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 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; and Sir David Weatherall.
Offices of the Nuffield Professor of Medicine
The Head of Department has a 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 ensuring high-quality operational support is provided through their teams.
NDM Strategic Team
Darren Nash, Associate Head of Department
Ed Gibbs, Chief Operating Officer
Bron Marguerie de Rotrou, Chief of Staff
Philip Moody, Director of Operations
Verity Nevin, Director of Operations
Elena McPhilbin, Director of Human Resources
Caroline Gregory, Director of Finance
Ben Heath, Director of Compliance and Assurance
Sarah Hoosdally, Director of Research Delivery
Richard Marguerie de Rotrou, Director of Health and Safety
Gem Brown, Head of Grant Management
Marin Hirschfeld, Head of Communications
Ling Jinks, Head of Facilities and Capital Projects
Abigail Rickard, Head of Academic Programmes
Erica Ballabio, Contracts Manager
Benjamin Haxton, Continuous Improvement Practitioner
Kathryn Smith, PA to Head of Department
Priya Govindassamy, PA to Associate Head of Department/Governance Admin
Aleks Herrian / Hannah Smith, PA to Bron Marguerie de Rotrou