For the academic year 2024-2025, Professor Dame Robina Shah, Director of the Doubleday Centre is hosting a short series of online ‘conversations’ featuring four of its distinguished Doubleday National Ambassadors – all of whom are leading experts in the fields of health, social care, medicine and law.

The series will be supported by the Doubleday Student Society and open to all undergraduate medical students and staff supporting the MB ChB programme.

The second speaker in our 2024-2025 conversation series features Dame Clare Gerada. Dame Clare Gerada first trained in psychiatry and has a distinguished career as a GP. In addition to her clinical practice, she has held the positions of both the Chair and President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and is only the second woman in history to hold both positions.

She specialises in mental health and addiction services, and is a driving force for improving wellbeing support for healthcare staff. She founded and, until 2021, led NHS Practitioner Health, a free addiction and mental health primary care service for healthcare professionals.

In this talk, titled ‘Confessions of a failed leader’, Dame Clare Gerada discusses her career, leadership and challenges faced. 

The conversation took place on Wednesday 12 February 2025, and you can watch a recording of it below and on YouTube.

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