Mr. Tim Walsh, BSc,MS,FRCS, Hon FCPS (Bangladesh)
Project Lead for Juba

Has recently retired as a Consultant General Surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital. He has held numerous positions in medical education, including Clinical Tutor to the Isle of Wight, Regional Adviser to the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Course Director for Advanced Trauma Life Support courses and member of the Overseas Doctors Training Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He has been a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Course Director for the Wessex Regional MRCS Revision Course. He has undertaken educational visits to a number of countries, including 16 visits to Bangladesh, on behalf of the World Health Organisation, and he holds an Honorary Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Bangladesh. He is interested in utilising his educational and clinical experience to further the training of doctors overseas.

Mrs Zorina Walsh
Project Manager/Education Director for Juba Project

Has recently retired as Medical Education Manager at St Mary’s Hospital. She has extensive experience in medical education over the last 20 years, especially in the Wessex Deanery where she was the Chair of the Wessex Medical Education Managers. She has also taught medical audit throughout the UK and Ireland. Zorina has considerable experience in supporting doctors in training and undergraduate medical students from the UK and abroad, organising curricula and teaching courses and in the management of work placed based assessments. She was responsible for the introduction and organisation of the first International Doctors Induction Course to be held in England. She is keen to use this administrative experience to benefit and develop the training of doctors overseas.

Dr. Eluzai Hakim
Consultant Physician and Medical Adviser for the Juba Link

Jo Hanks
Nurse Specialist and Nursing Advisor for the Juba Link

Jo Hanks works as a specialist nurse within the cancer speciality at St Mary's Hospital, she has been in her present post for about nine years. She spent her childhood until she was 18 living in Africa. Her formative years were influenced by a strong medical ethos as her father was a doctor out in Africa who specialised in Public Health and Tropical Medicine and her mother a registered nurse and midwife worked for a Christian Missionary Society. In 2003 she returned to Africa to help build a remote rural medical centre in Kenya. She continues to visit this health centre each year to help with managing and supporting the nurses who run it. She is supported by individuals and particularily Carisbrooke Shipping in funding the nurses salaries so that free health care can be offered to children under five in the community. Diseases such as Malaria, HIV & Aids and severe malunutrition are endemic. In July 2007 she successfully attained a Diploma in Tropical Nursing from the London School of Tropical Medicine. She is particularily keen to use her experience out in Africa and within Nursing to help with this new project in Juba Hospital Southern Sudan.

Dr. David Attwood
Trainee Doctor Representative & Publicity Coordinator for the Juba Link

"Dr David Attwood graduated with a BM from Southampton University and began his training at St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight in February 2007. David, is an enthusiastic doctor who wants to spend his life time pursuing a career that helps improve medical care in Africa. He played a prominent role in the twinning of St Mary's hospital to Juba hospital, the creation of the supply chain and publicising the Link.."