Offices of the Nuffield Professor of Medicine
The Nuffield Professor of Medicine
The Nuffield Professorship of Clinical Medicine is a chair at the University of Oxford, established in 1937 with the endowment of William Morris, Lord Nuffield. The chair is the Head of Department of the Nuffield Department of Medicine, and is also associated with a fellowship of Magdalen College.
Professor Richard Cornall has been the current Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine and Head of Department since 2019. He is a nephrologist and immunologist who is interested in adaptive immunity, self-tolerance and autoimmune disease. He trained in Cambridge, Oxford, London and Stanford before returning to the University of Oxford, where he was a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow and then Professor of Immunology.
Previous Nuffield Professors of Medicine include Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2019; Professor Sir John Bell, currently the Regius Professor of Medicine in Oxford; and Sir David Weatherall.
Offices of the Nuffield Professor of Medicine
The Head of Department has a team of specialist Professional Services team who are dedicated to leading specific functional areas and aligning their teams to support the academic mission of the department. These staff are led by Edward Gibbs, the Chief Operating Officer. They cover Human Resources, Research Delivery, Grants Administration, Compliance & Governance, Health and Safety, Facilities and Capital Projects and Finance.
The primary aim of these posts is to assist Heads of Units, senior academics and business managers with work related to large and complex projects, strategic initiatives, or backfilling senior administrative posts as required.
These posts also provide a buffer to strategic and operational changes generated from outside the Department, ranging from the implementation of new finance systems, to external funder related negotiations and horizon scanning for risks and opportunities related to their specialist areas.
The NDM Strategic Professional Services team underpins the primary administration provided within the units, centres and institutes of the Department by ensuring high quality operational support is provided though their teams.
NDM Strategic Team
Darren Nash, Associate Head of Department
Ed Gibbs, Chief Operating Officer
Bron Marguerie de Rotrou, Director of Finance and Operations
Elena McPhilbin, NDM Head of Human Resources
Caroline Gregory, NDM Head of Finance
Gem Brown, NDM Head of Grant Management
Sarah Hoosdally, NDM Head of Research Delivery
Marin Hirschfeld, NDM Head of Communications
Ben Heath, NDM Head of Compliance and Assurance
Erica Ballabio, NDM Contracts Manager
Richard Margurie de Rotrou, NDM Head of Health and Safety
Ling Jinks, NDM Head of Facilities and Capital Projects
Benjamin Haxton, NDM Continuous Improvement Practitioner
Verity Nevin, Deputy Director of Finance and Operations
Philip Moody, Deputy Director of Finance and Operations
Kathryn Smith, PA to Head of Department
Priya Govindassamy, PA to Associate Head of Department/Governance Admin
Aleks Herrian / Hannah Smith, PA to Bron Margurie de Rotru