Council

Chair: Madhu Kannan
Consultant in Acute Medicine, Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend

Madhu enjoys, in no particular order, knitting, running, paddle boarding, wine and the coast. Once graduating from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 2008, she never felt the need to leave Wales. She completed the ACCS programme in Wrexham and her registrar training across Wales. Her clinical interests include leadership, echocardiography, simulation-based training and unashamedly promoting AIM. Despite loving hospital medicine, she took time out of training from 2018-19 as a Clinical Leadership Fellow with Health Education and Improvement Wales, being hosted by the GMC in Cardiff. After completing training she worked in Aneurin Bevan and is now based in Princess of Wales Hospital in sunny Bridgend – taking a keen interest in education, escalation planning and how to make our lives at work as best as they can be.


Secretary: Lliwen Jones
Consultant in Acute Medicine, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff


Treasurer: Rebekah Johnson
Acute Medicine Consultant, Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil


Education Lead: Carys Phillips
Acute Medicine Registrar, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

Carys is an Acute Medicine SpR in Wales. Her special skill in AIM training is Acute Oncology and she looks forward to helping develop Acute Oncology in South Wales as a consultant in the future! She is also passionate about ensuring the AIM trainees feel valued and are provided with good quality and interesting education. For this reason she’s excited about becoming the new Education lead on WAPS council! Outside of work, Carys can generally be found running, hiking, cycling and more recently, spending time with her son and husband.


Promotion & Recruitment Lead : Andrew Workman
Acute & Intensive Care Medicine Registrar, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

Drew is currently based at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff completing his advanced training in Intensive Care Medicine. Outside of the hospital Drew is passionate about gardening, cars and enforcing these pastimes on his children. He spends most of his free time listening to true crime podcasts and being dragged on holiday by his family. Drew’s clinical interests are medical education and ultrasonography. He looks forward to channelling his enthusiasm for Acute Medicine by promoting the training programme in Wales as WAPS recruitment lead.


STC Representative (co-opted): Tom Cozens
Consultant in Acute Medicine, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport

When not being an AIM consultant in the Royal Gwent Hospital, he is usually found outside; whether running, hiking, camping, or just chasing his children around the park. As a general rule, prefers ale to lager, and has yet to find a cheese he won’t eat. Having come through Acute Medicine training in Wales he is proud to now be Training Programme Director, with his main area of focus being around education, recruitment and retention, with half an eye on the new IM curriculum. Tom believes WAPS will become a powerful vehicle for our specialty, and supports driving things forward in the future.


SAM Wales Representative (co-opted) & Immediate Past Chair: John Hounsell
Consultant in Acute Medicine, Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend

John is usually found sailing offshore or somewhere in the Alps. At other times he might be found either with his three children down in Pembrokeshire or trying to run the acute medical unit in Princess of Wales (POW) Hospital in Bridgend. After starting his acute medicine training in the East of England, he transferred to sunny South Wales in 2012 and the rest as they say, is history. His special interests include medical education and attending as many conferences as possible. He is also the RCP College tutor and Internal Medicine Simulation training lead for POW.


Trainee Representative (co-opted): Alice Hoole
Acute Medicine Registrar


Trainee Representative (co-opted): John Watts
Acute Medicine Registrar, Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant

John qualified from Cardiff University in 2017 and, after an F2 placement in Acute Medicine in Bridgend, has not looked beyond fulfilling a career in this specialty within his beloved Wales. He loves the challenge of a diagnostic conundrum and all things ‘auto-immuney’ and, with a personal interest in the microbiome (and food in general), he is hoping to complete a Specialist Skill in Acute Oncology and later look into the relationship between the microbiome and immunotherapy.


Internal Medicine (Stage 1) Trainee Representative : Hannah Palfrey
ST4, Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend (post IMT3)

Acute Care Common Stem Internal Medicine Trainee Representative : Marc Franklin
ST4, Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend (post ACCS)


The founding members of the Welsh Acute Physicians’ Society were Caz Burford, Tom Cozens, Owain Crimmins, John Hounsell, Jia Inam, Madhu Kannan and Chris Subbe.