Dr Iain Wilkinson

Dr Iain Wilkinson is a Geriatrician in Surrey UK. Having completed his specialist training in SW London he started as an geriatrician in Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust in 2014. His clinical interests are, orthogeriatircs, acute geriatrics and Parkinson’s disease. Currently Iain runs an acute ward, an intermediate care ward and a virtual ward seeing patients across the whole spectrum of geriatric care in this trust. He also runs a weekly movement disorder clinic.

Iain is a clinical leader and has taken up a number of leadership roles since being a consultant. Initially joint Clinical Lead for the KSS Academic Healthcare Science Network’s hip fracture programme – working with teams across 13 acute trusts to develop neck of femur fracture care. Then he was joint clinical lead for the Parkinsons’ UK South East Coast excellence network. He has been clinical lead for the Department of Medicine for the Elderly in East Surrey Hospital for 4 years and is not Clinical Director for Frailty. Iain is also the clinical lead for the East Surrey Ageing Well group for Surrey Heartlands ICS.

In terms of education Iain is a passionate clinical educator and has run in hospital and care home based simulation learning courses, developed e-learning courses for NHS e-LFH and set up and runs the very successful MDTea podcast which has had over 500, 000 downloads of educational content for multi-professional teams caring for older people.

Iain was a training programme director for geriatric medicine within KSS for a number of years and is now TPD for trainees that require additional support (TRAS). He is now Vice President for Education and Training and Chairs the Education and Training Committee.