FOUNDER

Nimai currently works as a West Midlands Cardiology ST4, based in Worcester Royal Hospital at present.

During his Master's, Nimai was honoured with the Student of the Year National Prize by the University of Birmingham, presented at the Houses of Parliament by the Royal Society of Biology. Throughout his university tenure, he consistently excelled, earning the Eliahou Dangoor Scholarship and the Allen Murray Centenary Scholarship for three consecutive years. Nimai graduated from Warwick Medical School, where he received the prestigious Wolfcroft Award for his Elective project on Infective Endocarditis in Zambia. His contributions to heart failure research also earned him the National INSPIRE Presentation team award.

In his foundation training at Walsall Manor Hospital, He worked as part of the covid collaborative group and helped develop training programmes for incoming Doctors during the Covid Pandemic, for which he was awarded the Steph Clerk Memorial Prize. Simultaneously he successfully led a quality improvement project on the management of traumatic brain injury, which was presented internationally in Athens in 2022, winning the Best Abstract Prize from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

His current research in preventative cardiology, funded by the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network inspired him to embark on more collaborative projects intertwined with data science and machine learning.

He is keen on promoting and facilitating research opportunities for individuals and constructed this platform to help encourage and guide individuals towards these opportunities.

CORE TEAM/ DIABETES AMBASSADOR

An Internal Medicine trainee in the West Midlands, who is deeply passionate about diabetes, endocrinology, and healthcare leadership. Lakshmi actively contributes to DEKODE (Digital Evaluation of Ketosis and other Diabetes Emergencies), a renowned Quality Improvement initiative stemming from Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. Lakshmi coordinates efforts across 15 hospitals in the U.K., expanding DEKODE's reach and establishing a centralised registry for DKA and HHS admissions. He champions inter-specialty collaboration and advocates for consolidating research and quality improvement endeavours onto a unified platform. Through his dedication, Lakshmi aims to optimise resource utilisation, foster collaboration, and drive innovation in healthcare.

CORE TEAM/ ITU AND RESPIRATORY AMBASSADOR

Karan graduated in medicine from the University of Cambridge with distinction in 2020. After being awarded places on the competitive NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship programmes at Birmingham, Cambridge, and Oxford, Karan is now an ACF in respiratory medicine at Birmingham. He is pursuing a career as a clinical academic in respiratory and intensive care medicine.

Karan is passionate about medical education, having completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education and been accredited as an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is a Bye-Fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, and has been regularly teaching physiology there since 2017. He has a strong research track record with over 30 publications.

CORE TEAM/ HEALTH INFORMATICS

AMBASSADOR- SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS, EDUCATION INITIATIVES AND MENTORING

Dr Chern Choy is an experienced internal medicine registrar based in Birmingham. He is deeply passionate about cardiology and has successfully enrolled into a cardiology specialist training programme in the West Midlands. Through his work with Dr WIlliam Moody, he is responsible for establishing and managing a regional Cardiac amyloidosis registry. His major accomplishment to date was to achieve the prestigious RCP Turner-Warwick lecture prize for the West Midlands region. Furthermore, Chern has cultivated a deep interest in service improvement. He played a crucial role in setting up a cardiac physiology service on the acute medical and same day emergency care units with the cardiology department. He is also a keen clinical educator and has received accreditation from Advance HE. Chern is currently welcoming collaborations in projects related to service improvement, education initiatives and mentoring.