Dame Jane Dacre, DBE, MD, FRCP

Biography

Jane is the former Director of UCL Medical School and an honorary consultant rheumatologist, at Whittington Health in London. She is Professor of Medical Education at UCL and the President of the Medical Protection Society and a specialist advisor to parliament on the Health and Care Committee. She is the immediate past president of the Royal College of Physicians and was also vice chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, medical director of MRCPUK examination, academic vice president of the RCP and a GMC council member. Her research is in medical education focusing on assessment and equality.

She was the lead for the Department of Health and Social Care review of the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine, with Professor Carol Woodhams from Surrey University Business School. This review ‘Mend the Gap: The Independent Review into Gender Pay Gaps in Medicine in England’ was published in December 2020. She now chairs the gender pay gap implementation advisory group.

Jane Dacre
Position
UCL Medical School, United Kingdom