Who we are
Jo Hennessy is a full time educationalist who has worked in GP education since 2003. Prior to that, she was a lecturer at London University and then a trainer/assessor of lecturers in Further and Higher Education. Jo has particular interests in developing teaching skills in fellow health professionals, mentoring and co-mentoring for peer support and good practice in consultation skills. She has trained in Brief Therapy and its application in the GP/patient relationship.
Ali Baron joined us in June 2010 as our Scheme Administrator.
Her background is in commercial management working with the Aerospace industry, both in the UK and in Germany. Ali has lived in Bristol for over 10 years, and has a family with 3 children, getting involved in school and community projects in her spare time.
Don Grant
Don works as a salaried GP in Portishead. He is Treasurer of Bristol Association of Sessional Doctors. He also works as an appraiser for Bristol community health.
Don has been involved in the educational side of BASD for many years. He believes that there is a need for a plurality of educational provision in and around Bristol which has a degree of independence from political interference.
At present GPs are subject to many attempts to control their professional lives. In education however they are so far free to learn what they believe to be important for their professional development.
He sees this as an essential element of Professional status.
Don views his role as a Director of Bristol GP learning as enabling him to input directly into debate around what should be learned and the provision of learning appropriate not only to GP partners but to a wide range of Doctors working in General Practice, however defined.
He is married with a teenage son and two dogs. He lives in Bristol.
Geoff Hogg is a portfolio GP with a main clinical interest in urgent care, working as both a front-line clinician and as a clinical governance assessor for BrisDoc. He also works as an urgent care advisor to Bristol PCT and is a GP appraiser for both Bristol and South Gloucestershire PCTs.
He has been secretary of the Bristol Association of Sessional Doctors for over 10 years and has helped to develop a work matching scheme and an educational programme for locums in the Bristol area.
Geoff has a longstanding association with India where he has been involved in the teaching of primary healthcare and micro-enterprise development.
His maintains an ongoing interest is in information management and the development of bespoke IT systems for primary care.
Yealand Kalfayan has been in partnership as a GP for 25 yrs, of which the last 21 years have been spent in Bristol. He works in a long-standing training practice that has twice achieved the RCGP Quality Practice Award. His main clinical interest is in diabetes and he has personally run a diabetes clinic throughout his time in practice. He still works some sessions for the out of hours services in order to keep his acute medical skills up to date.
He has maintained an active interest in clinical audit since 1990 and has taught clinical and communication skills to medical students at all stages in their five year training.
Dr Harry Minas is a three-quarter time GP (6 clinical sessions per week) and an appraiser with experience in GP education since 2001. Having worked as a GP tutor for Frenchay (2001-2002) he has since turned his attention to appraisal and revalidation.
An experienced appraiser and appraisals lead, he has not lost his interest in postgraduate education and is still contributing through the BASD and Bristol GP Education communities. He has completed the teaching and learning for health professionals qualification and still teaches medical students and GP registrars.
Dr John Pike is a full-time sessional GP. He has over 20 years experience of General Practice, as a partner, salaried GP, and as a freelance GP. He has also done Out of hours work and work at Bristol Prison. He was formerly clinical consultant to various Health Informatics projects for the NHS Executive, NHS IA, and RCGP, and clinical representative on British and European working groups in Information Security in Health Informatics.
He is a committee member of the Bristol Association of Sessional Doctors and a member of a Mentoring Group. He has been involved in mentoring intermittently since 1996 and is interested in teaching and the provision of high quality GP Education.
