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Meet the BitePACES Faculty...

Our experts have helped curate the curriculum and teach our course.
Dr Usmaan Ahmed
Lead instructor
Usmaan is an experienced allergy and immunology registrar with a robust background in medical education. Usmaan is actively involved in medical education at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He supervises Cambridge University medical students and has delivered numerous postgraduate teaching sessions. Additionally, Usmaan has substantial experience in designing and organising teaching courses, demonstrating a strong commitment to educational excellence. He is currently carrying out a postgraduate certificate in medical education.  Actively involved in clinical research, Usmaan stays at the forefront of medical advancements, integrating the latest evidence-based practices into his teaching. His significant teaching experience, research involvement, and leadership roles make him a well-rounded and knowledgeable instructor for the course.
Dr Shuaib Siddiqui
Course Organiser
Shuaib completed his MRCP back in 2019 and since co-founded BiteWorld, a medical education company which has taught 10,000+ doctors and students across the globe. His passion lies in bringing an innovative and fresh approach to medical education, a field that often remains outdated.
Dr Rajinder Singh Andev
Course Instructor
Rajinder is an incoming rheumatology consultant at City Hospital in Birmingham. His specialist interests are adolescent rheumatology, vasculitis and Behcets. Rajinder brings a wealth of experience to BitePACES having held formal teaching roles at the University of Oxford and leading the PACES programme while an RCP Associate College Tutor. Having become a board member for the national Prescribing Safety Assessment, Rajinder takes time to understand examination assessment strategy so candidates can excel and achieve success.
Dr Salim Cheeroth
Course Instructor
Dr Salim Cheeroth is a consultant in acute and geriatric medicine at the Royal London Hospital, where he wears many hats in education including being the College Tutor. Throughout his career, Sal has had an inexhaustible energy for teaching and training. He has enthusiastically been involved in bedside PACES teaching for over 20 years, including setting up PACES courses. Sal is a Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and co-leads a module on their Masters in Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine.
Dr Junyi Zhang
Course Instructor
Junyi is a senior respiratory registrar based in South London. Currently she is taking time out of programme to pursue her research interests in Pleural Disease and is enrolled on the MD(Res) programme at King's College London. Junyi has been involved in medical education since the early days of university as a Clinical Supervisor in Cambridge. She has also served on the faculty for respiratory teaching at the Bart's and The London School of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine. Linking her research to education, one of Junyi's proudest achievements to date was to set up, organise and deliver the South London training sessions in IPC management for the community nurses in the surrounding boroughs and improve patient care.
Dr Chern Hsiang Choy
Course Instructor
Chern is an experienced internal medicine registrar based in Birmingham. He is deeply passionate about cardiology and has successfully enrolled into a cardiology specialist training programme in the West Midlands. Through his work with Dr William Moody, he is responsible for establishing and managing a regional cardiac amyloidosis registry. His major accomplishment to date was to achieve the prestigious RCP Turner-Warwick lecture prize for the West Midlands region.
Dr Mark Quinn
Course Instructor
Mark is a post-CCT fellow in diabetes and endocrinology based in Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals, London. His areas of interest include endocrine oncology and medical education. He is currently completing his PhD in King’s College London where he is utilising a number of cutting-edge techniques to analyse a large number of endocrine tumours for genetic and epigenetic markers of aggressivity. Mark completed his MRCP examinations in 2016 and his speciality certificate in diabetes and endocrinology in 2021. He has been a clinical tutor for the Royal College of Physicians Ireland since 2023 where he has developed an MRCP curriculum and leads weekly teaching sessions for the international residency training programme within the RCPI. Mark has guided a large number of candidates through all stages of the MRCP examinations and is passionate about passing on his clinical experience to the next generation of doctors
Dr Jacquelina Chui
Course Instructor
Jackie has just completed her Internal Medicine Training in the North and Central Thames Deanery. She is passionate about Medical Education, having conducted bedside, seminar-based, and simulation and human factors teaching to both medical students and junior doctors. She completed her MRCP in 2023 and has since organised and taught on a local PACES teaching programme at the trust. She has an interest in Infectious Diseases and Global Health and has been the trust lead for the past three years of the Global Health Series teaching programme for foundation year trainees.
Dr Abisoye Akintimehin
Course Instructor
Abisoye is currently a Gastroenterology Registrar in London. She is passionate about medical education having completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Education. She has taught medical students and junior doctors in various settings from bedside teaching to more didactic methods. Recently, she has contributed to online medical education platforms by editing and refining educational content. She has completed her MRCP and Gastroenterology Specialty Certificate Examinations.
Dr Nirali Desai
Course Instructor
Nirali is a current internal medicine trainee based in the Southeast London deanery. She has a keen interest in medical education, notably she has worked with local faculty to organise and lead an undergraduate cardiovascular teaching course, which received the highest quantitative rating and feedback out of all hospitals in the Southeast London region. She completed her MRCP examination back in 2022 and has been involved in bedside PACES teaching sessions and examined for local mock PACES examinations.

