Emerita Professor of Medicine and Education, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, past non-executive director of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, Chairman of the Medicines Commission UK, President of the BMA and RSM and Vice-President of the RCP

Emerita Professor of Medicine and Education, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. Ambassador to the UK Health Alliance for Climate change.

Parveen worked in the NHS for over 40 years as a physician and gastroenterologist and taught and examined students and doctors all over the world.

Past President of the British Medical Association, the Royal Society of medicine, the Women’s Medical Federation, the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, and Vice President at the Royal College of Physicians, a founding Non-Executive Director of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Chairman of the Medicines Commission UK. She co-founded and co-edited the textbook “Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine” which is used worldwide. Trustee of many charities

She has received many hon degrees and awards including the BMJ award for ‘outstanding contribution to health’ in 2019. She was awarded CBE in 2000 for services to medicine and education, and DBE in 2017.