Co-chairs
Dr Elora Baishnab
(she/her) (Ee-law-ra Bay-sh-nab)
Elora is Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Deputy Lead on the MBChB Programme at the University of Manchester. She is also a working GP and Joint Head of Undergraduate GP Teaching. She leads on delivery of Active Bystander training for Year 3 students and has been working with the wider programme on anti-sexism teaching. She has led students across years to decolonise the curriculum starting with online learning materials.
Elora has been a member of DIMAH for many years and support the outgoing chair Margot Turner as DIMAH Secretary.
Outside of her Academic Role she is a GP in active clinical practice, and has various roles working for the RCGP, GMC and as an appraiser. She is a proud Bangladeshi and has three small children that have very much shaped her lived experience and contributed to her commitment to EDI spaces.
Dr Mairead Corrigan
(she/her) (Ma-raid Corr-e-gan)
Mairead is a medical sociologist in the Centre for Medical Education (CME) at Queen’s University, Belfast where she is the Academic Lead for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) and is Chair of her Centre’s ED&I Committee. She has been leading on embedding diversity in the curriculum. Many of her ED&I initiatives have been co-created with students. These include the development of open-access ED&I training for healthcare educators in collaboration with Ulster University Medical School and with Northern Ireland’s Postgraduate Deanery; Active Bystander Training for Queen’s; a workshop on challenging racism for medical students; and projects on neurodiversity.
Mairead has been a member of DIMAH for many years. She has found DIMAH to be a valuable community of practice and source of support.