Dr Jan Clarke
06 Mar 2010
General Secretary
Jan Clarke qualified in Medicine from Leeds in 1981, and returned as consultant in the Department of Genitourinary Medicine in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in December 2001. She has spent ten years as a DGH Consultant to the Department of Genitourinary Medicine at Clayton Hospital, Wakefield.
A member of the AGUM national committee since 1996, she served as Assistant Secretary and Treasurer to AGUM, and acted as representative on various bodies including the Clinical Reference Group of NHS Direct and the Chlamydia Screening Steering Group in the Department of Health. She led working groups on developing basic service standards and co-authored other national documents for AGUM.
She has developed clinical interests in contact tracing methods for Chlamydia and examination protocols in child sexual abuse. She has been involved in developing mentoring networks for medical staff across the Northern and Yorkshire region. She is undergraduate educational lead for the Leeds unit and her management interests include developing service networks and clinical computing.