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 small team of specialist staff dedicated to specific functional areas, known as NDM Strategic. These staff are led by Darren Nash, Associate Head of Department (Academic Support & Finance).
The primary aim of these posts is to assist Head of Units, senior academics and local administrators 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 team underpin the primary administration provided directly within the six main geographic based administration centres of the Department.
NDM Strategic Team
Darren Nash, Associate Head of Department
Ed Gibbs, Director of Finance and Operations
Bron Marguerie de Rotrou, Director of Finance and Operations
Elena McPhilbin, NDM Head of Human Resources
Samantha Branch, NDM Head of Finance
Karen Valentine, NDM Head of Operations and Improvement
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
Kathryn Smith, PA to Head of Department
Priya Govindassamy, PA to Associate Head of Department/Governance Admin