Sarah is the founder of The Medical Mediation Foundation which provides mediation and training in managing conflict in the healthcare sector to a wide range of hospitals in the UK and internationally. She is an accredited mediator and also Co-Director of The Evelina Resolution Project, which provides mediation and conflict management training to clinical and non-clinical staff at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital. In 2014 Sarah was voted an “NHS Innovator” by The Health Service Journal for her work on the Evelina project. She has a Masters degree in Medical Law and Ethics from King’s College London and is a former award winning BBC social affairs presenter. In 2018, The Medical Mediation Foundation won Mediation Programme of the Year in the National Mediation Awards for its work on the Evelina Resolution Project.

Stefano Bassetti is the head of the Division of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital Basel and professor of internal medicine at the University of Basel, Switzerland. After graduating in medicine from the University of Zurich he trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases in different hospitals in Switzerland (in Ticino, Lucerne, Basel). He worked two years as infectious diseases research fellow at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA on vascular catheter related infections and airborne transmission of Staphylococcus aureus, then as senior physician in internal medicine and in infectious diseases at the University Hospital Basel. From 2006 to 2014 he was the head of the Department of Medicine at the Cantonal Hospital of Olten. He is actively involved in medical education and clinical training as chair of the board for postgraduate education of the Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine, member of the board of the Swiss Institute for Postgraduate and Continuing Education in Medicine (SIWF) and Swiss representative in the European Federation of Internal Medicine. His main research focus lies on clinical projects aiming at improving diagnostics and treatment, particularly in hospitalized, multimorbid patients, and in the field of infectious diseases.

Professor Rachel Batterham is Professor of Obesity, Diabetes and Endocrinology at University College London (UCL). She leads the University College London Hospital (UCLH) Bariatric Centre for Weight Management & Metabolic Surgery and the UCL Centre for Obesity Research within the Department of Medicine. She is the Clinical Director for the Division of Medicine at UCL and the Director for the UCLH/UCL NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Obesity Research Theme. She is the Royal College of Physicians’ Special Advisor on Obesity. She has received several national and international awards for her obesity including the Royal Society of Medicine’s Steven’s Lecture (2018), the Andre Mayer award from the World Obesity Federation (2016), and the Diabetes UK Rank Fund Nutrition Prize (2015). Professor Batterham has made significant clinical contributions to defining the management of obese patients through her membership of the NICE Obesity Guideline Development Group. She is Scientific Chair for the International Federation for Surgery for Obesity and Metabolic Diseases (IFSO) European Chapter (since 2015), a Trustee for the Association for the Study of Obesity (since 2016) and Council Member for British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (since 2016). She is passionate about reducing the stigma that people with obesity experience and ensuring that the patient voice is heard and has established a charity for people affected by obesity, Obesity Empowerment Network UK