Johann Malawana

Johann Malawana is a British doctor, social entrepreuner and founder of The Healthcare Leadership Academy[1] and Medics.Academy.[2][3] Malawana formerly practised as an obstetrician[4] and was Chair of the British Medical Association's (BMA) Junior Doctors Committee from September 2015 to July 2016. Malawana's leadership of the BMA Junior Doctors Committee occurred during the 2015 junior doctors contract dispute in England, and he led junior doctors into industrial action, striking over pay and conditions for the first time since 1975.[5]

Johann Malawana
EducationBarts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Years active2005–present
Known forChair of the Junior Doctors Committee of the British Medical Association
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician
FieldObstetrics

Early life

Malawana grew up in Gants Hill, London and was educated at Ilford County High School.[6] He studied at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, graduating with a medical degree in 2005.

Career

Malawana was president of Barts and The London Students' Association 2002–03.

In 2003–05 he was University of London Union Medical Students Officer and founded the London Medical Student newspaper as part of the campaign around Modernising Medical Careers.

In 2004 he was elected the Deputy Chair for Education of the BMA Medical Students Committee.

He was an appointed member of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) 2008–10 and the General Medical Council[7] (GMC) 2009–12.

From 2007 to 2010, after the introduction of Modernising Medical Careers and the MTAS debacle, he was elected as the BMA Junior Doctors Committee Chair of the Education and Training team. As part of the subsequent negotiations, he is credited with devising the first version of the Interdeanery Transfer system.[8]

At the end of September 2015, he was elected chair of the BMA Junior Doctors Committee.[6] A contract dispute began to unfold during that time, affecting junior doctors in England. In November 2015, he was named by the Health Service Journal to be the 78th most influential person in the English NHS.[9]

Malawana resigned from the position of chair of the BMA Junior Doctors Committee on 5 July 2016.[10]

Malawana founded The Healthcare Leadership Academy in 2016 to help healthcare students and young professionals develop their leadership skills.[1][11][12] Malawana's work throughout his career focussed on developing early stage doctors and health professionals.[13] He voiced concerns about the 'poisonous political atmosphere' that he alleges had been created in the NHS,[14][15] and responded with the creation of The Healthcare Leadership Academy (The HLA). This was intended as a way to help early stage career professionals to prepare to lead healthcare organisations globally through a new model of leadership training.[16] The HLA programme involves project based learning.[17][18] The Healthcare Leadership Academy has expanded from 13 healthcare students and professionals (known as 'scholars') in London, and now operates from four different cities, and welcomes scholars from across Europe. Admission to the programme is recognised as a prestigious accolade.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]

Malawana founded Medics.Academy in 2016, a technology company looking to contribute solutions to the workforce crisis in healthcare through innovative technology enhanced learning products.[2][3][26] Products developed by the Medics.Academy team include The Healthcare Leadership Academy,[1] F|Docs[27] and Nucleus.

Personal life

He is married to a GP, with whom he has two sons.[6] He previously ran a photography business in his spare time.[28]

References
  1. "Learning to lead in medicine". MDU Student Notes.
  2. "The 2010s: three doctors, 10 years, no regrets". The British Medical Journal.
  3. "World Innovation Summit in Health". Qatar Foundation.
  4. "Johann Malawana | The Guardian". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  5. Triggle, Nick (12 January 2016). "Patients hit by junior doctors' strike". Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  6. Urwin, Rosamund (22 October 2015). "Junior doctors' leader Johann Malawana on Jeremy Hunt's contract changes: 'We're not ideologues — we have been pushed'". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  7. Malawana, Johann (19 February 2016). "Johann Malawana: Government must recognise cost of healthcare". BMJ. 352. doi:10.1136/bmj.i1053. ISSN 0959-8138.
  8. "BMA – Inter-deanery transfers | British Medical Association". www.bma.org.uk. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  9. "HSJ100 2015". Health Service Journal. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  10. Triggle, Nick (5 July 2016). "Ministers 'looking to impose doctor contract'". BBC News.
  11. "Opportunities in Leadership". Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.
  12. "The HLA". College of Paramedics.
  13. "Laying Good Foundations". The BMJ.
  14. "Government must recognise cost of healthcare".
  15. "I fought for juniors doctors rights – but the government destroyed their trust". The Guardian.
  16. "Student Engagement on European Medical Schools". Listen Notes.
  17. "Bedfordshire nursing student shares project on resilience with House of Lords". University of Bedfordshire News.
  18. "Not just a medical student: Delivering medical education through a short video series on social media". Advanced Digital Health Research.
  19. "St George's students have been selected to join the Healthcare Leadership Academy as scholars". St George's University of London News.
  20. "Medical School's Carol Chan Awarded Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholarship". University College London News.
  21. "Doctor Elaines a Future Healthcare Leader". Northumbria NHS Trust.
  22. "Simran Bedi awarded scholarship for next generation of healthcare leaders". Kings College London News.
  23. "Keele medical student wins prestigious scholarship for Leadership programme". Keele University, School of Medicine News.
  24. "Hull York Medical School". twitter.
  25. "Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust". twitter.
  26. "Need for an additional 18 million healthcare workers". collectiveequity.com.
  27. "Bright Ideas In. Health Awards 2019".
  28. Gentleman, Amelia (27 November 2015). "Junior doctors' leader Johann Malawana on NHS strikes: 'No doctor wants to do what we are being pushed into'". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
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