Ltd.
Director - Aviation Investment & Management Ltd.
Operations and general management specialist.
BA in arts, social sciences and management.
Masters degree in Business Administration.

Guy Billington

Portrait of Guy Billington
Title:
Non-Executive Director
Voting member
In post since:
December, 2007
Trust Roles:
Member - Remuneration Committee, Clinical Governance Committee, Audit Committee, Fundraising Committee.
Experience:
Retired in 2007 after more than 30 years experience as a corporate lawyer in a major City law firm advising public company boards on major transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, listings, fund raisings and governance issues. In addition, was head of the firm's corporate department with responsibility for over 130 partners and members of staff, with responsibility for strategy, budgets, financial performance, partner and staff performance and client relations. Also was a member of the firm's Executive Committee which was responsible for the day to day running of the firm's global operations.
Currently a member of the Regulatory Board of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Laurence Milsted

Portrait of Laurence Milsted
Title:
Non-Executive Director
Voting member
In post since:
January, 2008
Trust Roles:
Chair - Audit Committee.
Co-Chair - Performance Committee.
Member - Remuneration Committee.
Experience:
Laurence Milsted is a Chartered Accountant. He is currently the Finance Director of a leading international law firm. Before his existing role, he was a practising accountant and in that capacity has had extensive experience in a broad range of private sector industries. His experience includes financial management, developing and implementing change initiatives, governance and stewardship responsibilities, mergers and other organisational combinations and conversion of an organisation's legal status. He spends much of his time working on financial issues with highly motivated but intensely busy professionals.

Judith Brodie

Portrait of Judith Brodie
Title:
Non-Executive Director
Voting member
In post since:
April, 2011
Trust Roles:
Member - Fundraising Committee.
Experience:
Chief Executive, Arthritis Care.
Former Director of VSO, most recently Global Funding and Brand Director, previously UK Director.
Former Chief Executive of Impetus Trust, the pioneering venture philanthropy charity.
Experience in local government and charity sectors including social services, Age Concern, Cancerbackup.
Previously Non-executive Director of SE London Strategic Health Authority.
Held range of charity trustee roles including with Turning Point and with a local community development trust.
Wide ranging experience of governance, communications and policy making.
BA (Accountancy & Mathematics), MSc (Social Statistics).
MBA (distinction).

Professor David Isenberg

Portrait of Professor David Isenberg
Title:
Non-Executive Director
Voting member
In post since:
June, 2011
Trust Roles:
Chair - Joint Academic Committee.
Member - Remuneration Committee First.
Experience:
Arthritis Research UK Diamond Jubilee Professor of Rheumatology at University College London Medical School since 1996.
Chair of the Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease clinical trials sub-committee for Arthritis Research UK since 2008.
President of the British Society for Rheumatology from 2004 to 2006; then chair of the British Society for Rheumatology's Biologics Register committee from 2006 to 2011.

Lynn Hill

Portrait of Lynn Hill
Title:
Deputy CEO and Director of Operations and Transformation
Voting member
In post since:
September, 2010
Trust Roles:
Member - Performance Committee, Risk Management Committee, Children’s Services Committee, Service Transformation Committee, Imaging Committee, Trust lead for decontamination.
Mrs Hill has also served on the North London Cancer Network Board and is currently the Chair of the Patients’ Participation Group for the Abbotsbury Practice in Eastcote, Middlesex.
Experience:
Joined the NHS in 1976 and her qualifications and experience include:
Dual qualified biomedical scientist in haematology and clinical chemistry.
Past Chair of UK Scientific Advisory Panel for haematology and a member of the Institute of Biomedical Science.
Capsticks diploma in Clinical Risk and Claims Management.
Gained the patient/public employee of the year award for her work with Women Against Medical Injustice at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
PRINCE 2 foundationer.
Graduate of the Kings Fund Top Manager’s Programme.
Joined the RNOH from the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust where she was Divisional Director of Operations for Specialist Services.

Jonathan Wilson

Portrait of Jonathan Wilson
Title:
Director of Finance
Voting member
In post since:
January, 2011
Trust Roles:
Member - Audit Committee, Performance Committee, Service Transformation Committee, Redevelopment Programme Committee, Foundation Trust Steering Group, Risk Management Committee, IM&T Committee.
Experience:
Previously worked as Deputy Director of Finance at Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Joined the NHS in 1998 on the NHS Graduate Financial Management Training Scheme and worked at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
BA History.
CPFA Qualified (Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy).

Professor Tim Briggs

Portrait of Professor Tim Briggs
Title:
Joint Medical Director
Voting member
In post since:
January, 2000
Trust Roles:
Associate Medical Director from 1996. Previous Chair of Clinical Governance.
Treasurer of the Seddon Society.
Programme Director for The Royal Free and the RNOH Training Programme.
Previously Clinical Tutor at the RNOH.
Previously Surgical Tutor of the Royal College regarding the RNOH.
Experience:
Currently Chair of the Federation of Specialist Hospitals across the UK to push the agenda for stand alone specialist hospitals. This involves commissioning work from a provider to look at the specific function of Specialist Hospitals in terms of R&D, training, research and clinical outcomes.
Lead Medical Director (and founder member of) the Specialist Orthopaedic Alliance.
Over the past 12 years, developed political contacts in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, which were used to great effect to enable the redevelopment of the RNOH to occur.
President of The British Orthopaedic Oncology Society.
Whilst working for the Trust as Medical Director, I maintain a full clinical practice specialising in orthopaedic oncology, cartilage grafting of the knee and complex lower limb hip and knee replacement.
Experience outside the RNOH in business and on the Medical Advisory Board of the Furlong Foundation and on the named board of the RMS company and a Medical Advisor to Stanmore Implants Worldwide.

