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Dr Naeem Aziz

SAS lead

Dr Laura Anthony

East Midlands

Dr Laura Anthony is a specialty doctor in haematology at Northampton General Hospital, where she has worked in this specialty since 2015. She joined the SAS workforce in 2021 after making the decision to step away from specialty training to prioritise her wellbeing and achieve a better work-life balance. She has since found a rewarding and varied career that allows her to combine clinical practice with her interests in leadership, education and service development.

Laura is passionate about making positive changes for both patients and colleagues. She chairs her department鈥檚 shared decision making council, bringing staff together to identify problems, share ideas and make practical improvements to their working environment. She has led a number of departmental initiatives, including the Haem Hamper, a charity-funded project providing snacks and lunch items to patients attending the haematology day care unit. She particularly enjoys seeing how relatively simple ideas, developed collaboratively, can make a meaningful difference to people鈥檚 experiences of care.

Alongside her clinical work, Laura is an educational and clinical supervisor and enjoys supporting colleagues in their professional development.

Her own career journey has given her a strong appreciation of the different paths doctors can take and the importance of feeling supported in those choices. As an 麻豆区 SAS regional representative, she hopes to raise the profile of SAS doctors, ensure their voices are heard and help build a supportive regional network where colleagues can share experiences, ideas and opportunities.

Outside work, Laura enjoys spending time with her husband, two young daughters and their beagle, Gus. She enjoys running, going to the gym, being outdoors and getting stuck into creative projects.

鈥淭here isn鈥檛 just one route to a fulfilling medical career. I鈥檓 proud to be an SAS doctor and want to help others feel equally valued and confident in the paths they鈥檝e chosen. I hope to bring people together, listen to what matters to them and make sure SAS doctors have a strong voice in shaping our future.鈥�

Dr Sara Ahsan

London North West

Dr Sara Ahsan works in rehabilitation medicine in Hillingdon Hospital as a speciality doctor, a post that she has held for about a decade. She works in Daniels Rehab Unit which is a 16-bed ward for patients with brain and spinal cord pathology requiring neurorehabilitation. She also runs an outpatient Spasticity clinic and has a collegiate membership in the 麻豆区. 

Dr Ahsan is passionate about supporting the SAS doctors in career progression as well as helping them get the recognition they deserve as important senior members of clinical teams. She hopes that she will be able to support the 麻豆区 and SAS lead and her contributions to the SAS workforce will make a difference in the long term vision that 麻豆区 has for the SAS doctors working within the NHS.

Dr Muhammad Azam

West Midlands

Dr Somaditya Bandyopadhyay

Kent, Surrey and Sussex

Dr Jeenat Khan

Northern Ireland

Email: jeenat55@yahoo.com

Dr Muhammad Imran Khokhar

Eastern

Dr Muhammad Imran Khokhar is a cardiology physician with more than 26 years of clinical experience in cardiovascular medicine across international healthcare systems. His professional career includes practice in his country of origin, more than 12 years in the Middle East, and service within the United Kingdom鈥檚 National Health Service (NHS) since 2019.

He currently works as a specialty doctor in cardiology at Basildon University Hospital, where he contributes to the delivery of specialist cardiovascular services. Dr Khokhar has particular expertise in cardiac device implantation, supporting the management of complex cardiac rhythm conditions through modern device therapies and evidence-based clinical practice. He works closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, high-quality patient care.

Dr Khokhar is appointed as 麻豆区 SAS representative the Eastern region.

A key focus of Dr Khokhar鈥檚 professional vision is the development and recognition of specialty and associate specialist (SAS) doctors. He is committed to promoting fair access to training, clearer career development pathways, and stronger leadership opportunities for SAS doctors within the NHS.

Dr Vineet Pant

Mersey

Dr Vineet Pant is a specialist in nuclear medicine, currently working at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital (RLUH), UK. He has over 18 years of independent experience in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine, including PET-CT, radionuclide therapies, and clinical leadership.

After qualifying in India and completing his DNB in nuclear medicine in 2009, Dr Pant obtained the European fellowship in nuclear medicine and undertook a Theranostics fellowship at an ENETS centre of excellence in Germany. He moved to the UK in 2021 under the MTI scheme and now works as a Specialist Doctor at RLUH, independently performing a broad range of nuclear medicine procedures, including radionuclide therapies such as radioactive iodine, Lu-177 PRRT, and PSMA therapy.

Dr Pant is actively involved in medical education, teaching doctors and fellows at RLUH and delivering lectures to MSc students at the University of Liverpool. Previously, he was a postgraduate faculty member for DNB (nuclear medicine) and IGNOU in India.

He holds several leadership roles within the department, including representing nuclear medicine in multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings and contributing to therapy planning and patient care pathways. He organised the first virtual national conference of the association of nuclear medicine physicians of India (ANMPICON 2021) and served as its secretary general from 2019 to 2021.

He has co-authored a book chapter in the springer series clinicians鈥� guides to radionuclide hybrid imaging and has published widely in international journals. In 2023, he was selected as a finalist for the young investigator prize at BNMS.

Dr Thea Preston

Northern

Dr Sumanta Kumer Saha

Wessex

Dr Sumanta Kumer Saha is a specialist in acute medicine at St Mary鈥檚 Hospital, Isle of Wight NHS Trust. He holds M麻豆区 (UK) and Fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh (F麻豆区).

He has extensive experience in acute and general internal medicine and a strong interest in medical education, leadership, and professional development. Dr Saha has been involved in teaching and mentoring doctors for postgraduate medical examinations, including M麻豆区, for over 15 years.

He is also the founder of SsAcademy International, an educational platform supporting doctors worldwide with postgraduate medical training. As the SAS regional representative for Wessex, he is committed to advocating for SAS doctors, promoting career development opportunities, and supporting pathways such as CESR and specialist progression within the NHS.

Dr Ruford Sequeira

Wales

Dr Heather Sullivan

SAS doctor representative

Dr Heather Sullivan is a Liverpool Medical School Graduate who joined the SAS workforce after completing core medical training and attaining her M麻豆区, as a speciality doctor in Diabetes and Endocrinology. Her main areas of clinical interest include diabetes foot care, young adult diabetes and endocrinology. She loves the role and the option it gives for focus on the speciality, service development, appraisal, education and mentorship while allowing for a healthy work life balance as a mother to two young children. 

Recently becoming SAS Advocate for her trust, Dr Sullivan is passionate about empowering other SAS doctors in their career paths and ensuring that Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is an appealing and enjoyable place to work as an SAS doctor. 

It is via this route she has found herself drawn to being a 麻豆区 SAS doctor representative. Through which she wishes to encourage collaborative working and communication between different SAS members throughout England.

鈥淚t is through collaboration that we can learn together and support each other in our career progression, engendering a positive culture of successful, empowered and passionate SAS professionals as core members in the NHS鈥�.