The Society is delighted to announce the following two Trustees who will be joining The Board from the December 2022 Member Forum.
Dr Nephtali Marina-Gonzalez PhD
General Trustee with an EDI focus (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion)
Dr Nephtali Marina-Gonzalez is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the UCL Division of Medicine. He obtained a master’s degree and a PhD in Neurosciences after graduating from the National University of Mexico Medical School. He took postdoctoral positions in the UCL Department of Physiology and in the Cambridge Department of Clinical Neurosciences before obtaining a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship.
He has been a member of The Physiological Society for over 17 years and worked as representative for UCL between 2020-2022.
As a cardiovascular Neuroscientist, his research interests include the study of glial and neuronal networks and their role in the pathogenesis of arterial hypertension and heart failure.
He was appointed as Vice-Dean of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences in 2021.
Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE FMedSci MBBS BSc FRCP MD FRSB FFICM FRI
Independent Trustee with a clinical focus
Professor Hugh Montgomery obtained a first-class degree in cardiorespiratory physiology/neuropharmacology before graduating from the Middlesex Hospital Medical school in 1987. He has since gained accreditation in general internal medicine, cardiology and intensive care medicine, and practices as a consultant in intensive care at the Whittington hospital in North London.
Hugh obtained his research degree (MD) in 1997, and is Professor of Intensive Care at UCL, where he directed the Centre for Human Health and Performance. He also co-chairs the international Lancet Countdown, which tracks how climate change is affecting human health. Hugh’s interest has been in the use of environmental stressors in the exploration of human (patho)physiology – often using a genetic approach. He was the first to discover a ‘gene for human fitness’. He has published over 550 scientific articles, including five in Nature.
In 2022, Hugh was appointed Officer of the Order of British Empire (OBE) for services to intensive care medicine and climate change.