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Staff Profile: Dr Chee Yeen Fung, Preparedness for Practice Development Lead

Dr Chee Yeen Fung is the Preparedness for Practice Development and Pre-Foundation Assistantship Lead at the Imperial College School of Medicine. In addition to her work at Imperial, Dr Fung also holds national educational and leadership roles with Health Education England, the Medical School Council and the General Medical Council, working on various educational leadership, assessment and widening participation projects.

In this interview, Chee Yeen discusses how her career has led to teaching, her passion for widening participation in education and her recent President’s Medal.
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Meet MDR’s mental health first aiders – Dr Caroline Sands, Dr Jia Li and Kate Chappell

Dr Caroline Sands, Dr Jia Li and Kate ChappellTo coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week 2024, we spoke with MDR’s mental health first aiders about their role and the support they can offer. In our final profile, we hear from Dr Caroline Sands, Dr Jia Li and Kate Chappell. Caroline is a Research Associate at the Phenome Centre, Jia is a Reader in Biological Chemistry in the Section of Nutrition and Kate is a technician in the Phenome Centre. (more…)

My experience taking shared parental leave in MDR – Dr Edward Chambers

Dr Edward Chambers and his daughters

“Shared parental leave gave us the flexibility to spend quality time with our children without feeling like you were abandoning your students and colleagues.”

We spoke to MDR’s Dr Edward Chambers about his experience of taking shared parental leave and the opportunities it provided in terms of work-life balance and flexibility.

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