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19 June 2026
What is your role?
I am the Director of the NHS Fellowship in Clinical AI, a programme which equips healthcare leaders to safely, ethically, and effectively deploy AI in clinical settings.
What do you enjoy most about your role?
Without a doubt, it’s watching the transformation and growth of our fellows during their year with us and beyond. We take brilliant and energetic frontline clinicians and give them the tools, networks, and agency to become the healthcare leaders of the next decade. It’s a privilege to have a role in shaping this dual-domain workforce the NHS desperately needs to survive and thrive.
As a digital clinician (AI in Genomic Medicine), I also just really enjoy the vantage point. The fellowship lets me take in the entire landscape of clinical AI. I get to see the work happening across national centres of excellence in England, Scotland, and Wales, across every clinical specialty, and across the complete AI life cycle from building the algorithms to rigorous post-market surveillance. It’s an incredible view of the future.
What inspired you to get into this work?
The NHS Fellowship in Clinical AI was inspired by my own embedded placement in the Clinical Scientific Computing team at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust when I was a resident doctor. My supervisor and I asked the question, ‘how can you train a clinician to safely adopt AI tools?’ Our answer included a programme of supervised, practice-based AI project work, and a bespoke curriculum aligned to emerging digital education frameworks of the time.
As my placement was ending, we couldn’t let this work go to waste, and set about applying everything we'd learnt to a pilot fellowship programme based on that curriculum. Now years later and with a fantastic faculty, we’ve iterated, improved, and expanded from a local pilot to a programme with an international footprint, yet our core mission remains the same.
What is the impact of your work and what are the benefits of working in partnership?
The immediate impact of our work is in bridging the gap between technological potential and frontline clinical reality. Our fellows undertake immersive, practical AI projects in live clinical workflows, dealing head-on with the real-world friction of clinical safety, governance, and systems integration. The most important long-term impact is the compounding effect of the workforce we are building. By equipping frontline clinicians with this dual-domain expertise, we are creating 'force multipliers' within the system.
After graduating, they return to their clinical services and are empowered to build multidisciplinary AI teams around themselves, creating local engines of innovation, and contributing to system-wide NHS AI maturity. You cannot build system-wide maturity in a silo, and working in partnership with regional centres of excellence and educational co-developers is what gives our fellows the richly connected networks to communities of expertise that foster success in the future.
What would be your career top tips?
'The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed.’ Frontiers of knowledge and practice are explored first in a few centres of excellence before wider adoption. If you want to build your career on a frontier domain, consider where these centres are and how you can get involved there.
