Executive Medical Director, Dr Gerrard Phillips
Dr Gerrard Phillips has been a Consultant Physician and Respiratory Physician for more than 20 years. He took up his consultant post at Dorset County Hospital, England in 1994 and still works there full time in both respiratory medicine and internal medicine. He has held a number of leadership roles locally in Dorset, including Associate Medical Director and lung cancer site specific group chair.
From 2014-2017 Gerrard was the Royal College of Physicians, London Vice President for Education and Training. During this time he contributed to national policy work on “Shape of Training” reforms and initiated and implemented the chief registrar programme. He has previously held the position of RCPL senior PACES examiner and oversaw the Diploma of Geriatric Medicine and the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He was also Medical Director for CPD and Revalidation, and contributed to the Pearson review of revalidation for the GMC. Gerrard has been the Executive Medical Director of the Federation of the three UK Physician Royal Colleges since 2018. He leads and guides overarching strategy and policy implementation across the organisation.
Medical Director for Training and Development, Dr Mike Jones 
Dr Mike Jones is a Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust having previously fulfilled this role in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh between 2006 and 2012 He was also Consultant Physician and Deputy Medical Director in NHS Tayside 1992-2006. His first consultant appointment was in 1992 as a Renal Physician. He is Director of Training for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) having previously been Vice President.
He is a Past President of the Society for Acute Medicine and a founder member. He was central to guiding Acute Medicine to specialty status and inaugural chair of its Specialist Advisory Committee. He is National Clinical Lead for Acute and General Medicine in the Getting It Right First Time programme.
International Medical Director for Training and Development, Professor David Black
Professor Black graduated from the University of Cambridge and has been a consultant physician in Geriatric Medicine since 1987. From 2004 to 2014 he was Dean Director of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education for Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery and was national Lead Dean for Medical Oncology, Clinical Oncology, Allergy, Stroke and Geriatric Medicine. He was awarded an honorary professorship in the Brighton and Sussex Medical School in 2005.From 2011-2014, he was the elected Senior Censor and Vice-President for education and training for the Royal College of Physicians, previously an elected Councilor and Trustee and a MRCP examiner since 1999.
Professor Black was Medical Director from 2014 to 2018 and led its role in the management of UK core, general and medical specialty training and recruitment. He provided clinical leadership on national educational policy and healthcare reform including quality, curricula, assessment, and standard setting for physicians. In 2016 was elected Co- Chair of the Academy of the Medical Royal Colleges Training Committee. In October 2018, he was appointed to the new post of Federation International Medical Director for Training and Development.
Deputy International Medical Director for Training and Development, Dr Alastair Miller
Dr Alastair Miller was a Consultant Physician in the Tropical & Infectious Disease Unit at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and an Honorary Fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from 2005 until May 2014. Prior to Liverpool he was a Consultant in the West Midlands and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Infectious Disease at Birmingham University. Alastair trained in medicine at St John’s College Cambridge and Westminster Hospital and in infectious disease in the Royal Navy, Birmingham and London. He worked with the Royal Marines in Kurdistan after the first Gulf War and was a consultant and Professor of Medicine in the Royal Navy.
Alastair also has a particular interest in Medical Education. He chaired the Specialist Advisory Committee on Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine for 6 years. He is on the Faculty of the Doctors as Educators programme and external examiner for the Leadership and Management programme at Edge Hill University. He has been an MRCP clinical examiner for over 10 years and has also been an examiner for the theory paper and for the DTM&H. He has been Deputy Medical Director since August 2013.