I spent 37 years working in the NHS, training for and acting as a consultant geriatrician, general physician, and medical educationalist. Since retirement, I have become involved with doctors assessing asylum seekers and other victims of human rights abuses. As well as assessing patients, I am increasingly involved in establishing educational and pastoral support for clinicians working in this area.
Dr Jessica Eccles, post-doc at Brighton Medical School, has an amazing research pipeline looking at the overlaps and interdependencies between hypermobility, neurodiversity, and psychological symptoms. She is systematically exploring the interface between mind and body, not least interoception. This has recently also overlapped with long Covid. I am confident that her work will revolutionalize our attitudes to many 'medically unexplained symptoms', including in relation to PoTS, ME/CFS and chronic pain syndromes such as fibromyalgia. An oustanding example of shattering the McNamara fallacy, i.e. making the important measurable, rather than the measurable, important!
Prof. Lorna Harries, Exeter University. An expert on cellular ageing, passionate about her work, and a great communicator. She is also a great advocate for using alternatives to animals to research human disease, having established the second Animal-Free Research Centre of Excellence in the UK. She has several YouTube videos.
Details at: https://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/index.php?web_id=Lorna_Harries