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Editor Biography

Prof Jo Brown EdD, MSc, BSc (Hons) Jo is Professor Emerita of Medical Education at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. She was the former Deputy Vice Principal for Education at Queen Mary leading on Programme Review and the migration of education into a blended format in light of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Her previous roles include being Head of Clinical Communication and Academic Director of the Student Experience at St George’s, University of London. Jo has been teaching since 1992, has specialised in Clinical Communication as a topic since 1998 and her passion for the subject is infectious. In 2012 she won a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship award from Advance HE. She has a particular interest in providing academic support for students who struggle or fail whilst at university.

She is a curriculum leader and designer, an examiner and an external examiner and has spent two years visiting medical schools in The Netherlands and Canada to explore different conceptualisations of medical education. She is an experienced mentor of teachers in higher education and runs courses on teaching and learning as part of professional staff development. She developed and delivers postgraduate courses for senior doctors on the practical application of clinical communication in everyday clinical practice. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Medical Education and is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests center on the movement of learning from classroom to clinical environment and the challenges to learning in the clinical workplace.

Dr Esther Murray CPsychol AFBPsS SFHEA Esther has been a health psychologist for 13 years, initially working in cardiac care both in service improvement and psychological interventions for patients, later going on to a career in academia. Her early research was in chronic pain and its effect on doctor–patient communication. Esther has previous experience in psychological intervention in cardiac care and training NHS staff in communication skills.

Esther is the first researcher in the UK to explore the concept of moral injury in medicine, and was invited to present on the topic at the Institute of Pre‐hospital Care Performance Psychology in Medicine Symposium in June 2017. Esther has been invited to present at national and international conferences for healthcare professionals, educators and students. Esther also delivers training on the moral injury and psychological wellbeing to London Ambulance Service’s Advanced Paramedic Practitioners, the Counter Terrorism Specialist Firearms Officers of the Metropolitan Police and is a regular contributor to London HEMS Clinical Governance Days.

Esther has recorded podcasts for WEM, St Emlyns, The College of Paramedics and for the London Advanced Paramedics and East of England Ambulance Service, she also delivers wellbeing workshops at the Royal London Hospital for staff in theatres and at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the Intensive Care Society.