She has worked in West Yorkshire since graduating from Bristol Medical School in 2012. She has also experienced life as a medical registrar in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Catherine is enthusiastic about medical education, having previously held the role of RCP associate college tutor in mid-Yorkshire. During the pandemic she collaborated with the Northern deanery to produce a virtual respiratory SCE teaching programme. She has represented doctors locally at each stage of her training and is currently the general internal medicine representative for Yorkshire. Catherine joined the Resident Doctor Committee in May 2021. She was elected deputy chair in July 2023.

Catherine is a mum of two and has been working less than full time since December 2019.

Her main drive to be involved with the RCP is wanting to improve the trainee experience, continue her interest in medical education, support doctors and improve opportunities for flexible working.

He joined the Resident Doctor Committee in 2022 and is aiming to advocate for trainees, focusing on practical issues such as the cost of training and the educational experience of medical specialist registrars.

Having recently completed a PhD in cell biology, he has taken up a post as a clinical lecturer and is also keen to promote academic medicine as part of his role. He would like to hear from any doctor in the region who is experiencing difficulties in postgraduate training.

After studying a degree in psychology with professional placement in Cardiff University, she completed graduate entry medicine at Swansea University. She then completed all her postgraduate training, including starting specialty training in geriatric medicine, in South Wales.

Alexandra is passionate about improving the care of older adults and is actively involved in service improvement delivery, teaching and management.  She is currently studying for an MD at Swansea University, investigating improving the interface between community and acute care, focusing on service delivery and pre-hospital medicine in older, frailer adults. 

She has developed multiple teaching programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate trainees and is an active trainee representative on multiple local committees. She hopes to improve links between the RCP and its members in Wales. She enjoys travelling and gluten-free baking in her spare time.

She is currently working as a palliative medicine specialist registrar in the London / Kent Surrey Sussex Deanery.

Dr Gowland qualified through the graduate entry medical programme at GKT School of Medical Education at King’s College London in 2016, and completed her academic foundation programme in neurosciences at King’s College Hospital.

Prior to studying medicine, she worked in the UK Civil Service and as a research assistant in neuropsychology.

At the start of 2022, Dr Gwenter moved to the Wessex Deanery to start gastroenterology and general internal medicine specialty training.

Dr Gwenter has been passionate about representing the interests of trainees for some time, serving as the student representative for both her undergraduate and then medical degrees. During core medical training, she was an RCP associate college tutor and alongside this chaired a local junior doctor forum. Dr Gwenter was elected to the RCP Resident Doctor Committee in 2022, and is also the current British Society of Gastroenterology representative for Wessex.

Dr Gwenter has an interest in medical education and medical leadership and completed a postgraduate certificate of medical education in 2017. 

She is excited to continue to advocate for trainees within her role at the RCP. Given the challenges faced moving forward with the new curriculum, trainee input is vital to shape future directives. Dr Gwenter is keen to collaborate to find innovative solutions to optimise training opportunities, especially in the context of considerable service pressures existing prior to and as a result of COVID-19. She is particularly eager to explore trainee wellbeing given the increased awareness of burnout within medicine. Finally, Dr Gwenter wishes to be involved with the processes which promote equity in relation to recruitment to both medical training and specialty training.

He is a neurology registrar and has recently returned to full-time clinical training following an out-of-programme period in which he completed a PhD in clinical neurosciences at the University of Cambridge. His research focused on longitudinal modelling in progressive supranuclear palsy, as a foundation for better powered and more inclusive clinical trials utilising clinical, cognitive and neuroimaging biomarkers from multicentre cohorts. Dr Street also represents neurology trainees at the West Midlands Specialty Training Committee and is a personal academic tutor for the MBChB programme at the University of Birmingham.

Dr Street has a strong interest in improving trainee involvement in research and is a member of the NIHR Clinical Research Network Neurodegeneration National Specialty Group and the European Academy of Neurology Scientific Panel on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. He looks forward to bringing skills and experience from these positions to his new role on the Resident Doctor Committee panel.