Professor Adrienne Flanagan

Portrait of Professor Adrienne Flanagan
Title:
Joint Medical Director
Voting member
In post since:
November, 2009
Trust Roles:
Caldicott Guardian.
Designated Individual of Human Tissue Authourity licence.
Clinical lead of histopathology.
Member - Joint Academic Committee.
Clinical Safety Officer.
Experience:
Accredited diagnostic surgical histopathologist (1990).
PhD focusing on bone cell biology (1991).
Senior lecturer 1992 - 2002 Imperial college, London.
Joined the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in 2002 following 10 years experience as a general histopathologist with a specialist interest in gynaepathology.
Professor of Musculoskeletal Pathology - UCL (2004).
Currently:
Honorary consultant histopathologist at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, and University College Hospital London.
Research active, with interest in sarcoma genetics.
Cancer Research UK Stratified Medicine Scientific Advisory Board member. This group has been set up in response to the clinical needs that has occurred as a consequence of the development of molecular medicine over the last decade. The aim is to design and develop an infrastructure that will allow delivery of a national modern diagnostic molecular pathology service in response to clinical needs in the UK.
Executive board member of the Cancer Institute, UCL.
Designated individual of the Human Tissue Authourity licence, Rockefeller Pathology and Cancer Institute, UCL.
Board member of Skeletal Cancer Research Society (SCAT).
Scientific Advisory Board member of The Chordoma Foundation.
Previously:
Committee member of Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and Bone Research Society (UK).

Camilla Wiley

Portrait of Camilla Wiley
Title:
Director of Nursing
Voting member
In post since:
August, 2010
Trust Roles:
Co-Chair - Clinical Governance Committee.
Member - Children's Services Strategy Group, Service Transformation Committee, Redevelopment Programme Board, Foundation Trust Steering Group, Audit Committee, Performance Committee, Risk Management Committee.
Chair - Nursing Advisory Committee.
Trust Director of Infection Prevention and Control.
Accountable Officer for Controlled Drugs.
Experience:
Qualified as Level 1 registered nurse since in 1988.
Worked in Accident and Emergency Departments to nurse practitioner level for 13 years.
Worked for three years as a clinical re-designer in conjunction with PFI partners; developing new ways of working and related building design for a district general hospital.
Previously worked in general management at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, at Director level in the private sector and before joining the RNOH as operational head of nursing at the Whittington Hospital.
Chair of Conduct and Competence Panels for the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Gained an MBA in 2002.
Completed the Kings Fund Aspiring Nurse Director Programme in 2010.

Saroj Patel

Portrait of Saroj Patel
Title:
Director of Workforce, IM&T and Corporate Affairs
Voting member
In post since:
March, 2006
Trust Roles:
Member - Information Management and Technology Committee, Capital Planning Group, Risk Management Committee, Clinical Governance Committee, Imaging Committee, Foundation Trust Steering Group, Service Transformation Committee, Redevelopment Programme Board.
Experience:
Joined NHS in 2003. Over 20 years IT industry experience in both private and public sectors including development of ICT strategies, programme management, process transformation and solutions delivery.
BSc Statistics and MSc Computer Science - University of London.
MBA, Diploma in Marketing and PhD - Cranfield School of Management.
MSP Practitioner.

Mark Masters

Portrait of Mark Masters
Title:
Director of Estates and Facilities
 
In post since:
November, 2003
Trust Roles:
Member - Risk Management Committee, Theatre Capacity Steering Group, Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, Redevelopment Programme Board, Capital Planning Committee, Decontamination Group.
Experience:
20 years management experience in Estates and Facilities having worked both for the NHS and the Private Sector.
MSc in Planning Buildings for Healthcare.
B.Eng (Honours) Degree in Building Services Engineering.
PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner.
Chartered Engineer.
Fellow of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management.

Dr Benjamin Jacobs

Portrait of Dr Benjamin Jacobs
Title:
Director of Children’s Services
 
In post since:
January, 2009
Trust Roles:
Consultant paediatrician and named doctor for child protection since 2002.
Member - Children's Services Strategy Group.
Experience:
Currently a consultant paediatrician at North West London Hospitals NHS Trust.
Trained in London in 1985, becoming a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1988 and then training in paediatrics in London at the Whittington Hospital, UCH, Great Ormond Street and Northwick Park until 1992.
Worked as a lecturer in child health at the University of Manchester and obtained an MD in the psychology of children with eczema.
Fellowship in Paediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto from 1996-1999 and obtained an MSc in clinical epidemiology.
Worked at the Royal Naval Hospital, Gibraltar before returning to the UK permanently.
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