Global Perspective

Dr Maguire graduated from University College, Dublin in Ireland. After postgraduate clinical training in General and Geriatric Medicine and research at Trinity College Dublin, he was awarded an MD for research into Biological Markers of Dementia. He continued his research interest in dementia and developed a clinical and research interest in Parkinson’s disease. Dr Maguire has been a Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine based at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh since 2000. His specialist interest has been in Movement Disorders. He was a Clinical Lead for the Parkinson’s UK Excellence Network with responsibility for South and East Scotland, and is on the Faculty of the UK Parkinson’s Academy. He was a Clinical Director for the Edinburgh Medicine for the Elderly and Stroke Services from 2006 to 2017.

Conor has been integrally involved in teaching and training throughout his career. As a Director of Studies and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, he has supervised and taught undergraduates, and examined in the final medical examinations. He has developed education programmes for doctors in training and career-grade doctors, including PACES teaching programmes, and has many years of experience as an educational and clinical supervisor for all levels of doctor. Dr Maguire has been a MRCP(UK) PACES host and examiner since 2003 and has examined both in the UK and internationally.

As well as being a member of the various symposium committees for our education programme Dr Maguire was the Dean of Education of the RCPE from 2015 until 2020 when he was elected as Vice President (International). He is a member of many committees at the College and been part of the RCPE Council since 2015.

Liz Grant is an Assistant Principal of the University of Edinburgh, the Professor of Global Health and Development and the Director of the University’s Global Health Academy. She leads global health training, and supports health partnerships and advocacy, translating global health research into action. Her research spans global and planetary health and healthcare in contexts of poverty and conflict – and compassion as the value base of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Liz sits on the Scottish Government NHS Global Citizenship Board, and on the Steering Group for Health Information for All(link is external). and is an advisor to a number of global health charities, and a trustee for CBM Scotland and a member of the One Health FIELD work for Syrian refugees.

Professor Khan is one of the leading gastroenterologists and physicians of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

 After having trained in the UK he returned to Pakistan and established the first Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit in Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar in 2011 and a dedicated hepatitis outpatient clinic providing free medicine to poor patients and free consultation to poor patients from the neighbouring country Afghanistan with almost 30,000 patients seen yearly.

Professor Khan is Past President of the Pakistan Society of Gastroenterology and GI Endoscopy. He is is also Federation  lead of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of  the UK, Chief examiner and host of MRCP(UK) PACES exam in Pakistan. He is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is an examiner for MRCP(UK) and FCPS exams; he was instrumental in establishing the MRCP(UK) Clinical Exam (PACES) in Pakistan in 2020.

Professor Khan serves on various editorial boards and is a reviewer for journals such as the Arab Journal of Gastroenterology, the Hepatitis Journal of Iran, and the Pakistan Journal of Gastroenterology. He is a core committee member of the World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO) Guidelines Committee and a frequent speaker at various international gastroenterology and hepatology meetings; his unit is actively engaged in clinical research in the field of gastroenterology.