Providers

Dr. Colin John is a Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore, India.

Dr. Colin John, Head of the pediatric and adult surgical programmes at NH, is an alumnus of the Christian Medical College, Vellore; the Royal Adelaide Hospital; the Westmead Hospital; and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children; all in Australia.

He is one of the most experienced cardiac surgeons in the world specialising in operating on children, especially those suffering from complex heart problems such as Tetralogy of Fallout (TOF) or in simple terms ‘Blue Babies’.

Dr. Seth Rankin is an experienced GP, and founder and chairman of the London Medical Laboratory, an independent clinical testing specialist and provider of pathology diagnostics services to clients across the healthcare sector.

Seth has extensive experience in the NHS and in private healthcare. After years spent working in international medical assistance, he became a managing partner of a large and diverse London NHS primary care practice with over 16,000 patients. He also was a founding member of the local Commissioning Group responsible for funding both primary and secondary healthcare. In his capacity as a Commissioner he played leading roles in developing hour-long consultations for patients with complex comorbidities, and an innovative project to integrate health and social care. 

Dr. Rankin also successfully founded and exited several private healthcare businesses, including the London Doctors Clinic, a rapidly growing chain of private GP clinics in central London, which provide people with convenient, and affordable healthcare, and complement the NHS services.

Seth has significant international experience and a good knowledge of comparative healthcare systems. He did his primary medical degree and early residency in New Zealand before working in general practice in Australia. He then worked and travelled extensively for an international medical assistance company before returning to general practice, and obtaining his MRCGP in London. 

His special interest is in weight management, and he was the clinical lead on a NHS project, to provide advice and support on healthy living and wellbeing.

Native to Australia, Dr Lonnee has lived in London since late 1999. He retrained in the UK to become a Dietician and graduated from London Metropolitan University in 2005 with a BSc (Hons) Degree in Human Nutrition & Dietetics.

As an overweight teenager Scott took up exercise, changed his diet and found weight gain optional, not inevitable. Spurred on by this he started a career in sport and recreation and brings over 20 years experience helping countless clients achieves their health and fitness objectives.

Registered with the Health Professions Council (HPC) and British Dietetic Association (BDA), Scott started at St Georges Hospital London in 2006. From 2008 his primary area of interest as a Dietician has been on weight management.

The Eve Appeal is a registered charity, formed in 2005. Since then, we have worked hard to raise money to fund the world-class research programme at the Department of Women's Cancer based at University College London (UCL).

The Department's vital and much-needed research will benefit women in the UK and worldwide.

A report by an independent panel reviewing the Department's work and progress (the Pattison Review Report 2009) acknowledges the importance of The Eve Appeal's role: "The Eve Appeal has consistently contributed about 15% of the total research income. However, its contributions have been disproportionately important because they have pump-primed new projects, supported highly innovative work and covered gaps in funding allowing projects to maintain momentum. The national and international standing of the projects to which it has contributed is testament to the effectiveness of The Eve Appeal support."

Major breakthroughs are already being achieved towards improving survival rates of women with gynaecological cancers through the Department's pioneering research into screening, early diagnosis and risk prediction. To build on these successes and save women's lives, raising urgent and on-going funds is critical.

Promoting awareness is vital too. The Eve Appeal therefore disseminates information about the research we fund. We publicise - and provide information on - gynaecological cancers. We contribute to the development of policy and campaigns. And we work in partnership with others to improve the healthcare and support of women.

Ovarian Cancer Action is the UK’s leading ovarian cancer charity. Its focus is to improve the prognosis of all women diagnosed with ovarian cancer. It aims to transform ovarian cancer treatment and improve survival through creating a research environment that encourages scientific breakthrough; this is why it is vital to establish and continue to fund the UK’s first research centre dedicated solely to ovarian cancer.

OCA's passion is to reach every woman and GP in the UK with key messages about ovarian cancer and its symptoms. This, we feel, will contribute to ensuring that a greater proportion of women are diagnosed as early as possible giving women a greater chance of survival.

Postgraduate medical student at Warwick Medical School. BSc Biomedical Science (Hons). Interested in neurology, stroke medicine, primary care and care of the elderly. Outside of curriculum-based medicine, my interests are clinical research, quality improvement projects, and business.

Rod Jacques has been involved in Sports Medicine for the last 21 years and joined the EIS in 2003 having previously worked at the British Olympic Medical Centre in London.

Based at the University of Bath, Rod attended the Atlanta, Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympics with Team GB and the Kuala Lumpur and Manchester Commonwealth Games with the England Team.

He did the London Hospital Diploma course in Sports Medicine, qualifying with distinction and the David Ritchie prize in 1990. He also obtained the Society of Apothecaries Diploma in Sports Medicine, and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and am current Vice-President.

He was appointed to the British Olympic Medical Centre, London in 1998 – 2001 and joined the EIS in 2003.

Mark Hamer graduated in Sport and Exercise Science (1996) from The University of Birmingham, completed an MSc in Sports Sciences (1999) at Brunel University and later received his PhD in Exercise Physiology from De Montfort University (2002). He spent eleven years at UCL as a researcher in Epidemiology and Public Health funded by the British Heart Foundation before taking up the role of Professor in Exercise as Medicine at Loughborough University in 2015. He later returned to UCL in 2019 as Professor in Sport and Exercise Medicine.

He is a member of the ESRC Grant Assessment Panel. He has been recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2018 and 2019, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year (Cross-Field) in Web of Science.