In her spare time, Sandy enjoys travelling abroad with her husband, family and friends. Sandy joined the Fleet Street Clinic team in 2019, to support the clinical and operational teams in continuously striving for excellence in patient safety and satisfaction.
In conjunction with this, she also completed a Level 5 diploma in management and leadership from the Chartered Management Institute. Since then she has gained 7-years experience within healthcare management, working in the private sector, managing large operational teams in decontamination and sterile services for private and NHS hospitals. Sandy spent 3-months travelling across Brazil carrying out research for her project into novel vector control interventions for visceral leishmaniasis. Her dissertations focussed on the tropical infectious diseases, malaria and leishmaniasis. Following her undergraduate study in Biology at the University of Leeds, she went onto further postgraduate education at the University of Warwick, graduating with a distinction in the MSc programme – Biotechnology and Business Management. Sandy specialises in operations management within a healthcare setting. A keen chef, she spends a lot of time entertaining in the kitchen. When she is not at work, she is busy travelling with her husband Richard, or spending time with her 3 sons. Gillian is regularly instructed in optometric legal matters and enjoys being an expert witness. Gillian counts one of her career highlights as testing and looking after one of our former Prime Ministers when he was in office. She enjoys problem-solving and helping patients who have been visually unfulfilled elsewhere. Highly sought after for her expertise, Gillian offers patients a unique blend of excellent eye care and her friendly, welcoming approach: “listening to patients’ needs is paramount”. She heads up a great optometric team and has built an extensive, wide-ranging referral network. With nearly thirty years’ experience of general clinical optometry, Gillian has worked in Fleet Street since 1983 and established her own independent practice Whitby & Co in 1995. He is regularly called upon for news, television and entertainment projects across the globe, consulting on travel health issues.Ī founding partner of Fleet Street Clinic, Gillian Whitby trained in optometry in Glasgow and has been GOC registered since 1982. Richard has contributed to news items on every aspect of Travel Medicine, and features on networks such as the BBC, Sky News, CNN and Al Jazeera. He is passionate about writing and is a member of the Society of Authors and the British Guild of Travel Writers. Richard has written for travel medicine textbooks and journals, and for media titles such as the Daily Telegraph and Condé Nast Traveler (New York). The current edition of the book – with some 70 contributors – is available from Amazon. With 10 UK and International editions of this award-winning book, it reflects a pioneering approach to providing frequent travellers with the facts they need to understand and overcome the health risks of travel. The first edition of Richard’s book “Travellers’ Health” was published in 1986, and helped set the agenda for modern travel medicine. “Travellers’ Health” – Edited by Richard Dawood He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a Trustee of the Blood Care Foundation. He is also a Founder Member of the British Global & Travel Health Association and a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine (Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow). Richard is a Founding Member and Fellow of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) and has served on its Executive Board. He has personal experience of travel in more than 120 countries around the world. He practised in a variety of clinical settings at teaching hospitals in the UK and overseas before establishing the Fleet Street Clinic with Gillian Whitby in 1995. Richard trained in medicine at University College Hospital and studied tropical medicine at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. Richard is the most senior UK travel medicine specialist working exclusively in a private setting. Dr Richard Dawood has practised for over 35 years and was one of the first doctors in the UK to establish Travel Medicine as a distinct speciality.
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