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Kevin is a portfolio GP (NHS & private) near Edinburgh. He is also Content Advisor for WebMD Medscape Global & UK and Honorary Clinical Reader at the University of Dundee.  He is cofounder of CVRMUK which aims to empower HCPs to take a person-centred approach to managing CVRM conditions and drive a new model of specialty training and care delivery in the CVRM space.

Kevin is a regular keynote speaker at small and large-scale education events throughout the UK & Ireland and abroad on a range of topics.

Kevin is an accomplished medical writer, and his articles distil key guidelines and consensus for primary care as well as summarise congress highlights and breaking research and its applicability to primary care.

Kevin is renowned for creating concise clinical aide memoirs, MedScape - Primary Care Hacks to make life easier for HCPs and ultimately to improve the lives of our patients.

Kevin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and holds both MRCGP and MRCP(UK) qualifications and has completed a Master’s degree in diabetes which he passed with distinction.  Kevin is also SCOPE certified in obesity management.

Kevin has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and also the Academy of Medical Educators for his work in diabetes and medical education.

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.” Maya Angelou 1928-2014

Dr Catherine Fernando graduated from Aberdeen Medical School in 2001. She completed MRCP before choosing a career in General Practice. She has now been a GP for 16 years and works both as a salaried GP in East Lothian. Catherine developed a passion for dermatology while studying for the Cardiff Diploma in Practical Dermatology, for which she was awarded a distinction in 2022. She is now a regular speaker on topics in Dermatology at national Primary Care conferences and webinars, and a tutor for the Edinburgh Regional GPST Training program. She has written several articles on skin conditions which have been published in Guidelines in Practice (Medscape UK).

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Professor Ahmet Fuat has been a GP in Darlington for 40 years currently working part time as a GPSI Cardiorenal medicine and lead research GP at Orchard Court Surgery and NENC RRDN primary care research delivery centre.. He was Oberoi Consulting Medical Director from September 2023 to February 2026, is National Programme Director at Clinilink Ltd and has also worked as an Honorary Consultant Lipidologist/GPSI within the diabetes and endocrinology team at County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust, running a secondary prevention and genetic lipid clinic.

He has been a GPSI Cardiology for over 25 years having undertaken a Postgraduate Diploma in Cardiology at Bradford University graduating with distinction. He went on to be a tutor on the course for many years teaching on HF, HVD, AF and IHD. He started the first one stop diagnostic and integrated heart failure clinic in the UK in 2002 with local colleagues.

His PhD by research in heart failure diagnosis and management including work on natriuretic peptides generated several publications that have informed guidelines and led to the award of an Honorary Professorial Chair at Durham University. He has contributed to various NICE and ESC CVD and HF guidelines, and RCGP CKD/AKI toolkit.

He has held and holds various roles in CVD and research including the being past President, education and research leads of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS) which he was instrumental in reforming, and previous Lipid and Heart Failure primary care lead for North East and North Cumbria Academic Health Science Network. He sits on the NHSE CVD Prevention Clinical Leadership group and NHSE expert advisory group for Heart Failure and Heart Valve disease. He was a founder member of CaReMe UK representing the PCCS. He is currently Vice Chair of the HEART UK Lp(a) Task Force, and advisor to Pumping Marvellous, a Heart Failure patient charity.

He has a passion for medical education and remains an active lecturer, tutor and researcher. He is on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Cardiology and Primary Care Cardiovascular Journals and a peer reviewer for most high impact Cardiovascular journals and research bodies. His work in community cardiology has been recognised with Fellowships from the RCGP, RCP London and RCP Edinburgh, ESC and the PCCS.

He has led many quality improvement initiatives over the years in HF, AF, Lipids, hypertension, diabetes and CKD. His work on HF was included in their BHF blueprint for HF. Much of this work was carried out using Oberoi digital audit platforms as has been replicated by colleagues across the UK, benefiting patients and practices positively.