GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE - Key Persons
Professor Alan Silman is a Governing Body Fellow of Green Templeton College and Chair of the Academic Committee. He is lead on the college's Global Health Policy Programme and has also organised generic skills training events for Green Templeton DPhil students on aspects such as scientific writing and presentation skills.
He is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist. He was Director of the UK's Arthritis Research Epidemiology Unit in Manchester from 1988-2006 and published over 500 articles in the broad field of arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases.
His research interests spanned inflammatory joint diseases, connective tissue disorders especially scleroderma and Behcets Disease, chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions and osteoporosis and fracture. His methodological interests included pharmaco-epidemiology and the use of drug register, genetics and disease outcome research.
He then became Arthritis Research UK's first Medical Director, a post he held from 2007 until the end of 2014. In that role he was responsible for the strategic direction of the Charity's research activities as well as leading on both health care professional and patient education initiatives.
Currently he is Professor of Musculoskeletal Health at Oxford University. His current research interests are mainly in the field of comorbidities and their relation to health care and health care outcomes and the use of ‘big data' to address these issues.
He also is collaborating with Mr Dominique Rothenfluh, spinal surgeon at the NOC, to develop a research programme in the surgery of adult degenerative spine disease.
He is extending this interest to outside the UK and has a particular interest in developing research in musculoskeletal disorders in low and middle income countries.
Amongst his other roles, he chairs Appeal Panels for NICE, is the Research Lead for the Global Musculoskeletal Alliance and with collaborators at Green Templeton College leading on a programme on how to enhance the use of patient-lead technologies to improve health.
He is one of the editors of the leading international postgraduate textbook, Rheumatology (7th Ed Elsevier due 2017) and is jointly authoring the third Edition of Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide, OUP.
He has a particular commitment to supporting younger investigators in developing their scientific writing skills and learning how to succeed in achieving research grant awards.
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- Academic Projects Administrator
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- Senior Research Fellow
- Member of Building Committee
- Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading
- Professor of Practice
Senior Research Fellow Andrew Baum is Professor of Practice at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where he leads the Future of Real Estate Initiative. He is a member of Building Committee at Green Templeton College.
Andrew Baum is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading. He is Chairman of Newcore Capital Management, a real estate fund manager focussed on alternatives, and advisor to several property organisations.
He holds BSc, MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Reading, and is a graduate of the London Business School investment management programme, a chartered surveyor and a qualified member of the CFA institute (ASIP). He has held senior positions with Grosvenor, Nuveen, CBRE Global Investors and others, and has launched and sold three startups. He has also been a director of a brewery and a publishing company.
Baum's PropTech 3.0: The Future of Real Estate was the most downloaded Saïd Business School report in 2017, and the most downloaded Proptech report on Infabode. Andrew Baum also was winner of the UK PropTech Association Special Achievement award for 2019. He is the author of several best-selling property textbooks.
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- Database Development Operations Manager
Professor Andrew Sharott is a Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College and an MRC Investigator at the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford. He is a member of the Student Welfare Committee at Green Templeton.
Professor Sharott's key research areas are the mechanisms through which large populations of neurons across the brain enable cognition and behaviour, identifying the ways in which these neural dynamics are disturbed in disease, and developing ways of normalising these pathological activities for therapy using brain stimulation.
Professor Sharott graduated in Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham in 2001. He then moved to University College London to study for his Ph.D. in Neurological Studies, with a focus on oscillations in the basal ganglia network, under the supervision of Professor Peter Brown. In 2005, Professor Sharott moved to the University Medical Centre, Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany), to undertake postdoctoral work with Professor Andreas Engel. As a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher in Hamburg, Professor Sharott continued to study oscillations in the basal ganglia, including recordings from patients undergoing the implantation of deep brain stimulation electrodes for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
In summer 2009, Professor Sharott came to Oxford as an MRC Investigator Scientist to work in the Magill Group, where his research was focused on the use of in vivo electrophysiological recording techniques to examine the role of striatal neurons in the dopamine-intact and Parkinsonian brain. In 2015, he was promoted to MRC Programme Leader.