Meet the Clinical Skills Faculty.

Our experts have helped curate the curriculum and teach our course.
Dr Shuaib Siddiqui
Course Lead
A radiologist working in at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, with extensive experience in teaching and upskilling doctors. Shuaib is the co-founder of BiteWorld which has supported the training of thousands of doctors across.  
Dr Jonathan Andrews
Course Lead
Jonathan is an experienced A&E and Urgent Care doctor in London. He has also served as an OSCE examiner at St George’s, University of London, and has worked in healthtech and clinical trials. Jonathan is passionate about providing medical education to support clinicians in developing excellent communication and soft skills.
Dr Ram Senasi
Senior course advisor
Dr Ram Senasi is an IMG himself, having graduated from the University of the West Indies in 2003. He received specialist Radiology training in Sheffield and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He is a Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at Hull University Teaching Hospitals and is tasked with developing and delivering high quality paediatric imaging and education. He has recently taken Hull from a 0% on call paediatric radiology on call cover to 75%. Outside the NHS, he holds several leaderships roles including being the Clinical Lead for Fujifilm Healthcare, the Director of Sovereign Talents Ltd, the Chief Medical Officer of trustr.ai (wellbeing app with integrated Ai) and Chairman of Imperial Medical Solutions ( a clinical strategy and leadership organisation). He was actively involved in the delivery of a surgical robotic programme in the Caribbean and Malaysia and the team’s work was recognised by the Great Campaign by the UK government.
Dr Pranesh Jain
IMG lead
Pranesh is a higher specialty trainee in renal medicine in Manchester royal infirmary. He has received his primary medical training in India and has done a fellowship in Kidney transplantation in Westmead hospital, Sydney. Since moving to the UK has provided him with a wealth of experience and knowledge, he is motivated to share this wealth to make life easier for the IMGs especially around the logistics.
Dr Sheharyar Khan
Course advisor
Dr Khan graduated from King Edward Medical University in Pakistan and currently works in the NHS as a trust grade SHO at Royal Derby Hospital. His first NHS appointment was at Grantham and District Hospital in A&E department where he worked for a year. Prior to this, he underwent clinical attachments in Respiratory medicine at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn followed by another clinical attachment in the A&E department in Grantham Hospital where he  succeeded in securing a job.

Sheharyar knows first-hand that settling into the NHS has its challenges. Things like navigating a new medical culture can be difficult. However, he believes that with the right support and mentoring along the way, things can be so much easier. He would like to have an opportunity to provide that guidance so more IMGs can successfully establish themselves as skilled NHS clinicians.  
Dr Viraj Popat
Course advisor
Dr. Viraj Popat, MBChB, is a GP registrar in the NHS, Communications Lead for the RCGP, and founder of VB Infinity. Passionate about improving patient care, he recognizes the pivotal role of communication in driving collaboration and innovation.
Dr Wiktor Szczudlinski
Course advisor
Wiktor is an IMG and a GP Partner in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Apart from daily grass-root GP job, he has been involved in training medical and nursing students, junior doctors and other clinicians. He has a passion for digital transformation and is a medical advisor for health-tech companies.
Mr Asher Alam
Course Advisor
Mr Alam is a consultant urologist who graduated from King Edward Medical school in Pakistan and subsequently completed his training in London. His area of special interest is urogynaecology.
Rachel Williams
Course Advisor
A former NHS nurse with an MA in Applied Linguistics from UCL, Rachelnow works as a medical English teacher. Since 2008, she has been helpinginternational doctors gain the language and communication skills theyneed to work in the UK.
Dr Rahul Khamar
Course Advisor
Dr Khamar is a Specialty Registrar in Clinical Radiology at the Guy's and St Thomas' training scheme in London. He is a former National Medical Director's Clinical Fellow and current RCR Leadership Fellow with an interest in the determinants of differential attainment. He is passionate about digitisation of healthcare and has contributed to national strategy and policy development (Digital Health and Social Care Plan) to contextualise what the future of healthcare will look like. When he’s not in the reporting room, you can catch Rahul on the golf course or at his running club.
Dr Azeem Alam
Course Tutor
Specialist Registrar in Clinical Radiology based in London, and Co-Founder of BiteWorld.
Dr Richard Phillips
Course Tutor
Internal Medical Trainee based in Birmingham with a passion for oncology.
Dr Sidharth Saira
Course Advisor
Sidharth is a Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine based in London, who trained in India. He has experience in creating digital medical content and is passionate about teaching and advancing digital healthcare.
Dr Mohammed Athif
Course Advisor
Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine at London.
Ali Haider
Course Advisor
Ali Haider is a medical student with special interest in Healthtech. Currently, he's working as a Strategic Partner and Advisor at Mara Health. He has a strong background in brand design & marketing. He also hosts a medical podcast named Swanky Doctors.
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Meet your advisors.

