Emerita Professor of Medicine and Education, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, England

Worked in the NHS for over 40 years, mainly northeast London at the Barts, Homerton and Royal London hospitals, as a physician and gastroenterologist. She has also been a non-executive director at two acute teaching hospitals, at Barts and the London and recently at St Georges University Hospital Trust. Her academic research interests were in small bowel disorders. She co-founded and co-edited the textbook “Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine” (currently in its 10th Edition) which is used worldwide. She has also published many other textbooks on medicine. She has taught, lectured, and examined for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in this country and abroad.

She was President of the British Medical Association, the Royal Society of medicine, the Women’s Medical Federation, and the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. She chaired the BMJ eLearning committee and the BUPA Foundation for research. She was a founding Non-Executive Director of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) and was Chairman of the Medicines Commission UK.

She was Vice President and censor, CPD director and associate director for international education at the Royal College of physicians. Currently, she is a Trustee of many charities including the British Youth Opera, Barts Charity, BMA Foundation and the chair of BMA Giving. Parveen has received many honorary degrees and fellowships. She was given the BMJ award for ‘outstanding contribution to health’ in 2019. She was awarded CBE in 2000 for services to medicine and DBE in 2017.