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23/06/2025
Professor Phil Routledge

Phil Routledge graduated in medicine from Newcastle University in 1972. He trained in general medicine and clinical pharmacology in the North East of England, and in Vanderbilt and Duke Universities in the USA, before being appointed senior lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology in 1981 at the then Welsh National School of Medicine (now part of Cardiff University). He was appointed Professor of Clinical Pharmacology there in 1989. From 1981, he was an honorary consultant general physician/clinical pharmacologist/toxicologist at University Hospital Llandough, in Cardiff and, until his retirement in 2019, was Clinical Director of the All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre.

23/06/2025
Dr Helen Cordy

Dr Helen Cordy is part of the Metabolic Medicine team within Cardiff and Vale UHB. In her clinical work, she works within nutrition both in the Regional Intestinal Failure service and the tier 3 Specialist Weight Management Service (SWMS). The Cardiff SWMS sees close to 200 new patients a year and utilises an MDT approach for safe and effective patient care. She and her colleagues are also involved in undertaking research within the field, both locally and as part of wider commercial studies.

23/06/2025
Dr Emma Morrison

Dr Morrison works for National Poisons Information Service (Edinburgh) and NHS Lothian Medicines Management as a Consultant in Clinical Pharmacology. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2008, moving to the East coast of Scotland in 2010. While in Edinburgh, she has completed a PhD investigating to role of short RNAs in toxic injury. Dr Morrison has a career long interest in medicines governance, driven by a passion for healthcare equity and medicines safety. She chairs Lothian's Area Drug and Therapeutics Committee and is longstanding committee member of the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).

27/06/2025
Dr Laurence Gray

Dr Gray is a Consultant Clinical Pharmacologist and Toxicologist working in Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CAVUHB).

23/06/2025
Lelly Oboh

Lelly Oboh is a Consultant Pharmacist for older people at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust and Clinical & Care Professional Lead at South East London Integrated Care System, where she leads the implementation of the National Overprescribing Review recommendations across the system.

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