Ketki Miles is appointed as a non-executive board member from 1st June 2020 until 31st May 2024.
Ketki has 32 years’ experience working for a global financial services organisation.
She has worked in a wide range of senior leadership roles in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US, with experience in working with diverse and dispersed teams.
Ketki brings strengths in operational leadership, strategy, and change management.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science.
Ketki Miles has an appreciation of the challenges the NHS faces nationally and in Greater Glasgow and Clyde and is looking forward to making a contribution.
Professor Iain McInnes is appointed as a non-executive board member from 1st April 2021 until 31st March 2025.
Iain is Vice Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Muirhead Chair of Medicine and Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. He is also Director of the Versus Arthritis Centre of Excellence for Inflammatory Arthritis, led from Glasgow and including Universities of Oxford, Newcastle, and Birmingham.
He is immediate past chairman of the FOREUM (Foundation for European Rheumatology Research) Scientific Committee, leads the European Roadmap programme that is defining the research agenda for European rheumatology for the next decade, and is currently President of EULAR (European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology), the leading trans-national society for rheumatology across Europe. Under these auspices, he is creating the first pan-European Rheumatology Research Centre, launching in 2021.
Over two decades, he has led numerous clinical trials and pathogenesis investigation programmes in inflammatory arthritis at an international level. His work is focused on understanding the pathogenesis of immune mediated inflammatory diseases and encompasses basic discovery immunology through phase 1 and proof of concept experimental medicine clinical trials to leadership of pivotal phase 3 trials in immune biology. His original discovery work has led to the therapeutic targeting of several inflammatory cytokines. More recently, he has focused on the biology of myeloid cells in the pathogenesis of a number of immune diseases. He has published >400 peer-reviewed original and review articles with an h-index >100.
Professor Iain McInnes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is the recipient of several prestigious prizes in recognition of his work, including the Sir James Black Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017, the Heberden Medal of the British Society for Rheumatology in 2018, and the Carol-Nachman Prize for Rheumatology, Germany (the highest international award in rheumatology) in 2019. He was awarded a CBE for services to medicine by Her Majesty the Queen in 2019.
Rev John Matthews became a Non-Executive member of the NHS Board on 1st July 2016, and was appointed Vice Chair to the Board on 1st June 2020. He is appointed until 30th June 2024.
John has held senior positions within industry, latterly with General Electric of America.
In his early forties he studied for the Ministry of the Church of Scotland and was Minister of Ruchill Parish Church in North Glasgow for 19 years, until his recent retirement.
He is passionate about engaging with the wider social and economic concerns of Glasgow and beyond.
John has served on the Boards of Glasgow Alliance, Glasgow Community Planning Partnership and Scottish Enterprise Glasgow as Deputy Chair. In 2010 he chaired an Independent Enquiry into Maximising Recovery from Dependent Drug Use in Scotland.
He was on the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and chaired the Lay Advisory Board.
He became chair of Simon Community Scotland in 2008.
Rev John Matthews was awarded the OBE for services to economic development in the Queens Birthday Honours List in 2007.
Margaret Kerr is appointed as a non-executive board member from 1st April 2019 until 31st March 2023.
Margaret brings significant financial expertise to the Board having accumulated more than 20 years’ experience from auditing and advising private companies, listed corporates and large public sector organisations. As a qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAS), Margaret has extensive financial reporting, internal control and corporate governance experience and has worked with a wide range of stakeholders including clinicians, academics, senior management and non-executives to develop and improve governance.
Margaret Kerr is also a Chartered Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (CMIIA) and has performed the Head of Internal Audit role for a number of public sector organisations, including NHS Boards.
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Organisation: Renfrewshire Integration Joint Board Position held: Member
Organisation: Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) Position held: Member
Organisation: Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors Position held: Member
Jacqueline Forbes is appointed as a non-executive board member from 1st July 2016 until 30th June 2024.
Jacqueline is a development professional with extensive experience in residential and mixed use development throughout Scotland and a wide range of commercial, technical and business skills which she hopes will be of benefit to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
She graduated from the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow and has worked in private practice in Glasgow; local authority in Kilmarnock and Loudoun and Clydebank District Councils before joining the Miller Group in Edinburgh in 1989.
Jacqueline progressed to Architectural Manager in Partnership Housing before returning to Glasgow as Architectural Manager for the West of Scotland. In 2001 she added an MBA to her qualifications and became Development Manager responsible for the redevelopment of Leverndale in Crookston and Canniesburn Hospital in Bearsden. She was also a Board member of several joint venture companies ensuring sound financial and business management.
