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Kamila Hawthorne
Board of Trustees

Professor Kamila Hawthorne MBE

Trustee Board of Trustees

Kamila Hawthorne has been a GP in South Wales for 26 years, She is also Head of the graduate-entry medicine programme at Swansea University and a trustee of the Royal College of General Practitioners. She is also a Bevan Commissioner. Kamila originally qualified from Oxford University in 1984 and completed her GP training in Nottingham in 1988.

Kamila has a deep interest in the social accountability of medical schools, and believes that we should be training excellent, caring and inclusive clinicians, for a global society. She is passionate about the role of GPs in patient care and as advocates for patients.

Her research and clinical working interests have been in health inequalities and access to health services. With wide experience of general practice and running community projects in diabetes and heart disease, she has been named ‘GP of the Year’ twice and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List 2017 for services to general practice.