Professor Ashley Grossman is a Governing Body Fellow, Green Templeton College and Professor of Endocrinology, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford.
Ashley Grossman was awarded an Open Exhibition to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, completed a degree in Psychology and Social Anthropology at the University of London, and then entered University College London where he received a First-Class degree in Anatomy, and the University Gold Medal from UCHMS. He started in the Dept. of Endocrinology at St Bartholomew's Hospital and medical school, eventually becoming Professor of Neuroendocrinology at Barts and the London School of Medicine in 1993. He moved to OCDEM, Churchill Hospital, in 2011 where he was appointed Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Oxford, and in 2012 Senior Research Fellow of Green Templeton College.
He often provides the university lectures in Endocrinology, supervises a number of both medical and other DPhil students at Green Templeton, and helps in teaching and practice exams. At OCDEM, he built on the work of Professor John Wass in developing the Department of Endocrinology, which has since developed into a major UK and international centre for Endocrinology.
Most recently, he has moved to become Consultant in Neuroendocrine Tumours at the Royal Free Hospital, London, in the ENETS Centre of Excellence, and is also Professor of Neuroendocrinology at Barts and the London School of Medicine. He has published some 550 peer-reviewed papers and over 450 chapters and reviews, most recently on hypothalamic and pituitary tumours and endocrine oncology.
He has been President of the ENEA, the Society for Endocrinology (2012-2014), Chairman of UKINETS (2010-2012), was President of the Pituitary Society (2015-2016), and is President of Endotext. Apart from other awards, he has been awarded the Society for Endocrinology Jubilee Medal to be awarded in March 2025 ‘in recognition of outstanding studies, which have changed our understanding of endocrinology in a fundamental way. The medal is the highest accolade bestowed by the Society'.
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- Consultant
- Fellow
- Head of Department
- Member of Medical Teaching Subcommittee
- Professor
Professor Belinda Lennox is a Governing Body Fellow, Green Templeton College and Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. She is a member of Medical Teaching Subcommittee at Green Templeton.
Belinda's research interests are in developing better treatments and improving outcomes for people with early psychosis. She undertakes a wide range of research, from studies of alteration of the gut microbiome, studies of devices to improve physical health outcomes, through to health services research studies of new service models in the care of people with early psychosis. A particular focus is on the possible autoimmune cause of psychotic disorders and developing new diagnostic tools to help to identify this. She supervises DPhils and clinical academic psychiatrists undertaking projects in each of these areas.
Belinda is a consultant psychiatrist in Oxford Health NHS FT, where she works in the Early Intervention in Psychosis service. She is vice chair of the psychopharmacology committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, steering group member for National Clinical Audit of Psychosis, and Associate Editor of Schizophrenia Bulletin.
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- Food and Beverage Manager
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- Associate
- Fellow
- Head of School
- Professor
Professor Berne Ferry is an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College. She has been Head of School at the National School of Healthcare Science since April 2017.
Her background is as a consultant clinical scientist and clinical lead of the Clinical Laboratory Immunology service at the Oxford University Hospital Trust (OUH). She was also the Lead Scientist in the Oxford University Hospitals Trust from 2012 till 2017.
Berne's first degree was in Immunology where she was one of the first students on the pioneering new BSc in Immunology at Glasgow University. She obtained her PhD in cancer research from Nottingham University, followed by two postdoctoral positions, one at the University of Helsinki where she worked with world leaders in renal transplantation, and undertook research that contributed to understanding the role of the MHC in hastening transplant rejection and the role that steroid therapy may have in counteracting the effects of these molecule; her second postdoctoral position was at the University of Oxford where she continued to apply ideas and techniques from solid transplantation to explore the role the immune system plays in maternal fetal relationship. In 1987, she was awarded a competitive Unilever Junior research fellow at Green College, University of Oxford (which merged with Templeton College in 2008 to become Green Templeton College.)
