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Administrative team
Elena Paraskeva and Emma Barber-Lomax
Emma and Elena are the Cambridge Graduate Course Administrators based in the Education Centre at the West Suffolk Hospital. They oversee the running of the CGCM; including placement organisation and the issuing of timetables. They will be your first point of contact with any queries you might have.
Leadership team
Dr Jessica White, director
Jessica White has been the Course Director since 2019. She has been on the course faculty for 20 year, originally as a Clinical Tutor and then Teaching Lead for the Standard course final year, where she designed and implemented the Apprenticeship course.
With a PGCert in Medical Education and Certificate in Coaching she strives hard to bring innovative approaches to medical education and is supported by an excellent multidisciplinary team.
Clinically Jessica works as a Respiratory Consultant at the West Suffolk Hospital with a specialism in lung infection.
Outside of work, Jessica makes things out of wool and cloth and walks her labrador in the fields and forests of Cambridgeshire with her husband Tony.
Dr Rachel Shute, deputy director
Dr Rachel Shute is a consultant paediatrician at West Suffolk Hospital and joined the Graduate course as a Clinical Tutor and Bye-Fellow at St Edmunds College in 2018. She was able to integrate medical education into her clinical training through a fellowship in Medical Education at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and completing a part-time Masters in Medical Education.
She most enjoys helping our students to learn clinical medicine through interactions with real patients, clinical case discussions and simulated scenarios.
Rachel is now the deputy Director of the Graduate course, with a particular focus on student support and widening applications to our course.
Outside of medicine, she enjoys being outdoors with her family, and then warming up indoors with her cat and a cuppa.
Clinical skills tutors
We are a dedicated team of nurses and technologists, here to support your development through high-quality clinical skills and simulation training. Our work includes delivering hands-on training in areas such as phlebotomy, catheterisation, and oxygen therapy, as well as managing the Siklos Centre – our combined clinical skills and simulation facility.
To learn more about what we offer, visit the Clinical Skills Unit page, where you'll find full details about our training programmes and facilities.
Cambridge college tutors
Wolfson
Dr Jeremy Webb
Pre-clinical director of studies, clinical tutor, sub-dean for faculty development
Dr Jeremy Webb is a General Medical Practitioner and a member of the senior deanery team at the School of Clinical Medicine. He has a particular interest in supporting educators in health care settings and leads the Clinical School Staff development programme as well as the masters level programmes at Madingley Hall. He has been involved in setting up and delivering the Graduate Course in Medicine since it started 25 years ago. He is a tutor an Director of Studies for Wolfson College.
Dr Thomas Pulimood
Clinical director of studies, clinical tutor
Thomas read medicine in Christian Medical College Vellore, of the Madras University. He was appointed as a consultant respiratory and general physician in 2005 and is based in the West Suffolk Hospital Foundation trust (WSHFT) a University of Cambridge associate Hospital, in Bury St Edmunds. He is now consultant Lead in respiratory medicine and lung cancer. Thomas also works in Addenbrookes, Cambridge University Hospital, in the respiratory department; interventional pulmonology/pleural team.
Thomas has an interest in undergraduate and postgraduate medicine, was appointed tutor and Director of Studies (Clinical) for the Cambridge Graduate course in Medicine (CGCM) for Wolfson in September 2017 following which he was elected governing body fellow. He is also currently co-ordinator and specialist facilitator in clinical communications skills for the CGCM. Thomas was the training program director for respiratory medicine in the east of England deanery and continues on the specialist training committee for respiratory medicine.
Thomas is married to Rebecca Jacob, a consultant psychiatrist in Cambridge, and has two daughters: Nina, practising law in London, and Lisa, reading psychology in Exeter.
Hughes Hall
Dr Martin Hadley Brown
Pre-clinical director of studies, clinical tutor
Martin Hadley-Brown came to East Anglia in 1989 having trained in hospital medicine and general practice. I was a GP partner in Thetford 1989-2019 with a continued interest in diabetes and cardiometabolic medicine.
