Innovation in Medical Education conference 2026

Are you a resident doctor or a medical student interested in medical education? Have you been involved in a project that you want to present? Are you a consultant keen to see the impactful work?

Join us at the third Innovation in Medical Education Conference 2026 on Monday 1 June 2026, 9am to 5pm.

This one-day conference is dedicated to medical education, with talks from experts in the field, networking opportunities, and poster presentations from medical educators.

Dr Lasith Ranasinghe 

Dr Ranasinghe is a multi-award-winning Anaesthetics trainee, Level 3 Personal Trainer, and medical author with a specialist interest in evidence-based nutrition. He is the founder of Make a Medic, a pioneering medical education charity that creates affordable resources for students and uses the funds raised to support vital public health and education initiatives in low- and middle-income countries. A passionate educator, he has authored four best-selling medical textbooks and continues to champion accessible, high-quality learning for the next generation of clinicians.

Alongside his clinical work, Dr Ranasinghe is committed to improving public understanding of nutrition and lifestyle medicine. He delivers his flagship talk, Beyond Calories, at NHS Trusts, conferences, and public events across the country - challenging misconceptions, exposing industry-driven myths, and equipping audiences with practical, scientifically grounded principles to better their health.

 

Dr Kimberly D Lomis 

Kimberly D. Lomis, MD is Vice President for Medical Education Innovations at the American Medical Association. In that capacity, she guides the AMA ChangeMedEd® Initiative, partnering with medical schools, GME and CPD programs to impact over 30,000 medical learners across the United States. Themes of collaborative work include competency-based medical education, training in health systems science across the continuum, value-added roles for learners, development of master adaptive learners, coaching for health professionals, promoting diversity of the physician workforce and inclusive environments, addressing learner & faculty wellbeing, and change management. 

Dr. Lomis oversees the AMA’s Precision Education portfolio of projects leveraging data and technology to personalize and enhance medical education across the continuum. Active in considering the impact of AI on medical education, Dr. Lomis leads AMA initiatives, visits institutions nationally and internationally to promote AI education, and serves as a subject matter expert for the US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Dr. Lomis previously served as Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and has held multiple national and international leadership roles in medical education.

Dr Catherine Bielick

Catherine Bielick is an infectious disease physician-scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center whose NIH-funded research uses AI and big data to improve outcomes for people with HIV, with particular focus on populations experiencing health disparities. She completed her master's in data science during fellowship and now works at the intersection of machine learning, health equity, and clinical medicine.

She studies the development of time series forecasting models with national datasets, benchmarking large language models, and studying how AI systems learn and perpetuate bias. She is a frequent educator on AI ethics in healthcare, medical education, and an advocate for algorithmic accountability.

Professor Bill Irish, Regional Postgraduate Dean – NHS England, East of England and the University of Cambridge  

Bill is Postgraduate Dean of Medicine at the University of Cambridge and for the East of England region of the NHS. He is a member of the Faculty Board of the School of Clinical Medicine. Bill studied in Cambridge, London and Dundee Universities, training in medicine, as a general practitioner and then (rather more enthusiastically) pursuing a parallel career in postgraduate medical education.

Previously he practiced in Bath, subsequently becoming Director of GP Education across the Southwest and UK chair of COGPED. He moved to his current role in Cambridge in 2015, joining Hughes Hall as a Fellow two years later.

He leads postgraduate medical education as well as overseeing all educational placements for nursing, midwifery, pharmacy, dental and allied health profession students across Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

Bill is the UK lead postgraduate dean for surgical training across the UK and the specialities of general surgery & trauma and orthopaedic surgery in particular. He was until recently the national dean for integrated academic and clinical training for doctors and dentists in partnership with NIHR and the English medical schools. He holds visiting chairs of medical education at Bristol, East Anglia and Anglia Ruskin universities and has research interests in high-stakes assessment, medical trainee recruitment and selection.

Bill was fortunate to be deployed as clinical lead for a large Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone during the 2015-16 pandemic and has a continued interest in global health, working closely with a number of regional, national and international partners.

Outside of work Bill remains a very keen but ageing rower. When not paddling on the Cam he generally enjoys chasing around after his grown up children, stepdaughter and grandchild.

Dr Lewis Potter

Dr Lewis Potter BEM is a GP and the founder of Geeky Medics, one of the most widely used medical education platforms in the UK and internationally. He founded the platform in 2010 while still a medical student and has since grown it into a resource supporting over a million learners each month. Recognised for his contributions to medical education, Lewis was awarded the British Empire Medal and continues to combine clinical practice with innovation in digital learning