From 1989-1994 she was a senior lecturer at Brunel University where she ran the MSc in Immunology and established a new master's degree in Medical Genetics and Immunology. Working at Harefield Cardiac Transplant Centre with colleagues from the Brompton, she continued her research exploring the role of the immune system in cardiac transplantation. In 1994, she returned to Oxford to take up her position as a consultant clinical scientist at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital Trust.
During this time, she developed her clinical experience in Immunology and gained the FRCPath by examination. Over the last 20 years, she developed a research programme in primary antibody deficiencies as well as initiating a new programme developing novel assays to assess the functional defects in a range of chronic illnesses. She set up the NHS Translational Immunology Research Laboratory in Oxford and is an emeritus associate there. She was the chair of the UK Professional Group for Clinical Scientists in Immunology and sat on the Council of the Association for Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine and on the Themed Board for Blood Sciences at the National School of Healthcare Science. She sat on the NICE guideline development group for coeliac disease and was a longstanding member of the Steering Committee of UK-PIN. She has over 80 peer reviewed published papers and has lectured/spoken in the USA, Czech Republic, UK, Australia, and Scandinavia at conferences and on invited visits.
As a Lead Scientist, Berne worked with colleagues in Oxford to raise the profile of the scientific workforce and together, the OUH Scientists achieved a great deal in those years. They set up an OUH Scientist Advisory Group which has allowed the physicists, the clinical engineers, the life scientists and the physiologists to come together and learn about one another's work, and they established scientific collaborations and educational and training relationships. In addition to local networks, they also set up and contributed to regional and national networks. OUH scientists along with colleagues from London and Cambridge were instrumental in establishing the Shelford Group of Healthcare Scientists which continues to influence science policies nationally. In addition, the scientists were supportive and very successful in winning NIHR fellowships and were recognised as innovators and rising stars in the Health Service Journals Chief Scientific Officers Awards over the years.
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- Deputy Academic Registrar
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- Director of Development and Alumni Relations
Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty is an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Dame Anne Marie is Professor of Health & Nursing Policy, former Dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's College, London and Past President of the Royal College of Nursing.
She holds degrees from Edinburgh University (BSc Soc Sci Nursing Studies); Nottingham University (MPhil Surgery) and was the first nurse to graduate with a doctorate from Oxford University (DPhil Modern History). She is a historian, health, workforce, policy researcher and expert. She was the first nurse to win a prestigious Harkness Fellowship in Health Policy (University of Pennsylvania).
She served on the UK Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery, 2009-10 and been recipient of various awards; Nursing Times Leadership Award (2014); Health Services Journal Top 100 Clinical Leaders Award in 2015; 2017 nominated as one of 70 most influential nurses in the 70 years of the National Health Service. She co-led a Student Commission on the Future of the NHS supported by NHS England and was a member of the Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales, 2018.
She is currently a member of The Times Health Commission and is a regular commentator in the media. She is an Associate Fellow of the health think tank The Nuffield Trust.
She holds Fellowships from the Royal College of Nursing (FRCN), American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences 2019, Member of the Academia Europaea 2020 and National Academy of Science & Medicine in the US in 2021. She was awarded a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) from Her Majesty the Queen for services to nursing in 2020.
Dr Ali Shilleh is Robert Turner Research Associate at Green Templeton College and Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM), University of Oxford.
Ali is a proud Serbestinian, born in Serbia and raised in Ramallah, West Bank Palestine. In 2014, Ali recieved his BS in biochemistry at Umass Boston in Boston, MA and went on to complete an MS in Nutrition and Biomedicine at the Technical University of Munich in Munich, Germany under the supervision of Dr Henrietta Uhlenhaut's lab at the Institute of Diabetes and Obesity at Helmholtz Zentrum. His thesis studied the role of TR2 and TR4, orphan hormone nuclear receptors, in glucose homeostasis and lipid metabolism.