The visionaries behind BiteLabs, dedicated to blending clinical expertise with technological innovation to transform patient care. Below is an abridged list of our +100 advisors from +80 organisations.
Dr Rhydian Harris
Fellowship Advisor
Co-founder BiteLabs Healthtech; Ex-Pando, Ex-Numan
Dr Julia Manning
Fellowship Advisor
Digital Health Lead, IXN for the NHS & Strategic Alliances Adviser, Dept Computer Science | President, Digital Health Council, Royal Society of Medicine
Dr Paulina Cecula
Fellowship Advisor
Co-Founder Dama Health
Dr Vishaal Virani
Fellowship Advisor
Head of UK Health, YouTube
Dr Tim Ringrose
Fellowship Advisor
CEO of Cognitant Group Limited
Dr Keith Grimes
Fellowship Advisor
Clinical Product Management, Honorary Lecturer in Digital Technology & Health
Dr Lucinda Scharff
Fellowship Advisor
Senior Clinical Specialist at Google
Dr David Rawaf
Fellowship Advisor
Clinical Excellence Lead at Inovus Medical, Surgeon, Innovator
Dr Tahseen Tayob
Fellowship Advisor
Senior Innovation Manager at Imperial College Health Partners
Dr Avi Mehra
Fellowship Advisor
Associate Partner & CSO - Healthtech at IBM | Co-Founder Doctorpreneurs
Dr Anas Nader
Fellowship Advisor
Co-Founder/CEO of Patchwork Health
Dr Nadja Auerbach
Fellowship Advisor
Clinical Product and Clinical Ops at Thriva
Dr Grace Hatton
Fellowship Advisor
Principal Clinician @ Arcturis Data
Dr Ernest Lim
Fellowship Advisor
Medical Director at Ufonia and Ophthalmologist
Dr Jonathan Andrews
Fellowship Advisor
Healthtech & Medical Advisor | NHS & Private Doctor
Dr Seema Dadhania
Fellowship Advisor
Clinical Oncologist | CRUK PhD Fellow
Dr Ahmed Shahrabani
Fellowship Advisor
Doctor, NIA Fellow & Co-Founder at Locum's Nest
Dr Alastair Darwood
Fellowship Advisor
Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Skarper
Dr Arran Schlosberg
Fellowship Advisor
ex-Google+DeepMind Software Engineer
Dr Claudia Pastides
Fellowship Advisor
Medical Director | 🩸Flo App (Femtech)
Dr Jasmine Grimsley
Fellowship Advisor
The London Data Company: Co-Founder, Chief Data Officer
Dr Lucy Marples
Fellowship Advisor
Clinical Specialist at Google
Richard Seward
Fellowship Advisor
Product Lead
Dr Annabelle Painter
Fellowship Advisor
Medical Doctor and Clinical AI Fellow
Dr Leslie Dickson-Tetteh
Fellowship Advisor
Co-founder of Cherub Digital Health
Dr Jason Arora
Fellowship Advisor
Physician-scientist and health technology executive
Dr Oscar Bennett
Fellowship Advisor
Senior Data Scientist at Faculty
Dr Robert Cann
Fellowship Advisor
Clinical Lead at Accurx
Dr Bharadwaj Chada
Fellowship Advisor
GP Trainee, RSM Digital Health, HealthTech & Innovation
Earim Chaudry
Fellowship Advisor
Chief Medical Officer at MANUAL, NHS Clinical Director, Digital Health Consultant
Dr Sigourney Waibel
Fellowship Advisor
Venture partner at EWOR and teacher at Imperial College London
Alistair Darwood
Fellowship Advisor
Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Skarper
Sam Dhesi
Fellowship Advisor
CEO and Co-founder at Popp AI
Dr Karim Sandid
Fellowship Advisor
Entrepreneur In Residence at Zinc VC and Medical Doctor
Dr Georgina Phillips
Fellowship Advisor
Doctor and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow
Dan Mullarkey
Fellowship Advisor
Medical director at Skin Analytics and NHS GP 
Chris Rushworth
Fellowship Advisor
Head of Product at Ted’s Health
Dr Ruby Wang
Fellowship Advisor
Managing director at LINTRIS Consulting,  Digital Health Council at Royal Society of Medicine
Ben Williams
Fellowship Advisor
IP/Tech Partner @Withers tech | Campaigner for better diagnosis/treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Dr Anas Nader
Fellowship Advisor
Co-Founder and CEO of Patchwork Health

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