Professor Graeme Dewhurst

Graeme Dewhurst is the South East Regional Postgraduate Dean and Co-Chair of Health Education England’s Postgraduate Deans. He has been a Postgraduate Dean since 2015, providing the overall leadership and support for the management of education and training of approximately 8,000 postgraduate doctors in training across the South East of England. These are doctors ranging from immediately post qualification through to their appointment as consultants or GP principals. In his multiprofessional role he is also the Health Education England senior clinician supporting and guiding the healthcare education workforce across the region. He was previously the Senior Clinical Examiner for the Royal College of Physicians of London, Head of the Kent, Surrey and Sussex School of Medicine and Undergraduate Sub Dean for Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Kings College London Medical School in Chichester. He has been a consultant general physician with special responsibility for the elderly in Chichester for over 25 years. He qualified from Cambridge University before postgraduate appointments in London, Newcastle, and Southampton. He has a strong teaching and research interest in clinical teaching and learning. He continues to provide hands-on clinical and seminar teaching. He is especially keen to support and develop widening access to higher education and to develop innovation and excellence in healthcare education across the region and particularly across Kent. Graeme is a keen hill walker and longsuffering football fan (Southampton FC) and has inflicted both activities on his wife and 2 children.