Dr Marilyn Hammick is Visiting Professor at the University of Central England and Anglia Ruskin University and Chair of the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education. She is Consultant to Best Evidence Medical Education and has a major role in taking forward developments in evidence informed education practice and policy. She advices and supports international review groups in medical and health care sciences & practice education, training and development. She has written widely on educational systematic review research from her work with review teams that include veterinary medical educators and those across Europe. A recent achievement involved work to publish BEME reviews in non-English languages.

Her other roles include Associate Editor, Journal of Interprofessional Care, Learning & Teaching Consultant for Research and Evaluation to Health Sciences & Practices at the UK Higher Education Academy. She is a member of the WHO Study Group on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Care and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Marilyn is currently the external consultant to Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at five UK Universities. This work involves guiding the development of on-campus and in-practice interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives and their robust evaluation. She is also working with Health Canada funded IPE projects at the Universities of Memorial, St Johns; McGill, Montreal and Toronto and was Consultant to the UK Department of Health’s Creating an Interprofessional Workforce project.

Her scholarly work includes a series of systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interprofessional education as a member of the Interprofessional Education Joint Evaluation Team. She led the work of the most recent review of the 21 most robust and recent IPE evaluations for Best Evidence Medical Education and has given international keynote lectures on this work.

Marilyn has co-authored books on IPE, including two key international texts for Wiley Blackwell. These focus on the development, delivery and evaluation of IPE and on evidence-informed theories of IPE. She has been commissioned by Polity Publishers as lead author of an undergraduate text book on interprofessional learning & collaborative work and is currently co-authoring an Association of Medical Educators in Europe Guide ‘Learning in Interprofessional Teams’.

Her experience includes developing and teaching interprofessional cancer care and other programmes and collaborative practice in cancer care. She has a Doctorate of Education, a MSc. Sociology & Social Policy and following professional qualification in radiotherapy practiced across the UK and in Iran.

Prof Ronald Harden

Professor Ronald Harden graduated from the medical school in Glasgow, UK.  He completed training and practised as an endocrinologist before moving full time to medical education. 

He is currently Director of Education with the International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS). 

Professor Harden was formerly Professor of Medical Education, Teaching Dean and Director of the Centre for Medical Education at the University of Dundee, Consultant Physician, and Director of the Educational Development Unit of the Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education. 

He is editor of Medical Teacher and General Secretary and Treasurer of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). 

He is recognised as one of the leading international authorities in medical education with unparalleled experience in undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education.  He brings to medical education a unique blend of theoretical and practical experience. 

Professor Harden is committed to developing new approaches to medical education, curriculum planning and to teaching and learning.  Ideas which he has pioneered include the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) which has been universally adopted as a standard approach to assessment of clinical competence.  He is currently leading work related to outcome-based education, curriculum mapping, and the application of new learning technologies.  Professor Harden has written extensively in his areas of interest and has published more than 400 papers in leading journals. 

He has served as a consultant and visiting professor in Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, India and the Far East.  His contributions to excellence in medical education have attracted numerous awards including an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, Surgeons of Canada, the prestigious Hubbard Award by the National Board of Medical Examiners in the USA and recognition by the Kellogg Foundation for his contributions to medical education in South America.  He was awarded by the Queen the OBE for his services to medical education.  He was presented in Singapore in February 2006 with the ‘Mentoring, Innovation and Leadership in Education Scholarship' (MILES) award for ‘outstanding contributions to the advancement of global medical education and academic medicine’.

In 2006 Professor Harden was the winner of the Karolinska Institutet prize for research in medical education.  The purpose of the prize is to recognise and stimulate high quality research in medical education in order to promote long-term improvements of educational practices in medical training.