Education Committee

Membership

• Matthew Grundy Bowers  Chair
• Matt Philips President
• David Phillips Vice-President 
• Anne Oliver  Treasurer
• Cara Saxon  General Secretary
• Chris Ward  Conference Secretary

Representatives

• Jodie Crossman Nurse
• Ceri Evans HA
• Lewis Lau SAS
• Cate Goldwater Breheny STASHH
• Katia Prime SAC
• Rita Brown STI/HIV Course Director
• John Evans-Jones eHIV-STI Clinical Lead
• Jodie Crossman STIF Committee Co-Chair &
• Sarah Edwards STIF Committee Co-Chair 
• Daniel Richardson International STD & HIV Journal editor
•  Prof Anna Maria Geretti STI Journal Editor

 SIG Chairs 

• Dr Rebecca Thomson-Glover Adolescent SIG
• Dr Suneeta Soni Bacterial SIG 
• Dr Georgina Morris Sexual Health Dermatology SIG
• Dr Sally Jewsbury Gender & Sexual Minorities SIG
• Lisa Hamzah/Eleanor Hamlyn HIV and Blood Borne Virus SIG
• Dr Jake Bayley Human Papilloma Virus SIG 
• Emily Clarke Herpes Simplex Advisory Panel SIG
• Pankaj Sethi Prison SIG 
• Dr John McSorley Public Health SIG 
• Edu Peres Racially Minoritised Communities SIG 
• Belinda Loftus Sexual Health Advisers & Nurses SIG 
• Debbie Wardle Sexual Violence SIG 
• Shalini Andrews  Sexual Function and Wellbeing
• Mindy Clarke Sustainable Healthcare SIG &
• Rachel Drayton Sustainable Healthcare SIG

The Education Committee is responsible for facilitating the delivery of the BASHH’s vision, values and service priorities through education, training and development. The Educational committee (EC) and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) develop and maintain educational programmes providing high levels of specialist training and skill, whilst embracing a wider, more integrated sexual health remit across a wide geographical area and range of healthcare settings. The COVID pandemic brought new challenges in delivering education and training and our members have continued to adapt to teaching online ensuring that events are interactive and inclusive. We have held more in person events again this year (albeit affected by rail strikes in some cases!) as well as hybrid events while recognising the benefits in terms of accessibility of virtual meetings.

The Special interest groups (SIGs)

The SIGs lead on the development of educational materials and meetings within their specialist areas. They develop and deliver educational programmes and courses. They also contribute to education and training by generating publications and research, developing guidelines and recommendations in collaboration with other BASHH groups and external organisations, and reviewing and responding to documents on behalf of BASHH. Individual reports detailing specific contributions are available within the BASHH Annual Review. This year the SIGs provided several well-established courses online, hybrid and in person such as Genital dermatology, SAS Doctors conference, HIV masterclasses and the Diplomas in GUM and HIV revision courses. The Gender and Sexual Minorities SIG has been re-established in the past year and has already led a symposium at the spring conference and has great plans for future projects and educational events. Dr Ellie Crook has continued to lead the Student and Trainee Association for Sexual Health and HIV to great achievement and has handed over the reigns Dr Ellie Cochrane as Ellie Crook is now a consultant. STASHH was formed to improve recruitment to Sexual Health & HIV medicine by facilitating clinical & academic opportunities for medical students & Pre-specialty Trainees. They have membership from the majority of medical schools and deaneries and put on monthly webinars and also contributed to the Spring conference.

BASHH scientific meetings

The EC has the responsibility of providing regular Scientific meetings, which are free to BASHH Members. SIGs take it in turn to organise these meetings and they often take a two-part structure, organised by two individual SIGs. They have mostly been held virtually over the past year with one hybrid meeting in March with excellent attendance figures and good audience participation via chat. October 2022 saw the prison SIG lead the virtual BSM for the first time in a few years, presenting work done by the BASHH educational fellows and with moving and inspiring testimony from prison SIG members with lived experience of prison healthcare. The HPV SIG also presented new BASHH wart guidelines. The January meeting was led by the RMC SIG for the first time as well the HSV SIG. March saw our second hybrid BSM with the newly renamed Sexual Function and Wellbeing SIG and Adolescent SIG informing and entertaining audiences both at the Royal Society of Medicine and many more around the UK and beyond on Zoom. It was an honor and a delight to have Prof Rak Nandwani in person to receive his Honorary Life Fellowship and inspire us with his tales of a life in GUM. Podcasts/webcasts of the lectures are available on the BASHH website for members to access in their own time if they were unable to attend the meeting.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Travel awards

The Education Committee has secured BASHH funding for a remunerated fellowship for the coming year to ensure equity of access for all BASHH members and we look forward to appointing this fellow in the near future. The Undergraduate Essay prize winners in 2023 were Rebecca Coltart (University of Glasgow) for her essay 'How many Sandyford HIV PrEP patients will require TAF-based PrEP according to draft BASHH/BHIVA guidelines?' and Aishah Hagan-Bezgin (University of Liverpool for her entry 'Preterm Birth in Pregnant Women Living with HIV: The Role of Neutrophils'. We look forward to ever more informative and inspiring educational events in 2023-4 be they virtual, in person or hybrid.

Skip to Documents Members

Back to Members Documents