Involved with the CGCM from its start in 2001, with CGCM students in the Thetford practice, I became a tutor at WSH in 2012 and so have worked with every year of CGCM graduands. It is a great joy to follow current and past students as their careers prosper.
Now combining some GP practice with teaching ‘HB’ is Director of Preclinical Studies at Hughes Hall, a WSH CGCM tutor and a specialist “Clinical Reasoning & Communication Skills “ teacher in the Clinical School. I also contribute to curriculum development, exams & assessment in Cambridge and nationally.
Outside work, my interests are in choral music and offshore sailing, with a boat based in the Solent.
Dr Jonathan Buckler
Clinical director of studies, clinical tutor
Dr Jonathan Buckler is a GP and a Clinical Tutor for the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine (starting in 2019).
He is also the Director of Studies for Clinical Medicine (years 3 and 4) and a By-Fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
Following completing Graduate-Entry Medicine himself he went on to train in medical education. His specialist interests include ENT (ear, nose and throat) and sports medicine.
Outside of medicine he enjoys running, cooking and gardening.
St Edmunds
Dr Harry Wardell
Clinical tutor
I am a Consultant in Emergency and Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Fellow with PaNDR (Paediatric Advice and Retrieval service, Cambridge University Hospitals). I joined the CGCM as Clinical Tutor at St Edmunds in June 2025.
My particular interests in medical education include social learning and how to adapt teaching strategies to high pressured and time poor environments such as the resuscitation room.
I have a PGDipMedEd and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Dr Liz Bright
Clinical tutor
Dr Liz Bright is a consultant anaesthetist based at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds and a Clinical Tutor, since 2016, for the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine. She is also a bye-fellow at St Edmund’s College and Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge.
After qualifying from Bristol University, she undertook anaesthetic training in Oxford and on the South Coast and has also worked in Bristol, Devon and Cornwall. She has been involved in postgraduate anaesthetic training for the past 15 years and has been on the Board of Examiners of the Royal College of Anaesthetists for twelve years.
She has a large German Shepherd dog called Kaiser.
Lucy Cavendish
Dr Vivian Yiu
Clinical director of studies, clinical tutor
Dr Vivian Yiu has been a consultant nephrologist and physician at the West Suffolk Hospital since 2015. Her main clinical areas of interest are in managing patients with acute kidney injury and diabetic kidney disease. She set up the WSH virtual ward in 2022 and has a keen interest in using digital tools to enhance patient care. Dr Yiu has been the director of studies for the CGCM at Lucy Cavendish college since 2018 and works with Dr Katie Keller to teach students during weekly index cases (supervisions) as well as on clinical placements. When she is not trying to incorporate kidneys into teaching sessions, she enjoys baking with her two sons as well as reading and kick boxing.
Dr Katie Keller
Clinical director of studies, clinical tutor
I am a GP in Cambridge with a specialist interest in medical education and workplace-based learning.
I have taught across the Cambridge curriculum since 2001 and I particularly enjoy working with CGCM students on professional development and clinical reasoning and communication skills.
Working with Dr Yiu, we share the role of Clinical Director of Studies at Lucy Cavendish.
As a GP I have an interest in women's health and sexual and reproductive healthcare.
I am chair of the ICS Training Hub, working across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough supporting multiprofessional workforce development in primary care.
Dr Jon Ferdinand
GP lead for the graduate course in clinical medicine
Dr Jon Ferdinand is the GP lead for the Graduate Course in Clinical Medicine and works as part of the GP Education Group (GPEG) in the Primary Care Unit. He is a GP partner and trainer at Wickhambrook Surgery in Newmarket. He is also the Associate Professional Director for Long Term Conditions for SNEE ICB. His educational interests include exploring ways to improve the process of educational feedback and the use of media in medical education. He runs a photography and video production company which produces educational content for Universities, much of which is available on the VLE.
He is a film buff and in his spare time enjoys developing his cookery and baking skills and is currently perfecting the art of making Neapolitan pizza.
