Postgraduate Medical Education

PGME Team members

Postgraduate Medical Education

We are delighted to be able to support your educational growth with us, with a brilliant Postgraduate centre and team. The centre is located on the 5th floor of the Kingston Surgical Centre Building and facilities include two lecture theatres, a number of smaller rooms for teaching, as well as four clinical skills rooms, including a simulation training room.

At Kingston Hospital, we have a dedicated team to support our International Medical Graduates including Tutor Dr Darshi Sivakumaran, and a LED Educational Administrator, Carole Osako. There are also Tutors and Training leads for the various individual departments across our trust.

Additionally, we have one or more Junior Doctors elected as an International Medical Graduate Representative who works with the PGME team to highlight your needs and enhance your ongoing experience with us. You can reach out to them ahead of your start date should you wish to on ‘Kingstonhospitalimgs@gmail.comPlease be aware that this is not an NHS email address so please do not send any patient or clinical details to this email address.

Listed below are the members of our PGME Team. Please email khft.medicaleducation@nhs.net should you wish to make contact with any of them.

PGME Team Members

Director of Medical Education

Dr Liz Peregrine

Champion of Flexible Training

Dr Helen Draper

Medical Education Manager

Danielle Hines

Medical Education Coordinator F2/IMT and Others:

Diane Lacey

F2/IMT and Others Education and Training Administrator

Suganya Arulananthan

F2/IMT and Others Education and Training Administrator

Katherine Cosgrove

Undergraduate/F1 Medical Education Coordinator

Caterina Burns

Undergraduate/F1/LED Education and Training Administrator

Carole Osako

Medical Education Coordinator GPVTS

Jill Collins

Training programme director FY1

Dr Murali Koteshwara

Training programme director FY2

Ms Rashmi Singh

Training Programme Director Medicine

Dr Israa Al-Shakarchi

Surgery Speciality Tutor

Mr Ioannis Gerogiannis

Orthopaedics Speciality Tutor

Mr Nashat Siddiqui

Anaesthetics Speciality Tutor

Dr Sombith Maitra

Radiology Speciality Tutor

Dr Anita Rhodes

Obstetric and Gynaecology Speciality Tutor

Mr Tom Brooker

Emergency Medicine and ACCS speciality tutor

Dr Atif

Paediatrics

Dr Rebecca Hodgkinson

Ophthalmology

Mr Mohsin Patel

Careers & Mentoring Tutor

Dr Jo Morris

Support Return to Work Tutor (SRTT)

Dr Alex Li

Deputy DME / Champion of Flexible Training

Dr Helen Draper

SAS Tutor (Specialty doctor, Associate Specialist and Specialist)

Dr Marion Norbrook

LED & International Medical Graduates Tutor.

Dr Darshi Sivakumaran (email: darshi.sivakumaran@nhs.net)

Undergraduate Tutor

Dr Catherine Gwilt  (from September 2024)