Dr Mark Davis, GP Leeds

Professor Richard Hobbs, Professor of General Practice, University of Birmingham
Mrs Jan Procter-King, Primary Care Specialist Nurse, Leeds

Dr Fran Sivers

Dr. Terry McCormack MBBS, DRCOG, MRCA

Terry McCormack lives in Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire. He enjoys the privilege of being a Family Doctor in the Whitby Group Practice, an Anaesthetics Hospital Practitioner at the local community hospital, the local medical advisor for Whitby Lifeboat and an Honorary Teaching Fellow of the Imperial College of Medicine. For many years he has been interested in cardiovascular medicine as it relates to primary care. Currently he is a steering committee member and investigator for HYVET (Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial) and a steering committee member for SPACE ROCKET (A cholesterol trial).

Dr Ahmet Fuat

Dr Ahmet Fuat has been in general practice in Darlington since 1986, with 9 years as a GP tutor. He is currently CHD lead for Darlington PCT and an appraiser. 

Dr Fuat holds the post of a GP specialist in cardiology, having developed, he now provides a one-stop diagnostic clinic for suspected heart failure across primary and secondary care. He recently completed the postgraduate diploma in cardiology at Bradford University , and is now a course tutor and teach on heart failure and other topics.

Dr Fuat has been instrumental (with Dr Kathryn Griffith, see below) in setting up a GPSI Forum in cardiology, which is affiliated to the PCCS.  

Dr Kathryn Griffith

Dr Kathryn Griffith is a GP in York and Clinical CHD lead for Selby and York PCT.

Dr Griffith has worked in the York District Hospital for over 10 years and at present runs the Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic 2 sessions per week.  She has recently completed the Post Graduate Diploma course in cardiology at Bradford University and is now a lecturer on the IHD and Hypertension and Arrhythmia Modules on the course.

Dr Griffith has developed the GPSI forum as a subgroup of the PCCS with Dr Ahmet Fuat and Jan Procter-King.

Dr Stewart Findlay

Dr Findlay was educated at the High School of Glasgow and The University of Dundee

He entered General Practice in 1983 but has since then taken an interest in a number of areas outside of his practice both in Primary Care and in Secondary Care.

He led the development of Information Technology in the Practice and across the whole of the Durham Dales Primary Care Trust. In 1997 he was one of four GPs that set up an Out of Hours Cooperative in County Durham involving 18 practices. He continues to lead on this for the PCT.

Dr Findlay has been responsible for setting up nurse led CHD and Heart Failure clinics across his PCT and they run in every practice. He has seen dramatic improvements in the use of evidence based treatments and lifestyle advice to the at risk patients. Partly as a result of this, the practices have performed extremely well in the quality and outcomes framework.

Dr Mark Davis

Dr Mark Davis is a principal in general practice and occupational physician with a special clinical interest in cardiology. He is currently a Board member of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society.

Dr Davis is involved in the Standing Medical Advisory Committee – coronary heart disease subgroup. In addition, he is the Primary Care Co-ordinator of the External Reference Group for the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease, and Member of the NSF-CHD Implementation Advisory Group – NHS Executive – Yorks & Northern Regions.

Dr Davis sits on many educational and editorial boards and is currently Editor for Cardiology Update.

Professor Richard Hobbs

Professor Richard Hobbs is Head of the Division of Primary Care, Public and Occupational Health and Professor and Head of Primary Care and General Practice at the School of Medicine, University of Birmingham. He continues to provide part-time clinical care to an inner city population in the centre of Birmingham.

He has held a number of national advisory positions, including Council of the MPS (1997-), the Audit Commission (1995), NHS R&D HTA Programme (1996-), the Secretary of State’s Advisory Group on SIFT (1996), NHS Culyer R&D Implementation Groups (1997), the Joint Medical Advisory Committee to the Higher Education Funding Council (1998-), and the Steering Group, National Framework on Coronary Heart Disease, Department of Health (1998-). He is a Treasurer of the British Society of Heart Failure, Chairman of the Primary Care Cardiology Society, member of the ESC Working Group on Heart Failure, and founding member of the European Society of Primary Care Gastroenterology.

His publications include 17 chapters, 8 edited books and over 220 research papers. His main research interests include cardiovascular medicine, upper GI disorders, cancer screening and trials of diagnostic and decision support technologies.

Mrs Jan Procter-King 

Jan Procter King is currently a Primary Care CHD Specialist Nurse working for a Leeds PCG, and a lead tutor for the Management of Coronary Heart Disease in Primary Care Course. She is also a member of the British Heart Foundations Secondary Prevention Board and a freelance facilitator.

Her career started at St. James's Hospital in Leeds where she undertook general and midwifery training, then through to practice nursing in an inner city Leeds practice. A change in direction led into audit facilitation at Bradford Family Health Service Authority and as a result of the massive needs of the Bradford population this role almost seamlessly became diabetes and CHD focused. This focus allowed for academic study into quality in diabetes services in primary care which supported the implementation of the district diabetes register.

The development of the local primary care teams to meet the diabetes and CHD health care requirements for the population created an educational role for Jan and this has grown over the past few years and she continues to heads up a small team delivering CHD primary care education around the country.

Dr Fran Sivers

Dr Fran Sivers is the Executive Director of The Primary Care Cardiovascular Society which she established with members of the PCCS board in 1997.

She is also a partner in the independent medical education consultancy Berrymede Associates where she specialises in working with senior medical consultants at national and international level to develop and implement medical education and advisory programmes and acts as an advisor to major global pharmaceutical companies. Her particular area of expertise and knowledge is in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. She is a member of the British Cardiovascular Society.

Fran obtained her PhD in Physiology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where she subsequently held a research and lectureship post. She then spent three years as a lecturer in Physiology and Pharmacology at the School of Pharmacy at Sunderland University, before moving to London to a commercial role within the Marketing Society, the professional body for senior marketing people, in 1984.This was followed by seven years in medical and pharmaceutical Public and Professional Relations as a Director and Head of Healthcare at Fleishmann–Hillard and latterly as an independent Professional Relations Consultant.

Fran became an owner / partner of Berrymede Associates (established in 1989) in January 1994.