Anita Holdcroft
July 2007
Dr Anita Holdcroft
Job title and specialty:
Reader in Anaesthesia and Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist, Imperial College London and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Specialty: Anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia, gender and pain.
Current positions held on BMA committees:
Council
Co- Chair of the Medical Academic Staff Committee (MASC)
Deputy Chair of the Medical Academic Staff Committee (MASC)
Finance Committee
MASC Regional Services Committee
Board of the Directorate of Professional Activities
MASC representative on Cross Branch of Practice Committee on Private- Public interface, JMCC Workforce Committee
Current positions held on other bodies:
Immediate Past President of the Royal Society of Medicine Section “Forum on Maternity and the Newborn”
Secretary and President Elect of the Royal Society of Medicine Section of Anaesthesia
Medical Women’s Federation Council and London Division representative
Chair of the History of Obstetric Anaesthesia Committee of the Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association (OAA)
Editorial Board of the International Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia
Anaesthetic Consultant to the Diabetes Project of the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)
Previous positions held within the BMA and on other bodies:
BMA:
1996-2002 RCSC Academic representative
1999-2001 General Body Representative (GBR) to ACCEA
2002 onwards MASC
2003-2004 MASC representative to MSC, JDC
2004-2005 Board of Science
Other bodies:
Royal College of Anaesthetists: Examiner 1991-2003
Anaesthetic Research Society Council member 1998-2000
International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Special Interest Group Secretary (1999-2002) and Co-Chair (2002-2005)
Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association Council 1999-2004
President of the Section “Forum on Maternity and the Newborn” at the Royal Society of Medicine 2001-2004
Maternity Service Liaison Committee 1998-2000
European Board Member 1999-2004
Areas of Special Interest (Please tick):
Health inequalities
Patient/public involvement
Maternity services
Research
Royal Colleges/PMETB
Medical workforce issues
Men’s health
Undergraduate education
Women’s health
Doctors in training
Drug/alcohol misuse
NHS workforce issues
Postgraduate education