In 2006 Jacqueline joined Stewart Milne Homes in Aberdeen as Development Director before returning to private practice as Residential Director with Halliday Fraser Munro where she was involved in the delivery of a wide range of developments including the Aberdeen Maggie’s Centre. She now owns her own Property and Development Consultancy.
Jacqueline is also a former External Examiner of Professional Practice at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and Edinburgh University as well as a former Chair of Women in Property Northern Scotland.
Alan Cowan is appointed as a non-executive member from 1st July 2016 until 30th June 2024.
Alan is a retired RAF Group Captain and has worked in a wide range of senior health leadership appointments in the UK, Europe, Middle East and USA.
A graduate of the RAF College Cranwell, he led the UK specialist military medical retrieval teams, delivering worldwide aeromedical critical care and evacuation. Subsequently, he represented the UK on veterans’ health issues in the US Department of Veterans Affairs when based in Washington DC, and led the development of a new strategy for the UK Defence Medical Services.
He is a past Board member of Voluntary Health Scotland, a Community Resilience Officer, and has a regional Reserve Forces leadership role.
Alan brings strengths in operational leadership and strategy together with experience in working across professional, cultural and national boundaries.
Simon Carr is appointed as a non-executive board member from 1st September 2015 until 31st August 2023.
Simonhas over thirty five years’ experience working in the voluntary sector, most of which has been spent as a senior officer in the social care and housing sector.
With a track record of developing innovative solutions to complex problems, he looks forward to bringing that experience to NHS Glasgow and Clyde. He has developed and led complex transformation programmes to help ensure organisations remain focused to meet the changing needs of the people that use their services.
Simon Carr understands the challenges the NHS faces nationally and in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and he looks forward to making a contribution.
Dr Jennifer Armstrong was appointed Medical Director of Greater Glasgow and Clyde in April 2012.
Jennifer qualified in Medicine in 1988 at the University of Glasgow and worked in hospitals in Glasgow and Clyde, gaining experience in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Accident and Emergency before training in General Medicine.
After gaining the Royal College of Physician exams, she joined the West of Scotland training scheme for Public Health Medicine. During this time, she gained a Master in Public Health (Glasgow University 1995), Member of the Faculty of Public Health (1998) and was awarded a Diploma in Management Studies with Distinction (Glasgow Caledonian University 1999). In 2007, she was elected Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.
She combined 4 years as a General Manager of Trauma and Medical Services with the Director of the Acute Services Review in the former North Glasgow Trust. In addition, Dr Armstrong worked as a locum consultant in Public Health Medicine in community services. In 2004, she moved to take up a senior medical advisor post with the National Services Division in Edinburgh. She was responsible for assessing the clinical quality and safety of specialist services in Scotland as well as working with clinical experts for UK specialist services. In 2007, she moved to the Scottish Government as a senior medical officer. She provided senior clinical leadership for acute NHS care and screening services. She chaired a range of national groups concerned with palliative care, quality of cancer care and surgical services before returning to Glasgow and Clyde in 2012 to take up the post of Medical Director.
Almost all entries below are as a result of receiving invitations due to holding the position of a Non-Executive Director of Public Limited Companies, however as the NHS has links with these companies, they have been included in the NHS Board’s Register of Hospitality.
5/12/2012 Company providing hospitality: GenerationQ Hospitality received: Attended a meeting & event with GenerationQ in Ashridge, London
20/11/2012 Company providing hospitality: Chancellor of Glasgow University Hospitality received: Chancellors Dinner (black tie event) at Bute Hall Glasgow University Hunterian Museum
11/03/2012 Company providing gift: Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow Gift received: Silk Scarf (appox value £25.00 – for being a Panel Member on their Question Time)
Ms Jane Grant is appointed in her capacity as Chief Executive of Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board from 1st April 2017.
Jane was previously the Chief Executive of NHS Forth Valley for a period of three and a half years. Prior to joining NHS Forth Valley Ms Grant spent four and a half years as Chief Operating Officer for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
She joined the NHS in 1983 as a Management Services Officer within Highland Health Board, and also worked in Stobhill Hospital as Deputy Administrator in her early career.
In the early 1990s, Jane moved to Lanarkshire Health Board as Hospital Administrator within Hairmyres Hospital. This was followed by a variety of posts within Lanarkshire, culminating in her appointment as General Manager of Hairmyres Hospital in 1999.
Ms Grant moved back to Glasgow in 2000 to become the General Manager for Surgery in North Glasgow. She was appointed as Director of Surgery and Anaesthetics for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in early 2006 and became the Board’s Chief Operating Officer in 2009. She was appointed as Chief Executive of NHS Forth Valley in October 2013.
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Organisation: MiP Trade Union Position held: Member
