Dr Grace Pearson

Education and Training Council representative

Grace is a qualified doctor who graduated from Bristol Medical School with distinction in 2017, and is currently working as a Specialty Doctor (SAS) in geriatric medicine at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. Grace’s doctoral research was innovating and evaluating undergraduate education in geriatric medicine in the UK, supervised by Dr Emily Henderson and Prof Yoav Ben-Shlomo. Since completing her PhD, Grace has been working as a Clinical Lecturer in the Global Health and Ageing Research Unit, and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, developing an undergraduate case-based curriculum in geriatrics for African medical schools, and also establishing a postgraduate teaching and mentorship network for early-career clinicians with an interest in geriatric medicine (The Zimbabwe Geriatrics Network, Zim-GeN). Grace continues her work with the British Geriatrics Society as an Education and Training Representative and remains Deputy Lead for the ‘Complex Medicine in Older People’ clerkship at Bristol Medical School. Her educational research achievements have been recognised with Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and Membership of the Academy of Medical Educators.

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