Ali then worked as a research assistant for nine months at Dr Holger Russ's Lab at the Barbara Davis centre, University of Colorado Anschutz Campus, and joined the same lab as a PhD student in 2017. His work at the Russ Lab focused on determining the fate of primary human beta cells and stem cell derived beta-like cells (sBC) upon transplantation. These studies were geared toward improving sBC survival in vivo and promote cell therapy for T1D treatment.
Recently, Ali joined the Hodsquad as a Novo Nordisk postdoctoral fellow to further understand GLP1R signaling in beta cells and explore the potential use of GL1R agonists for gene therapy applications for T2D diabetic patients.
In his free time he loves to ski (especially in Oxford), rock climb, hike, run, walk his dog and travel with his partner and daughter.
Dr Alissa Walsh is an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford and a Consultant Gastroenterologist and the Deputy Clinical Director of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
After completing her formal gastroenterology training in Australia, Dr Walsh undertook a Clinical Fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases within the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (2007 to 2008) and thereafter a National Health Medical Research Council fellowship in Australia (2009 to 2011).
Dr Walsh spent six years as a Consultant Gastroenterologist at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney before returning to Oxford where she has completed a DPhil in clinical medicine from the University of Oxford.
Dr Walsh's research interests include IBD activity indices, prevention of opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients, the role of faecal transplantation in ulcerative colitis and remote digital monitoring and for patients with IBD. Dr Walsh is a founder and director of Crohn's Colitis Cure, an Australian charity supporting IBD medical research.
Dr Alun Davies is a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.
Dr Davies specialises in engaging and involving stakeholders, communities and publics with health research. He has led several engagement programmes and initiatives across a range of countries, with expertise in Good Participatory Practice (GPP) for clinical trials and youth engagement. He currently leads a WHO technical working group on GPP for the multi-country Solidarity Trial of Covid-19 Vaccines.
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- Associate
- Senior Research Fellow
Dr Andrew White is a Senior Research Fellow of Green Templeton College and Associate Dean for Executive Education and Corporate Relations, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Contact: Andrew.White@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Dr Angela Coulter is an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. She has had a long career in health services research and health policy analysis, with special interests in patient and public involvement. A social scientist by training, she has higher degrees in health services research from the University of London and the University of Oxford. Now freelance, she chairs Picker Institute Europe's board of trustees and is past chair of the public advisory board of Health Data Research UK, the Birmingham, Rand and Cambridge Evaluation Centre (BRACE) steering group and the COMPAR-EU advisory board.
Her previous roles included chief executive of Picker Institute Europe, director of policy and development at the King's Fund, director of the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Oxford, director of global initiatives at the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation and honorary professor at the University of Southern Denmark. She held non-executive director posts at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) from 2016-2019 and at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre from 2009 -2012. She was Doll Research Fellow in Preventive Medicine and Social Studies at Green College from 1987-1990.
She has published more than 350 research papers, articles and reports and several books, including The Autonomous Patient, The European Patient of the Future, The Global Challenge of Healthcare Rationing, Hospital Referrals, Engaging Patients in Healthcare and Understanding and Using Health Experiences. She was the founding editor of Health Expectations, an international peer-reviewed journal on patient and public involvement in health care and health policy.
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- Student and Academic Programmes Administrator
For further information about Green Templeton's governance, or committees, please get in touch with the Secretary to the Governing Body: Dr Richard Cuthbertson
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- College Office Administrator
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- Head of Library and Information Services
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- Director of Communications
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- Accommodation Administrative Assistant
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- Digital Communications Officer
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- Oxford Colleges Fire Safety Advisor
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- Principal
- Principal of Green Templeton College, University
Sir Michael Dixon is Principal of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. In this role he is the central figure promoting the college's life and work, championing its interests, ensuring collegial decision-making and developing ambitious strategic plans.